Car hire USA including extra insurance charges

LokiGinge

I am very confused. I have booked a car in California for 3 days.

£117 on Booking.com

then £30 for extra driver (The Boss or Wife as she is known)

then £30 excess cover insurance, as advised by MSE

However, I know I need Supplementary Liability Insurance, but its a black hole.

The car hire firm is AVIS and on their website SLI is £50 a day.

the £150 is more than the car hire charge.

There appears to be nothing in MSE car hire pages on this.

Any help greatly appreciated

jimjames

I would buy any excess cover separately from the hire company. I've used Reduce My Excess which was much lower than the hire company, around £30 total I seem to recall. There are MSE pages with plenty of content on excess cover

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-car-hire/#excess

MyRealNameToo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6658517/car-hire-usa-including-extra-insurance-charges

Some excess cover insurances also offer SLI if you are hiring in North America

If you got excited and bought your excess cover already without looking at SLI you can still buy standalone SLI but the two separate policies are likely to be more expensive than a combined policy would have been but probably too late to worry about that now and will still be much cheaper than the £50/day