Tips on Renting a Car in the Vicinity of Hurlburt Field and Eglin AFB



If you live in the Florida Gulf Coast around either Eglin AFB or Hurlburt Field, you know as well as I do how difficult it can be to enjoy the area, if you don't have a car.

The area is fairly well spread out, making owning or Rent a Car  essential.

Highway 98 of course runs east to west from Pensacola all the way to Panama City and beyond in both directions serving as the major thorough-fair for the area. There is just about no way to get around, if you aren't driving. In addition, there is limited local commercial transit availability.

With the difficulty there is for getting around the area if you don't have a car, I thought I'd help you out with some useful tips.

Your options for renting a car in the area are to rent from the Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa County airport, where most people flying into the area will arrive from. All the standard bigger rental car companies are at the airport location, including Hertz, National, Enterprise, and Avis.

If you rent at these locations, you will pay airport fees and state and local taxes are you do with most any other airport location.

There are some other options for you, if you are specifically going to be staying either on Eglin Air Force Base or Hurlburt Field.

Thrifty Car and Truck has locations on these based specifically to serve the military community.

These locations are under the cognizance of AAFES, so a benefit for these installations of having organic businesses located on these installations is that a significant portion of the revenue generated goes back into the morale welfare and recreation of the base. Of course AAFES being a government entity is non-profit, but the revenue does serve to fund many of the important and useful services of the installations. One challenge for those flying in to either Eglin or Hurlburt for many of the Special Operations Command schools is that the locations on the bases do not show up in the Defense Travel System, so many service members think that the only option they have to rent a car is at the airport locations and this is simply not the case. In addition, there are other rental car companies located in Fort Walton Beach that also serve the base locations.

A major benefit of renting from on-base at either Eglin or Hurburt is that many of the fees charged at the local airport location do not apply, and that cost savings can be significant. I hope this article has helped you discover what your options are if you need to rent a car in the Northwest Florida area adjacent to the Air Force Bases.

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