Car Rental prices in LV
 

I have always been able to rent a car in Las Vegas for a pretty good price ($20ish), but in my recent searches on hotwire, priceline and even through Costco the prices were in the 40's with tax's well into the 120's for 2 days. Have the car companies changed their policies or am I going about this wrong? Any suggestions

I ran into the same problem awhile back when looking for Vegas rentals for April. Checked with all the majors, booked a few, then kept looking. Finally found a good rate with Fox Rent A Car - four days for $106 inclusive of taxes. You might want to check with vroomvroomvroom.com too - found a decent rate through them for four days in AZ - $113 off airport for Hertz vs over $200 at the airport, also with Hertz.

Rental rates seem to have gone nuts lately.

Rental rates crashed last year, I got a $99/wk luxury rental in LA last August. Now this year thay are sky high. Its a good time for you to review your credit cards, and see what promotions you can use. AMEX has saved my comapny quite a bit on car rentals this year.

Prices are determined by demand generated by events and conventions in town. I'm going March 19-22 and got a car through Alamo for $10/day! This rate wasn't good for most of February/early March though. So it just depends on what's going on at the time of your stay. Sometimes you luck out, sometimes you don't (very much appropriate with a trip to Vegas!)

I was looking at rental rates with Alamo for a 13 day period in May. I found a rate on Monday for $320 total. I was in a rush and did not confrim. When I checked back 3 days later the price had risen to $570 and that was with promo codes. I could kick myself!! Prices have gone crazy!!

Another explanation is that the car rental companies have stopped ordering new cars and now their inventories matches the demand more closely.

They couldn't return or sell the cars that quickly after the tourism at LV crashed last year, so there were excessive inventories for many months.