This article provides 3 quick tips, helping you get lower prices when booking car rental online. We’ve identified some simple, but effective, steps you can take to ensure, as much as possible, that you will get the best deals when buying your car rental online.
When you’re ready to book you probably already have most of the information that you need, including an idea of the type of car you want to hire, pickup location (airport/city/train station), hire dates and pickup times. Not all car types will be available at every location so, if you can be more flexible with pickup dates and locations, you might get more choice. You also need to be aware that airport locations can often charge hefty extras for their “Premium location”.
Nowadays there is a great choice, when booking car hire online, including the likes of Avis, Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Europcar, Hertz, Holiday Autos, National, Sixt and Thrifty to name just a few. Some you may have booked with before, others you probably haven’t.
Booking early often brings lower prices, with a wider vehicle choice, but no matter when you want to book we suggest you follow our tips below when searching for the cheapest car rental prices online:
Tip 1 – Use a car rental comparison website, such as CarRentals.co.uk.
Using a car hire comparison website provides a quick and effective way to find cheap car hire prices, or at least to find a benchmark price to start your search. Select your location and dates, click Search, and you’ll see a great list of prices in a matter of seconds!
Tip 2 – Use a discounts website like LatestDiscountVouchers.co.uk.
Our own discount vouchers website, LatestDiscountVouchers.co.uk, lists offers and car hire voucher codes and is well worth including as a step in your search as we keep on top of all the latest deals for many leading car rental companies including Auto Europe, Hertz, Avis and more.
Tip 3 – Get an online quote directly from each car rental company.
Although you can certainly find low prices by getting a quote from each individual company, doing it this way can be time-intensive if you’ve a lot of car rental companies to choose from. We suggest you use our 2 tips above, to get your benchmark prices, before visiting the rental companies directly.
Anything else?
When obtaining car hire quotes online, always do your homework regarding the small print, terms of hire, the companies reputation, local taxes, what’s included and excluded, and what the excess levels are. All these, together with the price, are important elements to consider with your car hire.
Don’t always settle for the first price you find and, at the very least, use a comparison website to give you an idea of the price you could be paying. Also, please be aware that the cheapest price may not always be the best one to take but you need to make up your own mind on that one I’m afraid.
Thanks for reading this post and we certainly hope that our short tips will help you find cheaper car rentals online!
Kind regards,
Nick
-LatestDiscountVouchers.co.uk
