Cicar - Spanish Car Hire - Canaries

[richarda0109]

Hi

Off to the Canaries at Easter - Need to hire the smallest car available since we are going light. I was there at Xmas and I hired a car through Avis which I thought was cheaper than the rest. On leaving at Christmas I had a look at some of the other renters and I noticed Cicar. After doing some research yesterday they seem really good. Good prices and they give free child / booster seats. Am I missing something and do they pull the usual stunts like hiking up the additional insurance on pick up or force you to buy a tank of petrol etc etc. Any experiences of Cicar in the rest of Spain would also be useful.

Regards
Richard

[LuS1fer]

Not used them but I used Autoreisen for a big people carrier and they were cheap (at least for that class)and don't shaft you on the fuel:
http://www.arcarhire.com/car-hire/car-hire.php

[doorman]

www.carhire3000.com used this company on 3 consecutive occasions to Tenerife and there prices are the most competitive I could find and there customer service is superb, there a broker for all hire company's and this year we rented via Hertz.

[Robin Hood]

I always use Centauro whenever I go somewhere Spanish. The cars are always new or not far off. It's also one of the very few rental companies who will refund the fuel payment/deposit if you take the car back tanked up when you return it.

http://carhire.centauro.net/

[LuS1fer]

Robin Hood said:

I always use Centauro whenever I go somewhere Spanish. The cars are always new or not far off. It's also one of the very few rental companies who will refund the fuel payment/deposit if you take the car back tanked up when you return it.

http://carhire.centauro.net/

Hmmm, don't know about the fuel but I can recommend Centauro at Alicante for having great full-size proper and new child seats unlike most others who palm you off with crap.
I have used carhire3000 on several occasions but as said, they are brokers and you can get crap companies as well as good ones.

DoYouSpain have been bombarding me with e-mails of late offering very good deals too and apparently one major car hire firm is going bust which will possibly push prices up and mean less availability.

Edited by LuS1fer on Saturday 28th January 22:55

[JxT]

Cicar are fine, you won't go wrong with them.

I generally use AutoRiesen however. They seen totally disintersted in getting cars back dusty, etc, and never seem to check for any dings.

[jfrf]

doorman said:

www.carhire3000.com used this company on 3 consecutive occasions to Tenerife and there prices are the most competitive I could find and there customer service is superb, there a broker for all hire company's and this year we rented via Hertz.

went through this site for a car in tenerife about 3 months ago.
Led me to a company called orlando rent a car
Sure they had a cheap headline price but was ripped off on the compulsory full tank of fuel
The car itself was also a battered wreck