My bachelorette party is going to be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida this August. I am doing most of the planning because my maid of honor (FH's sister) is not a ton of help and I'm a perfectionist so honestly I'd rather plan it myself. We have rented an Airbnb house with a pool for a long weekend and have plans to go on a booze cruise and out to a few restaurants. I'm trying to figure out if it would be better to rent a car for our time there or just rely on Uber/Lyft? We have 7 people in our group, so we would have to rent 2 Ubers anywhere we want to go (including back and forth from the airport). After researching rental cars that would fit 7 people (plus luggage), it looks like it would be around $75 a person to split the cost of a rental car (plus gas). I feel like renting a car would allow us the flexibility of not having to worry about renting Ubers and if they're available when we need them. However, after researching how much it would be to Uber from the house location to the areas that we plan on visiting, it looks like it would be approx. $45 a person to use Uber (this includes renting 2 Ubers everywhere). I'm not sure if a rental car would actually be more convenient considering it's more money and we'd have to worry about who would drive and having at least 1 sober driver everywhere.
What do you all think? Rental car or rely on Ubers? I've used Uber plenty of times so I know it's a great service, I just worry about car availability when we're trying to go places and having to book 2 cars every time.
Florida people - are Ubers plentiful enough in this area to assume we'd be able to get 2 Ubers to take us to the local beach, back and forth to the airport, and out to eat for lunch/dinner? Thank you!!
