Hiring a Car on Fuerteventura

November 29th, 2009

With more than 120 car hire firms on wonderful Fuerteventura as well as a baffling number of car hire agents, choosing which car hire company to select can be a tedious incident.
Do you decide on a familiar name, and then see an evenly reliable local car rental firm is much cheaper? Do you decide on a business merely to discover when you arrive that they don’t have an office near to where you’re staying?
At Cheap Fuerteventura Car Hire we believe that if we’re encouraging you to explore Fuerteventura’s countryside, then we should also provide some information to help you decide which car hire business on Fuerteventura is best suited to your particular needs, so we’ve compiled this guide to help the decision making process.

Taking your hire car to La Gomera
Some people want to know if they can bring their leasing car to other Islands. Most car rental businesses on Fuerteventura don’t allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your hire car to La Gomera only. However, the cost for taking a hire car, plus two passengers to La Gomera can be around ?145 on the Fred Olson ferry and around ?130 on the Naviera Armas ferry, so it might work out cheaper to lease a car once you’re there.
Petrol prices on Fuerteventura
Petrol is considerably cheaper in the Canary Islands than in many other places; at the time of writing, around ?0.80 per litre for unleaded (sin plomo 98), obviously this varies. The island is well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you don’t have to worry about running out of fuel. However there are some very long stretches where there aren’t any stations and we’ve included warnings about these areas in our website.
There are also significant differences in prices between assorted companies on Fuerteventura. PCAN and Texaco are generally a few cents cheaper per litre than BP, Shell and Repsol with CEPSA falling somewhere in between.
Parking
It seems common sense, but having read the occasional report on travel watchdog websites of people having their hire car towed away, I’m not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home.
Don’t park on yellow lines and be watchful where you see blue lines; these generally mean you need to feed the parking meter.
Above all don’t presuppose that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and everywhere there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sod’s law.
Insurance
It’s worth checking with your car insurance company if your policy covers you when driving abroad. If it does, you may not need insurance through the car leasing firm on Fuerteventura.

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