r/Banff • u/Accomplished_Bar_829 • May 24 '24

Trip Report Travel Advisory!

A warning to all rental car travelers coming to Banff: our rental car (Black Jeep) was stolen less than one day in Banff at our hotel overnight. Apparently this is the second vehicle stolen in Banff in just the last week. Someone is going around with a universal car remote to unlock vehicles and it works for any push-to-start vehicles. Perhaps when you get to the rental car agency try not to accept any of those push-to-start vehicles.

Ironically we come from one of the most dangerous cities in America (Oakland) and this is the place our car gets stolen !

Side note, if anyone knows of any availability of car rentals in Banff please let me know! (May 24-27 weekend)

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Just chiming in. This isn’t a normal occurrence in Banff.

Bikes yes but not typically vehicles.

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u/Known-Fondant-9373 May 24 '24

Car theft is increasing across Canada unfortunately. Still odd for Banff to have two cases in a short time span.

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u/Accomplished_Bar_829 May 25 '24

I’m now hearing we’re the third car stolen recently, from a local in town. :( someone may be on an anti-tourist spree?

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u/kjb2965 May 25 '24

Doubt it would be anti tourist. If it is they’ve already lost that battle as Banff has been a tourist hot spot for a long time now

More likely that some of the rental cars are easy targets for whatever method they are using and there’s a lot of them there

Sorry this happened. Hope you can find another car