Car Rental Insurance USA: Guide to CDW & SLI
UPDATE (December 2011): Great news! The much cheaper CDW/SLI insurance policies through iCarHireInsurance have become available again to residents of Australia and NZ, in addition to UK/EU residents.
UPDATE (November 2011): Please note that it has been brought to our attention (cheers Gary M.) that both our previously recommended CDW/SLI insurance cheaper alternatives – iCarHireInsurance and Insurance4CarHire – have just recently become unavailable to non-UK/EU residents. This is a VERY unfortunate turn of events for renters who already had such limited options and is due to their insurers imposing more restrictive acceptance criteria. That leaves everyone else completely out of luck. We are all losing out big time and will have to work to find suitable alternatives if they exist. You’ll be the first to know.
Car hires in the USA and their insurance options are a whole other can of worms. It’s a little off our main agenda of Australian car hire but after receiving many queries from readers, we realised dedicating a page to this topic is in order.
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Private Car Rentals: Drive Your Neighbour’s Porsche
Fancy an alternative way to renting that will give you access to a whole new world of choice? Hiring a car can be pretty ho-hum with the standard fare, but for Australian residents, we’re excited to share that there’s a new kid in town to spruce up the experience.
Introducing the Private Car Rentals Concept
DriveMyCar Rentals (DMCR) puts a unique spin on car hire by hooking up renters with car owners. This peer-to-peer car sharing platform attracts owners by allowing them to generate income from their cars which in turn furnishes renters with the largest, most varied selection of cars to choose from. Continue reading…
Car Hire Insurance: Smarter Alternatives
UPDATE (November 2011): Please note that it has been brought to our attention one of our previously recommended providers Insurance4CarHire has stopped offering their policies to non-EEA (European Economic Area) residents. Thankfully, Worldwide Insure policies are still available. iCarHireInsurance has also limited their offerings, with their worldwide policy now only available to residents of UK, EU, Australia, USA and Canada. For more details, see the section below on car hire insurance providers.
Car hire excess insurance is an expensive business but we’ll tell you how to save big time. In fact, getting the right car rental protection could cut your costs by $100s.
We’ve revamped this page by popular demand to provide all the information you need to ensure you are well covered and also added a few recommendations for campervan hire insurance. Continue reading…
Car Hire Discounts from Partner Programs
Do you find yourself thinking that you have too many cards in your wallet, too many different loyalty programs and too many point schemes to consider? If so you probably feel you waste hours trying to understand the offers, when you would rather be planning the more enjoyable parts of your holiday.
Car hire is one such area, so we’ve taken a closer look at types of loyalty program tie-ups and point schemes you can find at Australia’s five major car hire providers – Avis, Budget, Europcar, Hertz and Thrifty. Continue reading…
Frequent Renter Programs: Is There A Winner?
Are you driving in circles with your frequent renter program options but failing to get anywhere?
Loyalty programs are offered by all of Australia’s five major car hire companies, but at a glance it can be hard to determine if any are superior. So we set our research team to work to find you the answer. Continue reading…
