ELYSEE WITH OUR LITTLE IRISH SCOOTER PARKED IN FRONT OF OUR SUMMER HOME RENTAL
Four of our ten summer "second home" rentals, these past ten years have been overseas. The other six, all being in North America, we drove to in our trusty 2001 Dodge Durango. Lots of room for "stuff."
But what should you do if renting for the summer overseas? You will need a car. In the four overseas countries where we rented for the summer: Ireland, Australia, Slovenia and Estonia we rented a car. Our experience and learning came from our first awakening experience having rented a car for three months from a top-of-the-line agency at the Airport in Ireland. Below is an extract from my book, Make The World Your Second.
I learned the hard way how to solve the problem of expensive rental cars. On our first extended summer abroad, in Ireland, I arranged for a rental car from Hertz.
By corporate habit, I might add. Big, big mistake! The little mini-mite that took me all over Ireland for three months ended up costing about $4,000, or around $45a day. It would likely be double that today. I gritted my teeth, paid the bill, learned my lesson, and became determined to find a better way.
I recently priced a rental car at the airport in Tallinn, Estonia. For the smallest car, a Renault, it would cost me $70 day. The cost of the car would have exceeded the cost of my rental. But by then I had learned how to reduce my daily rental cost to only $16 a day. How? That will be in the next posting.
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