28th Jun 2010 Specialist website helps travellers get utmost transparency when hiring vehicles As car prices continue to rise for travellers, award-winning car hire price comparison website Carrentals.co.uk is offering advice to help Brits keep informed on how to the best value for money and how to avoid the excessive extra costs. The leading online car hire site has surveyed 1,500 people and Carrentals.co.uk has found that over a quarter of people polled has experienced expensive charges when renting a car, something which they put down to a lack of transparency from rental provider. Gareth Robinson, Managing Director of Carrentals.co.uk , comments: “Our survey results revealed that people definitely feel they need more transparency when they hire a car at home or overseas and that many people have been hit by high excess charges

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From the carrentals.co.uk Forum Wednesday June 2nd 2010 Many of our customers are finding that although they have booked a Collision Damage Excess Waiver policy through us (which is a full car hire excess insurance policy provided by Questor Insurance ), on collection of their hire car, suppliers are offering them alternative excess insurance products leaving customers unsure of what they are covered for and worrying that they will not be covered if they do not purchase the supplier?s policy. All car hire suppliers offer excess insurance at pickup, but it is the customer?s right to refuse this

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