Mrs JFW

Does anyone have any personal recommendations for car hire in Brisbane. Looking for an average sized car for a family of 3 adults and 2 kids for a month.

Many thanks.

jackie

ianandhelena

not hired a car in brisbane, but have used this site for rentals in melbourne and sydney this year:

www.drivenow.com.au

flip

When I've searched for cars in Victoria, used www.yellowpages.com.au to find car hire companies. Here I've usually found thrifty to be the cheapest and once when they were a couple of dollars more they price matched. You can often wangle a better insurance deal out of them but do negotiate.

I think you can get RACV membership www.racv.com.au without a car of your own even from abroad. They list discounts with some of the bigger companies. Usually you can beat these deals but in high season it would be worth checking out.

Mel n Daz

Hiya,

Sorry i cannot help you, but i was just gonna post the same as you have! So will look forward to your replies

I have the understanding though, that it is cheaper to hire from UK, so this is what we are looking to do.

We want to hire a decent size car from brissie airport for around 3 weeks.

Hope all is going well with you plans

Melis

CathnPaul

Jackie - is this link any good for you???

http://www.thebtr.com/pages/carrenta...isbrisbane.htm

We used avis quite a bit and always had good service...we also found that we could bartar with them if we went into the shop to hire the car rather than booking over the phone...even if it was $10...our biggest saving was about $70 because we always asked for a small car and they only had big cars left.lol

nadders

We used Thrifty car hire. Very good value. Nice cars and you get discount book for various attractions. They have an office at Brisbane airport.

Try www.thrifty.com.au

ray2gill

Several Oz's at work have recommended Redback. They are cheaper than the others and will meet you at the airport.

We will be using then next month. You can find them on te internet and e-mail them for a quote. We found hem vry prompt and helpfull.

CathnPaul

We used thrifty to...again would recommend.

Mrs JFW

Thank you all so much for your replies.

Will check out all of the suggestions.....well I will get hubby to do it as he will be the main driver and he's paying!

Thanks again.

jackie x

CathnPaul

no probs jackie...good luck

kevinbloomfield

Hey, give these guys a try

http://www.vroomvroomvroom.com.au/

They serach for the best price for you, saving you the hassle!!

Mrs JFW

Will do Kevin, thanks for that!

breezeboylan

Try Opodo.co.uk Jackie. We've used them a few times for the states and they search for you and quote you the full price with all insurances so you know exactly what you have to pay.
Tracie

gedge

I'd second Avis at Brissie airport, we've used them a number of times without any issue. Their price is competetive with the other car hire companies based at the airport.

jayr

I think I've used Eurpocar, Hertz and Thrifty in Brissy and all have been fine.

You may not know but you can hire cars from many petrol stations (servos). I think it is probably Thrifty who do this through Caltex in particular. Typical 'standard' hire cars should be around $50 a day or less.