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Here's some more useful information about Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is home to over 230 thousand people, with another 570 thousand living in the Greater Baton Rouge area. If you're a business traveler who needs to book a cheap car rental – and you're traveling to Baton Rouge, you probably already know that this city is the major petrochemical and industry center for the Southern United States, and that the Port of Baton Rouge is a top-10 American seaport when it comes to tonnage shipped! Since 2000, this city has become one of the hottest in the South as a fast-growing technology center.

In fact, ExxonMobil in Baton Rouge has the 2nd-largest oil refinery in the country (and it's one of the top-10 biggest worldwide).

Albemarle, Dow Chemical Company, and NanYa Technology are among other corporations with large facilities in Baton Rouge. If you're in this city for business, your car rental will let you zip around the area to appointments, from your hotel room to “power” lunches with clients, or just for drinks and nightlife after hours!

In fact, if you're in Baton Rouge for vacation, visiting friends or doing the “dress-shirt-and-tie” routine, you'll feel great with the freedom and convenience offered by an affordable car rental.

Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (informally called Ryan Field), is a public use airport located just a 5-10 minute drive in your car rental from downtown Baton Rouge. In March 2012, Baton Rouge Metropolitan began a major terminal expansion project. When completed (planned for August 2013), the new rotunda area will be larger, less crowded, and less difficult to navigate for passengers. On-site at the airport, you will find car rental service available from Avis, Budget, Enterprise, Hertz and National.

5 Things You Must  Do In Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge, Louisiana is known as Red Stick to locals and is famous for its great food – Cajun, Creole, French and Mexican and of course for the river that runs through. The official web site lists 101 things to do and I've picked out 5 of the best.

1. Swamp tours with Alligator Bayou aboard the canopied, all weather Alligator Queen. See the snapping turtles and cypress trees hundred of years old – and of course alligators.

2. Visit the Rural Life Museum and Windrush Gardens - More than 20 buildings full of all the things that made up life in Louisiana before the industrial revolution. Everything from tools and  vehicles to furnishings and textiles. See life as it was.

3. Old State Capitol Building - See the building that Mark Twain described as 'The ugliest thing on the Mississippi' – the Old State Capitol building completed in 1849. The new Capitol was opened in 1932. The older building is now a museum featuring many interactive exhibits and shows the history of the state.

4.The USS Kid -Camp out overnight on the World War II destroyer USS Kid at the Baton Rouge Nautical Center.

5. Eat a Louisiana mango - They say there are as many ways to eat a mango as there are mango eaters. Do you suck, slice, chop or just chew? Of try them in ice cream or in a savoury dish. Whichever way don't miss out and take plenty of napkins.  Buy them from the farmers market at Denham springs, Livingston.