Any travel hacks (e.g. Car Rental, Parking Fee, Hotels/Airbnb etc.) for West Coast, USA?

I travelled quite a fair bit in the U.S. in the past 3 years, and here's what I learnt through my research!

Car Rental

1. Silvercar: Best car rental experience ever. Owned by Audi, they only rent Audi A4, Q5 and most recently, A5 Cabriolet. Super reasonably priced compared to other big national agencies if you’re looking for a Large (i.e Camry/Altima/equivalent) or Luxury vehicle (seriously, why drive a Golf to the national parks of the west coast?!). No queues at the airport, they’ll pick you up in an A4 to their nearby office to pick up the car, after signing the contract digitally on their app on your own smartphone, you unlock the car using your phone, and off you go. Superb customer service, I returned the car with a flat tyre and they even refunded me $25 for the inconvenience caused lol. The savings really come if you are aged between 22-25, since they don’t charge young drivers fee from 22 onwards. Most other car rental places charge up to $30/day for drivers

All Kenneth shared is excellent! I have some personal experience shared below on top of others:

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1) GPS - Can rental company charges by day, so if you're android, download your own GPS and USA Map, saves a lot of $.

2) Hotwire - 4 start hotel at 2 star rates. Full size sedan @ small car rate. The only catch is that don't get to choose hotel (but can choose the star) and don't get to choose car mode (but get to choose cc / size ). Save a lot of $.

3) Left side driving - Recommend for more experience driver and it's the same as Asian right side, as you as you follow traffic flow, quite safe. Just becareful when there's no car, we tends to forget, just quickly drive to the road side and get back in line with the right directions.

4) Traffic Police and Speed - SG is km/h and in states is miles/h, make sure we learn the speed and always drive in between cars, so don't be the head (fastest) and don't be the tail (slowest) as the LAPD or SFPD (TP) will appear out of nowhere and event book a ticket when drives exceed 5miles/h.

5) Lots of homeless people, so always travel in groups and avoid dangerous place alone or at night avoid going out alone.

6) Their left most (due ot left hand drive) is for car pool or more than 2 passenger or family lanes that is faster and less congestions, so if you have more than 2 pax, go ahead and use that lane, will save a lot of time and avoid lots of congestions.

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Stay safe folks! Drive and travel safely! :)