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Sunday 28 February 2010

Handy Tips For Car Hire Journeys

Handy Tips For Car Hire Journeys

Tuesday 23 February 2010

Drive away those winter blues with holiday autos


Just had a flyer in from holiday autos entitled "drive away those winter blues" . You only have to look out of the window, this the 23rd February and see the snow coming down outside. When will it stop? So holiday autos are suggesting some keys dates (not that long away) when you could get away and rent a car. They state in the flyer that car hire is from £8 per day and highlight "spring car hire dates" as St Patrick's Day - 17th March - Mother's Fay 14th March and Easter Sunday 4th April.
Why not hire a car and get out there? After all, it's been a long winter and you can get a car from just £8 a ay, but these are dates busy dates, so book now using this link http://www.holidayautos.co.uk/cgi-bin/liveweb.sh/QSearch.w?ctryref=GBR&lang=EN&aff=xjeffreymilnerltd or you could miss out.
They also offer motorhome hire so you can experience the freedom of waking up somewhere new each day. With plenty of quality motorhomes to choose from in hundreds of worldwide locations you'll be spoilt for choice, wherever you're heading off to. Experience all the luxuries of home as you travel about in your motorhome.
Van hire as well - Moving house? Car too small? Need more space? thei fleet of vans are on hand to help you out. They have a wide range of quality vans in 130 UK locations so there will always be one handy. They have vans to suit all needs. So, if you're moving everything but the kitchen sink or just a chair, they have the van for you. They aim to offer low-cost, easy-to-book van hire. Whatever your needs, you can be sure we can help you with all your van hire requirements.
holiday autos have also been picking up some more rewards. They have a page full of them on their website and the latest are Best Car Hire in the UK at the Globe Travel Awards and Best Leisure Car in the Irish Travel News Awards - for the second year running.

Friday 19 February 2010

Van Hire available via Holiday Autos



Whilst making a car hire booking a few days ago on the holiday autos website, I noticed that they are also offering motor home hire and van hire.

As I needed to rent a van to collect some furniture from Ikea in London, I decided to try them.

It was very straigtforward going to their website -

http://www.holidayautos.co.uk/cgi-bin/liveweb.sh/QSearch.w?ctryref=GBR&lang=EN&aff=xjeffreymilnerltd Holiday Autos say "they have great rates in 130 UK locations. Moving house? Car too small? Need more space? Our fleet of vans are on hand to help you out. We've a wide range of quality vans in 130 UK locations so there will always be one handy. We've vans to suit all needs. So, if you're moving everything but the kitchen sink or just a chair, we've the van for you. We aim to offer low-cost, easy-to-book van hire. Whatever your needs, you can be sure we can help you with all your van hire requirements."

So I decided to give them a try. Their rental partner was Europcar and I also took the precaution of pre-buying van hire excess insurance on a daily policy via
Insuremycarhire.com ( http://www.insuremycarhire.com/vanExcess.asp?refID=1194&subRefID=188 ) who are part of Insurance4carhire, a company formed in 2002 as an innovative online company specialising in the provision of polices to cover excess on car hire.

As it was a Monday morning, I had to wait whilst the van was prepared and within a short while we were on our way. The price was most competitive and it was returned back to the Europcar office with a full tank of fuel so ther were no deductions.

Do you have any experiences renting a van? Add them to this blog.

Sunday 7 February 2010

Cancellation insurance for car hire




Although my wife and I have rented cars on many occasions over the years, we have never had to cancel a booking at the last minute.

I had booked car hire via holiday autos for a visit between the 7th February and 10th February 2010. Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, she had to cancel the booking about 3 hours before she was due to collect the car.


I telephoned holiday autos and although, the car hire was immediately cancelled, it will cost £25.00. This means we will get about £8.00 back!


Their very helpful representative said that we should have paid for their cancewlation waiver insurance. This is seems like a great idea if you have to cancel like this. I have now booked again for her and paid the £2.00+ insurance for the next rental. I think I will always do this in future for a low cost rental as it would not have been worth claiming on the travel insurance as the claim would have been lower than the excess.

The following information comes from the holiday autos website:
Cancellation waiver protection
For just £5.50 per rental week, holiday autos will waive your liability to pay any cancellation charges if you are unable to honour your booking prior to the collection date. If you wish to purchase this contractual waiver charge, you must do so at the time of booking.


I also see that holiday autos has a "price match guarantee".

They say" If you find the exact same car offered by any other independent car rental company at a cheaper rate, we will do our very best to match it. Our price match guarantee only applies to quotes made with operators within the same country. You may use our price match guarantee up until the day of departure.

Your collection point will affect your quote. You cannot compare prices for an airport pick up and a non-airport pick up.

We will need to confirm the availability and conditions of the lower rate to make sure an accurate comparison has been made. We will do this straight away but it may take a few minutes. You can hold the line or, if you prefer, we will call you back.

Our price match guarantee does not apply to promotional offers and is not valid on van hire or prestige cars."

To find out more about holiday autos follow this link:
http://www.holidayautos.co.uk/cgi-bin/liveweb.sh/QSearch.w?ctryref=GBR&lang=EN&aff=xjeffreymilnerltd

Friday 5 February 2010

What does the car hire excess insurance include?

"What does the insurance include?"

Found on a Google altert today from a blog on Money Saving Expert.

What does the insurance include?

Our insurance includes Collision Damage Waiver (CDW) with no insurance excess liability and Theft Loss Waiver (TLW) with no liability in the event that the vehicle is stolen. Also covered is third party and public liability insurance. Two drivers are always covered as standard. Personal Accident Insurance (PAI) is not normally included in our package; however, this should be covered by your travel insurance policy.

Certain parts of the vehicle such as the wheels, tyres, locks, roof, glass parts of the vehicle (including the windscreen), the underside and interior are not covered by the insurance as they are normally damaged as a result of negligence. Top-up insurance is sometimes offered at the time of collection to cover damage to these items.

Insurance4carhire is cheaper, you're free to rent the car by any company, and covers all damages what are exception for economycarhire.com "no excess" insurance.

http://www.insurance4carhire.com/index.asp?linkfrom=4&curID=1&langID=1&refID=188

Insurance4carhire covers: Excess on damage, excess on theft and damage to: windows, tyres, the undercarriage and the roof.

If you need 10 GBP discount for Insurance4carhire just refer to the link in my profile!

Insurance4carhire covers: Excess on damage, excess on theft and damage to: windows, tyres, the undercarriage and the roof.

If you need 10 GBP discount for Insurance4carhire just refer to the link in my profile! There you have it.