Car Hire affected by geography?

flossy_splodge

Am trying to help my daughter hire a car for one day to be able to meet me. She is in Exeter and the prices I've found seem to be around £200 - £300 for one day!!

 I don't understand cos round here in the Midlands for a 'compact' category I can still hire  for about  £30 per day.

Anyone any thoughts?

Is Exeter that much dearer and if so why?

The dates I've entered have been the same for both areas.

I'm hoping someone can offer some help cos I haven't seen her for 6 months or so and I was so looking forward to a meet up. :'(

TooManyPoints

Enterprise do a Corsa for £70 a day for one day next week.

Grey_Critic

How old is your daughter? Instead of going online cannot she ring round local companies would probably be much cheaper.

flossy_splodge

TooManyPoints said:

Enterprise do a Corsa for £70 a day for one day next week.

Thank you I'll look for that.

(Mind you a Corsa from Stratford on Avon is £30 !!  Why is Exeter so dear?)

Appreciate you looking.

flossy_splodge

Grey_Critic said:

How old is your daughter? Instead of going online cannot she ring round local companies would probably be much cheaper.

High 30's !!    hadn't thought of doing that so I'll tell her to try.

Thanks for the thought.

Herzlos

It could just be a supply and demand thing; I suspect the south coast is a lot busier over the summer than the midlands is.

Flight3287462

Herzlos said:

It could just be a supply and demand thing; I suspect the south coast is a lot busier over the summer than the midlands is.

I was suspecting the opposite, quieter town not huge demand therefore to keep the staff and lights on with lower demand you need to charge more and they probably carry a lot less cars in stock.

flossy_splodge

Herzlos said:

It could just be a supply and demand thing; I suspect the south coast is a lot busier over the summer than the midlands is.

Thanks for your thoughts but I don't think that in any way accounts for such a huge dfferential in cost and it is not yet the peak season.

Exeter is not really on the coast per se and if you put in a greater number of days you can get the daily charge down to about £70 per day average.

Flight3287462 said:

Herzlos said:

It could just be a supply and demand thing; I suspect the south coast is a lot busier over the summer than the midlands is.

I was suspecting the opposite, quieter town not huge demand therefore to keep the staff and lights on with lower demand you need to charge more and they probably carry a lot less cars in stock.

Exeter is quite a big city not really a quiet town.

I have wondered if the fact the main pick up point is at Exeter airport is the issue?

Running out of cars or just taking advantage of people coming off aeroplanes being stuck for an alternative source of hire car?

None of these things really account for such a huge huge differential!

Followed up the idea above by TooManyPoints and I indeed found Enterprise had a car at about £70 per day so thanks for that.

Still strikes me as strange that a smallish town such as Stratford on Avon charges half the price.

Oh well, maybe it just is what it is!!

Thank you to everyone for their input.