Price comparator gets further support for finding travellers savings on car hire
6th April 2009 – Having just been name checked as the top car hire price comparator around and ranked in The Independent newspaper’s 50 Best Travel Websites, Carrentals.co.uk has won additional plaudits from Martin Lewis of Moneysavingexpert.com and expert consultant on GMTV’s ‘Deals of the Week’ slot.
Martin Lewis is founder of Moneysavingexpert.com, a website set up to find consumers the best money-saving deals on lots of products and services. The ‘Deals of the Week’ section is a weekly slot where Martin and GMTV’s Lorraine Kelly recommend the best suppliers to help people save money.
The latest ‘Deals of the Week’ slot focused on where to go to find the best value holiday car hire this summer. Martin Lewis, in recommending Carrentals.co.uk as the website to visit to get cheap car hire, said, “There’s lots of availability and low prices. Let me give you an example of how cheap car hire is. Malaga Airport to Marbella, a taxi is 50 or 60 quid each way. Car hire, less than £10 a day. So you could get a week’s car hire for 70 quid compared to a return taxi for 100 quid.”
Gareth Robinson, managing director of Carrentals.co.uk, said, “It’s an honour to receive the endorsement of such a leading industry figure like Martin Lewis and his comments emphasise our outlook of telling travellers to book holiday car hire as far in advance as possible to get the best deals from top car hire suppliers. Martin’s comments about car hire in Marbella being a lot cheaper for a whole week than a return taxi fare from the airport is merely one example of the type of brilliant deal we’re able to offer people.”
Martin Lewis concluded, “So, summer holiday car hire, get it right now but you need to do it the right way.”
Carrentals.co.uk is the award-winning price comparison website which compares car hire deals from up to 50 rental companies, including Holiday Autos, Budget, EasyCar and Thrifty, in over 9,000 locations around the World, and also offers airport parking/hotels and insurance from insurance4carhire.com.
To compare the very best summer holiday car hire deals visit www.carrentals.co.uk.
About Carrentals.co.uk
Carrentals.co.uk was launched in February 2003 and grew to become one of the UK’s leading online car hire companies by 2006.
In 2007, the company re-launched its site to create the first major online price comparator in the travel industry. Using the latest technology the Carrentals.co.uk site now searches up to 50 different car hire websites, providing an impartial comparison of the best prices available in over 9,000 locations.
Websites searched include Budget, Thrifty, Sixt, Holiday Autos, Opodo, EBookers, Carrentals.co.uk and EasyCar, with the Carrentals.co.uk site quickly comparing prices and allowing customers to refine their search by car type.
The Carrentals.co.uk site also features over 6,000 links to useful tourist information sites, plus over 2,700 pages of travel information in a mini-guide format.
In 2008, Carrentals.co.uk was voted Best Car Hire Website in the Travolution Awards. To book or for further information visit Carrentals.co.uk.
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