canadian_critic

I am looking at renting a car for a couple weeks while in US in the next few months. Under normal circumstances I'd use a US / Canadian car rental website to make the booking, decline CDW and use my credit card privileges to cover that. But then they add all kinds of stealth taxes and the rental price often approaches double the base rate. This normally kills the deal in my mind.

However I was amazed to discover that the pricing right now makes booking through a UK site a lot more favourable. This is because although the price is the same when converted, the UK car rental site (e.g. avis.co.uk) includes absolutely everything you could possibly need apart from fuel. Even the really stupid extras that nobody would go for. Canadian car rental companies tend to include only 3rd party liability for the price, and US rental companies include just the car. I've even heard it's up to the renter to ensure they have breakdown coverage which is lunacy if a breakdown is down to poor maintenance; something a renter is hardly responsible for, but very much a victim of.

In conclusion, if you're looking at rental cars in the US, be sure to include UK websites in your search. There's nothing more comforting knowing you're fully covered and have the benefits of UK's no-nonsense pricing. As opposed Canada's somewhat-nonsense pricing and US's nothing-but-nonsense pricing.