I rented a car for fuck all a few years ago, had it for over a week and it was only a few 100.
Have you said you’ve a bajillion penalty points or something?
I rented a car a few months ago, and it was from Europcar. They said that prices were slashed during the pandemic, and that they were basically doubling them again to recoup losses.
Same as with security at Dublin Airport, basically. The car hire companies suffered a huge downturn in business due to the pandemic, so they quit buying cars, and now demand has increased again, but it will take them a while to replenished their fleets (and all the other supply chain issues of late aren’t making that any easier, either…), so there’s not enough supply at the moment.
try a vpn. My sister was quoted 1700e for something I was quoted 1066usd.
Easter
Prob Cheaper to buy an old one with some test and tax, and insure it !
According to r/Ireland, this is probably the government’s fault
You’re trying to rent a car less than a week away for a period that covers the start of Easter, a Bank Holiday weekend.
What do you expect?
Did you click the buy option by mistake?
All jokes aside, I had this a few years back cause some big thing was going on in Dublin. Booked the car in Galway instead and hopped on the airport bus, saved a few hundred.
Didn’t they sell off the fleets during the lock downs because there was no demand? That’d be a factor as well.
You do know car rental works the same way as hotel bookings or plane tickets right?
They have a limited amount available so they get more expensive as they get booked.
Book it in advance
I’ve never needed to rent a car so I don’t know what’s normal. That looks absolutely crazy though.
The prices vary wildly. Book the same car a random week in October and it will cost you €400 maybe. Bank holidays and summer push the prices up massively.
€96 a day for a VW Polo in June with Hertz, who’d be one of the more pricey ones. I think you just left it too late
Check price of car rental from Belfast. Include flights into the cost. May work out cheaper.
Try book it for 2 weeks or so, might end up cheaper
You can buy a used car for that…. xD
Give ya mine for half that for the weekend
That’s bonkers. I just got a car last Tuesday until this Saturday for £180 from Cork Airport, booked last week on Skyscanner. Half the price of what Ryanair were asking.
Just use taxis, trains, buses and drink champagne throughout?
We have a downtown?
I looked into renting a car here in Ireland for a long weekend several years ago and it was ridiculous how much it was going to cost. You also only got 300kms included in the rental price and there was a daft amount per kilometre over and above that. Fucking rip off this country.
Don’t you know Russia grows over 30% of rental cars in Europe?
It’s mental. I was looking for a car for Sunday and they wanted to charge me over a grand for just the day.
If you’re still looking, you might have better luck with a GoCar. That’s what I did in the end.
Check prices from the airport (if you can get there to collect it) with return at Dublin downtown…
LOL WTF
It’s a shocking price but if you’re forced to go ahead check the cashback sites… I recently got 12% back on a car hire that was (not quite as) extortionate and it sweetened the pill slightly
I will personally drive you around for 1200 in my bmw lol
You’d buy a little run around and year’s tax and insurance for that price 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jesus! Might as well buy a car with those prices.
Does it need to be a car? E.g you can get a 4 berth camper van for those dates and picked up from Dub airport for €280. And it would prob be cheaper again if you found a location that had a proper van available.
Do not use Europcar! They are terrible and put on a load of hidden charges
I use gocar. 10-12 an hour if booked fir 6 hours.. its the same price for 24 hours. So about 60 for 24 hours.
Edit ..
19j1u3 use this code and get 25 euro off first trip.
Once rented a car for a few weeks at something like 8c a day. Must have been in 2018 or 2019. Rentals are disgustingly expensive and for no apparent reason
We went through 2 years of lockdown, they thought they might go bust. Now they see an opportunity to make all that money back. Record corporate profits and you foot the bill.
Be cheaper to buy one on done deal and sell it again at the end of the week.
Rent yourself a gocar. Just 60 euro’s a day.
I’ve owned one car that cost more than that
Skyscanner is giving me €1100 with the same parameters. Still shocking though. You’d be better off using Gocar or Yuko and take a car by the hour as needed.
Absolutely checkout yuko and gocar, they have fixed prices and can be rented for multiple days.
Price gouging as they lost loads of money during the past two years.
Pricks.
Just buy a car and sell it after 3 days, at the rate used car prices are going up you’ll turn a profit
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I rented a car for fuck all a few years ago, had it for over a week and it was only a few 100.
Have you said you’ve a bajillion penalty points or something?
I rented a car a few months ago, and it was from Europcar. They said that prices were slashed during the pandemic, and that they were basically doubling them again to recoup losses.
Same as with security at Dublin Airport, basically. The car hire companies suffered a huge downturn in business due to the pandemic, so they quit buying cars, and now demand has increased again, but it will take them a while to replenished their fleets (and all the other supply chain issues of late aren’t making that any easier, either…), so there’s not enough supply at the moment.
try a vpn. My sister was quoted 1700e for something I was quoted 1066usd.
Easter
Prob Cheaper to buy an old one with some test and tax, and insure it !
According to r/Ireland, this is probably the government’s fault
You’re trying to rent a car less than a week away for a period that covers the start of Easter, a Bank Holiday weekend.
What do you expect?
Did you click the buy option by mistake?
All jokes aside, I had this a few years back cause some big thing was going on in Dublin. Booked the car in Galway instead and hopped on the airport bus, saved a few hundred.
Didn’t they sell off the fleets during the lock downs because there was no demand? That’d be a factor as well.
You do know car rental works the same way as hotel bookings or plane tickets right?
They have a limited amount available so they get more expensive as they get booked.
Book it in advance
I’ve never needed to rent a car so I don’t know what’s normal. That looks absolutely crazy though.
The prices vary wildly. Book the same car a random week in October and it will cost you €400 maybe. Bank holidays and summer push the prices up massively.
Can you use gocar ?
Have you tried these
https://www.gocar.ie/
€96 a day for a VW Polo in June with Hertz, who’d be one of the more pricey ones. I think you just left it too late
Check price of car rental from Belfast. Include flights into the cost. May work out cheaper.
Try book it for 2 weeks or so, might end up cheaper
You can buy a used car for that…. xD
Give ya mine for half that for the weekend
That’s bonkers. I just got a car last Tuesday until this Saturday for £180 from Cork Airport, booked last week on Skyscanner. Half the price of what Ryanair were asking.
Just use taxis, trains, buses and drink champagne throughout?
We have a downtown?
I looked into renting a car here in Ireland for a long weekend several years ago and it was ridiculous how much it was going to cost. You also only got 300kms included in the rental price and there was a daft amount per kilometre over and above that. Fucking rip off this country.
Don’t you know Russia grows over 30% of rental cars in Europe?
It’s mental. I was looking for a car for Sunday and they wanted to charge me over a grand for just the day.
If you’re still looking, you might have better luck with a GoCar. That’s what I did in the end.
Check prices from the airport (if you can get there to collect it) with return at Dublin downtown…
LOL WTF
It’s a shocking price but if you’re forced to go ahead check the cashback sites… I recently got 12% back on a car hire that was (not quite as) extortionate and it sweetened the pill slightly
I will personally drive you around for 1200 in my bmw lol
You’d buy a little run around and year’s tax and insurance for that price 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jesus! Might as well buy a car with those prices.
Does it need to be a car? E.g you can get a 4 berth camper van for those dates and picked up from Dub airport for €280. And it would prob be cheaper again if you found a location that had a proper van available.
https://www.valuevanrental.ie was the first van rental place I checked. I’m sure there’s more.
Is that the purchase price?
Advise that you plan to return it.
Do not use Europcar! They are terrible and put on a load of hidden charges
I use gocar. 10-12 an hour if booked fir 6 hours.. its the same price for 24 hours. So about 60 for 24 hours.
Edit ..
19j1u3 use this code and get 25 euro off first trip.
Once rented a car for a few weeks at something like 8c a day. Must have been in 2018 or 2019. Rentals are disgustingly expensive and for no apparent reason
We went through 2 years of lockdown, they thought they might go bust. Now they see an opportunity to make all that money back. Record corporate profits and you foot the bill.
Be cheaper to buy one on done deal and sell it again at the end of the week.
Rent yourself a gocar. Just 60 euro’s a day.
I’ve owned one car that cost more than that
Skyscanner is giving me €1100 with the same parameters. Still shocking though. You’d be better off using Gocar or Yuko and take a car by the hour as needed.
Absolutely checkout yuko and gocar, they have fixed prices and can be rented for multiple days.
Price gouging as they lost loads of money during the past two years.
Pricks.
Just buy a car and sell it after 3 days, at the rate used car prices are going up you’ll turn a profit