Regardless of the flight costs, I would suggest you fly into Carcassonne rather than Girona because the drive between Argèles and Girona is at least 1-2 hours and you could be held up for a long time in traffic at the Franco-Spanish border. You may also find that you will have to pay more in car insurance for taking it across a border.

Have you thought of flying into Perpignan or Montpellier if these two options are open to you?

I would suggest HOLIDAY AUTOS as a good value for money car hire company - they are bookable in the UK for abroad via the web, and I use them regularly and without any hassle. My opinion on the above only - I await others' advice with interest.

I agree re Holiday autos they offer the best deals. We fly into pau when we visit my sister in law and holiday autos have always given us addtional driver at no extra cost as well. There are also many links around on financial websites such as marbles and virgin bank that give an extra 10-15% off as well. we got 15% by clicking on the link at virgin last time. you dont even need to bank with either of these. you can also pay the few pounds extra when booking online to cover the damage excess liability.

lyn

We flew into Barcelona 2 years ago for a holiday at St Cyprien which is next to Argeles and hired a car at the airport through Holiday Autos. We had a Hertz car at £150 cheaper than going directly through Hertz. There were no insurance implications on taking the car to France; the only restriction was that we couldn't take it to Italy. We had absolutely no problems at the border in terms of hold-ups - we only stopped long enough to pay a toll - despite travelling south on the first Saturday of the summer holidays for most of Europe.