Rental car rates soar with vehicles in short supply as travel rebounds
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Be prepared to spend a small fortune to rent a car for your next trip — if you can find a vehicle at all.
Rental cars in Hawaii this spring are going for an average of more than $900 a week, while the most affordable vehicles in Denver cost $568 on average for one week, according to a survey conducted by Cheapcarrental.net, a site that helps consumers rent cars for less. Across the U.S., rental car rates are on average roughly 30% higher compared to May 2019, according to the same survey, while in in Hawaii and Florida rates are up more than 50%.Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.