Rent a car in Croatia
Renting a car in Croatia, has become quite popular and quite cheap over the last year, actually so much that there was a lack of cars in the summer months last year, a friend of mine who is working as a fleet manager for a car rental company told me reason why.
Do to the crises in 2008 early bookings for cars was low for the season 2009, so many car rental companies decided to order less new cars, according to my friend most car rental companies lowered their fleet size by up to 40% in 2009 compared to 2008.
According to him, car rental companies will in 2010, order same number of cars as 2009, which means there could be to few in the main season this year also, so if you are planning renting a car in Croatia in June, July or August, you might not want to wait to long before you do your booking.
Some general information about renting a car in Croatia:
Cars can be rented in all airports and in all major cities and tourist resort. Most companies offer option to pick up and return car in different locations.
On most of the island, like Vis, Brac, Hvar, Korcula etc you have car rental companies situated in the ferry harbour very you arrive on the island. Cars are relatively expensive on the island, so I might be cheaper renting it on the main land, even if you pay for the ferry transfer.
This is a general tips (not only related to Croatia) which has helped me a few times, I always take picture of the car with my digital camera, if possible I always makes sure that the guy from the car rental company Is on the pictures, in this case you can avoid many discussion about damages to the car.
Best company to rent car:
Well from my experience such thing as a best car rental company does not exist, during the years here in Croatia, we have rented cars from most of the larger companies, and we have had both good and bad experiences, in majority of case we had absolutely no problem and everything was 100% like agreed.
After following discussion about car rental companies in forums and on other blogs, I see that my experience seams to be quite similar to what others also have experienced.
If you have any experience or good tips about car rental here in Croatia, you are more then welcome to leave a comment so that other readers can benefit from this information also.
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Hi re rental cars .
When we rent the car (in Croatia) do we have to declare we are going to go into Montenegro and Bosnia??
Friends of mine ran into this problem . Or is it just another scam?
Thanks
Andrew
Hi Andrew, well i know that most companies require that you inform that you will take car to Bosnia or Montenegro, i also know that several rental companies charge extra for going there, so ask when you rent what rules / prices the have if you also go to BIH and Montenegro with the car.
Morten
Arghh! Everything is so confusing. We are seasoned travelers and have been to Croatia once, but have so little time to research and US dollar keeps fluctuating.
We arrive at Split airport 17 September and depart from same airport 27 September. We will base out of Trogir for 5 days, then travel to to other parts of Croatia. My husband wants an automatic transmission car, but small is OK.
Which car agency will offer us best deal?
Your web site is terrific!!!!!!!!
Thanks for any help.
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Hi there !
We were thinking about driving a rented car from dubrovnik to split in Aug and was wanting to leave the hire car parked in split for the three days we were there then drive it back down again.
We thought about dropping it off in split except it would be more expensive as they have one way fees.
Do you know of anywhere we could park our car….possibly for free???
Would love reply back thanks !
Frances
Hi Frances, there are one relative large parking next to ACI marina other alternative is to go to private living areas, also there is some larger supermarketparkings which could be an option, i although do not know what happens if you leave car for several days. Farily close to centre there are payed parkings for 3 kuna / hour (nights free) which mean you would maybe would have to pay a total of 20 Euro for 3 days parking.
Morten