steveandlesley

Hoping to arrive in Brissie sometime late October/early November and will need to hire a car for a couple of months until we get settled.

Does any one have any advise on good and bad car hire companies? We don't want anything flash or fancy as we will be on tight budget, just something that works and is safe, 2 adults and 2 children aged 9 and 11.

We are also very flexible on whether we pick it up from the airport or from the Gold Coast area.

Thank you
Lesley

Alan-

Hi Lesley,

Don't know all the ins and outs of car hire, but I used East Coast Car Rentals, about 6 weeks ago and they were absolutely fine.

I think you can hire at the airport and drop off Gold Coast, if thats what you need as they have offices in both, but check first.

I would use them again, asa they seem pretty honest, friendly and fair.

Alan.

sa2uk2oz

hi
you may want to look at vroomvroomvroom.com.au
they search all the car hire companies to get you a good long term deal.
good luck.. gold coast is great

jonnywonny

hi we have used brisbanerentacar they were great & have no crash fee some of the others we asked wated $2000 if car got damaged not that iam a bad driver i think iam just unlucky

steveandlesley

Thank you for taking the time to reply, We will definately look into them.

Just trying to do something constructive whilst we wait for the verdict off the case officer, and car hire is the only thing that we haven't yet sorted out, so thanks guys.

Tweenies

We also used East Coast Car Rentals and they were fine

steveandlesley

East coast rentals is looking good, many thanks

nickywes

We have booked with Economy Car Hire with pick up at Brisbane airport, they did an all in insurance with no excess.

moneypenny20

One word of advice - try not to get your rental from an airport unless it's unavoidable. You will get charged more than from an office in a suburb. East Coast Rentals have offices in Surfers and Tugun. I'm sure if you were to come down by train to Robina, you could arrange for East Coast Rentals to collect you from there and take you to an office or even deliver the car there.

They collected us from our apartment and took us to the office quite happily.

steveandlesley

Thanks for that moneypen, will definately take that into consideration, had another thought also, if we were to use a small run around for a few months, we wouldn't be able to use it from the airport anyway due to all the luggage.LOL Not unless we can put the children on the roof rack !