Car hire excess insruance: How to avoid a nasty holiday suprise
If you were to have an accident in a hire car while abroad it would be likely to ruin your holiday – but the real nasty surprise would be the excess on your insurance.
You could be forced to pay an excess of up to 850 for the cost of repairing any damage while you are in possession of the car, likely to be more than the cost of hiring a car in the first place.
Car hire companies are well known for adding extra costs to the headline price and the excess you must pay, in the event of a claim, can vary widely.
Ways To Assess The Value Of An Auto Insurance Policy
When buying auto insurance, many drivers tend to buy inexpensive policies. Cheap car insurance can lead to big savings, but there’s more to a car insurance policy than its premiums. To get the best possible deal on insurance, drivers should try to assess the total value of their insurance plans.
In order to assess the value of an auto insurance policy, it’s helpful to consider how the policy will operate when the time comes to make a claim.
FAQs About Car Insurance Quotes
Many drivers who need auto insurance for the first time have questions about car insurance quotes. Especially if you’re requesting car insurance online quotes, you might want to know what to expect before filling out all of your information. What follows are three of the most frequently asked questions about car insurance quotes.
What information will I need to fill out?
You’ll need your address, email address and phone number, as well as the make and model of your car, how many miles you drive each year, and the title of the car. You
Insuring Famous Rides: Santa’s Sleigh
Soon (very soon), Santa will climb into his sleigh, fire up the reindeer (on Donner, on Blitzen!), and set off on his epic annual trip around the world. Ah, but before he embarks on his 7-continent, trillion-stop journey, Mrs. Claus convinces him (finally) to invest in some car … er …sleigh insurance. The elves, unfortunately, while amazing with toys have yet to whip together anything like comprehensive or liability coverage.
Now Santa’s a pretty friendly guy and likes doing business face-to-face, but since there aren’t a lot of (make that any) insurance agencies at the North Pole, he decides to do his insurance shopping online. Through
Banks scrap currency exchange fees
There was good news for travellers today as 5 of the UKs largest banks and other credit card companies agreed to scrap some of the fees that they currently clobber their customers with when buying foreign currency.
The announcement is as a result of pressure from the Office of Fair Trading following a super complaint from watchdog organisation Consumer Focus which highlighted a staggering £1billion per year spent by UK consumers exchanging currency.
This is a welcome change for people who are hiring cars abroad and paying in the local currency as to date card providers have charged around 2% of the value of the complete transaction, plus additional handling charges which could see £30 added for every £500 spent. Thi