Fuerteventura Car Hire Guide
There are more than 100 car hire companies in Fuerteventura as well as a bewildering amount of car hire agents, choosing which car hire company to decide on can be a painful and hassle thing.
Do you choose a familiar name, and then ascertain an similarly reputable local car hire business is much cheaper? Do you pick a business merely to find when you arrive that they don’t have an office near to where you’re staying?
I believe that if I am encouraging you to explore Fuerteventura’s countryside, then I should also provide some information to help you decide which car hire company in Fuerteventura is best suited to your particular needs and preferences, so I have compiled this Fuerteventura Car Hire guide to help you somehow decide easily and almost painless and less hassle.
Taking your hired car to La Gomera:
Some people want to know if they can bring their rental car to other Islands. Most car hire firms in Fuerteventura do not allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your leasing car to La Gomera only. However, the cost for taking a leasing car, plus two passengers to La Gomera can be around $145 on the Fred Olson ferry and around $130 on the Naviera Armas ferry, so it might come out cheaper to rent a car once you are there.
Petrol prices in Fuerteventura:
Petrol is considerably cheaper in the Canary Islands than in many other places; at the time of this writing, around $0.80 per litre for unleaded, obviously this varies. The island is well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you don’t have to be troubled about running out of fuel. However, there are some exceptionally long stretches where there are no any stations.
There are also significant differences in prices between assorted companies in Fuerteventura. PCAN and Texaco are more often than not a few cents cheaper per litre than BP, Shell and Repsol with CEPSA falling somewhere in between.
Parking tips:
It seems a common sense, but having read the occasional report on travel watchdog websites of people having their hired car towed away, I’m not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home.
Don’t park on yellow lines and be careful where you see blue lines; these as a rule mean you need to feed the parking meter.
Above all don’t guess that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and wherever there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sod’s law.
Car insurance:
It’s worth checking with your car insurance company if your policy covers you when driving abroad. If it does, you may not need insurance through the car hire firm in Fuerteventura.
Do you choose a familiar name, and then ascertain an similarly reputable local car hire business is much cheaper? Do you pick a business merely to find when you arrive that they don’t have an office near to where you’re staying?
I believe that if I am encouraging you to explore Fuerteventura’s countryside, then I should also provide some information to help you decide which car hire company in Fuerteventura is best suited to your particular needs and preferences, so I have compiled this Fuerteventura Car Hire guide to help you somehow decide easily and almost painless and less hassle.
Taking your hired car to La Gomera:
Some people want to know if they can bring their rental car to other Islands. Most car hire firms in Fuerteventura do not allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your leasing car to La Gomera only. However, the cost for taking a leasing car, plus two passengers to La Gomera can be around $145 on the Fred Olson ferry and around $130 on the Naviera Armas ferry, so it might come out cheaper to rent a car once you are there.
Petrol prices in Fuerteventura:
Petrol is considerably cheaper in the Canary Islands than in many other places; at the time of this writing, around $0.80 per litre for unleaded, obviously this varies. The island is well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you don’t have to be troubled about running out of fuel. However, there are some exceptionally long stretches where there are no any stations.
There are also significant differences in prices between assorted companies in Fuerteventura. PCAN and Texaco are more often than not a few cents cheaper per litre than BP, Shell and Repsol with CEPSA falling somewhere in between.
Parking tips:
It seems a common sense, but having read the occasional report on travel watchdog websites of people having their hired car towed away, I’m not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home.
Don’t park on yellow lines and be careful where you see blue lines; these as a rule mean you need to feed the parking meter.
Above all don’t guess that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and wherever there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sod’s law.
Car insurance:
It’s worth checking with your car insurance company if your policy covers you when driving abroad. If it does, you may not need insurance through the car hire firm in Fuerteventura.
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