Car Hire - how to get it cheap!

Alias_Omega

Thaniks,

This basically works out to be the same cost as the small thing. We can have a big car for the price of a small car.

Alot of family members have offered us use of a car, but its never quite the same if it gets damaged etc.

DarkFallout

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Thaniks,

This basically works out to be the same cost as the small thing. We can have a big car for the price of a small car.

Alot of family members have offered us use of a car, but its never quite the same if it gets damaged etc.

I have just received an e-mail that my claim will be honoured, meaning effective price of less than 20 pounds a day for intermediate car (Passat, Mondeo, Insignia).

Regarding car damage, read one of my posts above and consider annual indepedent insurance through cashback web site.

This way you will have a big rented car and annual insurance for 60 days on the price of a small car. As far as I remember the annual insurance price was about 20-30 pounds after cashback.

connlach

newreclaimer wrote: »

Ive had my refund paid and the company I used as the comparison was Alamo so I can confirm you can compare with them.

Thanks! So we now have Hertz, Alamo and Avis as confirmed.

Possible would be Sixt and Budget

Unknown - Thrifty, Anyone else?

cubehopper

I can confirm, SIXT is a valid rival.

For 5 days

VW PASSAT 1.9 S TD or similar £236.92 at Europcar
VW PASSAT 1.9 S TD or similar £178.92 at SIXT

Double difference of £116 which works out at £120.92 for 5 days rental!! :-D

connlach

Thanks for the update so now it is:

Hertz, Alamo, Sixt and Avis as confirmed.

Possible - Budget

Unknown - Thrifty, Anyone else?

Alias_Omega

Can this thread be moved to the Car hire section of the forum, within the travel section.

Ive just spent 20mins looking for it there.

Alias

Alias_Omega

DarkFallout wrote: »

Try with intermediate range compared to Hertz.

What I have just looked at is:

EasyJet 613.57

Hertz 465,93

If they honour your claim they should give you about 300 pound refund leading to effective price about 315 pounds for 20 days.

£318.23 for 20 days rental, though im looking for alternative hire car companies.

I did look at hiring it for shorter, but it worked out to be more expensive which is weird.

davidjwest

Easycar are offering 10% discount on September pick ups plus 8% cashback (Quidco) - but I can't see anywhere to enter the voucher code - not on the screen where you enter your card details which I assume is the checkout they refer to - anyone used it?

roses

Hi, I just booked via easyjet car for £59 and Alamo are offering £46.

How do I get the refund? The easyjet website is so vague!

DarkFallout

roses wrote: »

Hi, I just booked via easyjet car for £59 and Alamo are offering £46.

How do I get the refund? The easyjet website is so vague!

write an e-mail to them and follow all the steps described on the web site ... if you miss something they may not honour your claim ...