Rental Car price update!
There has been much talk about extortionate car rental prices everywhere in recent times, especially in the UK, so I wanted to share good news!
Prices have gone WAY down again!
Just booked a car for pick up at London Heathrow next week (7th Feb) for £150 for TWO weeks!! I think that might be the cheapest rental we ever found in the UK!
Booked through EasyCar.com.
We have a separate Excess insurance policy through iCarhireinsurance.com £49.99 for the Europe annual policy (unlimited rentals up to 60 days per rental)
Yay!!! 
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Thanks @Lokstar for this. I hope car rentals continue to drop in UK! I only checked last week with the company I usually book through and it was still very high. Don’t need to book yet so I’ll be watching closely.
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@Lokstar Thanks, that is good to hear. If you think of it, could you please update us with your opinion of Easycar once your rental is done?
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That is a bargain!
We googled all the main car rental comparison sites and the two that brought up the cheapest deals were kayak.com and travelsupermarket.com. After so much research I’m not sure- in the end- which of those two got us the EasyCar deal but the other site had the same priced deal with Argus. Its really worth shopping around!!
Will do!
Just to say- we never pay the extra excess insurance the company offers. We always have a separate excess policy through iCarhireinsurance.com Rental companies don’t like that because you save a fortune & still have full protection! Never had to claim till now but it definitely does give peace of mind.
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I never pay insurance either, luckily my credit card picks it up. I’m always just a little leery of the consolidator companies (if that’s what they’re called). I’ve read horror stories. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. This one’s important!
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We never pay the extra excess insurance either as it’s covered in our travel insurance policy.
Wow! Are you sure about that? It just doesn’t seem right, slightly more than £10 per day. I’d double & triple check that if I was you
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I have excess through Swinton
That’s an amazing deal! Thanks for sharing & the use of an annual policy plan @Lokstar - TBH my other thought as I read the post was, what a shame you’re landing at Heathrow as I also arrive into the UK 7 Feb for a quick visit but into Brum. Would have been nice to hug a fellow THS forum friend 
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It’s true! 
And there are a lot of cheap deals around now- not through the big dealers ofcourse- but if you use one of the comparison sites I mentioned above you’ll find them! These prices do not include the excess insurance they always want to sell you. We have a separate policy for that which saves a fortune! I just checked Malaga for the very same dates and its soo cheap! See screenshot.
A couple of years ago we got a spectacular deal in Malaga- €30 for a whole month!! The deals are there- you just have to find them!! In comparison £11 a day in UK is not that cheap! But very much better that it has been if late!
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Aaaw that would have been fun! Does Brum=Birmingham? How long will you be in UK? Where are you flying in from? We’re flying from Bali via Singapore- the Singapore-LHR leg is 14.5 hours!
Wow! It’s not cheap here in New Zealand
It does mean Birmingham coming in from Prague and then back out to Istanbul 8 days later to collect hubby & then onto KL after a couple of Turkish sits. Safe travels! We will feel that 14 hour pain soon 
Sorry to be a killjoy but car rental prices are always low this time of year. I have a very low price at the moment which was the same last January and in early December but prices for March and April are sky-high again.
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Hi @londongal
You are partially right!
but not completely!
I just checked the same two weeks in March and April and the best deals I found were £250 (March) & £350 (April) for TWO weeks. (£150 Feb) So that part is correct- prices are rising heading towards Easter.
But our experience was very different last year- not cheap at all!
We landed on exactly the same day last year- 7th Feb -and the prices were around £280 per WEEK at Heathrow, where this time we got TWO weeks for £150! (£75 pw!) So last year we ended up flying into Birmingham (from Spain) because the rentals were the cheapest of all UK airports that week- best deal was £175 for ONE week!
Always the bargain hunter!
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@Lokstar Gotta hunt out those bargains! Pre-covid and low-season I got a three-week rental in Ireland for €120. Miss those days.
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@Lokstar you’re a superstar! Just booked 10 days for £133 out of Birmingham airport (last time I looked it was extortionate) & took out the annual policy for the excess. #ingenious 
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