<Sometimes you think you are renting from a company and turns out to be a broker. >

I'm not sure how that would happen,
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For example, once we rented a car in Santiago and the receipt said one company and the buliding said something else.

<i>For the cheapest pricing, you can check the foreign sites of the two brokers I mentioned above; you may find prices less than those on the US-based .com sites.

For example, check Autoeurope.es, as well as Autoeurope.com.
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Possibly, although it might be at full insurance price (no declining of the CDW), there might be a daily mileage limitation, and a one way fee.

Yes, Michael, you have to be careful to check all conditions. But for the last few years, we have made at least two trips per year to Spain and/or Italy. Almost each trip we have rented a car using one of the two brokers mentioned above.

I have rented from both Spanish and Italian broker sites and saved quite a bit of money with equivalent conditions. This is not always the case, but it certainly pays to check and, as you noted, there is a bit of homework to make sure you are getting a good deal in both price and coverage.


Once or twice I have asked AutoEurope (by phone,here in the US) to match the price on their Italian site and they did so. I believe I discussed this quite a bit on previous threads.

Here is an excerpt from a long thread I started in 2011, showing price comparisons.




ekscrunchy on Mar 16, 11 at 11:26am
UPDATE:

<One week automatic rental with p/u and return at Bari airport

Offered on AutoEurope.com:
VW Golf=US$711.


Offered on AutoEurope.it website:
Nissan Micra @ 442 euro (now $US 587) with reimbursable deductible rented from Avis

Offered on phone by AutoEurope.com rep, after I mentioned prices found on AE's Italian site and asked for the best price deal:

Peugeot@ 390 euro, or $543 with reimbursable deductible rented from Europcar; add a few dollars for foreign exchange fees incurred on some credit cards.

Motto: check various websites; once you make the phone call, ask if another local rental agency offers a lower price with same conditions; you must often agree to pay in euro to receive the best deals, in my experience.

There are quite a few threads on this forum discussing this topic, and comments from a few posters who have also saved money using foreign broker or rental agency sites.