Posted on September 17, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

This week our Question of the Week comes from a customer called Tom who is wondering about charges for additional drivers. Tom says: I’m just wondering why car hire companies charge extra for additional drivers, even if the driver is your wife?  I am renting a car in Spain and plan to share the driving [...]

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

    We all know what a kerfuffle this year’s shortage of car hire in Spain caused.  You paid inflated prices or you were left high and dry without a set of wheels to get you from town to beach. And now it emerges that it was all down to one man, Joan Mesquida. It [...]

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

Summer may seem like five minutes ago (with this week’s sunny weather and all it very well could be) but that hasn’t stopped our car rental suppliers in Cyprus from urging next year’s crop of summer holidaymakers to book their car hire in good time for the 2010 season. They’ve obviously been listening closely to  Visit Cyprus, the Cypriot [...]

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

  With the shortage of rental cars in Spain hitting the headlines everywhere this week, it’s no secret that Spanish suppliers are struggling to keep up with demand. This summer’s unprecedented scarcity of rental cars in Spain is down to a number of reasons:   The world-wide recession hit smaller rental companies particularly hard and many of [...]

Posted on August 06, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

A customer contacted us recently with a great question regarding the cost of hiring a car in Spain.  We thought we’d share our advice to him with you: Customer says: I’m looking to rent a car in Alicante.  I booked with you in April and found that you offered excellent value for money.  However, when [...]

Posted on July 09, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

Think you know Europe? Think again. Euro-sceptics worry that the countries of Europe are slowly turning into one giant entity, but when it comes to driving, you couldn’t get any more different. Those who’ve taken a spin in Spain or a drive in Denmark, learn (sometimes the hard way) that every European nation has its own [...]