How to: Tenerife Car Rental

Tenerife Car Rental

With more than 120 vehicle leasing companies on delightful Tenerife as well as a bewildering number of Tenerife car hire agents, choosing which car hire company to select can be a mind-numbing encounter.

Do you choose a familiar name, and then find out an just as respectable local car rental company is a good deal cheaper?

Do you select a business simply to discover when you arrive that they dont have an office near to where youre staying?

At Cheap Tenerife Car Rental we believe that if were encouraging you to explore Tenerifes countryside, then we should also provide some information to help you decide which car rental company on Tenerife is best suited to your particular needs, so weve compiled this guide to help the decision making process.

Taking your hire car to La Gomera

Some people want to know if they can bring their hire car to other Islands. Most car leasing firms on Tenerife dont allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your rental car to La Gomera only.

However, the cost for taking a hire car, plus two passengers to La Gomera can be around 145 on the Fred Olson ferry and around 130 on the Naviera Armas ferry, so it might work out cheaper to hire a car once youre there.

Petrol prices on Tenerife

Petrol is considerably cheaper in the Canary Islands than in many other places; at the time of writing, around 0.80 per litre for unleaded (sin plomo 98), obviously this fluctuates. The island is very well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you dont have to worry about running out of fuel.

However there are some awfully long stretches where there arent any stations and weve included warnings about these areas in our website. There are also large differences in prices between assorted companies on Tenerife.

PCAN and Texaco are frequently a few cents cheaper per litre than BP, Shell and Repsol with CEPSA falling somewhere in between.

Parking

It seems common sense, but having read the occasional report on travel watchdog websites of people having their hire car towed away, Im not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home. Dont park on yellow lines and be watchful where you see blue lines; these by and large mean you need to feed the parking meter.

Above all dont presume that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and anyplace there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sods law.

Insurance

Its worth checking with your car insurance company if your policy covers you when driving abroad. If it does, you might not need insurance through the car hire firm on Tenerife.