Hi again i have just spoken to their head office and they tell me they have not stopped using travelrent, it is just that they have not received their prices after 31/03/08. As soon as they get these they will be able to offer prices for the remainder of the year, they expect to have them in place sometime during December, so keep checking

Ah thanks for that nosivad.

Thanks Nosivad, thought it was very strange as they have been with economycarhire for quite a few years now. Cheers Jayjan

Just returned from a week in Vilamoura, car from Travelrent via Economycar hire. Good service from all concerned, but the car was over a year old (22,000km) and being a Peugeot was starting to show its age, with some electrical gremlins around the seat belt warning system.

It had a few bangs and scrapes which I pointed out before pick up and it also received another to the passenger door when I think it was hit in a car park (I only noticed it two days before the end of the hire so it could have happened anywhere), I called the office but they weren't too concerned and when I returned it all they looked at was the fuel level.

I bought an apartment in Lagos at the end of 2006 and I always used to use Carjet when I visited. However, when the summer rates came in, the cost rocketed and I looked for a cheaper alternative. Economycarhire seemed to fit the bill: it was cheap and there was no excess. I got Travelrent cars the first few times and they were fine. However the last couple of times Travelrent have given me real dogs. The last one was a Fiesta with 58k kms on the clock. It was covered in unrepaired crash damage and bits of plastic trim between the doors were missing or stuck on with insulating tape. Cheap is fine; but this was an embarrassment to be seen driving around in. Unfortunately I picked the car up from the unlit Faro airport car park after dark and didn't see how bad the car was until next day. If I'd seen it when I collected it, I would have refused it.

I've just got quotes for my next visit in December/January and Carjet comes out at £153 and Economycarhire at £92 for 10 days. I guess for that price difference I can live with a lower standard of car; but this time I'll definitely specify a company other than Travelrent.

Pimlico , You should have put a complaint into Economycarhire regarding the state of the car. Economycar hire use a few companies for their hire as you will see from the website, but I would read the terms & conditions carefully of the individual companies before you book as they all differ slightly.eg
One company states a credit card is needed for petrol and you must leave the car with a full tank of petrol on drop off or you may not be refunded, others ask you to leave the same amount of petrol in the tank to the amount that was in when you picked the car up, also out of hours charges differ from company to company. Happy driving. Cheers Jayjan

That is typical we have booked travelrent car hire for xmas/new year!!
I will however be there during the day so hopefully the car will be ok?

SB

I shouldn't worry too much, SB. I had no problem the first few times I used Travelrent and my daughter and sister-in-law have also been happy with them. I was either unlucky or else Travelrent operate a perverse policy of giving the bright shiny cars to new customers (to encourage them to return) and the old dogs to regulars (on the basis that they will probably not want to pay higher prices elsewhere). That gives me an idea: maybe we'll hire the December car in my partner's, rather than my, name and see what sort of car she gets. Cheers

PG

Pimlico, we have booked economycarhire using travel rent for many years and we have always ended up getting an upgrade from what we booked, so regular customer thing wouldnt apply on our experience. Carlos & Mario are very obliging when you pick your car up at the airport.. Superbock I wouldnt worry about hiring your car from Travel rent as Pimlico says they are an OK company, he just had an unlucky experience. The godsend is that you dont have any problems if someone hits your car, no excess on insurance.Cheers jayjan

We've never had an upgrade (stamping of feet) with economy nor travel rent - but we've only used them 3 times - next July will be the 4th Here's hoping

Just noticed in terms and conditions (not seen it before) (Insurance Cover) of economycarhire, that if you have an accident be it your fault or not you should contact the car hire company & also get a police report.this contradicts the post by daveyjp, as he said when he rang the car hire company (Travel Rent) they wernt to bothered about someone causing damage to the car, I also noticed that you are not covered for personal accident insurance and you should take out your own cover, never noticed this before, maybe some other member could comment on this in case I have read it wrong.Maybe economycarhire are just covering themselves overall in case their different hire companies decide to react differently to recover their costs when damage has occured & depending on how bad the damage is.
Cheers jayjan,

Glynis wrote:

We've never had an upgrade (stamping of feet)

........ that's 'cos you hire a bus !! How can they upgrade you from a 53 seater ??

Has anybody had recent dealings with http://www.carhirealgarve.net . I decided to book with them as I got a quote without CDW as I have a separate annual CDW excess policy. The price was good 270 euros for an air conditioned car in August for 2 weeks. I have had a couple of queries and I have been sending them emails since before Xmas with no reply. I am beginning to change my mind regarding them. If anybody has recent dealings I would be grateful to hear of them

not recent dealings, but had a car from them for 2 weeks last june.np. delivered & collected car from our apt; in lagos. 1st. class service.

Happy New Year everyone ;just booked car hire with Economy(Travelrent) for March and August
prices slightly higher this time, terms still seem ok to me -no excess. They appear to have upgraded their
web format which to an old fogey like me is a bit more cunbersome.I did try to get some extra discount for multiple bookings as i also used them last November,unfortuneately they said they would only consider this if 5 bookings took place within the year then on the 5th one they would be prepared to give something.Well i did try(the wife says i'm very trying anyway ) good hunting and if you find a better deal please let us know.

Traverent have their own website, bookings can be made via an email link, but not directly online.
They have always been first class with me and I normally get an upgrade, booked 6 times in 24 months.
I've had some great deals of late, ie; 3 days €30/35 all in with all insurances, top company.

Link TRAVELRENT

Robby

Sometimes Robby they can be dearer booking direct than booking with economycarhire, this proved right for our week 11th Jan to 19th Jan, emailed Carlos but he couldnt beat the economy price with full insurance ( or he didnt want to) ,worked out 10 quid cheaper with the discount with Economycarhire. All counts what do pounds make ? thousands, millions, prizes etc. But saying that travel rent are still a top company for service. Our own car on the Algarve is very poorly at the moment diesel pump or injector problems & could be very expensive to rectify,so maybe she has to go to the scrapyard in the sky.Cheers Jayjan

Hi Jayjan, we have been reading this thread for a while and have been looking at the Economy car hire however due to there being 10 in our party we are struggling to get a vehicle to seat everyone (i.e Transit/V.W transporter = max 9 seats) do you know if they do slightly larger capacity vehicles?

Thanks, Mark.

Mark have done a quick search and the 9 seaters are showing as the biggest.

0845 450 0877 is their phone number - give them a call