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Tenerife Car Rental

With over 120 vehicle hire companies on magnificent Tenerife as well as a incomprehensible number of Tenerife car hire agents, deciding which car hire company to pick can be a uninteresting experience.

Do you decide on a familiar name, and then see an equally highly regarded local car leasing firm is a large amount cheaper? Do you choose a company simply to find when you arrive that they don’t have an office near to where you’re staying? At Cheap Tenerife Car Rental we believe that if we’re encouraging you to explore Tenerife’s countryside, then we should also provide some information to help you decide which car rental firm on Tenerife 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 rental car to other Islands. Most car hire companies on Tenerife don’t allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your hire car to La Gomera only. However, the cost for taking a rental 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 rent a car once you’re there.

Petrol prices on Tenerife

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 fluctuates. The island is very well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you don’t have to be bothered about running out of fuel. However there are some extremely long stretches where there aren’t any stations and we’ve included warnings about these areas in our website. There are also substantial differences in prices between various companies on Tenerife. PCAN and Texaco are more often than not 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 commonly mean you need to feed the parking meter. Above all don’t imagine 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 might not need insurance through the car rental firm on Tenerife.