About Rent-Trip

Rent-Trip in numbers

Self-drive car rental with Rent-Trip and delivery in nine countries

Rent-Trip is a self-drive car rental company: we deliver the car to you and agree every booking with a manager.

Self-drive means you are the driver: the keys stay with you for the whole booking, and a car with a driver is a service we run separately from the self-drive fleet. A booking can be a single run to the shops or a week of moving between beaches and towns.

Booking works in one conversation, not a checkout form. We deliver the car to the client — in Phuket, in Bangkok, in Koh Samui, in Pattaya, in Orlando, in Dubai, in Istanbul, in Antalya, in Paris, in Madrid, in Barcelona, in Valencia, in Costa Brava, in Tbilisi, in London and in Toronto — and a manager agrees the dates, the meeting point and the class with you directly.

Who we are and how Rent-Trip works

Rent-Trip is a self-drive car rental operator: the vehicle reaches the client directly, and no booking is confirmed until a manager has spoken with the traveller.

Self-drive means the keys are yours for the whole hire. In Thailand and the USA a booking starts from 1 day (24 hours), and the driver named in the agreement is the one who takes the wheel. Since no one drives on your behalf, the rental agreement becomes the document that sets out what you are responsible for, and the rules that apply are those of the country where the keys change hands: a licence requirement valid in one place does not automatically hold in the next.

Booking works the same way everywhere: you tell a manager your dates and the class you want, we confirm the vehicle and agree the meeting point with you in that same conversation. There is no online checkout.

How the fleet is put together

Our fleet runs to 1771 cars, 75 makes and 18 classes, split across nine countries and sized so that a solo traveller and a group of eight never compete for the same vehicle. We group cars by class rather than by model, because that is how a booking actually gets made: you pick the job the car has to do, then the class that does it.

The largest single block is Economy — 240 cars, from the Toyota Yaris and Ford Fiesta to the Dacia Sandero and Kia Picanto. The fleet then steps down through Premium at 175, Comfort at 156, Minivans at 128, Electric at 127 and Luxury at 99, and narrows into the specialist end: Exotic at 82, Convertibles at 69, Sedan at 64, Sports at 61, Commercial at 56, Passenger vans at 56, Pickup trucks at 35 and 7-seater at 6. Seat counts run from 2 to 17, and 167 cars in the fleet seat seven, so a group of six travels together where a Premium sedan would split them across two bookings.

• Gearbox: 1428 of the 1771 cars are automatic and 343 are manual, so check the gearbox of the model you pick if you have never driven a manual.
• Fuel types: Diesel, Electric, Hybrid and Petrol are all represented; ask for the fuel type when you book, since it changes the running cost of a long hire.
• For example: the Nissan Versa is an Economy sedan with 5 seats and a 1.6 L engine at $40 per day in the USA; the Honda Brio is an Economy hatchback with 5 seats at ฿750 per day in Thailand.

What it costs and how the rate is calculated

Rates start from ฿690 per day in Thailand, $40 per day in the USA, AED 55 per day in the UAE, ₺1,456 per day in Turkey, €29 per day in France, €13 per day in Spain, $30 per day in Georgia, £22 per day in the United Kingdom and C$ 38 per day in Canada — these are entry-class figures, and the class you book moves the number. At Rent-Trip, weekly rates are daily × 6 and monthly rates are daily × 21, so the longer you keep the car, the lower the price per day.

What you actually pay depends on three things — country, class and length of booking. All but 343 of the 1771 cars are automatic, and the classes run from Economy and Sedans through Crossovers, SUVs and Minivans to Premium, Luxury and Exotic.

• Delivery: the meeting point is agreed when booking, in the same conversation as your dates.
• Mileage: the terms are set out in the rental agreement.

What is included and what the rental agreement sets out

Every booking with Rent-Trip includes the car delivered to you and agreed with a manager — that part is the same in all nine countries. In Thailand and the USA the car also arrives clean with a full tank, and a booking can be as short as one day. The rest is set by the country you collect in, so read the agreement for the place where you pick the car up.

• Insurance: compulsory cover for injury to third parties is attached to every car in Thailand, comprehensive CDW is included in the price in the UAE, and state-minimum liability plus a Loss Damage Waiver are included in the USA — the deductible and exclusions sit in the agreement.
• Mileage: unlimited on Phuket and in Florida; in the UAE, 250 km per day is included and extra kilometres are charged.
• Taxes: on Phuket VAT 7% is already inside the price shown; in Dubai VAT 5% is shown separately; in Florida sales tax and the rental car surcharge are added when you pay.

Every condition that applies to your booking is set out in the rental agreement for the country where you collect the car.

Who can drive and what to bring

In the UAE, luxury, sports and exotic classes start at 25. In the USA, some premium classes and passenger vans may ask for 25 or more; the extra classes are set out in the agreement. In Thailand, conditions for drivers under 25 and for premium classes are set out in the same document.

Thailand asks for an International Driving Permit alongside your home licence, unless you hold an ASEAN licence. The UAE asks residents for an Emirates ID and a local licence, and tourists for a passport, visa or entry stamp, home licence and an IDP if the licence is not in Latin script. Florida asks for a licence and a passport for international visitors.

Our team

Kenan Alkan

City and intercity driver

Experience: 25 years · ★ 4.99 (132 reviews)

Sedat Önalan

Limousine driver

Experience: 10 years · ★ 4.99 (127 reviews)

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