Save Money and Hire a Car in the Week
When the car rental companies are organizing their fleets and setting their prices they look at the most popular times to rent and price up accordingly. For leisure rentals this means that the most popular time to hire a car is at the weekend. No great surprises there.
The same is true when people hire vans too, as you tend to do jobs that need vans at the weekend too. This gives the rental companies something of a problem. In order to service the demand of the leisure customers at the weekend they need to provide enough cars and vans to cover their orders. This means that in the week they could be stuck with too many cars doing nothing.
As a customer, you really want to be renting when they have too many cars doing nothing because this is where you can get some really great rental bargains. One of the ways rental firms measure performance is on vehicle utilization so there’s really nothing worse than having cars sitting around doing nothing.
That’s where you come in. If you need a car at the weekend when everyone else does you’re going to pay the going rate, but imagine you turning up when the car park’s full and there’s no queue. If you get this right, you’ll be amazed at how cheap you can get that car rented for.
I know it’s often impractical to travel during the week instead of the weekend but just compare the rates you can get sometimes, before you need to travel and you might see some rates that make you think twice before you follow the crowd.
One final tip on this theme is to look out for seasonal events that can also cause this effect on rental companies. Christmas is hugely busy so imagine how many cars are parked doing nothing at the beginning of January. The same logic can apply to regional events, festivals, sports events, etc. so do some research if you can and travel when it you can get the best deals.
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