accommodation-in-spain

Hi

I am about to book car hire in Mallorca and before I went ahead wanted to know if any of you had used Do You Spain for car hire before?

Bit wary of booking with companies I have never heard of.

Cheers

linda Coyle

I have used them 3 times - excellent

bobd22

I have used them a few imes at Malaga without any problems.

accommodation-in-spain

Cheers , that is fab, they are really competitve too so I am now off to book

Mr Micawber

i have used them half a dozen times at malaga.
There,they use Record car rentals.
I always get competitive quotes and doyouspain is always the cheapest,even cheaper than Record.
Use them with confidence

Mr Micawber

One thing i would say,and it applies to all rental companies,is that they will try and sell you extra insurance that isn't compulsory,like windscreen and tyre damage.
i've never taken it,but you'll have to use your own judgement.
At Malaga all body damage is covered so you don't have to worry about reporting the odd dent before you take the car.

noelrosie

We have used Do You Spain, and consequently Record, three times this year for short visits of between 4-7 days.
The first two times were excellent, we got the small Renault Clio type-hire car we had ordered, knowing that we would have to return it empty for stays of 4 days or more ...
But last time, for our 4-day hire, Record apparently had nothing smaller to rent us than a Berlingo Van, which actually represents an upgrade, so they stung us for a whopping 60 litres of diesel (as opposed to 30 or so in a Clio), of which we only managed to use half! So they made a tidy profit of 30 euros immediately on our rental! We know it is standard practice to expect you to return cars empty unless your booking is for three nights or less, but what we objected to, was that we only needed a small car, just the two of us, with hand-baggage only! To see the price quoted go up from 48 euros to 122.70 euros was a little irritating to say the least ... we expected to pay about 80 euros on arrival!
Having said all that, the weather was far too nice to drive around just to use up fuel

bob_day

We used DoYouSpain quite a few time when we were making regular visits to our home and as already mentioned they were always a good price, and we never had any problems with the rental.

As mentioned they use Record in malaga who until quite recently didn't operate the full tank scam, however this has changed.

Word of warning with Record though is that not once did the car they gave us have the legally required safety equipment, i.e jackets and triangles on board.

accommodation-in-spain

Cheers again everyone. We always find Record good to that is fine and we hope to get a Berlingo noelrosie as we need to ground clearence for a dirt track - i can see how you were annoyed though. Not sure they could give us a bigger vehicle unless it was a minibus

Will check there is a jack in the car this time as last time we used them we got a flat tyre only to find no jack to change it! Luckily we were within walking distance (even if it was over 2 miles) from home so managed to get one from there and then change the tyre. Wasn't too happy that we had to sit in th sweltering heat though (with 3 young kiddies) and wait for poor hubby to walk all that way and then bike back with a jack. Mind you when we got the the beach I soon forgot all about it :-)

Thanks a lot for all your responses.

noelrosie

I queried the legally required safety equipment with Record, and apparently they are NEVER included in the hire. It is the responsibility of the driver (in law) to carry them (or so I was told). I also queried this with Auriga Goldcar on another occasion, who said the same thing, but also said they could 'rent' me a pack of vests and warning triangles for 30e deposit. We now have our own out there to use during our stay, and reluctantly take the risk of getting stopped on the trip to and from the airport!

bob_day

The couple of times that we used Auriga, or maybe it was Centauro, whom we used until they moved off airport as they never seemed to have the queues that Auriga had jackets etc were in the car. In the end we did exactly the same as you and took the chance on the way from/too. Now we live here, well in 24 days (and counting down) time we will so it is no longer an issue.

noelrosie

I was recommended to use Centauro in future by another ex-pat I met at Alicante airport! They (allegedly) don't have the same refuelling policies which will probably suit us better!
Off airport hire is a bit of a drag though ... Auriga are now off-airport in Valencia
I believe they started to charge/take deposit for safety jackets etc as they they 'kept going missing' ... surprise, surprise!

jdr

This goes to show that cheap is not always good, sometimes it`s better to pay a bit more and get met with the keys to a legal on the road car with all the required driving kit, kids seats etc, no queueing and bring back same amount of fuel.
When her indoors gets home I will check on the supplying of a car that is not kitted out to be driven legally.

bob_day

Centauro actually moved between us booking and arriving at the airport. despite being a member of their regular renters club they didn't bother to inform us. We arrived at Malaga with suitcases packed to 30Kg each, struggled down the the hire desk and they were boarded up. No information as to where to get the car from. Needless to say that was the last time we used Cantauro.

While we were regular visitors we took out an independent rental car insurance policy which covered all of the items that the rental company's own exhorbitant insurance covers. It cost around £50 per year with unlimited rentals. From memory Centauro's insurance for the only 2 week trip we made was around 50 euros. This policy saved us a whole bunch of money over the course of a year. We used insurance4carhire but I expect there are others offering similar policys.