Foreign Perspectives

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Finding really cheap car hire is really simple over the winter months but at this time of year it’s something of a nightmare unless you’ve had the foresight to book it months in advance.

The reason is simple really: everyone’s going on holiday right now. Not only that but this year is particularly problematic in that the discount airfares have increased quite substantially in price so everyone is making more of an effort to save money in other ways and, for most people, car hire is one of the easiest things to target as it generally makes up a substantial chunk of your spending on a holiday.

Of course, the problem is that as so many people are thinking along the same lines, the very cheapest car hire deals get taken out very quickly indeed so the usual tactic of going for the very cheapest doesn’t work at the moment. However, all is not lost as finally there’s a site offering car hire price comparisons which takes out an awful lot of the donkey work in finding the best deal.

Usually I’d be quite wary of this type of site in that it’s obviously making money on the commission that the car hire companies pay out and in fact in my first test of it I was going to say “AVOID” in that it came back with car hire prices £10 higher than those I’d gotten direct. However, click-through to the various offers and you get the same price as you’d get direct so the only downside is that you’d need to click-through to the first couple of offers to get the real price (in my case the third listed was a good deal cheaper than the first two).

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If you’re like most people I’m sure you’ve hardly gotten beyond thinking that you’ll either get a few hundred from the travel agent or perhaps just use a card when you get there.

In the first case, you’ll end up spending a small fortune un-necessarily and in the second you could be stuck without any money. In both cases, it’s worth putting a little thought into it and to help you make the best choices I’m putting together a little series on it over the next week or so.

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When I think about a vacation in Mexico, it seems to me that it’s the type of place that you need to settle into to really make the best of your time there. For me that rules out a hotel type trip as that always seems to be (often quite literally) a flying visit and doesn’t really give you the chance to settle into the local culture.

Somewhere like Rocky Point house rentals gives quite a good selection of different properties for such a holiday. In terms of Mexico, some people like to dive right into the local culture and for that you’re best going for a stand-alone villa. If you’re the type who like a lot going on around you, it’s probably best to look at the resort properties and that usually means condos. Either way, there’s quite a long list of places to choose from.

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