Car rental

[bburnett]

How to rent a car in italy and drop it in spain

[JK2]

If you book with one of the worldwide companies, like Hertz for instance, the website gives you the opportunity to collect the car in one place and return it to another.
https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/reservation/gaq/index.jsp?targetPage=whenWhereHowView.jsp

[JK2]

Sorry the link doesn't seem to have worked I'll try again

https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/reservation/gaq/index.jsp?targetPage=whenWhereHowView.jsp

[SteveD]

I had a look on the Avis website and tried to get a price for Genova to Barcelona. You can go so far with it but then it says that, for such a rental, you have to contact Avis by phone. I guess that it will be the same for other companies.

I am sure that there would be a massive surcharge for an international open-jaw rental.

[dzug]

Yes there will be a large surcharge - you effectively have to pay for someone to fly to Spain, pick up the car and drive it back.

[VillageVicar]

There are too many variables for technology to provide accurate pick-up/drop-off rates between all European cities. The websites typically are geared to think for the US market, where there are �pool� cars that they use in moving between states, especially seasonally, such as up and down the US coast.

In Europe, because many of the car hire locations are franchises rather than corporate owned and as such, the pricing can be quite high, may I suggest that you phone three of the big three �Avis, Hertz, and Europcar� to obtain quotes.

There are some thoughts as to how to keep the total charges slightly less. Consider using car grades CCAR to ICAR which is compact to intermediate. Range. There �may� already be cars outside of the general pool area, that the company wants to return to its home base (such as when someone has collected the car in Spain and taken it to Italy). For specialty cars, the owning �pool� always want those cars back as quickly as possible. Also, consider picking up and dropping off cars only at major airports. This is because the airport locations are �generally� corporate owned and use a blanket matrix in their pricing.

I regularly collect cars in Nice and drop them in Florence or Venice. However, as I tend not to book them in advance, but deal with it on a spur of the moment matter, I find that I can get better rates by phoning the big three local offices in Nice and asking whether they have any cars that belong to the Italian �pool� to be returned. I�ve gotten some really good rates by doing this.

Have a wonderful journey!

Fr Bill

[Gyvybe]

Hi,

Have you tried using car hire comparison sites such as http://www.car-hire-centre.co.uk/rd-italy/?

Whilst they give you the best deal, you can then find out whether or not that particular company offers pick up/drop off in different countries.

Best of luck,