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!). Travellers often feel compelled to buy their car hire excess insurance from the rental company on arrival as they pick up their car, which is usually from £17 a day*, with 83% not realising they could purchase it from another supplier and over two thirds (71%) not knowing that this insurance is significantly more expensive than they could buy elsewhere (YouGov research 2011*).

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To start 2012 off on the right foot the iCarhireinsurance.com team has come up with Five useful?tips to avoid sales pressure at the car rental desk and also making sure that people hiring a car are not?ripped off when they return a hire car. Tip One: Take Photographic Evidence – something I have personally done when I have rented when I could not get anyone to sign off my comments when I collected a hire car. Tip Two: ??Audit Trail icarhireinsurance suggests downloading a GPS Tracking app to the renter’s smart phone to create an audit trail of where they have?been.

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