Holiday Autos the leading car hire broker established in 1987 has started its 25th anniversary year by winning two ‘Best Car Hire’ awards from two prestigious travel bodies.

Their first honour of 2012 has been the winning ‘Best Car Rental Company – Holiday Autos’ at the Globe Travel Awards – which makes it the fourth year in a row Holiday Autos has won this prominent award. These were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 25th January 2012.





The Irish Travel Agents Association awards followed the next day in Dublin and were held on the 26th of January at the Mansion House in Dublin. Under the “Agency Services Category” Holiday Autos was awarded the ‘Best Car Hire company’.





Holiday Autos press release stated that These awards are all voted for by the travel industry and are awarded in recognition of Holiday Autos’ dedication to service as well as its great value car hire to consumers and trade partners.


Holiday Autos’ CEO Alistair Rodger commented: “It’s a huge honour to win these awards again, especially as 2012 marks our 25th anniversary. We are extremely proud that all our hard work in conjunction with our supplier partners has been recognised in such a way. We are committed to our trade partners and to delivering a great value car hire experience for travel agents, whose continued support is vital to our business”.


It is now only early February 2012 and Holiday Autos has two awards under its belt which is very good. Since 1987, holiday autos has helped millions of customers with their car hire needs and quickly established itself as the leading leisure car hire broker in the world. The holidayautos website was launched in 1999, designed to offer fully inclusive car hire with no hidden charges in 3 easy steps. Holiday Autos’s multi award-winning service now operates in over 5,000 locations globally.



The company works with a number of car hire partners including Avis, Alamo, Europcar, Sixt, Hertz, National, Thrifty and Budget.? As well car hire, Holiday Autos also offers motorhome hire and van hire and you can make arrangements to rent one of these vehicles via the insurance4carrental.com website.


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iCarhireinsurance.com a major car hire excess insurance and van hire excess insurance company issued a press release on the 23rd January.

This very informative news release said “Over two million people booked a holiday last week according to ABTA and for those planning several breaks with the use of a hire car, iCarhireinsurance, the award-winning car hire insurance broker, recommends that consumers should also purchase an annual policy for excess car hire insurance at the same time which could save up to £400 a year*(enough to pay for a mini winter sun break!).

Insurance4carhire.com the long established car hire excess insurance company issued a press release on the 18th January 2012.

They said that new research commissionedby Insurance4carhire, the UKs largest provider of vehicle rental excessprotection, has revealed that almosttwo thirds (63%) of Brits are either planningor considering a driving holiday in 2012 – whether at home or abroad.? Interestinglyit appears empty nesters are most keen, with 41% ofthose aged over 45 making up the largest group planning or considering adriving trip .

The Christmas holiday season is just under a week away and many people throughout the world will be hiring a car.


Did you know that if you buy your car hire excess insurance from an independent car hire excess insurance company it will usually be a lot cheaper than if you buy the product from the car hire company?


It can cost a small fortune and at this time of year when every penny / cent (or whatever your currency)counts, you don’t want to be wasting money.


With many car hire excess insurance policies you can buy these well in advance and not have them coming into operation for a couple of months.


Annual policies will save even more money, particularly if you hire a car more than once a year, or your initial hire is over ten days (approximately depending on the company).


Remember to take the polict documenation with you so you have contact info or can prove to the car hire company that you have your OWN insurance. Unfortunately there are still car hire company representatives who will tell you your policy is not valid or you cannot have the vehicle unless you buy their expensive insurance, so stand your ground and and don’t be afraid to compain.

In the UK and Ireland this year as Christmas falls on a Sunday there is an extended apres Christmas public holiday – Monday and Tuesday so this means as normal the hard working retailers who have worked hard with the build up to Christmas, have a day off and then have to open up for the sales (if they are not already running one before Christmas) so you might want to take advantage if some of the bargains about and visit your nearest furnishing store.


The only problem is it is going to be difficult getting all those rather large bargains home, so what do you do – hire a van. Just like when you hire a car, you will have to pay for van hire excess insurance and again it will work out cheaper at a specialist insurance company.

After all of the festive? excitement you might feel like a brief holiday to get over it. What about a few days touring the south of Spain in a motorhome? Not a bad idea, however just like with car hire and van hire you also have to have excess insurance when you hire a motorhome. Motorhomes are costly vehicles to buy for the hire company and unlike a car or van when they are only kept for a couple of years, many companies are now keeping them for up to ten years.

So where do you find a very good selection of competively priced Car Hire Excess Insurance – Van Hire Excess Insurance and Motorhome Hire Excess Insurance companies?

You will find a great choice at the insurance4carrental.com marketing site. Just Click Here and then ?find the approprate section just below the words car hire excess insurance

Have a great Christmas break and remember the drink drive laws in whatever country you live in. In some countries the legal limit is still a glass of wine or pint of beer in others absolutely no drinking if you intend to drive.??

There has been a great deal of movement in van hire excess insurance on the insurance4carrental.com / insurance4vanrental.com website over the past few days.

Information in from one of the advertisers “insuremyvanhire.com” which is part of the insurance4carhire.com operation shows people are renting vans for one or two days and buying that company’s excess insurance.

Customers can also buy van hire excess insurance from another insurance company advwertising on the site – iCarhireinsurance.com.

So what are all these people doing rening vans near the end of November? Are they buying large Christmas presents? Have the post-Christmas furniture sales started early or are they just moving home, or builders carrying out building work and hiring a van whilst their vehicle is in for repair?

You can of course even arrange van hire (car hire and motorhome hire)?via Holiday Autos on the insurance4carrental.com site.

What about people renting cars????At this time of year when Christmas expenditure is very much on the minds of consumers in a year when people have had to tighten their belts, it is good news to know that a couple of car hire excess insurance companies advertising on the jml Insurance sites and the insurance4carrrental.com site are continuing to offer lower price car hire excess insurance on some of their insurance products.

insurance4carhire the company that started car hire excess insurance a number of years ago, customers can save £9.80 off the £49.00 annual Europe 31 days policy by only having to pay £39.20 if they purchase via a link from the jml Group/insurance4carrental.com sites.


The insurance4carhire worldwide 31 days is currently being discounted from £65.00 to £52.00 a saving of £13.00. To get the lower price the consumer must go into jml-insurance.co.uk or insurance4carrental.com and go to the insurance4carhire logos or pages.


Questor Insurance are continuing to offer their 10 per cent discount their car hire excess insurance by adding a discount code when they buy using the link from the jml websites.

There are a great choice of providers advertising at Insurance4carrental.com WorldwideInsure.com who offer car hire excess insurance and Motorhome excess insurance – Essential Travel, iCarhireinsurance.com offering car hire and van hire excess insurance, Protectyourbubble and Odyssey.

Questor Insurance also offers motorhomehire excess insurance and insuremyvanhire.com is the van hire excess insurance from insurance4carhire.com. Daily policies from the insurance4carhire group can be found on the sites which have trade names of the cdwsli.com and dailyexcess.com.

So if you are planning that Christmas or winter break now is the time to buy your excess insurance and spread your Christmas spending budget. If you are hiring a van, car or motorhome remember it is usually a lot better value to buy your excess insurance from an independent insurance company like the ones advertising on the insurance4carrental.com website than from a car hire?/ van hire / motorhome hire company.

Sales used to come just after Christmas and in the summer in the retail trade. They now pop up all times of the year and it looks like some bedding and furniture companies in the UK hold sales most of the year!

In France, by law you can only hold a sale for so many days in a year. Anyway Holiday Autos have just sent me a flyer say there sale starts in the morning (21st November 2011).

According to the flyer:?

Starting from 10am tomorrow that is (Monday 21st November 2011), you can make massive savings in their car hire sale. Whether you’re looking for some sun, a winter city break or to hit the slopes, get 30% off car hire in popular locations.

Each day from 10am, the destinations shown will be on sale for 24 hours only. But remember, to book through the links in their flyer?email to receive an exclusive 30% off. (that’s an extra 5% off versus our regular website).

Their sale applies to ALL rentals in selected locations for pick-ups between 5 January and 29 February 2012.

Don’t forget to come back on the relevant sale day to receive this great discount.
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The Sale Destinations change each day

Mon 21 Nov UK & Ireland


Tue 22 Nov Canaries & South Africa


Wed 23 Nov France & Italy


Thu 24 Nov Portugal & Madeira


Fri 25 Nov Switzerland, Austria & Iceland


Sat 26 Nov Cyprus & Malta

To go to the normal Great Value ?Holiday Autos Website Click Here?

Enjoy their sale

By the way if you are hiring a car don’t forget your car hire excess insurance. Find out more here

Hallo Wien! Hello Vienna! is the welcome on the CAR2GO website. These two seater Smart cars will be available in yet another location.

They are already in Vancouver – Canada, San Diego and Austin in the USA,??Hamburg and Ulm inGermany, Amsterdam – Netherlands, and coming to Lyon, France in 2012.

The cars will be available?24/7 and according to the company’s website? no reservation needed. A subscription is not required either and you can park for free anywhere in the car2go operating area. There will soon be some 500 of these cars out on the streets of Vienna.

In October Europcar issued a Press Release saying “??Ulm/Guyancourt – car2go GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, together with Europcar, the leader in car rental services in Europe, will create a new joint-venture to accelerate and extend their innovative partnership Europe-wide. The new company is called “car2go Europe GmbH” and will enable the two partners to bring the unique car2go mobility service to millions of drivers throughout Europe. Daimler’s car2go GmbH will be the majority shareholder in this new company.”

?“Similar to the initial car2go Hamburg joint-venture, founded last October, the new company is built around a balanced cooperation between the same two strong partners,” said Robert Henrich, CEO of car2go GmbH. “car2go Europe will be able to swiftly launch large-scale rollouts and strengthen our first mover advantage as the world’s first free-floating, one-way carsharing service.”



The innovative mobility concept car2go was developed by Daimler AG in 2008. Today, with a total of more than 45,000 members and 1,100 vehicles worldwide, car2go has proven success in four cities: Ulm and Hamburg in Germany, the Texan capital Austin in the US and Vancouver in Canada. Three other cities are announced yet: Lyon (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and San Diego (USA). In Amsterdam and San Diego car2go will start operations before the end of 2011 with full-electric fleets of 300 car2go smart fortwo electric drive vehicles in each city. Since the first launch in the southern German city of Ulm in March 2009, more than 900,000 trips have been made and approximately 9 million kilometres have been covered.”

In the Vienna operation the rental charges?are €0.29?per driving minute, €12.90 per hour and €39? per day of 24 hours – and while the car is parked but still booked out to the renter as with other normal hire cars, however?unlike regular rentals, it will only cost? €0.09?a minute. Everything is included – fuel, insurance, taxes and parking, For the first 20km of driving .If the hirer needs?to go out of the city, it will? cost?an extra €0.29? a kilometre.

These sound like a great idea, however if you are looking for a car to rent that can

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???????????????? Carrentals the Car Hire Comparator company has said that Christmas and New Year travellers should book early to secure availability of the right vehicle and extras such as winter tyres and child seats.

People wanting to rent a car over the festive season should book car hire early to ensure availability of the right vehicle and to secure the best price, as the return to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)??marks a surge in festive bookings.

Independent price comparator Carrentals.co.uk says that currently most of its 50 suppliers have availability for the festive period, but with the clocks going back this weekend many people start finalising their travel plans and availability of the right vehicle and extras such as ‘snow packs’ can become tight.

Gareth Robinson, Managing Director of Carrentals.co.uk, says: “Once the clocks go back it seems to become a countdown to Christmas and we see a big increase in reservations for the festive period – up 25% last year.


“At present there is plenty of availability in most locations, including ski destinations and popular airports such as London Heathrow and Malaga. However, with the return to GMT this weekend we expect to see a big jump in bookings as travellers look to finalise their travel plans ready for the Christmas break.


“Our advice for anyone planning a getaway over the festive period is to book as early as possible, not only to secure availability of the right vehicle, but also to get the best price and ensure you get any extras you may need such as snow packs or child seats.”


With the UK a popular location for Christmas holidays customers requiring car hire at Heathrow and London car hire, are particularly advised to book early, along with those travelling to top ski airports such as Geneva, Chambery, and Milan.

Carrentals.co.uk is the leading hire car hire comparison site comparing the best deals from up to 50 rental companies, including Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Holiday Autos and Sixt, in over 15,000 locations worldwide, including car hire in the UK.


Source Carrrentals-27-10-11 Find out more about Carrentals and arrange your festive booking HERE

The above information does not only apply to Car Hire, if you are booking flights over the Christmas period, prices are starting to rise as there is less space available so make sure book these early and book your car hire and car hire excess insurance

Holiday Autos the car hire company and as described on their website “the largest leisure car hire company in the world” has just sent out a winter flyer. “Bring on winter”. You have images of snow, ice, long dark evenings and last year’s winter.

However it is not all doom and gloom. Far from it…. They are featuring exotic delights in South East Asia, the culture in Africa & the Middle East, adventures in America and the beautiful sights in Europe.

Holiday Autos which is part of the Lastminute.com group has more than 24 years experience in the car rental business and not only can you hire a car from them, you can also rent a van or motorhome. You can book with them in over 5,000 locations worldwide.

jml Property Services have been working with Holiday Autos for many years now promoting them on their Travel websites, Car Hire insurance and insurance websites. Their Directors have personally used Holiday Autos a great deal over the years and have found they offer great value car hire.

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