Successful car rental from autoeurope.fr
Sep 28th, 2008, 11:46 AM
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Successful car rental from autoeurope.fr
As it has been the source of much debate here and I gained much from the discussion, I thought I would report on our experience renting a car from autoeurope.fr.
We live in the US and first investigated renting a car from autoeurope using their ".com" site. The prices seemed high - but aren't most things about european vacations? Then I investigated here and found that others had rented from the various "country" sites for autoeurope and gained substantial discounts.
I was concerned that there was some type of nationality or insurance "requirement" that I would be skirting by using the ".fr" website but after the discussion here and then actually reading the information on the ".fr" website (with the help of a french colleague) that was not the case.
We reserved a manual station wagon (4 adults traveling) through autoeurope.fr for 5 days to travel from CDG to Normandy - returning the car at Gare Montparnasse. The rate was 206 euros. I don't remember the exact quote from the ".com" site but the savings were in the $150-$200 range. When reserving you give your address - and we gave our US address - which was no problem - so there is no "lying" about anything. You get an email voucher and take that to the counter of the car rental company that autoeurope has contracted with.
For us, the actual car rental company was National - we had no issues at all with the voucher or renting the car. At the counter - we chose to get the "super CDW" - and that was another 50 euro that we paid directly at that time.
We got a very nice Peugeot 407 station wagon which actually included a GPS system (we had a Garmin with us).
This was a success in our book and all completely above board - just wanted to share our experience and encourage others to look around at the other autoeurope country websites to compare prices.
We live in the US and first investigated renting a car from autoeurope using their ".com" site. The prices seemed high - but aren't most things about european vacations? Then I investigated here and found that others had rented from the various "country" sites for autoeurope and gained substantial discounts.
I was concerned that there was some type of nationality or insurance "requirement" that I would be skirting by using the ".fr" website but after the discussion here and then actually reading the information on the ".fr" website (with the help of a french colleague) that was not the case.
We reserved a manual station wagon (4 adults traveling) through autoeurope.fr for 5 days to travel from CDG to Normandy - returning the car at Gare Montparnasse. The rate was 206 euros. I don't remember the exact quote from the ".com" site but the savings were in the $150-$200 range. When reserving you give your address - and we gave our US address - which was no problem - so there is no "lying" about anything. You get an email voucher and take that to the counter of the car rental company that autoeurope has contracted with.
For us, the actual car rental company was National - we had no issues at all with the voucher or renting the car. At the counter - we chose to get the "super CDW" - and that was another 50 euro that we paid directly at that time.
We got a very nice Peugeot 407 station wagon which actually included a GPS system (we had a Garmin with us).
This was a success in our book and all completely above board - just wanted to share our experience and encourage others to look around at the other autoeurope country websites to compare prices.
