USA - Florida Car
Hire
Discounted Fully Inclusive
Car Hire
Our Fully Inclusive Florida car rental price includes
the following:
Third
Party Insurance
All Airport fees
Full Breakdown Cover
All local surcharges
Loss
/ Collision Damage Waiver
Unlimited mileage
For
Sanford Airport car hire bookings please click here.
Renting a Hire Car in Florida USA
Car Hire from airports and cities
including the following major locations; Pensacola, Tallahassee,
Daytona Beach, Sanford, Orlando, Tampa, Clearwater,
Sarasota, Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale, Miami North,
Miami South, Key West. The Car Hire group also provide car
rental from smaller towns and cities such as Port of Miami ,Kissimmee,
Jacksonville or West Palm Beach. Simply click the link above
to get instant online quotes and to book securely online.
Click on the link above 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 within
Florida:
Available at all the following
major locations and more. Just call our reservatoins helpline on
0871 666 1312 for more information and help.
Pensacola |
Tallahassee |
Daytona Beach
| Sanford |
Orlando | Tampa |
Clearwater | Sarasota | Fort Myers | Fort Lauderdale
| Miami North |
Miami South |
Key West |
Port of Miami|
Kissimmee | Jacksonville|
West Palm Beach
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
from the tabs which hire car group you are interested in. From
here you will be shown all hire cars in that group along with the price
for your rental period in GBP£, you can also select to have prices
in US dollars. When you finally select the car you are interested
in renting you will be then shown several options to the
car 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 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 0871 666 1312.
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.
Our Car
Rental Florida specific website can also offer you great car hire
rates in Florida USA.
Driving in Florida
USA
Driving in Florida during
the summer offers some unique challenges. The intense heat and our regular
summer rain storms are road hazards that cause many breakdowns and accidents.
AAA Auto Club South offers advice and tips to help motorists and their
automobiles weather the heat wave, navigate during wet weather, and avoid
hazardous storm conditions.
Don't forget that in the USA
you'll be driving on the right side of the road. Pay particular
attention to this when you start out first thing in the morning, or late
at night. Also be especially careful after shopping when you first pull
onto the highway. It is very easy to take this for granted, and make a
silly mistake when you're pre-occupied with something else.
It is illegal to have an
open container of alcohol in the vehicle while you are driving, so if you buy
any alcohol whilst you are out make sure you put it into the boot of the
vehicle, or store it out of the way.
You must carry identification and
your driving license with you at all times if your are driving
a vehicle in Florida. If you are stopped for any reason by the
Police, Sheriff, or the Highway patrol, you should remain in the car until
the police officer tells you otherwise.
THE LAW
When driving around in Florida you will see plenty of
Police patrol cars. You may well avoid seeing a road-block, however unannounced
road blocks are frequently setup in order to strictly enforce the highway
code. If you travel for any distance on a freeway or similar high
speed road, you are quite likely to pass through a speed-trap, whether
you notice it or not.
Avoid getting a ticket, and
subsequent fine by:
Carrying your driving license
at all times if you are the driver of the vehicle, (or an authorised driver
who may need to take over control at any stage).
Wearing seat belts
in the front seat of the car at all times.
Never parking in such a way that
the wheels of the vehicle straddle the curb.
Never parking facing against
the normal flow of traffic.
Only parking away from tow-away zones.
Keeping strictly to the speed limits, which vary from as low as 15 MPH up
to 65 MPH depending on the road.
NEVER driving while under the influence of
alcohol.
Never have an open container of alcohol in the vehicle.
Alcohol
If you are driving, or plan to drive, don't touch the stuff. It
just isn't worth it. Driving after drinking alcohol is a bloody stupid thing to
do at any time, however, any person found guilty of driving under the influence
of alcohol (DUI) will automatically loose their driving license, will be
immediately imprisoned, and will receive a court-hearing and a very large
penalty.
Also note that in Florida
it is illegal to have an open container of alcohol in the vechicle.
Buying
Fuel
It may seem a little strange, me including information about
buying fuel, afterall, most people take this for granted, but it's not always
as simple as in the UK, where generally we drive into a garage, fill the car
with the appropriate fuel, and then pay.
For a start, it's not
uncommon to have to pay for the required amount of fuel before filling the
car's tank, though this tends to occur only in smaller garages nowadays.
Also if you just grab the
filler nozzle and try to fill the tank by just squeezing the filler-trigger as
you would at a UK garage, you're going to be waiting a long time for the tank
to fill, because generally you need to activate the pump motor by some form of
mechanical switch. usually the switch is located under the area where the
nozzle docks into the pump, but it could also be at the side of the pump, or in
the case of pre-pay gas stations it will be under the control of the attendant.
Navigating
Generally you won't find many
street-names on boards at the roadside as in the UK. Most streetnames hang
above junctions. Also when you come across a board above a junction with a
street name on, the name shown will be the name of the road that crosses the
road you are on. This can be confusing until you get used to it.
There seems to be no
equivalent of the UK's roundabouts in Florida, (or if there is I've never seen
one), so there's little to worry about on that score.
Most directions on major roads
will be given in terms of the major compass directions, so you will be
heading North, South, East, or West along the road. This seems simple
enough to follow, until you end up on a road which heads north for
50 miles, east for 5 miles, then north again. While you're in the
5-mile east/west stretch you will still be heading either "North" or "South",
because your direction of travel along the road is usually quoted in terms
of the overall length of the road, not the area of the road you are on.
Thus when on a road that extends
north/south further than it does east/west you will always be heading
either North or South. Similarly if the road is longer east/west than
it is north/south, you will always be heading either East or
West. Confused ? You will be!
Speed Limits
Watch yourself here! Speed limits in Florida are generally lower
than in the UK. Also where the speed is being monitored, as it often is,
it is strictly enforced. The fact that you're a tourist won't cut much
mustard with the Florida Highway Patrol if you're caught speeding.
You may have heard about the speed limit having been relaxed in many states,
and about some states even having an unofficial 'no-limit' policy. Well
forget it, because it doesn't apply within the Floridian state line,
where the speed limits are just as strict as ever.
Traffic Lights
One of the strangest things to get used to initially when driving
in Florida, is that when you approach a set of traffic lights that
are red, you are allowed to turn right (with caution) provided that doing
so will not interfere with any other traffic at the junction.
Initially this feels really
wierd, but after a while it seems entirely sensible, and damned annoying that
we're not allowed to do the same when turning left in the UK!
One word of caution though,
because traffic is allowed to turn right on a red light, the rightmost lane at
a junction is often solely for traffic turning right. When you approach a set
of lights make sure that you don't get in a 'right only' lane when you actually
want to go straight on.
Lane Discipline and
Overtaking
As with the UK, slower moving vehicles tend to stay
towards the outer edge of the road, however this isn't always the case.
Unlike the UK in Florida
there is no restriction governing which lane of the road must be used when
overtaking other vehicles, so when you are on a multi-lane road, you can
overtake another vehicle using a lane to the right or the left of the vehicle
concerned. This can get a little disconcerting at busy times, when cars are
overtaking you on both sides, so again you need to keep your wits about you.
Florida Toll
Roads
Many roads, particularly the larger Interstates and Turnpikes
are toll roads, with toll booths varying from just a few miles to several tens
of miles apart. Generally the tolls vary with distance travelled, and increase
the further you go. They are never particularly high however usually costing
under a dollar, so even a long journey is unlikely to cost a great deal of
money to make.
Don't worry if you don't
have exact change for a toll, since all toll plaza's have one or more lanes
marked 'Change and receipts'.
School
Buses
In Florida it is Illegal to overtake a school bus when there
are yellow lights flashing at the rear of the bus. This means that if you are
behind a school bus showing flashing yellow lights to the rear, which stops to
pickup or dropoff, you must stay behind it and must not pull out to overtake
it, even though it is stationary.
On a two-way road, cars
travelling in BOTH directions must stop for a stationary school bus with
flashing red lights. This does not apply on a dual-carriageway road if
you are travelling in the opposite direction to the bus, but if you are
travelling in the same direction then you must stop.
Helpful
Information:
Florida weather
center
All Florida's airports
Frequently Asked
Questions:
Please click here to view the
frequently asked questions. If these FAQ's do not help answer your
queries regarding Florida 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 Florida. 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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