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Alicante is an attractive and affordable tourist destination. Part of the success of Alicante as one of the most popular destinations in Spain is the introduction of the low cost airlines some ten years ago. Apart from the hotels in the city of Alicante and other tourist accommodation facilities on the nearby Costa Blanca the local car rental industry has also seen an increase in the demand over the last ten years, specially at the airport locations.

In the good old days before the advent of the internet car rental in Alicante was normally booked from a traditional travel agent and you would end up renting a car with Avis, Hertz, Europcar, Dollar, National or Enterprise car rental.

These days things are different though. While you certainly can choose to book your car hire the traditional way with your local travel agent or book your car on the telephone with one of the multinational car rental agencies mentioned before they tend to be more expensive than the prices offered by the majority of the local car hire companies in Alicante or internet brokers, although not always. It is true that these car hire companies normally offer more facilities, especially if you travel for business, but if you travel for leisure you may be better of using one of the internet brokers who offer a wide choice of vehicles from both multinational companies and local car hire companies alike. Specially when you would like to compare car hire in Alicante without having to visit all these different websites yourself an online broker can save you a lot of time and money.

Many of these brokers have a price comparison tool which makes it much easier to choose a suitable rental vehicle as not always the local hire companies do clearly list all the additional fees they make. Some agencies are notorious for offering car rental at a low price, only to add on taxes and other fees later.

Apart from that not all car rental companies have an instant online booking facility which makes it hard to book a vehicle online, specially if it is a last minute booking or you want to rent a car out of the normal working hours of the agency. That’s when it comes in handy when the online broker has a tool which can compare car hire at Alicante airport for you.

Many websites and brokers have regular offers which are only available online. These offers involve offering reduced rates for a set period of time, so even though the base rate already starts cheaper than a multinational companies, you can still save even more if you take advantage of the promotions that are offered by the internet brokers.

If you do want to check the rates and conditions yourself try to compare at least four to five different car hire companies in Alicante if possible. Also, if you book well in advance it will help you to save further money. Of course, you can also look for last minute deals at your travel agent or upon arrival at Alicante airport.

Nowadays, more and more people are going green. Going ecological is just one of the many trends that people are crazy about. The trend of going green makes a really big difference especially in saving this planet from total destruction, at least that is what many tourists and travellers to Spain belief according to a recent survey from the spanish Tourism Authorities.

Due to this change in the habits and demands of their customers Hispacar.com, one of Spain’s leading car rental brokers offering holiday car hire in Malaga and other popular destinations in Spain such as Alicante, Mallorca, or Tenerife has incorporated a number of electrical rental vehicles in the selection of vehicles offered by the car rental companies who are working together with the internet broker in Spain.

Electrical rent a cars are now available at mayor stations on the Canary Islands like Tenerife or Lanzarote and will be gradually introduced on the spanish mainland as well starting at the airports of Madrid and Barcelona and gradually expanding to other popular travel destinations like the Malaga on the Costa del Sol or Palma de Mallorca on the Balearic Islands. Travellers to the Costa Blanca will be able to choose ecological car hire in Alicante or Valencia airport.

At most rental companies it requieres a mayor change in the infrastructures at the rental stations in order to adapt for the introduction and maintanance of electrical rental vehicles. One of the biggest problems to adapt the existing car rental companies to ecological car hire is the lack of a range of models of electronic cars that could assure a steady fleet of these characteristics at a reasonable price.

Nevertheless in the near future the market will probably evolve as culturally the electric car is already accepted and introduced in most western european countries like Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, or the Scandinavian countries. Having hire cars with these characteristics will also grant the car rental companies a certain prestige and a differential element over their competitors on the car rental market in Spain. Over time electric rental cars will eventually replace unleaded vehicles, as long as the government invests in them as they are doing at present.

What does appear to be clear is that the mayor cities will be the first to have the battery charge facilities available for the electric cars batteries, which is one of the most problematic issues in relation to green car hire. It is for this reason that most companies operating on the spanish mainland, when they start to include electric cars, will aim at destinations such as Barcelona, Madrid, Alicante, Malaga, Valencia and Girona which will probably be the first cities to have the necessary infrastructure to make it possible, at least as far as popular tourist destinations are concerned.

Hispacar is an online car rental broker which operates in over 2.000 destinations. Hispacar compares car hire prices from mayor car rental companies, including Hertz, Europcar and National at many popular holiday destinations in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, saving you time and money. Rental cars are offered according to the “Lowest Price” principle and can be booked online or by telephone. Since more than 8 years Hispacar guarantees holidaymakers the lowest car rental prices. For more uptodate information about green car hire and the latest car rental prices at your travel destination in Spain visit the hispacar website.