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Is Insurance for Car Hire Necessary?

Filed in archive Car Rental Tips on July 16, 2010

Is Insurance for Car Hire Necessary?
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When you arrive a the car rentals desk, one thing that the agents will most likely advise is to take car rental insurance as well. You hem and haw, and can't be sure whether you existing insurance policies will cover accidents that may happen with you driving a rental car. Is car rental insurance worth the extra $$$?

Well, in many cases personal insurance may be enough. However, you need to check your policies to be sure, and verify everything before you proceed to the car rental counter.

In certain cases, however, personal policies will not cover accidents that occur during business travels, so if it's a work-related travel, check with your employer if the company's insurance policy will cover car rentals. If you own a car and have insurance, check if your policy covers rental insurance. Consider also that if you have an older car, your insurance policy coverage might not be enough to pay for damages to a brand new SUV.

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Things to Consider When Renting a Car

Filed in archive Car Rental Tips on July 12, 2010

Things to Consider When Renting a Car
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When renting a car, there's more to consider than just the make of the car and rental cost per day. Find a rental company that offers convenient pick up and drop off points. If you will be arriving at your destination by air or rail, find out if you can pick up the car on your way out of the airport or train station and drop it at a convenient location at your next destination. Otherwise, it can be a logistic nightmare just getting and delivering the car especially if you're not familiar with the place.

You also need to find out what is included in the fees you are paying. In most cases, the car is given to you fully tanked with gas, and you need to return it similarly. But what about car rental insurance? Does it make sense to get one? What does the insurance cover? Most cars are equipped with GPS navigators nowadays, but ask just the same. If you need child seats, are these offered for free, or at an additional charge?

In most cases, all these information are available online. It is better to review your options and plan your booking ahead of time so that you have time to compare the offers available, rather than making the arrangements at the car rentals desk at the last minute.

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Home delivery service launched by Avis UK

Filed in archive Information about on May 13, 2010

Home delivery service launched by Avis UK
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Avis UK, which is one of UK's largest car rental companies, has launched a new service which facilitates the customers to posses their hired car transported right at their front door.

The main target or purpose of Avis UK is to make its car hire service more easy to get and convenient for all of its customers. Avis UK also gives the facility of dropping of customer's rental vehicle at the particular location. Avis UK company also send their driver to pick up customers car when the hire period comes to an end.

Formerly, the holidaymakers in the UK had to spend their valuable time out of their holiday to go to the hire depot to pick and drop the hire car but now the company has found a solution for this problem. Now the holidaymakers will not face such trouble or problem. Before such service the customer had to travel to the hire centre by public transport or by taxi which was both time consuming and money consuming.

All over the UK, this service is available for the customers except in London, between Mondays and Saturdays and the cost of such service is only £10 each way. Thus the cost is very reasonable and genuine for service of picking and dropping of the hired car.

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