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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 6:58pm
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What is going on with car hire rates this year? Last year I rented a car for 8 weeks and paid about 450 Euros. Now, for 4 weeks I'm being quoted upwards of 1500 Euros!!

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:26am

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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:26am

Do you Spain gets a bad reputation, but I’ve hired cars through them for the past 5 years and everything has been fine. You could try them but also read the small print carefully. Good luck.

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:54am

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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:54am

Cazmac22 wrote on Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:26am:

Do you Spain gets a bad reputation, but I’ve hired cars through them for the past 5 years and everything has been fine. You could try them but also read the small print carefully. Good luck.

That's where I've been renting from forb10 years and this year they are more than 1500 euros! I'm just wondering if the rental companies have dumped most cars and jacked up prices.

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:30am

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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:30am

Covflyer wrote on Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:54am:

That's where I've been renting from forb10 years and this year they are more than 1500 euros! I'm just wondering if the rental companies have dumped most cars and jacked up prices.

That’s expensive! Sorry, I don’t know the answer to that. It may be that they are trying to recoup losses due to Covid? Good luck.

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:10am

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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:10am

Covflyer wrote on Wed Jun 23, 2021 6:58pm:

What is going on with car hire rates this year? Last year I rented a car for 8 weeks and paid about 450 Euros. Now, for 4 weeks I'm being quoted upwards of 1500 Euros!!

Have you tried malagacar.com. I've always found them to be cheaper than most and their standards of service and cars are equal to most.

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:56am

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:56am

Covflyer wrote on Wed Jun 23, 2021 6:58pm:

What is going on with car hire rates this year? Last year I rented a car for 8 weeks and paid about 450 Euros. Now, for 4 weeks I'm being quoted upwards of 1500 Euros!!

Well, my experience does not match yours. I've used Centauro many times without issue. Hired a car last July for a week, Same car, same week 2021 would be approx 15% more, but I probably had a discount code in 2020 so not much difference IMO

Once you've booked with Centauro, they send regular discount offers & I usually wait to book until I have a worthwhile discount

O, if you try booking Centauro, max period is 1 month for the €1200 excess option, longer periods they offer only the expensive fully insured option. 

For longer periods we book two hire periods to get the lower rate/with excess

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:31am

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:31am

Delpaso car hire at malaga Airport is always brilliant ther prices have also went up this year but because we are regular customers you become VIP an give you discount they still gave us a good discount year 👍 but was still more expensive than last year 

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:36pm

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:36pm

Camerachap wrote on Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:10am:

Have you tried malagacar.com. I've always found them to be cheaper than most and their standards of service and cars are equal to most.

They are a bit cheaper than Doyouspain, but still a lot more than I've paid the last couple of years. Guess I just need to bite the bullet!

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:37pm

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:37pm

Maridoll wrote on Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:31am:

Delpaso car hire at malaga Airport is always brilliant ther prices have also went up this year but because we are regular customers you become VIP an give you discount they still gave us a good discount year 👍 but was still more expensive than last year 

i'm guessing VIPs get far better rates!

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