Car rental without credit card and deposit: Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote
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In this post you will learn how secure, no credit card and no deposit rent a car with full insurance in the Canary Islands.
This is the second, updated version of this post. A lot has changed in the meantime. The offer of companies recommended by me has ceased to be attractive, so it's time for a solid revision. Both companies dropped out of the entry, and in their place a different, definitely more advantageous offer from a well-known and very popular rental company appeared.
However, in order to avoid surprises related to the change in the attractiveness of the supplier's offer, I suggest looking for a good price in such a way as to be able to immediately compare whether the offer of the selected rental company is still attractive and how it compares to the competitors.
So we will be looking for a good price using the benefits of a price comparison website Discover Cars - [click]which is good at comparing local car hire deals.
Before we get into a specific search, however, please read a few words about my rental car adventures. This is a good example of how not to do 🙂
Read before you start booking!
When I was in Tenerife a few years ago, unfortunately I acted quite spontaneously. I only thought about renting a car when we stayed at a local hotel for 2 days. I arranged the rent quickly ... I went to the hotel reception and asked if they could help me about renting a car. Of course, the reception desks in all hotels are perfectly prepared for this. Most often they cooperate with tiny, local rental companies. The gentleman at the reception literally made one phone call and after three minutes I already had a car booked. It was (I remember it perfectly) the well-served KIA Picanto, which (when it was clearly downhill) on a dual carriageway towards Santa Cruz was able to accelerate almost to 107 km / h 🙂
The whole family squealed with joy when we finally managed to cross the magical 100 km / h barrier with this car. I did not know whether to hold the steering wheel or maybe grab the other elements of the body, because I had the impression that we are just falling apart. Everything was shaking as if we were passing through the atmosphere returning from space travel to Mars.
The fact is that KIA Picanto even managed to go to the bottom station of the cable car on Teide volcano to the height of 2 555 m above sea level, but it was difficult not only for me as a driver, but also for her.
Learn from my mistakes!
The rental cost me 50 Euro for each day and there was no need for a credit card or no deposit. All I needed was an ID card and driving license.
Everything is cool, but today I would do differently.
Tiny local rental companies with just a few cars usually do not require any additional security (in the form of a credit card or deposit) and that's cool. Unfortunately, after some time, when I started to drill down on the topic, it turned out that50 Euro per day is very expensive. If I had done some honest research before, I'd be able to rent a better car for less than half that amount. Of course, also without the need for a credit card.
An important disadvantage of such micro rentals is too technical condition of vehicles. In small car rentals, cars are rarely exchanged and they ride until they die … literally. When you take a car from such a rental shop, don't expect luxury. A several-year-old car that is constantly tortured on the island's mountain and steep roads (start, stop, clutch, brake ... over and over) by drivers of various skills, after a few years it's a real wreck.
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