Hertz Car Hire

We've been looking for car hire for the summer and find Hertz (who use Solmar) to be one of the cheapest from Murcia airport. The only downside I can see to using them is that there are additional charges for the second driver and that you're liable for the excess which can be up to 600€. We've had cars through Solmar before without any problems, but not booking it through Hertz direct.

Obviously the additional costs with DYS & Economy etc include the 2nd driver and no excess but Hertz seem cheaper if there is only one driver.

Has anyone booked through these? Were there any more hidden charges (apart from the fuel)? Has anyone taken out a yearly excess liability insurance to cover themselves and did they experience any problems showing this to Car Hire companies?

We always take out insurance when hiring a car as the excesses are quite scary.  We've never needed to actually use it but it's good peace of mind.

I had heard similar, that Hertz were quite competitive from some destinations.

I booked a car through CarTrawler for Bristol and it gave me an option to include the insurance, which wasn't very much.  May be worth checking it out.

Justin

if you have an AMex card you are covered for excesses so don't need to pay extra. I have second driver with hertz and did not pay extra but I did book in November last year for the summer.

Can't comment directly re Hertz. But there are definately changes going on with car hire companies and third parties, eg, carjet.

I have several trips booked, both short break weekends (3 days) and longer trips. I am having to look very carefully at the car hire vouchers for the fuel policy - all of them used to allow full/full on a 3 day short break, but now this varies depending on car hire company and even which third party you booked through. Likewise, the second driver, with some third party eg carjet you always got a free second driver no matter which company you were placed with, whereas now you have to check this carefully as this can differ depending on company/third party.

Finally re the excess, last year we bought an annual policy for £80 I think it was. This covered myself OR my husband AND any named drivers on the car hire agreement. (Alternative was £50 to cover ONE main person plus any named drivers, if we always went together we could have saved some money!) Haven't had to claim on it, but the peace of mind of having it is very re-assuring and would have cost a fortune to have an additional insurance everytime. We've not had to show it to any of the car hire companies, when they ask us if we want the extra insurance we just say no thanks we have our own. They then invariably tell us if we have a problem we have to pay the excess directly to them then claim from our policy later, which we are happy to accept.

Just remembered something about Hertz, some friends who are using our place in the summer have booked with Hertz, he told my husband it was only third party insurance - worth checking.

Thanks for all your help

Try these people for your extra cover

http://www.insurance4carhire.com

We have booked hertz for this summer from Murcia and this lot for the excess.

If you have booked with Hertz certainly on an axem card you will covered fully comp........ i cannot comment on other credit cards or if the Hertz  standard deal is fully comp or not.