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Feedback required - Car Hire Checker

Insure Supermarket has come up with a car hire comparison engine for various countries.  I would love your feedback on it.

This is the link*

Please reply and let me know whether the service was useful to you or saved you money.  This is not an official recommendation as i want feedback first.

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  • nearlyrich
    nearlyrich Posts: 13,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    It doesn't seem to be working, just defaults to the front page.

    I was going to try it for a holiday we are planning in Portugal in Feb or March.

    Will try again later, thanks for the info...
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  • It doesn't seem to be working, just defaults to the front page.

    I was going to try it for a holiday we are planning in Portugal in Feb or March.

    Will try again later, thanks for the info...

    Worked for me menu on left of page click on car hire

    mandy
    Titch :)
  • nearlyrich
    nearlyrich Posts: 13,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    Yes it's working for me now...

    But saying the site has technical difficulties!! :-/
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  • It doesn't seem to be working, just defaults to the front page.

    I was going to try it for a holiday we are planning in Portugal in Feb or March.

    Will try again later, thanks for the info...

    I can't get it to work either. However, a message has just come up saying "A technical problem has occurred with the page you were trying to view. We would like to apologise for the inconvenience. Our technical team have been notified and are investigating the problem. ".

    I'll try again tomorrow cos I'm looking for a good deal in small van rental for furniture removal from Berkshire to Scotland.
  • nearlyrich
    nearlyrich Posts: 13,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    Sorry you are having a problem but I am glad it's not just me LOL I have taken off my pop up blocker but I got the same message...
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  • brodev
    brodev Posts: 1,018 Forumite
    I have just tried a sample of 1 week Malaga A/P 13 June - 20 June. the camparative site´s cheapest is £79. My personal favourite Carjet comes in at £69.55 for the same week.
    I have always had an upgrade with carjet, but perhaps that is coincidense
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  • nearlyrich
    nearlyrich Posts: 13,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    It's working for me now a week in March from Faro airport is £57 in an economy car with AC, pretty good that...looks like all CDW is included too which can bump up cheap quotes.

    Thanks again for the link
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  • Finishrich
    Finishrich Posts: 1,038 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker PPI Party Pooper
    Checked for the USA, the cheapest was a few pounds more than the company we used this year US Carhire, but they didn't included everthing that we got with US carhire. I think anyone using it needs to be careful as they are not all quoting for the same thing - OK the car is the same, but some include taxes, cancellation and various other things like additional drivers and some do not include it. It does display a check box though detailing this beside each quote.
  • Coldfinger
    Coldfinger Posts: 571 Forumite
    Looks useful especially the simple Y/N for the options available on each vehicle.

    I think I'd have used it, if it were available, last Sept when I had to hire in Italy.
  • sylwright
    sylwright Posts: 341 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    I am going to Spain in March and already have some quotes for car hire so was interested in testing this site.

    The main problem for me is that it only allows you to set a very basic criteria which didn't cover my needs. I want different pick up and drop off points and it didn't give any information as to whether you could do that with the company you chose for a quote.

    It didn't really save me any time, the only information it gave was the names of the car hire companies that I might now try for a quote.

    ???
    Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you
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