When it comes to hiring a car for your holiday, there are obvious benefits to not hiring the essential extras from the rental company themselves. After all, you’ve already incurred the cost of renting the vehicle in the first place (on top of the w...
Car hire companies are ploughing money into their coffers with a 'winterisation' charge at many European ski destinations this winter, including Geneva, Grenoble, Innsbruck, Barcelona, Turin and Sophia in Bulgaria. The ‘winterisation’ charge, wh...
Guy Fawkes was one of 13 conspirators involved in the gunpowder plot to blow up King James I, the protestant King at the time. Fawkes, although the most famous of all 13 men, wasn’t actually the ring leader of the group; Robert Catesby was the man...
How does the VAT exemption work? / What is duty free? All goods sold to someone travelling outside of the EU is exempt from paying the VAT on their items, which currently stands at 20%. This means that travellers will be able to buy goods at a fairl...
Car hire firms are being made to act on customer complaints as regulators enforce new rules to make the industry more transparent. Five of the biggest car hire firms in Europe have promised to act on customer complaints and the way they will be deal...
iCarhireinsurance recently wrote a blog (5th May 2015) about the changes to the paper counterpart of your standard driving license which could cause problems when hiring a car abroad Thee DVLA (The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) have now done...
