Unlike the excess on your own car’s insurance, which can be a few hundred pounds, the excess if you damage a hire car can be far higher – sometimes over £1,000.

It also looked at the price of extras payable on arrival (i.e., excess insurance waivers, an additional driver, a child’s car seat and a sat nav, as well as the price of a tank of petrol (40 ...

Ireland has more stringent requirements for car hire than most other parts of Europe. For example, an at-fault accident in the past three to five years, more than one insurance claim within that ...