If you find yourself in need of a rental car and you have to go into a car rental office to organise it, how can you secure the best deal when you are already giving out the message you are desperate and essentially in the position of weakness when it comes to the negotiating table. Well one strategy is to go into the rental car office first thing in the morning. The smaller more commonly rented budget rental cars won’t have been returned by that point and so if you can get them to see you will go to a competitor if they don’t come up with something, they are more likely to offer you a free upgrade for example. You also need to find some car coupons to use, if you haven’t brought any car coupons from home, ask at the hotel where you are staying because they are likely to have a car coupon or two gifted from the local rental car garages.