Friday, 27 November 2009

Cheap Car Rental Tricks


By Martin Elmer

If you know the tricks, it is easy to find cheap car rental. Find out why it is cheaper to rent a car in the weekend or for a week. Learn why you should prepay the car and how you can get a few extra hours or an upgrade for free. Get tips to choosing the right insurance.

The easiest way to save a lot of money is to compare the different car rental agencies' prices. It would be very time-consuming to do it yourself, but fortunately car rental search websites has been constructed, so you just have to enter dates and location. Then you can see the cheapest price for the various car models.

Try to plan your car rental need for the weekend. Most car rental agencies have special weekend offers, so you can save a lot of money, if you rent the car in the weekend.

Long term rental is another way to rent an inexpensive car. If you need a car for 4 or 5 days, you can often rent a car for a week for the same amount.

Do you want a large Audi instead of a small Fiat? But do you not want to pay for it. Then try to ask for a free upgrade. Often the car rental agencies will give it to you, if the can. The reason is that they want your loyalty, and a cheap way to get it, is to offer you a little extra service. But it is an extra bonus, you cannot be certain to get. So do not plan your whole vacation on it.

There is a lot of money to be saved on the insurance. But before you say no to the insurance, you should read the policy closely, because it can cost you a lot of money, if you are involved in an accident and you are not insured.

On the other hand there is a lot of extra, easy money to be earned for the car rental agencies on the insurance part of the car rental. So use your common sense and buy only the insurances you think you need.

Normally the rental periods are divided into 24 hours. So if need the car for e.g. 27 hours, it is sensible to wait a few hours before collecting the car; or return it a few hours earlier. You can also try to ask the car rental agency if it is possible to return the car a few hours to late. Often it is not a problem, if you ask for it.

And a final advice: prepay the car. It is normally cheaper than if you rent it at arrival in the airport. So find a good price on the Internet and reserve it. Then it is also faster when you arrive in the airport.

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