Car Hire Malaga

[Vixpy1]

You arrive at Malaga and they meet you and your away in minutes , on your return you park at the drop off , offload your luggage and they take the car away . Booked him again for this July , they have always been excellent

[dave_s13]

I asked the same question recently.


http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Here's a copy/paste of what I ended up doing

dave_s13 said:

dave_s13 said:

n1ckm said:

Helle Hollis are excellent. www.hellehollis.com There are normally some useful members discount codes floating around Tripadvisor as well.

30 euro off with this H4589..

Makes them €43 cheaper than Carlos but double the excess.... What to do!!

After the Berlingo with 2 boosters and 1 baby seat BTW.

To bring this thread to a thrilling conclusion....

Booked a Berlingo (or similar) from hellehollis for somethign like £185 for the week (inc car seats).

johnny-b said:

Take out an annual excess cover policy before you go I found mine on www.moneysavingexpert.com
....

Good tip!

Then went to http://www.direct-carexcess.co.uk/ via the moneysaving expert site and got 8 days cover for less than £14.

Sorted.

[brickwall]

I use Helle Hollis, and you just tell them 'no I'll bring it back full'.

Decent enough cars, and reasonable service even late at night.

[Chris Stott]

We use Goldcar.

Cheap as chips at <€10/day for a shopping trolley (if you decline all the add-ons), but can be a very big queue to pick the car up.

Never had any problems with the cars.

[Sheepshanks]

drainbrain said:

Rosscow said:

Vixpy1 said:

http://www.benalmadenacars.net/

used by myself and other PH'ers, they are very good and meet you at the airport

You can't beat Carlos! He will always help you out if he can.

His office is a short walk from our villa, great guy.

Great view from the office too!

Bases on recommendations here (thanks!), daughter just had a car from Carlos's company for a week. All good - met on arrival, nice little car (with good a/c - it's really hot there at the moment!) and met on return.

Fuel "policy" is bring it back roughly the same as on collection.

Excess is €240 but no credit card taken etc (they paid cash and there was no deposit asked for in advance). For the minimal cost (and she can be a bit rough with things) I got her to take the excess insurance mentioned above anyway.

[Vixpy1]

Sheepshanks said:

drainbrain said:

Rosscow said:

Vixpy1 said:

http://www.benalmadenacars.net/

used by myself and other PH'ers, they are very good and meet you at the airport

You can't beat Carlos! He will always help you out if he can.

His office is a short walk from our villa, great guy.

Great view from the office too!

Bases on recommendations here (thanks!), daughter just had a car from Carlos's company for a week. All good - met on arrival, nice little car (with good a/c - it's really hot there at the moment!) and met on return.

Fuel "policy" is bring it back roughly the same as on collection.

Excess is €240 but no credit card taken etc (they paid cash and there was no deposit asked for in advance). For the minimal cost (and she can be a bit rough with things) I got her to take the excess insurance mentioned above anyway.

We've had a car from carlos for 10 days which we returned on tuesday evening , usual excellent service

[SS2.]

Chris Stott said:

We use Goldcar.

Cheap as chips at <€10/day for a shopping trolley (if you decline all the add-ons), but can be a very big queue to pick the car up.

No kidding ! We spent over 2 hours queueing for Goldcar at Malaga Airport a few weeks back - OK, it was a Saturday so there were a lot of flights coming in, but the main problem was that people in front seemed to be taking objection to and arguing over the 'extras' that Goldcar charge (ie pay for fuel up front, return empty; insurance to cover the excess, etc).

We put loads of miles on our hire cars so we have no problem with either - fully expect to pay for fuel and insurance at the desk.

The guy behind the counter looked to be at breaking point by the time we eventually got to him. Still, we were extremely polite and patient and, probably as a result, we were offered free upgrades from 2 Ford Focus class cars to a Qashqai and Hyundai iX35 - almost made the wait worthwhile.

We'll use Goldcar again but not on a Saturday and will probably book direct such that we can [try to] make use of the Express desk.

[Sheepshanks]

SS2. said:

We'll use Goldcar again but not on a Saturday and will probably book direct such that we can [try to] make use of the Express desk.

Just wonder why, given the positive comments here for BenalMadenaCars, you wouldn't use them?

[SS2.]

Sheepshanks said:

Just wonder why, given the positive comments here for BenalMadenaCars, you wouldn't use them?

I didn't say I wouldn't but, after having been very happy with Goldcar over the past few years, I don't really have any desire to go elsewhere.

[rk176]

just back 2 weeks ago I've used http://www.brunoscar.com/. twice now Got it with 1/4 of a tank dropped it of with the same amount.

[Sheepshanks]

SS2. said:

I didn't say I wouldn't but, after having been very happy with Goldcar over the past few years, I don't really have any desire to go elsewhere.

Thanks. I probably phrased that wrongly - perhaps should have asked "why would you even consider using GoldCar again?"

I have to say that when charged with sorting out a hire car for my daughter's trip I dismissed Gold Car very quickly based on far too many horrendous reviews. The wait time you had isn't unusual.

Waiting 2hrs+ in inconceivable - that's the same as the flight time! While you were standing in the queue she'd driven to her apartment (75mins away), unpacked and was in the pool.

She called in this morning and is very pleased with how it all worked, and she thought the price was good too compared to what she'd been looking at so I'm grateful for the steer from PH.

Edited by Sheepshanks on Friday 31st July 17:29