UK Car Rental Companies - for UK and Worldwide Car Rental
Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, UK websites
Nationwide Hire
• www.nationwidehireuk.co.uk
Headers: Car hire, Van hire, Minibus hire, Mpv hire, Truck hire
Hire cars, vans, minibuses, mpvs and trucks from over 100 UK locations with free delivery and collection and unlimited mileage and European cover.
Nationwide Hire use my favourite form of help which is a simple chat window bottom right. Means of course you can have a cup of tea and enquire without the hassle of phoning. It also gives their phone number and name if you want to ring them direct the old fasiohned way.
Hertz
• www.hertz.co.uk
Headers: Car Hire
Hertz offers worldwide car rental. The search is very simple; just type in a city name or airport plus details of where you want to drop the vehicle off and you get a selection of car tyes to choose from and a quotation. If you are not sure of location names you can browse and you will get a list of possible pickup/drop off points. If you want to pick the car up in one country and leave it in another, that is fine. All rates include unlimited mileage, theft protection, collision damage waiver, VAT and 24 hour roadside assistance.There are also other options such as Chauffeur Drive, 'Le Swap', UK long term rentals and the Hertz Prestige Collection. Full details on site.
Holiday Autos
• www.holidayautos.co.uk
Headers: car rental
Holiday autos is part of lastminute.com and offers low cost car rental in over 4000 locations in the UK and worldwide. Its easy to book using their online form. Prices include unlimited mileage, insurance cover and airport surcharges, bail bonds and local taxes. This is a very easy to navigate site with terms and conditions clearly laid out. In addition there is useful travel information such as public holidays, driving rules etc for several European countries plus New Zealand and the USA.
Hotels.co.uk
• www.hotels.co.uk
Headers: Hotels, Self Catering, Cars, Deals
Hotels.com offers savings of up to 70% on more than 10,000 hotel rooms and self-catering accomodation in over 400 destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and South Africa. In fact they guarantee to find the lowest hotel rates at the time you book. The search engine is pretty efficient and the search results impressive. Worldwide car hire is available for economy up to luxury models. They also specialise in providing accommodation when cities are sold out. Hotels.com UK is owned by the Texan company InteractiveCorp.
Opodo
• www.opodo.co.uk
Headers: Flights, Hotels, City Breaks, Tailor-made Holidays, Package Holidays, Cars, Meaningful Travel, Ski
Offers an unbiased and competitively priced online travel service for world travel, they have access to flights from over 400 airlines, as well as an extensive range of worldwide hotel properties and car rental companies, as well as travel insurance. Headquartered in London, the UK site launched in January 2002 and have already established themselves as a leading provider of online travel.
Record Rent a Car
• www.recordrentacar.com
Headers: Car Rental in Spain
Record Rent a Car offers car rental in the following locations: Málaga, Alicante, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuenteventura, Lanzarote and Mallorca. Its very easy to request an all inclusive instant quote online. Prices range from about €110 to about €400 per week. They have over 20 models to choose from and a fleet of over 20,000 vehicles plus offices at the main airports. Travellers guides are available online.
Thomas Cook
• www.thomascook.com
Headers: Deals, Holidays, Flights, Hotels, Flight + Hotel, Cruises, UK Breaks, Car Hire, Airport Parking, Insurance, Airport Hotels, London Theatre Tickets, Attraction Tickets, Travel Vouchers, Guides
As you might expect with Thomas Cook, you can book a hotel, flight or compete packages virtually anywhere in the world, with access to thousands of hotels and hundreds of airlines. The search is quick and effieicent plus you can use the site to book a car at your destination and arrange parking at your departure airport.
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