The vacation is being planned. Sunny destination in the south attracts the white sandy beaches, pleasant temperatures and restaurants, and tax-ridden northern residents can pay without having to check the price of each glass of wine first.

From the Internet and brochures from travel companies is the final destination is selected and the flight and the hotel is booked.

Now missing only rental car, which will bring the family from the airport to the hotel or holiday home where the 14-day relaxation will be enjoyed in full drag.

Car offers car rental focuses on price
The vast majority of car leasing companies know that customers, when the holidays are scheduled almost exclusively looking at the price of car rental.

Terms cannon from the major car rental companies are often left with the ultimate offer: "holiday car with 40% discount," the snuff sensible "car hire for 14 euros per day" or the ultimate trump card in the travel, "with the car rental price."

The price to rent a car is important, but often hidden very considerable additional expense in the enticing offers on car hire. If the accident, it may in some societies be true dear.

Cheapest rental car not always the cheapest
Fairness should be noted that the good deals in fact and is very good, but often appear to small and large extra-bills in the form of:

     * Additional drivers
       Payment for extra drivers are often only discovered at the airport at the desk. It can often actually cost relatively much money if more people (legally) to keep the car. The staff at the car rental at the airport are instructed to ask, which is also fine. If you have 500 kilometers of driving ahead of them, it might be inappropriate to spare here.
       
     * Enhancements
       Payment for child seats, navigation system, and other loose equipment. These things can be quite expensive to familiarize themselves with and must use a child restraint, we must therefore use a child regardless of price.
       
     * Price
       Car companies know that the word "price" is often the last key decision factor for many in taking decision in the jungle of car leasing and cheap rental cars online.

       That is as far too fine, but the price guarantee is the first on the rental price - not the extra costs that are often hidden.

       The second and more important, it is highly likely that car rental companies even though they may not offer the cheapest car rental, never receives a claim on the price guarantee from customers who want to search multiple car rental prices when you already has booked lejebil?

       Should we be really cynical, one can also speculate on how many customers who choose to follow a price of 50 euros for example, dies in a bureaucratic system with a Car Hire in a foreign country.

       Take always the word "price" with a pinch of salt. Price of car rental is not a lie, but as of the tax authorities may at any car rental companies require time and not least the energy to get his money back.
       
     * Insurance Requirements - critical threshold
       We've saved the best for last: The conditions are just the big joker, when you hire a cheap car. There are virtually no problems in the insurance, so to speak, is always incomplete.
       
       The crux is when damage occurs. There are huge differences in excess of rental cars, and this difference (only applicable for those unfortunate bill owners) often help to finance the good offers. Alternatively, you can at the counter at the airport (against what you planned after at home) represent the extra insurance to eliminate the excess. The staff will ask - they are on commission!

       You can if accident (and not deductible insurance) risking getting rid of 5000, 7000, or by expensive cars maybe 10,000 dollars extra in deductible after a minor injury in a car with "price" in relation to another similar car hire with much lower threshold, perhaps 10 dollars more expensive to rent per day.

       It is also far from certain that the rental car is the sign (the police) from an insurance company with a high deductible. In fact it is highly unlikely, since the typical rental companies have a combined insurance contract (level playing field for all cars) or their own.

       The high excess of the "cheap rental car" may just be a way to get some extra revenue in to the car rental company, since for a large car rental company is relatively easy to calculate the extra charge on customers' excesses in the form of:

       1) Increased premiums (insurance against excesses sign desk or online) and

       2) For the unfortunate case exorbitant additional excess payments when experienced by a certain percentage of all cars in the rental fleet every year receive an injury.


Our recommendation before booking a rental car:
Read the rental terms most important point: deductible (excess in English). If the threshold is more than 500-600 euros, so consider whether the car is really cheap though, the "price" or to recognize the additional excess insurance in the price. If the threshold is unclear defined on a car, so always choose another company. We have no alternatives when faced with his booking at the counter in a foreign airport and being asked to sign rental contract.

After renting the car is ordered and ready at the airport upon arrival, it can not go too much too fast to get off to leave the house or hotel.

Before you put behind the wheel of the rented car, it is a good idea to go for a walk around the car to check the small Kramer, lack of wheel caps and the like.

The variety of rental companies have different procedures, and often take a little scratch is not so solemn. It can not be sure of the case, and runs Monday to place rental car with a small insignificant injury, not listed in the car papers in advance, we risk being suspended from a cost of repairing the damage.

Pickup and delivery of rental car
All car rental companies require credit cards on issue of rental contract. It is therefore easy for companies to let customers pay for the damage which is discovered when the car returned - possibly after the customer has pursued its aircraft. One should always have a rental company to recognize that the car is in the same condition as when removed when you return the rental car again.

Especially the companies at the major airports in England and the major car leasing companies in the airports in Europe's capitals have now put the lodging of rental cars in the system, and rental cars are relatively carefully by deposit.

All rental cars are a little sketch of the car, where scratches and scratches are selected. It takes no more than 5 minutes to check and can save up to several hundred euros in excess.

Often, service staff in rental industry pressure over time so that scratches are not detected before the delivery of the next customer. With strict orders not to accept gather (as some companies have), it is therefore advisable to conduct an audit of the rental car's condition before leaving the rental company's parking lot.

Note also that some small glass damage (stars in the windshield) can only be seen inside.

When we hired a car in another country, there are substantial differences in how the insurance on the car is screwed together.

However, there is in most countries much less appropriate groups by car insurance than people think. Basically, you can confidently expect that all cars have liability insurance of the hire company. Moreover, one can normally not be allowed to rent a car unless there is hull insurance on rental car.

Hull insurance is known Collission-Damage-Waiver (CDW), which normally is part of the rental price along with Theft Protection (TP).

All companies have a deductible for the customer on insurance (both CDW and TP), otherwise the number of scratches become too large. Threshold is called excess in English.

Whether it is advisable to buy extra insurance to eliminate / reduce the threshold depends on how much the threshold is, what car it is how well you have it to have a deductible, which experienced a driver you are and not at least where the car must be in the lease.

Certain places such as Spain, it is possible to rent a car with an excess of as little as 200 euros or less - equivalent to less than 1500 dollars. In those cases, it can not usually pay off with as low a deductible (and usually cheap rental cars) to insure further.

Where are planned to park in an unfamiliar / or high risk area for example the middle of a city is of course another matter, but you are on a normal holiday with private parking at the hotel or holiday home is at risk after all relatively small.

The higher deductible - the more, should take out extra insurance to reduce the threshold.

Bearings Monday instance a cheap rental Mercedes with 1800 euros in excesses in Germany, it might be a good idea to pay the relatively few euros extra for lowering the threshold to 0 or close it.