Wrafter Writes

In Ireland for a wedding on August 3rd, I did a bit of research on car rental between August 2nd and 5th, both picking up and returning in Dublin airport, a total of three days. With 11 separate flights, and three hire car bookings to be taken by me between today and August 5th I wanted to keep my costs down - so with a half-hour to spare I decide to compare and contrast Budget, Avis, Hertz, easyCar, Sixt, Dan Dooley and Europcar. Dollar\Thrifty are scum of the earth so I didn’t compare their prices.

I wanted an intermediate manual car, something like an Astra 1.4, or Focus 1.4 or VW Golf or Mazda 3.

The cheapest to most expensive was the order of the above, with Budget coming out cheapest with E145 for the three days, Avis E146.40, Hertz E157.73, easyCar E166.61, Sixt E176.64, Dan Dooley E201.25 and Europcar the most expensive with E235. (I’m tacking on Budget’s E25 additional charge for airport location onto their quote of E120.00).

So I’ll go with Budget. Odd though, my June 8th to June 15th rental, with pickup in Shannon aiport, and dropoff in Dublin airport for seven days, same type car, comes in at E150, including airport location charge. So I’m doing better in June than in August, suppose it’s the weekend booking, and the summer season.

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