{"id":490226,"date":"2026-05-18T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490226\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:01:11","slug":"watchdog-finds-shocking-levels-of-problems-with-holiday-car-hire-and-warns-drivers-to-take-care-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490226\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog finds 'shocking' levels of problems with holiday car hire and warns drivers to take care – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Watchdog finds ‘shocking’ levels of problems with holiday car hire and warns drivers to take care<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Car hire warning and the joys of small talk<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/li>\n
  3. Four in 10 Irish holidaymakers have car rental problems abroad, including issues with hidden fees, survey finds<\/a>  The Irish Independent<\/li>\n
  4. ‘Hidden fees’, long waits & insurance hell… \u20ac2k car rental warning for Irish holidaymakers as CCPC issue 4 key tips<\/a>  The Irish Sun<\/li>\n
  5. Two in five of us had problems with holiday car-hire last year, says watchdog<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watchdog finds ‘shocking’ levels of problems with holiday car hire and warns drivers to take care  The Journal Car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,213964,213965,8969,112455,18,8845,19,17,213966,4319],"class_list":["post-490226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-car-rental","tag-car-rentals","tag-ccpc","tag-consumer-rights","tag-eire","tag-holidays","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-summer-stress","tag-travel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116594297374444430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}