rent Making mistakes is human nature, especially if you are doing something for the first time. Renting a car is not an exception to this. Although with the increasing use of the internet it sounds quite simple to book a car for holidays, there are some minor mistakes which a person does due to lack of knowledge. So, now the question arises, what are those mistakes?
Because nowadays, whether you are going for holidays to some extremely famous tourist destination or for a short weekend holiday to the smallest island-like Paxos in Greece, you will find car renting agencies located in every corner of the world. Therefore, if you are going for a short vacation on Paxos Island, and planning to hire the services of some rental car agency in Paxos, then you should try to avoid following mistakes.
- Not Knowing the Penalties: It is one of the common mistakes performed by most tourists. There are lots of people who make delays in returning the rented car. Doing this affects the goodwill of the car renting agency. Because, after you return the car to the agency it has to clean it and update the fuel and other things before renting it to some other client. A delay made by you affects its whole working and it is not able to hand over the car to another client on time. This indirectly declines its image in front of its client. For this reason, the car agency may charge extra money from you. Besides this, there are various other reasons for which you have to pay extra charges. Some of these reasons:
- Smoking inside the car. There are lots of people who think that now as there is nobody to check them in a rented car, they smoke in the car. Interestingly, it is easier for the car agency to detect the ashes of a cigarette. If you are found the culprit for this, then the agency can charge a penalty for this.
- Not Dropping the Car at Destination: Before renting a car, the agency asks you the location where you will return the car to its executives. Sometimes in a hurry to reach the airport on time, the tourists plan to return the car at some other location according to their convenience. As doing this, disturbs the whole process of receiving a car by the agency, it may charge a penalty from you.
- Not Filling the Fuel Before Returning: There are lots of people who think to pay the money in cash instead of filling the fuel in the car at the time of returning. If the agency has mentioned it in terms of returning the car filled up to the point it was given to you, then it is your responsibility to follow it. In the absence of this, the company may add an extra amount to your final bill as a penalty.
- Not Using the Coupons: With an increasing practice of car renting during holidays, car rental agencies offer different types of discount coupons to their clients. Understanding those discount offers can help in minimizing your final bill. To enjoy this benefit, it is beneficial to understand the discount offers and search for the agencies offering such offers.
- Not Understanding Car Rental Insurance: Before renting a car, it is better to talk to your insurance agent regarding any insurance available on renting a car during holidays. If your insurance agency offers you this facility then you don’t need to buy an extra insurance policy provided by the car rental agency.
These are three important mistakes that you should try to avoid when hiring a car from any of the car rental agencies in Paxos.
