Why rent a car when you can borrow one?

Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Laura Byrne Paquet in Accommodations, News

Here’s a trend I like: hotels offering shared cars to their guests. Not only does it save guests the hassle and expense of renting a car, it also introduces many of them to the concept of car sharing. And it encourages travellers to use a blend of car trips and public transit–a great way to see a city like the locals do.

One of the first properties to jump on this idea was Toronto’s Pantages Suites Hotel and Spa. It is currently offering all guests a free, one-year Zipcar membership and giving them access to a Zipcar parked at the hotel. Rates start at C$9.50/hour. (See my article in the late, lamented Checkerspot Magazine and a blurb on the hotel’s website for more information.)
In San Francisco, the new Good Hotel (which bills itself, a bit grandly, as “the first hotel with a conscience”) has an on-property Prius Zipcar for existing Zipcar members.

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