At Carlay Car Rental, you can find the best car rental deals. You already knew that, but… there are a few tips to save a few dollars without compromising on quality. We give you our 10 favorites here!
Here is the tip to reduce your car rental bill:
1- Book early
To rent a cheap car, the main thing is to do it at the right time. The sooner you book, the cheaper your rental will be. Why? It’s very simple: to make the most of their fleet of vehicles, rental companies must rent it as often as possible. They, therefore, offer attractive discounts to those who book in advance to ensure maximum occupancy of their cars. And conversely, prices naturally increase as demand gradually exceeds supply.
2- Avoid paying options
It all depends on how much you have in your bag, but if saving a bit of money is what you are after, you can take it with you, you can bring the small equipment from your rental car with you. The child seat or the GPS, for example, are very often paid and expensive options … To find out the details of these extras, you can click on the rental conditions when booking your vehicle.
3- Renounce the provision at the hotel
Yes, it is so convenient to request that your rental car be taken directly to your hotel. You are not wasting time, but money, yes. This option is chargeable and often quite expensive. Especially since sometimes this means that a shuttle will be organized to bring you to the rental agency! You might as well take a taxi in this case, and it will surely cost you less …
4- Choose a pick-up and drop-off with the tank full
This is the most economical option. You take charge of the vehicle with the full tank and return it with the full tank. In other cases, you risk paying a lot of money for a service that you can do yourself in five minutes, a few tens of meters from the branch.
5- Favor fuel-efficient cars
Smaller riders generally consume less – and also, their rental costs less. The fuel costs can indeed make a big difference in case of long duration or long distance.
6- Prefer unlimited mileage
You should verify if the offered mileage is unlimited at the time of booking. This is the perfect formula. Otherwise, be careful not to exceed the limit: any additional kilometer will cost you dearly (around $ 0.50 per kilometer excluding VAT).
7- Refuse insurance that may duplicate
If you have already taken out comprehensive insurance with zero deductible when you book your car, know that you are already ideally insured. Unfortunately, in some countries, you are forced into an agency to take out new insurance. Approximately four days before you fly out of the country, you will receive an email with a rundown of the insurance plans that you have already purchased, translated into the country’s language to which you are going. Useful to make the rental company understand that you have already thought of everything …
8- Return the car on time
Be alert with relation to the time that you are going to have to return the vehicle. Just a delay of a few hours can cost you dearly (this can be the case for a road trip of several hundred kilometers, for example), up to an additional day at the rental rate. Be aware that you will not benefit from any compensation if you return your vehicle before the scheduled time.
9- Watch out for one-way fees
Suppose you return your car to the agency where you picked it up, no problem. But if you want to return it to another city or another agency in the same city, make sure you specify in advance what it may cost you. In Pakistan, it all depends on which state (s) it is. It can run from… zero to several hundred dollars!
10- Call us, simply
Do not hesitate to call us if you want to rent a car in Lahore o any other Pakistan city. Our team is a specialist in car rental (and it is nice), its advice is neutral, objective and… free! It will give you many tips on renting your car and the rules in force in the countries you will visit.
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