Booking a UK Hire Car Via Budgets US Website?

[Martin4356111]

Evening all,

I'm looking for a hire car for when I come back to the UK in Feb and need some advice on booking.

We live in Cyprus and coming back to Manchester Airport. Budget want over £400 for ten days via their UK website. If I go through the US website, it's only £260.

Anyone else booked this way and either worked with no issues or had any dramas on collection?

Terms and conditions are a bit vague but a Martin Lewis article seemed to think it was okay.

Thanks

[numtumfutunch]

With a VPN you can be wherever you like, although Im curious what it costs through the Cypriot website.....

[InfamousK]

It may not have CDW as standard though which is a legal requirement. They get by this as US citizens can have CDW through their credit card.

[Sheepshanks]

Brits booking car hire in the US through different countries Hertz pages used to be a thing but Hertz started cancelling bookings if the address wasn’t in that country.

[Chucklehead]

InfamousK said:

It may not have CDW as standard though which is a legal requirement. They get by this as US citizens can have CDW through their credit card.

This. CDW won't be included, and although it's not a legal requirement, you're going to want to have some. Whether it's theirs, yours, or a third party. If you don't have any then you're responsible for the full market price of the vehicle (not just an excess).

[Alorotom]

I have an annual car hire excess insurance which is £60/year but the killer is the CDW bolt on is only £16/year ... I always book via the US websites as the prices are so much cheaper! (its with reducemyexcess)

[Alorotom]

Sheepshanks said:

Brits booking car hire in the US through different countries Hertz pages used to be a thing but Hertz started cancelling bookings if the address wasn’t in that country.

Thats certainly doesn't seem to be a 'thing' now - ive used Hertz quite a bit in the last 18mths always booking in the local sites (US and UAE mainly) and haven't had anything cancelled

[Chucklehead]

It tends to be US licence holders using European websites for US car rental that is rejected. Europeans get a very high level of cover as standard when renting in the US that's often cheaper than a US renter using a US website. I've never seen another combination that is likely to be rejected apart from a few niche domestic rentals (eg Danish licence holder renting in Denmark using a non-DK website).