Car Hire In France - Insurance Questions

SteveBLFC64

Hi All,

I'm hiring a car in Rennes in July for a couple of weeks from Europcar (via Rentalcars.com) - hired back in Feb - fairly reasonable price of just under £270 - procies have gone up alot since. I just wanted to check I have 'all the bases covered' for insurance - the default policy has:-

Collision Damage Waiver (CDW), Third-Party Liability (TPL) and Theft Protection (TP)
I've taken out Eversure Car Hire Excess Insurance for just under £25
I'm going to take out Rentalcar's 'full insurance' for just under £60

Does the above look adequate? I'm not 'seasoned' at renting cars on the continent, so would be good to kow if I'm missing anything obvious? I'm guessing they'll still temporarily take a large sum from my credit card, but am ok with that.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

eDicky

SteveBLFC64 said:

I've taken out Eversure Car Hire Excess Insurance for just under £25
I'm going to take out Rentalcar's 'full insurance' for just under £60

There's no need for both, what you already have is adequate.

Sandtree

Unfortunately different companies use different names for the same thing and the same name for different things which means you really need to read the fine print of both to ensure you aren doubling up.  On the surface it does sound like you are paying RentalCar to reduce/eliminate the excess and therefore would be questionable as to why you are buying excess cover.