Avis Car Rental at New York La Guardia Airport

LaGuardia Airport, with the IATA code of LGA, is found in New York City, in the borough of Queens and in the US state of New Jersey. The airport is also approximately eight miles from midtown Manhattan. It is a hub for Delta Air lines, a focus city for American Airlines and handles around 23 million passengers every year. Since that ground transport is often required by arriving passengers, there are several LaGuardia Airport car hire companies available. Avis is present at the airport, and is a company that strives to provide their customers with very competitive car rental rates and a wide range of additional services. Their vehicles are considered as high quality as well.

The airport of LaGuardia has several large buildings for passenger facilities. The main terminal is referred to as the Central Terminal Building, or Terminal B, and is six blocks long with a four-storey central area, two three-storey wings and four concourses. The majority of the airport’s scheduled domestic flights will arrive at one of these concourses. The other terminals are known as the Marine Air Terminal (Terminal A), the US Airways Terminal (Terminal C) and the Delta Air Lines Terminal (Terminal D). The car hire companies of the airport all offer free shuttles to their vehicle locations, which can be accessed by passengers with disabilities. The shuttles are frequently available from each terminal building. There are also direct-dial telephones in the arrival areas if a passengers needs to contact their car rental company. Find out more information from Avis regarding the location of their rental counters and vehicles, as well as their shuttle operations.

Avis LaGuardia Airport have their vehicles arranged in various car categories, for example, Subcompact, Compact, Intermediate, Standard, Fullsize and Specialty. Cars are therefore hired according to category, rather than by their specific makes and models. The Hyundai Accent and Ford Focus are two cars that come with particularly affordable rental rates, and are ideal for driving the busy streets of New York City. Although a car is a very feasible way to travel the outer areas of the city, driving in the city centre is generally not recommended. The streets are very busy, and known to be dominated by the famous yellow cabs. Rather enjoy driving your rented car along the scenic coastlines nearby, and to the lovely towns that are within easy reach of LaGuardia Airport. There is Hempstead and Brookhaven to the east and Long Beach to the southwest. Motorists are even able to easily reach the city of Philadelphia.

Further vehicles from Avis include the Chevrolet Cruze, Ford Fusion and Chevrolet Impala, while larger vehicles for hire are similar to the Chevrolet Traverse, Ford Escape, Dodge Grand Caravan, Chevrolet Tahoe, Ford Edge, Chevrolet Suburban and Ford E350, which is a Passenger Van able to seat up to twelve people. A variety of more interesting vehicles may also be selected from one of Avis’ Specialty categories, which contain cars such as the Jeep Wrangler, Lincoln Navigator, Volvo V70 Convertible, Ford Mustang Coupe, Toyota Prius (hybrid), Mini Cooper and the BMW X3.

In New York, persons just eighteen years of age or older can hire a car from Avis, however, a $52.00 surcharge will be applicable for renters aged 18 – 20, and a surcharge of $35.00 will need to be paid by renters aged 21 – 24. This additional amount will be charged per day of car hire, and per young driver listed on the rental contract. All categories of vehicles are available to persons over the age of 25, but younger renters will not be able to drive a car from the following categories: Luxury, Minivan, 12-Passenger Van, Specialty, Fullsize SUV and Premium SUV. All the LaGuardia Airport car rental companies require their customers to have a valid drivers license and a major credit card. At the majority of Avis branches in the United States, the credit cards of American Express, AT & T Capital, Diner’s Club Int’l, Discover, Sears, Visa, PHH, JCB, Mastercard and GE Capital are accepted. Keep in mind that a renter with a return airline ticket can also use a debit card with the Mastercard or Visa logo at the start of the rental period. Debit cards may be used for the final payment by all renters.

At many of Avis’ car rental locations customers can hire a Where2 GPS Navigation system, which is very convenient for travelling an area with unfamiliar roads. The satellite navigation systems are state-of-the-art devices with turn-by-turn directions in voice or visual mode. A selection of languages are available, and the device is pre-programmed with many points of interest. Child seats should also be hired by families with young children. Equipment available for persons with disabilities are Avis hand controls, which are devices that are designed to operate the brake and accelerator pedals of certain types of automatic vehicles. From LaGuardia Airport, hand controls are a free service.

Some car hire companies allow vehicles to be returned to a rental location other than from where it was collected, which in this case, is LaGuardia Airport. One way hires, however, are not permitted from Avis, and the hired car may also not be driven into another country, therefore, cross-border rentals cannot be arranged. If you need a one-way hire perhaps find out if they are available from the other LaGuardia Airport car rental companies.

Persons who enjoy hiring a car from Avis should consider becoming an Avis Preferred member, and enjoy a greater number of benefits and discounts each time a car is required. Avis will be happy to provide all further information required regarding this membership, as well as their services at the New York City airports.

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