Car Hire with cash plus card

b-man

Hi guys,

I know this has been discussed before but I cant find the link. I am looking for recommendations for the best hire company to use with the cash plus card.

Many thanks,

Bman

joobie538

I use enterprise, £200 deposit and they have some really good weekend rates

philnicandamy

Make sure you contact cashplus 1st though...they will go through a few things with you to add the car rental bits on

b-man

superb - thanks guys:)

umgeni

I second the point about contacting them!

I once got caught out, I had booked a car through Avis at Glasgow airport, made sure I had enough money loaded to cover deposits etc and was very embarrassed when 'computer said no'.

I couldn't work out what the problem was so called them and they told me they had to 'switch on' the car hire facility. (It's not done automatically).

Avis then said that they had a memo to say that they wouldn't accept prepaid cards, but after a bit of pleading they accepted it!

philnicandamy

They have recently changes the way the card works though, they now insist on you contacting them as I suggested...they will then go through a form with you & look at your past history with them before they switch on the hire bits & bobs

b-man

I dont have any past history with them, so i wonder if this will be a problem? I got this card solely so I could hire a car so I havent used it for anything else yet! lets hope it works

philnicandamy

b-man wrote: »

I dont have any past history with them, so i wonder if this will be a problem? I got this card solely so I could hire a car so I havent used it for anything else yet! lets hope it works

may well be...

http://www.what-prepaid-card.co.uk/car-hire/Using-prepaid-card-hire-a-car.html

glamb

Last time I hired a car I just used my Co-Op cash minder card / account - do some of the hire car firms not accept this?

philnicandamy

glamb wrote: »

Last time I hired a car I just used my Co-Op cash minder card / account - do some of the hire car firms not accept this?

Most wont accept an electron TBH....its all down to being unable to see if you have funds available in the account at the time...

wok_boy

A bit strange in this day and age where some businesses still don't have the facilities to check if you have available funds there and then. They'd probably get far more custom.