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private car hire

Hello, I need to hire a car for about 10 days and I thought I might try private hire but I couldn't really figure out how it works. I have once hired a car via a private hire website in Germany and it was very simple and very cheap. But the UK private hire websites I found seem to be neither cheap nor simple, or was I looking in the wrong place? Of course it doesn't have to be private, I just thought this might be cheaper.

Could anyone tell me where to find good value (private) car hire and how it works?

Sorry for asking this question, I feel quite stupid, but I really could't find a good offer. I would be very thankful for any advice!
Thank you!

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  • vansboy
    vansboy Posts: 6,483 Forumite
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    I'm guessing by 'private hire', you mean an private individual owner of a car prepared to loan it to you, for a period of time, for a fee?

    The UK term private hire, will relate to 'minicabs' generally and not what I think you want.

    Try https://carclub.easycar.com/# or Google search... rent my car ...

    Hope that helps

    VB
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,819 Forumite
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    Lots of car rental places about £17 a day?
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • Thank you vansboy for clarifying this to me and thank you for the link!

    forgotmyname, what do you mean with "Lots of car rental places about £17 a day?" ? Where do you find these places?
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,819 Forumite
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    Google car hire. Lots of companies hire cars by the day, week or longer.

    Budget, AVIS, Hertz as well as well as lots and lots of smaller more local companies.
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • jaydeeuk1
    jaydeeuk1 Posts: 7,714 Forumite
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    We get a yaris hire car from toyota derby for £21 a day. They pick up and drop off too and don't screw you over on charges like enterprise. Imagine other dealers do it too.
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