Posted on July 12, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr The easiest bit of renting a car is picking it up and driving it away.  Isn’t it? Not so, according to a new survey by Kwik Fit. A whopping one in three people hiring a car admit that they struggle with its basic controls when they step inside [...]

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 April 27, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Last week’s European airspace shutdown resulted in 22% of international car hire bookings being cancelled and over 95% of passengers not showing up to collect their cars at European airports, according to latest figures. At the moment, the disruption is thought to amount to an estimated loss of €65 million (£57 million). [...]

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia When renting a car in Pula, you should know that the best and easiest place to pick up your rental car is in Pula Airport. Pula Airport is situated just 5km to the North east of the city of Pula, on the southeast end of the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia. Pula is [...]

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

  The weather is heating up, but so too are tempers.  To help avoid nasty confrontations, we’ve compiled a list of our top three driving grievances and how to avoid them this summer. Traffic Red. Yellow. Green. Beep. Rev. Swear.  Traffic jams are part and parcel of driving no matter where you travel.  However, with a [...]

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Fiona Hilliard

Car hire companies in the US are proving Kermit the frog wrong.  These days it IS easy to be green.  In fact it’s simple.  Over the past few months, rental firms have been pleasantly surprised by the success of their efforts at becoming more environmentally friendly through carbon-cutting schemes.    Carbon –offsetting initiatives are among the [...]