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- January 4, 2012: So I'm a slacker, what do you want from me?
- January 2, 2011: Starting out 2011 at Capital of Texas Zoo
- November 8, 2009: 34th Street Cafe surprised me!
- September 17, 2009: Nothing important
- September 6, 2009: Black and white cemeteries
- August 30, 2009: Arrival into Albany
- August 19, 2009: On the road again
- July 27, 2009: Frisco Shop is a little piece of Heaven
- July 13, 2009: Lake Travis is a friend of mine
- July 4, 2009: Something Malaysia this way comes
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Arrival into Albany
August 30, 2009 by Misty.
Thursday was our travel day and things started out well enough but our travels came to a bit of a screeching halt; more or less, but we managed to make it to Albany easy enough.
It was the adventure that ensued once we took a cab from the airport to Shurtz** Car Rental off of Central Avenue in Albany. I had booked our rental car approximately 3 weeks in advance and was very excited to get set up with a car and start exploring!
Apparently, that was not meant to be. Shurtz** has this ridiculous policy that in order to accept debit cards, they first have to run your credit…..are you kidding me? I wasn’t going to let them run my credit just to rent a car!
My husband and I then tried to pay with my Visa. Unfortunately, this was the only major credit card we brought with us and there wasn’t enough credit available to cover the cost of the 5 day rental and the deposit. Of course. We then tried to get them to put the car rental on one card and the deposit on another. That, too, was a no go.
We tried to explain to the guy that we just flew in from Texas and we were stranded without a rental car. Tough bananas to us. They weren’t wiling to help us in the slightest. Fantastic.
Luckily, we were able to call my mother-in-law (who was about an hour and a half away) to come and pick us up. We had to carry all of luggage into a diner (if you want to call it that) until his she was able to get to us.
The moral of this story? Shurtz** sucks! If you need to rent a car, say away from them. I will not give them my business and I decided to tell my story to hopefully save someone else the headache. All I can say is thank goodness we weren’t truly stranded.
Stay tuned for further adventures from Upstate NY! We go to an incredibly old cemetery to get some awesome pictures! The trip only gets better from here!
**all rental car companies’ names have been changed to protect the innocent – in this case, US!
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On the road again
August 19, 2009 by Misty.
I’ll be in Upstate NY in a couple of days, so look for new posts and pictures coming soon! I, personally, am hoping to see some goats!
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