I will be riding the CZ in May and am wondering if anyone knows if there are any rental car agencies in the station, or will I have to go somewhere else downtown or to the airport pick up a car. Thanks.
Where did you pay a few bucks to store your bags? At the Amtrak baggage office? We'll have some bags we want to check for number 6, and some bags we want to temporarily store so we can tour around town and then carry them on-board.The HLE on Welton had after hours drop off, but that would mean dragging my bags to the light rail, so I dropped off early enough for them to drive me to the station, paid a few bucks to store my bags at baggage, and spent a few hours on the 16th St mall. Of course, all of this (timing) depends on East/West direction of travel.Coming fron the East you arrive in the morning and leave in the evening.
Anyway, if you want to use Hertz, there's one nearby that will get you.No car rental offices in DENUS. You call ahead and arrange to be picked up. Enterprise Car Rental has been pretty reliable in our two CZ Denver trips in the last two years. The pickups have gone well but we usually set an 8:30 AM pickup time and drive the car in for return around 6PM. The Enterprise lot is about a 10 minute drive from Union Station. As for Hertz we don't use them anymore, since they gypped us out of our points 5 years ago. With AGR points; Enterprise comes through like clockwork.
We have a late spring CZ trip planned so if anyone has a better, more reliable and cost effective car rental in DEN please let us know.