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Rent a Car in Tenerife

Car hire in Tenerife is a very competitive business, apart from the internationally known companies there are many Spanish national companies and a host of small local companies operating rent a car in Tenerife. Price of course is a major factor in many peoples choice of company when hiring, searching the internet for cheap car hire in Tenerife is a very popular solution. The internet is a very important tool for car hire companies, most importantly because many people book their car hire before coming on holiday in Tenerife, so their advertising should be aimed where the customer is situated. Local advertising is fine for those people on a package tour wishing for rent a car for part of their holiday but the most important place to advertise for car hire in Tenerife is without doubt on the internet through which a constantly increasing number of people are booking their flights to Tenerife as well as their holidays in Tenerife.

More important than price when looking for car hire should be the quality of the insurance included, many companies offer a very minimum insurance cover in order to keep their costs down and appear to offer very cheap car hire. Unbeknown to those who don't check the terms and conditions of their car hire contract, there are many pitfalls which make the hirer liable for damage done by other drivers. For example, your hire car is parked properly in a car park and someone reverses into it slightly damaging the door and front wing, on returning the car to the cheap car rental company the customer is told that there is an excess liability of 100 Euros per panel to be paid, protesting this will not help as normally car hire companies "swipe" your credit card and hold this as security for any unpaid debts. So buyer beware cheap car hire in Tenerife (or anywhere else for that matter) is often not so cheap in the long run.

An alternative method of offering cheap car hire in Tenerife is operated by a few "cowboys" outside the normal professional business practice of car hire in Tenerife. There are a few rogue operators who make a point of getting to know property owners who holiday in Tenerife on a regular basis and offer the use of a reasonable second hand car at a discounted price. These cars do not have insurance for car hire but usually ordinary insurance for personal use, the hirer is normally told, if the police stop you tell them that you've borrowed it from a friend. Imagine that you had the misfortune to be involved in a serious accident in which someone was killed or maimed for life, resulting in a potentially large payout for the insurance company, that insurance company is going to look very closely at the circumstances of the accident and this could leave YOU in a very serious situation indeed.

Happy motoring with your car hire in Tenerife.