Car Hire and Car Rental

Anoop asked:


Am looking for a good car hire/rental services in Algarve -Portugal.

pottolom asked:


I am thinking of hiring a car with a budget rental firm such as Thrifty. If I do so, do I need to buy any extra insurance? Someone told me that these hire firms only provide you with very basic insurance, so that if you were to have an accident and it was your fault, you wouldn’t be covered….. is this true?

Also, I’ve had a look on their website, and they seem to charge £28 a day for car hire. This seems quite cheap - are there any other hidden costs to be aware of?

Charles Jamieson asked:


I am travelling to Mexico in June and would like to hire a car in Tijuana and travel down the Baja peninsula, dropping the car off in Cabo San Lucas (or thereabouts) before catching the ferry across to mainland Mexico.The only quotes I can find online include a drop-off fee (for returning the car to a different depot to the one at which I picked it up) of about $600–basically doubling the cost of car hire. Is there any way around this?

Edward Norton asked:


Is it recommended that you book from an American website? Or from a UK based one? Does anyone know any cheap car hire web sites for the USA? Any tips on car hire or driving in the USA would be greatly appreciated.

adnie25 asked:


We are travelling in October and will need the car for 10 days and am having trouble finding somewhere that will let you drop the car off in another country.
We are going from Paris to Rome, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

midbat asked:


Planning on visiting NZ at Christmas/New Year. Will be hiring car for duration of stay (21 days). Wondering whether I will get a better deal to book over the web in advance or wait till we get out there and then sort it out? Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks

Jana asked:


I am planning a road trip through America later this year and looking for cheap car hire. I have heard that some companies look for people in my situation to help them with transporting vehicles cross country - does anyone know anything about this?

paul r asked:


i don’t want to wait half an hour to be carted 2 kilometres down the road in a transit van, to the ACTUAL car hire company!!
i have to say that i **** it when people reply, saying “i don’t know the answer to your question”. the big drawback of YA’s points system is that people can abuse it like this.

pinkmarch asked:


I can’t find a car hire in Alicante that does not require a credit card.

troymuqbil asked:


My friend and I are both 21 and are looking to road trip in America this summer (mid-June to early July) and we need to hire a car. Our journey takes us through Nevada, California and Arizona. We are travelling for 22 days. It is only us and we both intend to drive the hired car. Being aged 21-24 we are often subject to an additional charge per day. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Can anyone recommend a company which would be the cheapest for our situation?