Car hire gone up massively?!

[TheBeeFamily]

We hired a car through alamo brits last March for 2 weeks, cost us £249. Looking for exactly the same spec of car, same hire length and same time of year and cheapest quote I've found is £449! Any idea why it's so much more expensive? Maybe because I'm looking at booking early?

[Hyde1969]

Have you tried US Car hire. We're paying £500 for a 7 seater for 3 weeks. I'm used to Spain car hire prices and thought it very cheap.

[mike4scuba]

Originally Posted by TheBeeFamily

We hired a car through alamo brits last March for 2 weeks, cost us £249. Looking for exactly the same spec of car, same hire length and same time of year and cheapest quote I've found is £449! Any idea why it's so much more expensive? Maybe because I'm looking at booking early?

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Try this link
autoeurope/go/newsl...-042016-16-B-2

[sandshal]

Had a search yesterday for friends and SUV's were coming up £200 less with VA for two weeks in July than Alamo Brits, in fact Ive never found Alamo Brits to be cheaper than VA for SUVS

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by sandshal

Had a search yesterday for friends and SUV's were coming up £200 less with VA for two weeks in July than Alamo Brits, in fact Ive never found Alamo Brits to be cheaper than VA for SUVS

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I could have written this!
Always find VA to be cheaper than Brits - apart from 7 seaters.

[Hangfire]

Sorry chaps VA is what?

I've noticed Alamo Brits very expensive for mid size SUVs too!

[toonarmani]

Originally Posted by Hangfire

Sorry chaps VA is what?

I've noticed Alamo Brits very expensive for mid size SUVs too!

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Virgin Atlantic - Virgin offer car rental as well, even if not flying with them and are quite competitive.

I booked Alamo via Auto-Europe as they were much cheaper than everywhere else, although prices have shot up since (likely due to dollar dropping since EU referendum announcement) - currently £200 more than I paid!

[teachx]

Certainly prices have gone up, the last few visits I have booked my car hire through Netflights and the price has been consistently cheaper than everyone else, and that is turning out to be the case this year too, their Alamo price for my dates in Sept is £25 cheaper than the same car booked with Alamo Brits so looks like it will be them again this year.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by toonarmani

I booked Alamo via Auto-Europe as they were much cheaper than everywhere else, although prices have shot up since (likely due to dollar dropping since EU referendum announcement) - currently £200 more than I paid!

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Sorry, but it does make me smile every time I see this, the exchange rate has only changed around 10%.

[toonarmani]

Originally Posted by b1ggus

Sorry, but it does make me smile every time I see this, the exchange rate has only changed around 10%.

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Yup, not a massive change, but since the announcement prices have increased considerably