Sunday, August 26, 2012
Have you gotten a quote from Kemwel -- the sister company to Autoeurope? It was less expensive for m
I am a Hertz gold club member. I have an automatic compact rented with Hertz that has a CDW and theft insurance deductible of 300 Euros on each category for the rate of $543. I thought this was a good rate for a low deductible so I booked it.
So the Hertz is a cheaper rental but I am taking a bit of a risk with the deductible but I have the gold status and can earn some points and I like Hertz. However, Europcar is fine too. Both would charge me for an extra driver of very comparable rates.
Have you gotten a quote from Kemwel -- the sister company to Autoeurope? It was less expensive for my Italy car rental -- I booked a few days ago and it will be from Hertz for my particular locations. But, bottom line for me - I want the peace of mind of the zero deductible.
So why don't you price the Hertz rental on AutoEurope? Choose the same street locations on AutoEurope as your Hertz rental and it should pop up. Can you earn points if you don't book directly with Hertz.
AutoEurope just offered that deal through Europcar. I am not sure if they would price match since one element (the 300Euro deductible) is not the same. Also, I am not sure you can get points or gold counter service at Hertz if I go through AE. Hey maybe I will try. Thanks for the suggestion.
AutoEurope gives you a selection of pick up places and makes their offer based on the street location you select. If you select Europcar locations, you end up with Europcar. online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev If you select different pick up locations (Hertz or Avis), you will get a different supplier. If you select a Europcar pick up location and a Hertz drop off, AutoEurope will say nothing is available. You can't mix and match. You should look up Avis, Hertz and Europcar location addresses for the city before selecting where you want to pick up.
and what fees you want to pay. This may depend on the country, but in Norway, Kemwel offered a one-way rental online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev through Hertz that included a hefty fee, whereas Autoeurope had a higher online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev base price but no one-way online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev rental fee using Europcar. I tried to pick up a car in Bordeaux to be returned online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev in Limoges. online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev From the city pick-up, there was a one-way fee which was twice as high as the airport/RR online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev station fee but the latter pick-up had no one-way fee. Both possibilities were with Autoeurope but the city provider was Hertz and the RR station provider was Europcar.
Our AmEx covers online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev CDW, you don't have to take it at all but isn't valid in several countries online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev (Ireland, Israel, and Jamaica come immediately to mind). So when we went to Ireland online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev in '09, we got a World Master Card as recommended by many Fodorites to use there since it covers some of the countries other cards don't cover. But we had to call Master Card and have them mail us the specific information about foreign auto insurance coverage since it's not on their website or included in their new member agreement mailing.
Since then we have gotten a Marriott Chase VISA which also covers CDW for most countries (though I think not the exclusions the World MC covers) and has no foreign transaction fees. Also a Schwab Platinum VISA debit card covers CDW and has no transaction fees. No deductibles, no CDW coverage at all needed. (In fact, with at least one, buying CDW voids the credit card coverage.)
Some people with World MCs said some rental companies challenged them on the CDW and tried to make them buy it. So we took a copy of the info they sent us but Hertz in Cork didn't question our declining coverage, online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev so I guess they were familiar with the card.
Those credit cards won't cover CDW in Italy due to Italian law - CDW is mandatory to be included in the rate so must be taken (and is included in the upfront price with companies like AE, Kemwell and Holiday online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev Autos).
If the Hertz points matter that much to you, then go with Hertz. If you have no experience driving in Italy, and you're online auction to buy airline tickets to las vegasnev excessively worried you might be in an accident, and the 300 will break your bank if you do get in a fender-bender, then go with AutoEurope.
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