When staring your search you will need to include fairly basics car hire requirements such as dates of travel, drivers age, where and when you would like to collect and drop off the vehicle. Some budget car hire in Spain companies allow you to collect in one location and drop the car in another location. Please check the small print on this as very often there is a drop charge for this service.
The larger car hire chains may allow this drop off service without cost as they will have often have many car hire offices in the same area or region of country, so you can drop off the budget car hire in Spain with the same car hire company.
Once you have included all your details into the car hire search engine, the booking engine will search all available budget car hire in Spain and produce a list of all the available cars for hire, usually in price order, the budget vehicles will be shown first. If you are happy with the car hire price shown and would like to reserve and book you car hire, you can take care of all of this online and can conform the reservation for your budget car hire in Spain.
When you are ready to confirm the reservation of your budget car hire in Spain the company will request either a deposit or sometimes payment in full. If only a deposit is requested the balance of your budget car hire will be paid when you collect the vehicle at the car hire location. However it is worth bearing in mind that many local companies are only able to accept payment for your budget car hire in the local currency. Whereas when you book and pay for your car hire online in full you have a choice and can select the currency that you wish to pay. This avoids the problem of any fluctuation of the currency, when it eventually appears on your credit card.
budget car hire in Spain usually means hiring a small budget economy car, although it is always worth asking when you arrive if it is possible to upgrade your budget car when you register locally to collect your car. This little trick often works as it may suit the car hire company if they have strong demand for a certain model or make of budget car.
Always remember to take your driving licence and credit card with you and you will need to show these when you collect your budget car hire in Spain. Although you may well have paid when you booked you budget car hire, the car hire company will want to take an imprint of your card to cover the excess on the insurance policy in the event you have an accident in your car rental vehicle.
Many standard budget car hire policies will carry and excess of between 100 $ or Euros and 300 $ or Euros. This is the amount you will pay in the event of an accident or theft of the car. Sometimes you can purchase and optional extra which is usually 1 $ or Euro per day to eliminate this excess. Also it worth checking with your credit card company as very often if you pay by either Master Card or Visa then this credit card with cover you for the excess amount on your budget car hire in Spain. |
