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Compare Rates to Find a Cheap Car Rental in Oakland

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If you are traveling to Oakland for business or on vacation and you need a rental car to get you around East Bay or to anywhere in the Bay Area and beyond, it's highly recommended that you use VroomVroomVroom to book your car rental. Why? Because at VroomVroomVroom, we compare Avis, Budget Car Rental, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Hertz in Oakland. We are the experts in car rental rate comparison, and we can find you the best prices in Oakland or anywhere in California!

Oakland is the 8th largest city in California and the busiest port on the San Francisco Bay, which also makes it the major port of the Northern California Coast (the port is the 5th busiest in the entire country). About 400 thousand people live in this major trade and transportation hub city, which is located six miles east and across the bay from San Francisco. Bartenders worldwide know Oakland as the home of the Mai Tai cocktail, invented in Oakland in 1944 at Trader Vic's.

Oakland is also a focal point of the jazz and blues music scenes on the American West Coast, and is home to musicians adept in hip hop, funk, rhythm and blues, as well as punk rock, heavy metal and gangsta rap! You can drive you rental car to any number of cool concerts on any given evening in Oakland! In fact, the nightlife is another of this city's strengths – the Downtown area is filled with bars, nightclubs, lounges and music theaters. The most famous include the Fox Oakland Theatre and the Paramount Theater!

Benefits of booking a car rental in Oakland

Here are some of the reasons why customers choose to book their rental cars through VroomVroomVroom. 

  1. The best decision you can make when searching for rental cars is to use our service, which allows you to find all the cars, trucks and SUVs available in a given city, and to see truly complete price totals for the rental cars you're considering. You can choose to look at certain kinds of vehicles – a light pickup truck, or a sporty convertible, for example – and you can sort by various available options that you might need for your specific job or holiday plans.
  2. Once you've booked a cheap car rental for your trip, you'll be able to plan your visits to events and attractions, or just focus on business if that's what you need to do!As mentioned above, Oakland is one of the most important ports on the U.S. West Coast, and you might already know that almost 200 thousand cargo-related jobs are found in the Oakland area. Part of this is because the Port of Oakland early on developed technology and innovations such as Intermodal Containerized Shipping. With your rental car, you can zip back and forth between the port area and your hotel or business meetings with no worries and no stress! It's convenience on 4 wheels!
  3. Our friendly customer care experts are ready to help and answer all your queries. For all assistance, contact us and we will meet your expectations. You can also reach out to us via Facebook and Twitter.

Driving tips in Oakland

Once you have picked up your rental car and are on the road in Oakland, there are many different ways you can enjoy the freedom to go wherever you want! Drive your cheap car rental to a professional sporting event. Depending on the time of year that you're in Oakland, you could catch a home run at an Oakland Athletics game – they were the Major League Baseball World Series champions in 1972-1974, and 1989 – or see some big hits at an Oakland Raiders game – they won the National Football League's Super Bowl in 1977, 1981 and 1983, but fell just short in 2003.

For an experience that's a bit less bone-crunching, drive your rental car to a performance of the Oakland Ballet. This first-class dance ensemble has performed in this city since 1965. You'll find its beautiful performances if you drive the car rental you book with us over to the Laney College Theater! And that's just a small part of Oakland's great arts & culture scene. Drive your rental car to the Uptown area and discover a large number of galleries – Oakland claims one of the highest concentrations of artists in the entire country!

Oakland's also a paradise for fine cuisine and fresh ingredients. You might take an afternoon away from your work appointments, or spend an early Saturday morning, to visit one of Oakland's locally grown produce markets, or the international food markets that represent the Bay Area's ethnic diversity.

Oakland Map