My Travels Through Spain

I know it's been discussed a few times on the forums but the whole car hire insurance thing really winds me up sometimes.

I was in Valencia recently and thought it would be a good idea to hire a car so that I could get around and see some of the areas outside of the city itself.  I hired a car through Valencia airport car hire and was offered the option to pay for extra insurance to cover me so that I wouldn't have to pay the excess should anything go horribly wrong.  I turned down the offer.

When I got to the airport to pick up the car I was again offered the extra insurance, this time at a more expensive rate, which if I didn't take it out I would have to pay something like €1000 euros should something go wrong.

In the end I paid the extra but I wasn't overly happy about the whole thing.  It seems that you are being forced to pay the extra for the insurance as otherwise, it could end up costing you a lot more.

I suppose it's like the budget airlines where they start adding so many extras that you end up paying considerably more than you bargained for.

Rant over.