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Member: Alan P. Metro Area: San Francisco Rate Plan: Household Member Since: September 2001 Average Monthly Bill: $104 Immediately after a completely enraging experience at a big-named car rental agency, I went online and applied to be a Zipcar member and never looked back. I lived in Boston for ten years without a car, and it worked pretty well. Before Zipcar, my wife and I would stick close to home, occasionally renting or borrowing cars when we wanted to go someplace out of public transit's reach. More often though, we suffered from cabin fever and fought the growing urge to get our own wheels. Zipcar blew our world wide open. With the same forethought a car owner would give, we'd hop in a Zipcar and visit out-of-town pals and family - three hours to Albany, two hours to Northampton. I could keep my wife's birthday tradition of lobster dinner alive by taking her to Maine for the good stuff each May. And Jetta Jennifer got us to the church on time for two weddings in the same weekend, one on the Cape and the other in New Hampshire. We moved to San Francisco in 2004 and using Zipcars here is no different (except for navigating the hills). One of our favorite trips is taking a leisurely drive down through Big Sur when we have a weekend to kill. And we've been known to spontaneously hop in Mazda Modesto when we want to hit the hiking trails just outside the city. And IKEA can personally thank Zipcar for all the money we've dropped there since moving to town! For us, Zipcar is a utility - as valuable to us as electricity, heat, and hot water. We could live with out it, but why would we? Member: Peter S. Metro Area: New York Rate Plan: Occasional Driving Plan Member Since: June 2000 Average Monthly Bill: $125 My "almost 5" year-old daughter and I have gone ice-skating in upstate New York, chilled out at a Buddhist retreat center, visited friends in the Hamptons, and experienced so much snow (24 inches!) in Columbia county that we got stuck. Zipcar gives us the chance to get off the Manhattan grid and experience some serenity and open space.
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