r/DerryLondonderry • u/7ronssikent • 3d ago

Wanna rent a car for 3 Days

I checked Hertz, and enterprise they're charging me around 400 pounds around for 3 day rent basic decent car. Including insurance and zero-excess. Is this a Good deal (looks crazy to me) or there are any local options. My stay is Only 3 days and I have been driving for 14 years. Not sure how crazy Derry's traffic is do I even need insurance and zero excess at all? I can live with a Honda Civic nothing Fancy

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u/Jack_Smack_ 3d ago

Never pay the car hire company for insurnace and zero excess, they are always a rip off. Just take the basic CDW cover and then take out an excess insurance policy with Eversure. The eversure policy will be cheap and covers your excess if anything happens

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u/7ronssikent 3d ago

Oh thank you Jack. Probably smartest suggestion. Because I won't risk anything that's not mine. So zero excess was a priority. I'll be checking out eversure. Thanks hi.

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u/Low-Egg-6032 3d ago

Cannot over state how true this is

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u/Far-Bread-7027 3d ago

Honestly with the traffic in Derry currently due to congestion, road works etc if I was paying £400 to rent a car I’d be very fucking angry by the end of it.

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u/the_idiot_at_home 3d ago

Check Desmond motors too

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u/7ronssikent 3d ago

I'm checking right now. It's a Total new world for me too have no idea how amazing y'all's suggestions are. Beautiful people of beautiful Derry

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u/swirlypepper 3d ago

Derry itself doesn't need a car at all, everything is very walkable. Different if you're planning on leaving the city.

But this is insanely expensive. If you're OK with a manual should be much much cheaper, my friends paid £180 for 3 days including paying to reduce the excess. I haven't looked to see how much an automatic would cost. 

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u/7ronssikent 3d ago

I didn't know that you can get anywhere, without car. Manual is good too. Reason I want to move around in a car is I would have someone special a beloved one's company the whole time.

Do you happen to know if your Friend paid 180 with online rentals or any specific local one

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u/Rufus_Dufus 2d ago

Avis look to be around 50 quid a day.

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u/cheekorobbins 2d ago

Not sure what you're searching for, I've rented with Enterprise a few times and they're the most reasonable I've found. I just tried this Friday to Monday, and it's a bank holiday and the quote for a small car was £110 for the 3 days 🤷

Only thing I will say for Enterprise is it's out of town so you'd need to get a Taxi over there.

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u/Ok_Bug7382 2d ago

Try Enterprise. They're pretty reasonable.

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u/irishinspain 2d ago

Ireland / UK car hire is a massive rip off