Renting a Car in London

jacobevans

I am looking to hire a car locally. I live in London and I'm planning on driving down to Lulworth Cove for 4 days this weekend.

Since I am new to this hiring car thing, I wonder if anyone has tips on where to get good, cheap hire cars?

I've seen Kayak, Europcar, RentalCars and, Go Rentals but if there's more, your help would be much appreciated.

Apologies if this has been asked before!

Alan_Bowen

I used to try carrrentals.co.uk. If you rent in the centre you will end up paying the congestion charge twice on pick up and return so it may be cheaper to look towards outer London, it depends of course where you are based in London. 

lisyloo

I used europcar in victoria, mainly on price and location at the time.
i also bought an excess insurance policy that was about £2.
it was outside the congestion charge zone.

Chris_English

In the past I've found very good prices through a local independent company, found via google, but nowadays I'm generally more likely to go via Expedia who tend to come up very close to the same price but with one of the bigger names who I think are less likely to let me down on the day.

lisyloo

Btw - I did initially look at one of the schemes where you use someone private car. I had bad experiences trying to book e.g. car was not available due to damage, person got the wrong month etc.
i quickly decided to go with a professional company.