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Car Hire Winterisation fee
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Booked hire car through Holiday Autos, pick up from Swiss side GVA airport. £10 per day winterisation fee required with option to pay locally. Car from National/Alamo, at the airport the fee was CHF46 for 4 days, about £29, so more than 25% less. Are all extras cheaper if you buy them locally - extra drivers, excess waiver, child seats etc?
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Extra drivers are free with some providers
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
In another thread I posted:
midgetbiker wrote:
National/Alamo say 9chf (plus VAT @ 7.6%) for winter tyres and chains - this compares to tyres and chains being included with Alamo last year - but is less than HA are charging.
and:
midgetbiker wrote:
Budget say 10chf (plus VAT @ 7.6%) for winter tyres and chains - this compares to tyres being included with budget last year but a charge being made for chains (about 10chf I think it was - probably the same charge) - again this is less than HA are charging.
so winterisation is cheaper at the airport, on top of which I think if you turned up and your booking was with Budget you probably wouldn't pay for tyres at all (though Budget have always charged for chains).
Generally excess waiver is dearer at the desk, HA's price isn't bad, and cheapest of all is using a third party provider (via Quidco to maximise 'cheapestness'). Don't know on other extras, never bothered.
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