Australia Car
Hire
Discounted Fully Inclusive
Car Hire
Our Fully Inclusive Australia car rental price
includes the following:
Third
Party Insurance
All Airport fees
Full Breakdown Cover
All local surcharges
Loss
/ Collision Damage Waiver
Unlimited mileage
Renting a Car in Australia
Car Hire from Australian airports
and cities including the following major locations; Darwin, Townsville,
Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra,
Melbourne, Cairns. The Car Hire Group also provide car rental
from many other smaller towns in Australia, simply click on the
link above to get full online quote or to book securely online
using our smart booking engine which scans your pick up and drop off times
to see if you could save a whole days rental by possibly slightly changing
them.
One way rentals available
at the following locations and more , in fact we can safely say that we
cover virtually every location in Australia, call our reservations
helpline on 0870 7200 925.
Darwin |
Townsville
| Perth |
Adelaide |
Brisbane |
Sydney |
Canberra |
Melbourne |
Cairns
Booking & receiving your car
hire voucher:
Ordering your rental car is simple,
just enter your car hire pick up & drop off locations, your dates
and click the "Click to Quote" button. You will be shown several
groups of cars all you have to do is select the group you're interested
in. From here you will be shown all hire cars in that group along with
the price for your rental period in GBP£. When you finally select
the rental car you are interested in renting you will be then shown
several options to the rental such as extra (baby seats, roofracks. cancellation
cover etc..), just select any you require and continue. You will then
be required to enter your own details such as address, flight number if
required etc.. and finally you will be asked to enter your credit card
details to pay securely online. You will receive your car rental voucher
via email immediately with your unique booking reference number and
all other booking details. If your car hire start date is sooner than
this then don't worry we will be in touch via telephone to arrange safe
and speedy receipt of your rental voucher. If you have any questions
etc.. regarding your booking or any other aspect of our car rental site
then please call our dedicated call centre helpline on 0870 7200 925.
When you receive your voucher
it will give full details of which fleet provider has been used and exact
details of how and where to find their desk.
Australia
Roads are mostly of good design
and repair. Australia has a land area equivalent to the lower 48,
but has only 16 million people and most of the population resides in the
8 capital cities. The Northern Territory contains 1/6 of Australia's
area, but has only 1% of its population. As a result, there are vast areas
with few people and few roads. In the populous southeast, roads are
plentiful, though many are "unsealed" (dirt). There are a few roads
of interstate quality forming incomplete links between Melbourne,
Sydney, and Canberra, otherwise, it is two lanes. There
is not the infrastructure to make cross country motoring the effortless
wonder Americans enjoy. Particularly frustrating is the lack of city freeways.
To transit most major cities, you must drive in stop-and-go traffic on
two lane roads. Like the rest of the civilized world, Australia uses the
metric system.
Speed limits are reasonable
with open highway limits being 100-110 km/h, though the Northern Territory
sticks to the "safe and reasonable" unlimited speed once enjoyed in the
American West. It is quite enjoyable to be able to cruise under good road and
weather conditions at a speed you're comfortable with, not one created by a
bureaucrat with a chauffeur. You're usually safe from harassment when
travelling less than 10 km/h over the limit. But at 15 over, things are
different. Fines are heavy and the cops display little humor. Radar detectors
are strictly forbidden. The latest rage has been the use of speed cameras. It
is generally understood that these are used more for revenue than to improve
safety and there is an effort to ban them. Manned radar setups are well hidden
and they use unmarked cars. Watch out too for RBT--Random Breath Testing--a
roadblock where you talk into an alcohol measuring device. Less than 1% of
those tested exceed the limit, so they are not catching many, but they seem to
think it is a good deterrent. With a BAC limit of .05 (that's sniffing a wine
cork), high fines and license suspension for a first offense, driving while
even not very intoxicated is serious. In over a year, I've only been stopped
once (cold sober), but it's quite humiliating. Not doubt, this has made big
sales in pubs of low alcohol (but very tasty) beer. As in the Unites States,
they don't seem to realize it's not the individual with less than .1 BAC who
cause accidents. The strangest law? In Melbourne you make a right turn from the
left lane.
Driving in the outback has
its own risks. You can get to most places without a 4x4, as long as you don't
mind a dirt road and don't go in the north during the rainy season. Night
driving is a risk, with kangaroos, emus (ostrich-type birds), cattle, and even
water buffalo and camels, each having the potential to make a mess of more than
your paint. Fuel is often unavailable late at night.
Driving Etiquette -
Australia
The Australian Outback is really
huge, and this has given rise to the important hand-waving rule. Because
you might not see another car for hours at a time, it's polite
and customary to wave at every car you see.
This is fine in the Outback,
but when you get into a town it can be very hard not to continue waving at
every car you see. This, however, is not advisable as it can be very hard to
steer when constantly waving. As you drive towards increasingly urban areas,
you might like to bear in mind the following:
Melbourne Driving Etiquette
In Melbourne there are trams
everywhere slowing down the traffic and generally annoying everyone which,
whilst quaint, are adept at stopping you from getting to work on time. It's
generally regarded as polite if when behind a tram that is stopping you also
stop, and don't seize the opportunity to overtake on the inside lane to get in
front of the slow moving annoyance. In fact, more than etiquette, this is a law
which is aimed at stopping drivers from running over innocent pedestrians as
they unwittingly disembark.
The problem with the above
is that in Melbourne nobody wants to stop. Everybody seems to be running two
hours late for everything, and as a direct consequence you can never swap lanes
or take turnoffs. Also, you can't ask for directions whilst stopped in traffic,
because everyone is too busy swearing into their mobile phones.
Driving etiquette in
Melbourne can be summed up as follows: do whatever you damn well like (except
running over pedestrians), just do it with conviction, otherwise those people
swearing into their mobile phones will start swearing at you. And then you'll
definitely never be able to change lanes.
Perth Driving Etiquette
The masterminds who designed
inner-city Perth decided that what was really needed was a whole load of
one-way streets and two pedestrian malls. Therefore, if you see drivers
frothing at the mouth, with glazed-over eyes, and gripping the steering wheel
with white-knuckled hands, they are probably trying to get to somewhere that is
impossible to approach from that angle, and are now trying to find the Town
Hall so they can drive their car straight through the front door to register
their discontent.
As if that wasn't bad
enough, the same masterminds have just reversed the directions of many of these
one-way streets. It's now quite an adventure to drive in the city because the
chances of ending up where you wanted to go are quite remote, so you can spend
your time trying to wipe out those pesky bicycle couriers who flit about
everywhere.
Thus, in Perth, few rules apply.
When parking, particularly in the parallel parking bays along the beach-front
(for example, in Cottesloe) park as close as possible to the car in
front of you, to make it just that much harder for them to get out
of the parking bay. This is especially important if you are the last car
in the long line, and have plenty of space behind you.
Helpful
Information:
Australia Airports
Australia Sport and
Tourism Division
Frequently
Asked Questions:
Please click here to view the
frequently asked questions. If these FAQ's do not help answer your
queries regarding Australia car hire then please feel free to contact us with
them.
The Car Hire
Group:
Our aim is simple - to
provide all inclusive comprehensive airport car rental Australia. Along side
this we also aim to provide anybody wanting to rent a hire car a hands on
helpful approach and to ensure all questions relating to rentals are
answered.
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