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HELP! Car Hire with Visa Debit

  • 14-11-2014 12:57pm
    #1
    marley123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭


    Have been trawling the net this morning looking at car rental options BUT I only have a Visa Debit card - I don't have a standard CC & and cant find anywhere that will take VISA Debit.

    Dublin South/City Centre if anyone has any ideas?


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  • #2
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,360 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Have you tried Enterprise?


  • #3
    Beagslife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Beagslife


    Hi Marley,


    You should be able to book with Hertz, using Visa Debit. You will probably have to take the extra insurance to cover the excess, unless you have the funds in your account to cover same (€2k ?).


    I have rented from them before using Visa Debit.


    Thanks,


    MC


  • #4
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    ...rented a car in UK recently, and if using DC they take a big security deposit against it, refunding when you return. This because they can't -pre-authorise a charge like they do on CC.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #5
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Beagslife wrote: »
    Hi Marley,


    You should be able to book with Hertz, using Visa Debit. You will probably have to take the extra insurance to cover the excess, unless you have the funds in your account to cover same (€2k ?).


    I have rented from them before using Visa Debit.


    Thanks,


    MC

    Same as this. Used debit card only last week. Had to take out the extra cover (€20) in order to bring excess down from 3,000 to 250.

    There was a hold of ~500 euro (excess + fuel deposit + actual charge) on the card for about 4 days after I returned the rental. Then only the actual charge was deducted from my account and the hold was released.


  • #6
    Steer55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭Steer55


    Caliden wrote: »
    Same as this. Used debit card only last week. Had to take out the extra cover (€20) in order to bring excess down from 3,000 to 250.

    There was a hold of ~500 euro (excess + fuel deposit + actual charge) on the card for about 4 days after I returned the rental. Then only the actual charge was deducted from my account and the hold was released.





    Went to book a car with Hertz today and they have stopped taking debit cards to pay for the excess. It cost me an extra €22 per day insurance on top of the car rental costs as I do not have a credit card. Prior to this change in policy I had separate car hire insurance to cover the excess with carhire excess.ie .
    So anyone previously using a debit card with Hertz car rental, take note, they no longer accepted, I was told the same goes for Budget the only other rental car company that also used to accept debit cards.


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  • #7
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Thanks but this thread is years old


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