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Thread Author: No FM2R	Replies: 37

Tue 10 Aug 21 19:35   Rental Cars - No FM2R

Anything clever to know about renting cars in the UK for a few weeks or is it just searching on Google for a good deal? Last edited by: No FM2R on Tue 10 Aug 21 at 19:36 Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:10   Rental Cars - zippy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=azQTpzOKPcU Enterprise Rentacar have a good damage policy, basically they give you a template and say don't worry about anything that fits in the template and I have never had any issues with them re returned damages, excess charges etc. Europcar have delivered unusable cars (unbearable stenches, gearshift wouldn't move etc.). Some have minimum (25) and maximum drivers ages. Keep receipts for congestion charges and tolls. When paying, if you can, tell the toll company the specific journey you are paying for or they will allocate it against the oldest outstanding current one for that car, leaving you with the fine. (I had this problem with the Dartford Crossing, a few years back, even when calling them to pay, at that time they could not allocate it against the specific journey resulting in a fine and surcharge from the rental co. I don't know if this has changed now.) Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:13   Rental Cars - Runfer D'Hills

There's a tool in the Expedia website that might help. Put your dates in and size of car etc and it finds deals. Although, your earlier thought about buying a banger holds a certain appeal. I'm sure there's a few of us here who would enjoy the challenge of finding one with someone else's money. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:14   Rental Cars - No FM2R

Yes, still thinking about the banger, but I will need a rental to get around to find the right one. I've decided it's a risk to far to buy an older car unseen. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 23:42   Rental Cars - zippy

There is a thread on the other place where someone has just done this. I am not sure if we are allowed to post a link? Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 03:10   Rental Cars - No FM2R

Can't think why you wouldn't be. Post it and be damned, I'll note it down before any thought police get it. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 10:09   Rental Cars - zippy

www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/157755/bought-another I honestly couldn't recall if it was polite to do so or not, hence the question. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 09:29   Rental Cars - VxFan

>> I am not sure if we are allowed to post a link? Why ever not? People have previously and it's not been an issue. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 09:42   Rental Cars - Bromptonaut

>> Why ever not? People have previously and it's not been an issue. I think at one time it was an issue in the other direction to the extent that this site's URL was in their swear filter. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 09:54   Rental Cars - Zero

Well we have all now been tagged as accomplices of a subversive character to be under surveillance at all times, so you might as well spread the large net to another site. Share the joy kind of thing, keep the security services busy. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:26   Rental Cars - Zero

Check out the price for rental if you hired it after you arrived in the uk like a brit, renting it before hand from chile as a tourist using your chile address and driving license. The price may differ. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:49   Rental Cars - No FM2R

>> Check out the price for rental if you hired it after you arrived in the >> uk like a brit, renting it before hand from chile as a tourist using your >> chile address and driving license. >> >> The price may differ. >> Very good point. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:43   Rental Cars - BiggerBadderDave

I always have excess insurance. I forget who I'm with though, but it's a few tenners a year compared to what they'll try and force on you. I usually rent from Green Motion a bus stop from Luton airport and I've had some good deals from them. But they like one or two-week deals, any more and it gets really pricey. I don't know why they don't like longer-term deals but I'll be interested to see what you find. They like it if you do it on the internet and wave a printed voucher at them. Doing it on the spot is, again, pricey. They once did a 99p/week. Fantastic, but boy or boy did they try to make me upgrade the car and take on more insurance. One last month, Europcar, cost £125 for five days. Not fantastic by any means but I needed a drop-off in a different airport so that was expected. And I got stung a couple of years ago. They insisted your credit card expiry date has at least 6 month from date of rental and mine didn't. They wouldn't rent me one unless I took on one of their insurance rip-off deals. I had no choice. Not happy. And remember your N.I. number, Rentals use it to check any endorsements. That was a new one on me recently. Lucky I remembered it. Still hope you buy one. Just let me know where leave it. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:49   Rental Cars - Zero

>> And remember your N.I. number, Rentals use it to check any endorsements. That was a >> new one on me recently. Lucky I remembered it. You can get a check code, valid for 21 days, before you rent. www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:55   Rental Cars - No FM2R

>> >> >> And remember your N.I. number, Rentals use it to check any endorsements. That was >> a >> >> new one on me recently. Lucky I remembered it. >> >> You can get a check code, valid for 21 days, before you rent. >> >> www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence >> I b***** hate the 21st Century. I want to return to no computers, no mobile phones, nothing online, relying on call boxes and using cash. Technology has brought nothing I wasn't perfectly happy without, and in many cases happier. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 20:51   Rental Cars - No FM2R

>>And remember your N.I. number, Rentals use it to check any endorsement Thanks for that, it would never have occurred to me. >>Still hope you buy one. Just let me know where leave it. I expect I will, and assuming I do it will be available and a "you break it then you fix it" approach. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 21:00   Rental Cars - zippy

>>Green Motion Is the subject of the "consumer affairs" video above. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 21:18   Rental Cars - R.P.

Enterprise gave me a car once with someone else's driving licence in glovebox and a disabled tax disc (when they were a thing). Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 21:29   Rental Cars - Bobby

Just watch out for any cheap deals on black Vauxhall Crosslands with a selection of engravings on the bonnet…. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 22:59   Rental Cars - PeterS

Depending on where you’ll be based and how often you actually need a car you could also take a look at the many car clubs that have sprung up, which let you rent cars by the hour/day from town/city centre locations once you’ve registered with them www.co-wheels.org.uk/how-it-works Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 10 Aug 21 23:03   Rental Cars - No FM2R

>> Depending on where you’ll be based and how often you actually need a car you >> could also take a look at the many car clubs that have sprung up, which >> let you rent cars by the hour/day from town/city centre locations once you’ve registered with >> them >> >> www.co-wheels.org.uk/how-it-works I quite like the look of that for the future, but in this case I think that whilst I shall only need it for a short period, I will need it quite extensively with that period, so I don't think that would fit well this time. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 12:54   Rental Cars - PR

I always use www.autoeurope.com/ They have a good cancellation policy Also as stated above its way cheaper to get XS insurance for the year... (think I pay around £40) www.icarhireinsurance.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsPDSpfSo8gIVAbbtCh3NugejEAAYASAAEgL9Z_D_BwE#0 Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 12:55   Rental Cars - MD

Through my minimal sniffing about the prices appear to have rocketed. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 14:50   Rental Cars - Manatee

>>Through my minimal sniffing about the prices appear to have rocketed. Restart your router (good chance it will generate a new IP) and open an incognito window in Chrome. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 15:47   Rental Cars - PR

Prices are high because apparently most rental companies sold off their stock in the pandemic (to stay afloat) and now can't get new ones due to the chip shortage Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 16:57   Rental Cars - legacylad

Same in Spain. Friends flew out yesterday, limited availability & sky high rental prices. They needed to go out of necessity to check a major refurb on their new property...they’re paying €200 for 11 days, with their own CDW policy. Normally it’s around €60...I normally pay €20/€40 a fortnight during the winter months ( not buying their insurance) . It’s slight hassle changing rentals every 14 days, and I’m about to check out a single 45 day rental period cost before I book my Brittany ferry early November. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 17:07   Rental Cars - maltrap

Can you recommend a rental company for Mallorca in October ? The big companies that i usually use are sky high, are budget companies worth trying ? Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 17:07   Rental Cars - maltrap

Can you recommend a rental company for Mallorca in October ? The big companies that i usually use are sky high, are budget companies worth trying ? Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 17:44   Rental Cars - No FM2R

A single quote just to get a feel for it was 7 days, Volkswagen Jetta, pick up and drop off at LHR, in September came in at £200. I'd hope to get it a bit cheaper with effort, but that doesn't seem outrageously expensive. Am I wrong? Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 18:17   Rental Cars - Bobby

£30 a day? That’s not bad I would say? Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 11 Aug 21 21:58   Rental Cars - PeterS

For a car picked up at LHR I reckon that’s not bad at all, even in normal times. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 12 Aug 21 06:54   Rental Cars - legacylad

70 days car hire, October -December 2020 from Alicante, averaged €2.10 per day. Changed my rental approx every 14 days to get the best deals using the broker DoYouSpain and had my own CDW policy so didn’t require their fully comp insurance. I enjoy driving different cars, and on changeover days visited places in the ALC area, so for me it wasn’t much hassle. Those prices will never be repeated, but several friends are flying out late October for 60 days so we shall see. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 9 Jan 22 09:21   Rental Cars - legacylad

Several friends heading back to Spain next week...one month ahead of me. Rental prices appear to be dropping after last summers ludicrously high prices. I’m only there for 45 days, so will either change every two weeks, or change just the once at ALC for convenience sake and pay a little more pro rata. Currently looking at approx €50/€60 for two weeks full to full fuel and free cancellation on a small runaround, rental period starting next weekend...should be the same mid February. Must remember to take out a new annual CDW policy. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 9 Jan 22 16:23   Rental Cars - Bobby

LL, remind me of the holiday accommodation provider you recommend? Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 9 Jan 22 17:06   Rental Cars - legacylad

Ferrando, based on the coast in Moraira ( between Calp & Javea) Marisa looks after the rental side, whilst her brother, Julian, looks after property sales. Of the 18 rental properties, I believe they own 17 of them, and don’t act as agents for third party owners. At one point I considered buying a property in the ( very expensive) Moraira area and asked what their management fees were, which is how I found out....I’ll continue to rent for the foreseeable. The business was founded by their parents. I’ve stayed in 5 of their properties over the years and consider the area my second home....pm me if I can be of any help. And I’ve looked at numerous other of their properties, discounted because I like to walk into Moraira and some are a 45 minute walk, too far after a day in the mountains ! Last edited by: legacylad on Sun 9 Jan 22 at 17:08 Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 9 Jan 22 17:17   Rental Cars - Bobby

Cheers will have a look. Don’t know that stay at all other than a package holiday in Benidorm 30 years ago. If I say to you one of the best holidays I have had was a Villa in Nerja , do you see any similarities between this area and Nerja? Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 9 Jan 22 17:56   Rental Cars - smokie

LL do they do winter rates (for a month or more let) or is it just what the page says per week? Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 9 Jan 22 18:56   Rental Cars - legacylad

Haha....heck NO ! In years past I’ve had a good discount on their weekly rate, whether it’s for two weeks or ten...and paid a large deposit for gas and electric. Some folks rarely go out and run up huge bills....seems fair to me. We’re out every day, unless it (rarely) rains. These days I get an inclusive price because they know we don’t run up large gas and leccy bills....I’m not posting prices on here but suffice to say my next rental, Villa Marian for 6 weeks, is over 30% off the weekly advertised rate. Should you contact them to enquire, don’t mention that discount....feel free to mention my name. They won’t know it as LL ! Reply to this message | Report message