Thanks everyone, for your replies. Perhaps I should have explained that we want to experience Austin

Hi, I posted a similar question for a previous holiday some time ago and was wondering if anyone has an update. We'll be flying from the UK in the Spring dollar rent car of 2013 to Austin, Texas. We're renting a car for 14 days and will be ending up in Little Rock AR. Is a rental dollar rent car car drop-off fee inevitable? We'll want an SUV, so any suggestions as to where to get the best rates would be helpful.
When you return the car to Dallas, dollar rent car take Amtrak train #22 to Little Rock. The drawback is that the train arrives in Little Rock at 11:31PM. The train leaves Dallas at 3:40PM which makes it a 8 hour trip. The fare is $91/pp which would beat the drop off fee.
Thanks guys, but our plane goes to Austin via Chicago and we've already booked it. Our road trip takes us into Louisiana, Mississippi and Memphis, before finishing in Little Rock. I've checked the big car rental companies and they all seem to have the drop-off fee. The best I can find for a midsize SUV for 14 days is $670 with Alamo, via ebookers.com , which includes a $150 drop-off fee. I suppose that's not too bad. What do you think?
Are you a UK citizen? If not, you can still book at hertz.co.uk as long as you make the booking in the U.K. Hertz might, but probably won't, ask for verification that you were in the U.K. at the time you made the booking.
As it is a manageable 515 miles between Dallas and Little Rock, a likely way to slash costs considerably would be to hit the ground in Austin, rent a car (or even TWO, if need be)... for a quick one-way rental TO Little dollar rent car Rock ... where you would then pick-up the SUV for your 2-week rental, returning it in the same place two weeks later.
Of course you'd have to price this with ALL things considered (including gas)... but the rate you cite isn't bad at all... that is like, FIFTY dollars a day including the one-way fee for an SUV , no less.
I think NW meant Austin to Lil Rock. Although, I don't understand his statement about renting two cars(or even one for that matter), then driving all the way to Little Rock to rent an SUV. You now will have two drop fees if you rented two cars.
It seems a bit odd to me to fly in from the UK to Austin and depart out of Little Rock too. I would assume things would be much easier, cheaper, and less connections to fly on AA from Dallas or Delta from Atlanta or Memphis.
However, even when there is no drop-off fee ... the daily rate tends to be SKY HIGH on one-way rentals... so anybody would know to rent a one-way sedan (or two)... for a quick trip from (yes,) Austin dollar rent car to Little Rock (520 miles)... and only then get the SUV (at the higher rate) for a one-location rental/drop-off.
Thanks dollar rent car everyone, for your replies. Perhaps I should have explained that we want to experience Austin, San Antonio, Galveston, Lafayett, New Orlenas, south-weat dollar rent car Alabama (Mobile perhaps?), Natchez, Memphis and Little
Rock. We like to 'road trip' in the USA! My latest price for a mid-size SUV for 15 days (not 14 as I said previously) from Alamo is $668 including drop-off fee and all taxes. $44 per day. That's searching through www.kayak.co.uk which links me to ebookers.com . I'm quite happy with that!
Thanks Spiro and Tracy. As you say, we're traveling dollar rent car in late Feb and early March, so maybe I'm being optimistic when I say early Spring! Our last road trip (in 2011) ended in Fort Worth which we enjoyed. But we had hoped to see Austin and San Antonio and didn't dollar rent car have the time - hence the reason we're starting there this time with 2 nights in each. Then we're driving across Texas to Lafayette in Louisiana, but I thought it might be a long way to drive in one day so I've tentatively put Galveston in as a halfway point for one night. After Lafayette (where we might visit the recreated Cajun town of Vermilionville) we're looking at 2 nights dollar rent car in New Orleans, then two nights in Alabama (I've read that the Fairhope dollar rent car area is very nice - it's a 5hr drive from New Orleans but on the way Bellingrath Gardens are supposed to be well worth a visit). Then it'll be up into Mississippi dollar rent car staying in Natchez for 1 night and visiting one of the Plantation homes. Then up the Natchez Trace Parkway to Memphis for 2 nights. Then finally across to Little dollar rent car Rock from one night before we fly home. We'll get to see four States we haven't seen before. dollar rent car It should be enjoyable or, as we'd say, smashing!