Originally Posted by Jon-Bxl

Wow today I checked my car rental website and they have published lower fares.

We had already saved several hundred in car hire by going to Seville and also a much cheaper flight, now for exactly the same car we had booked before - I amended my booking and got a refund of 102 quid!

Its a huge difference to going to Portugal and Ill gladly pay the rip off price for the fuel - for these savings...

Its always worth checking again before coming out for car hire - as amendment charges are small, or in my case zero.....

Jon

Originally Posted by Jon-Bxl

Hi Mel

I used to have insurance4car hire and used it once to great benefit when we hired a car WITHOUT all the insurances. The purchase of the policy was cheaper than the extras.... AND lasted a year.

Ive cancelled it though because I simply cant get a reasonable car hire without insurances anymore. The company I used before must have had a special deal as their prices w/o insurances are now high.

So you get CDW included these days, which the policy covers.

So the question is "is it still worth it to buy it for those much smaller items not covered, as opposed to the whole package of CDW etc?"

I dont know - reading some of this it might be still worth it - but the justification to have it when the 'big one' CDW is already covered is much less.

Also youre covered (I think) for 30 days if you stay more than 30 days , eg 40 days, they tell you to arrange back-to-back cover of e.g 20+20 days. Which not all car hire companies will do easily (I suspect - havent tried)

Still undecided if its worth it.... sure it is if there is a problem.... but so far we havent had one ... can't decide. Obviously, Mel youve decided to keep the insurance for those 'smaller' items not covered in the car rental contract

Thanks
Jon