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An award winning start to 2012 for Holiday Autos

hotpassion — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:07:25 +0000

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.

Part Source Holiday Autos February 2012

Save money on car hire excess insurance and take a winter break

minhoba — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:12:34 +0000

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*).

“By the time people have a week’s break in February, a week at Easter and perhaps two weeks in the summer, they could well have spent over £400 on excess car hire insurance if they buy it from the car rental company compared with buying a one off annual policy from £39.99 with iCarhireinsurance.com,” said Ernesto Suarez, CEO and founder of iCarhireinsurance.com.

“We don’t begrudge sales staff at car rental desks trying to earn commission selling excess car hire insurance but we do begrudge the exorbitant cost, which is on average over 80% (see Table 1 below) more than buying the insurance direct from iCarhireinsurance.com. We recommend you put your hard earned cash to better use and have a free holiday in the autumn instead with the £400 saved.”

Many customers are unaware, until they collect their hire car, that in the event of damage or theft, even if it’s not their fault, they are liable for excess charges of up to £2000. At this point, unless they purchase excess protection from the rental-desk, they are left exposed. These policies are usually expensive, approximately £17 a day (see Table 1) and limited in scope.

Ernesto Suarez, CEO and founder of iCarhireinsurance.com, said: “Even a small chip on a windscreen or a scratch down the side of the car can leave people liable for hundreds of pounds if they don’t have an excess insurance policy. Our advice is simple – buy before you fly – to get the best excess car hire cover, at the most economical price and put the money saved towards another holiday.”

iCarhireinsurance.com’s excess insurance also protects vulnerable parts of the rental vehicle that are usually excluded by the rental companies’ policies.
As well as annual policies from £39.99, iCarhireinsurance.com also offers daily cover from £2.99.
Key Benefits of Stand-Alone Car Hire Excess Policies:

Annual or Daily cover
Protect yourself against excess charges for damage and theft
Cover for damage to areas usually excluded by the rental company such as windscreens, tyres, roof and undercarriage
European or Worldwide coverage
UK automatically included for UK residents
No distance from home restrictions
Cover for additional drivers named on the rental agreement

The Survey: The research was undertaken for iCarhireinsurance.com by YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2007 adults, of which 1103 had hired a car. Fieldwork was undertaken between 1 – 4 April 2011. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+).

So if you are thinking of saving some money on your car hire excess insurance, visit the iCarhireinsurance.com website here

Source: iCarhireinsurance – Halo Insurance Services Ltd – January 2012?

iCarhireinsurance comes up with New Year Tips to stop car renters being ripped off

minhoba — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:24:41 +0000

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.

Tip Three: Check Final Bill for Overcharging – Check the? final bill from the hire car company to ensure that extras have not been added like petrol etc. Also get the car signed off when you return it and check your credit card statement.

Tip Four: Don’t buy insurance from the Car Hire Rental Desk

?- they say a car hire customer can save up to 80% buying car hire excess insurance in advance from iCarhireinsurance.com – Find out more Here

Tip Five: Take Photographic Evidence at the End of the Trip – If someone can’t check your car in, then take photos. Digital photos should be able to show dates if the photo is taken by a digital camera or mobile phone.

So if you are planning on hiring a car in the near future or even later in the year it is worthwhile considering all of these.

Christmas Greetings from Economy Car Hire

minhoba — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:27:26 +0000

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Holiday Autos improves it’s marketing team

minhoba — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:51:29 +0000

“The Drum ?Modern Marketing and Media” website has said that Car hire/Van hire/Motorhome hire?firm Holiday Autos has boosted its team with the appointment of Kevin Currie as Global Director of Digital Marketing and Elise Newman as Global Head of Affiliate Marketing and Meta Search.

Kevin Currie joins from hotel website Octopus.com where he was marketing director. Before that he was general managwer of Somewhere2stay and head of web at Virgin Holidays. He has just joined Holiday Autos

Elise Newman has moved? from Affiliate Window where she oversaw client strategy and relationship management in her role as key accounts team leader.

She has previously held senior management roles at LinkShare Corporation and Blue Chip Holidays. She has been with Holiday Autos since September 2011

Isabelle Ratinaud, Managing Director of Holiday Autos, said: “Kevin and Elise bring a wealth of knowledge and experience that will help to develop and shape the growth of Holiday Autos. I’m very excited that they are coming on board at such a pivotal time for the company.”

holiday autos is the world’s largest and leading leisure car hire broker – they offer car hire -? Hybrid Car Hire? – Van Hire and Motorhome Hire in location around the world to find out more Click Here?

Part Source: The Drum.

Are people buying large presents for Christmas or just on the move?

hotpassion — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:06:24 +0000

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.

Holiday Autos are holding a November Sale!

hotpassion — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:52:06 +0000

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

iCarhireinsurance.com in finalists for Startup Awards 2011

hotpassion — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:20:30 +0000

The 2011 Startup Awards take place in a month’s time on the 2nd December at Kensington Roof Gardens in London

The event sponsored by NatWest Bank and car hire excess insurance and van hire excess insurance company iCarhireinsurance.com is in the finalist category of Online Business of the Year.
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Now in it’s eighth year, the Startups Awards recognises truly ambitious start-up businesses that have made an impact in the UK, celebrating young business success.There are 14 awards covering every business area.
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iCarhireinsurance.com was founded in 2009. It offers a range of insurance excess hire policies, both in annual and daily format, that are fully comprehensive, simple to understand, unbeatable value and they can be used with any car and van rental agreements worldwide.
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At jml Property Services / insurance4carrental.com we have been promoting their products since March 2010 and wish them great success in this event.
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To find out more about iCarhireinsurance.com’s products CLICK HERE

Inspirational car hire from Holiday Autos

hotpassion — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:41:34 +0000

Just had an email in from those people at Holiday Autos earlier in the week.

They are saying??“As the winter weather takes a turn for the worse, be inspired with some of our most popular holiday destinations. Discover somewhere new today with our amazing offers and rates.”

They are suggesting hot and cold destinations Finland – Iceland – Norway – Thailand – Malaysia – Singapore – Los Angeles – Las Vegas – Orlando – Dubai – South Africa – Egypt – well those are the destinations all you have to do is find somewhere to stay and organise your flights. All seems very straightforward to do in the darker evenings starting next week

To visit the Holiday Autos website Click Here.?

Drivers take extra care – lower drink drive limits from midnight 27th October 2011

hotpassion — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:36:14 +0000

New lower drink driving limits come into effect in the Republic of Ireland? from midnight Thursday 27th October.

On the day the country goes to the poll to elect a new President see the level being cut from 80mg (like in the UK) to 50mg as in countries like France and Italy.?

The new regulations also mean it will be 20mg for professional drivers, learner drivers and newly qualified drivers.

The Government is issuing stiff penalties for anyone over the limit with points, €200 fines and the risk of being disqualified.

This now means that it will only be safe to drink one glass of wine to drive (or equivallent). Take care that you do not go over the limit.

Visiting Ireland? Arrange your car hire here??