My thoughts, opinions and ramblings.

With over 120 vehicle hire companies on stunning Tenerife as well as a incomprehensible number of car hire agents, choosing which car leasing company to take can be a tiresome incident.
Do you choose a familiar name, and then see an likewise decent local car hire firm is much cheaper? Do you select a business just to discover when you arrive that they don’t have an office near to where you’re staying?
At Cheap Tenerife Car Rental we believe that if we’re encouraging you to explore Tenerife’s countryside, then we should also provide some information to help you decide which car rental business on Tenerife is best suited to your particular needs, so we’ve 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 companies on Tenerife don’t allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your hire car to La Gomera only. However, the cost for taking a leasing 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 rent a car once you’re 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 changes. The island is well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you don’t have to fret about running out of fuel. However there are some especially long stretches where there aren’t any stations and we’ve included warnings about these areas in our website.
There are also sizeable differences in prices between different companies on Tenerife. PCAN and Texaco are usually 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, I’m not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home.
Don’t park on yellow lines and be watchful where you see blue lines; these customarily mean you need to feed the parking meter.
Above all don’t presume that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and anywhere there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sod’s law.
Insurance
It’s 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.

With over 120 vehicle leasing businesses on delightful Tenerife as well as a incomprehensible amount of car hire agents, deciding which car leasing company to go for can be a tedious incident.
Do you choose a familiar name, and then ascertain an equally reputable local car hire firm is much cheaper? Do you go for a business merely to discover when you arrive that they don’t have an office near to where you’re staying?
At Cheap Tenerife Car Rental we believe that if we’re encouraging you to explore Tenerife’s countryside, then we should also provide some information to help you decide which car hire firm on Tenerife is best suited to your particular needs, so we’ve compiled this guide to help the decision making process.

Taking your hire car to La Gomera
Some people want to know if they can take their rental car to other Islands. Most car hire firms on Tenerife don’t allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your leasing car to La Gomera only. However, the cost for taking a leasing 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 you’re 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 don’t have to fret about running out of fuel. However there are some exceptionally long stretches where there aren’t any stations and we’ve included warnings about these areas in our website.
There are also extensive differences in prices between different companies on Tenerife. PCAN and Texaco are generally 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, I’m not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home.
Don’t park on yellow lines and be cautious where you see blue lines; these as a rule mean you need to feed the parking meter.
Above all don’t assume that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and everyplace there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sod’s law.
Insurance
It’s 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.