Posted on January 21, 2011 by Fiona Hilliard

    Let’s take a peek inside the crazy world of travel writer extraordinaire La Carmina as she hits the sun-dappled streets of California with LA car rental  and Japan’s latest acting/modelling/singing sensation Sebastiano Serafini. Who is this La Carmina? La Carmina is a travel journalist for CNNGo.com. She is also the author behind the quirky La Carmina blog, [...]

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Argus Car Hire would like to extend our congratulations to Fota Wildlife Park for scooping the Best Travel and Tourism Website 2010 award at last night’s Eircom Spiders in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. Judges were especially impressed by the site’s social media tools and how the company uses these tools to actively [...]

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image by Garrettc via Flickr The days of last minute car hire bargains are well and truly over.  New research carried out by a leading Japanese economist has found that the cheapest time to book your airline ticket, hotel or car hire is EIGHT weeks before travelling. Makoto Watanabe’s ‘eight-week theory’ can be traced to his [...]

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

When renting a car you’d assume you wouldn’t get busted for breaking the speed limit. Wouldn’t you?  After all, it’s not your car, who’s going to know…? Assumptions are dangerous things… Let me explain. If you’re caught making a road traffic offence, you can bet your bottom dollar that your car rental agency will have [...]

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Most holidaymakers who rent cars have an easy, trouble-free experience. The unlucky few who don’t are kicking themselves that they didn’t twig potential problems within the first few minutes of collecting their vehicle. So before you you jump in and sign on the dotted line,  ensure you’ve at least taken photographic evidence [...]

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Yesssss. FINALLY. He got his comeuppance. Well, it had to happen sooner or later. It just so happens that Michael O’ Leary ended up with egg on his face during the one of the worst weeks in history for the European aviation industry. On a landmark day for fed up Ryanair passengers everywhere, the Ryanair [...]