Tenerife Car Rental
With over 120 car hire companies on charming Tenerife as well as a baffling number of Tenerife car hire agents, deciding which car leasing company to pick can be a tedious incident.
Do you select a familiar name, and then realize an equally upright local car rental business is a good deal cheaper?
Do you select a firm merely to discover when you arrive that they dont have an office near to where youre staying?
At Cheap Tenerife Car Rental we believe that if were encouraging you to explore Tenerifes countryside, then we should also provide some information to help you decide which car rental business on Tenerife is best suited to your particular needs, so weve compiled this guide to help the decision making process.
Taking your hire car to La Gomera
Some people want to know if they can take their rental car to other Islands. Most car hire businesses on Tenerife dont allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your leasing car to La Gomera only.
However, the cost for taking a hire 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 lease a car once youre 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 changes. The island is well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you dont have to be concerned about running out of fuel.
However there are some exceptionally long stretches where there arent any stations and weve included warnings about these areas in our website. There are also large differences in prices between assorted companies on Tenerife.
PCAN and Texaco are usually 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, Im not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home. Dont park on yellow lines and be cautious where you see blue lines; these generally mean you need to feed the parking meter.
Above all dont take for granted that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and everyplace there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sods law.
Insurance
Its worth checking with your car insurance company if your policy covers you when driving abroad. If it does, you may not need insurance through the car hire firm on Tenerife.