rental car company in Italy
Need to rent a car for a few days in Tuscany. Which rental car do you suggest?
Susan
Trussville, Alabama 2/26/13
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I prefer renting from major rental companies rather than independent locals.
All major rental companies have a presence in Florence: Avis-Budget, Hertz, Thrifty, Alamo-National, Europcar, Maggiore, Sixt, etc.
It's substantially cheaper to rent from a city office, rather than the airport. Even more so if you pick up from out of center locations.
Check rates here:
www.autoeuropa.com
I think Roberto has a typo. Although there is a company called www.autoeuropa.com, they consistently get TERRIBLE reviews here and SlowTrav and Tripadvisor. He probably meant http://www.autoeurope.com/, a completely separate company that consistently gets great reviews. That's who we're using for our upcoming trip in May to rent a car in Verona.
Type "autoeuropa" into the Search window on this page (upper right) to see the negative comments I'm talking about.
As Roberto mentions, one tip to save a lot of money is to avoid picking up or dropping off a car at an airport or at a train station. We'll be saving over $150 in Verona by walking about 2000 feet from the train station to pick up our car.