Gold Coast Car Rentals
Check out our opposition for yourself
We guarantee to provide the best value rental deals on the Gold Coast. To make it easier for you to check out our opposition for yourself, we have compiled a table of all of the car rental depots that we could find on the Gold Coast.
Just click on any rental company's name and you will be taken directly to their website for you to get your own quote. We are confident that you will return to our website and continue on to make an online booking request.
The prices that you get from online quotes will vary from those that we obtained, according to the rental duration, the relativity of starting and finishing time, the vehicle chosen and the time between seeking the quote and commencement date, but we believe that the general positioning of companies will remain as we have found it.
In our analysis of each of these companies, we detected a worrying level of difference between companies in respect of the information that can be obtained from their websites and in respect of significant variations in the scope of protection afforded to renters in relation to damage to vehicles and other people's property.
It's a mine field out there, of the 44 other companies we surveyed in March 2018:
- 1 company provides no insurance cover (at any level) in respect of 3rd party vehicle or other property damage
- 2 companies provide no insurance cover (at any level) in respect of Single Vehicle Incidents, Hail or Storm damage
- 5 companies have seriously compromised insurance cover at standard or intermediate excess levels compared to their premium reduction level, including in some cases, no theft cover - no 3rd party cover - no hail damage cover
- 8 would only provide pricing information by return email or by phone
- 4 provided no indicative vehicle brand or model and 31 provided no indication of vehicle age
- 11 did not disclose the amount of their standard insurance excess if you chose not to have the reduced excess, whilst 8 companies told us the cost to reduce the excess, but did not disclose the "from" amount, or the "to" amount
- 26 did not provide anything like a copy of their actual rental terms and conditions, some of these provided summaries of varying detail, but "summaries" are not the wording that a renter becomes contractually bound to
- 24 did not provide anything like a reasonable description of conditions of cover for their insurance arrangements
- 28 either provided no Privacy Policy statement or provided non-compliant information, even though it is a federal law requirement to provide consumers with the opportunity to read the organisation's privacy policy prior to them giving personal information
- 19 websites do not have https certification for the security of personal information provided by enquirers
- 10 companies ask for your name, phone number and email address before their system will provide a quote - if you come across one of these, you can do what I do - give them false details, if you don't like their quote, you won't get pestered with follow up calls or emails and if you do like it, you can then simply give your correct details
- 9 provide no insurance cover for loss of, or damage to "Accessories", including keys and remotes, 6 of these companies claim to provide a NIL "excess"
- Of the 18 companies that claim to provide a NIL Excess option, 7 exclude cover on matters such as Accessories, tyres or Accident Administration fees ("NIL" doesn't always mean Zero)
- Only 4 companies provide roadside service coverage for "driver at fault" matters such as lights left on; keys locked in car; out of fuel or tyre changing - 3 of these have this as an optional extra at around $5 to $6 per day
In the table below, you may note the third column headed "Safe". This denotes that Google has advised that the personal information that you might provide within this site is regarded as "safe" - as at 23rd March 2018, the URL bears the appropriate "https" prefix - the websites that don't have this message do not bear the required security classification.
Rental Company | Collection/Return Points | Safe |
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abaa Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service; Coolangatta Office | |
A Better Value Car Hire | Gold Coast Airport Service; Accommodation Service | Safe |
Ace Rental Cars | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Airport Rent A Car | Gold Coast Airport Service | |
All Age Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service; Broadbeach and Surfers Paradise Offices | |
All Coast Tarago Hire | Gold Coast Airport Service; Tweed Heads Office | |
Alpha Car Hire | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Andy's Auto Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service; Miami and Nerang Offices | Safe |
Apex Car Rentals Australia | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Apollo Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service | |
Atlas Car & Truck Rental | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Avis Australia | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise Office | Safe |
Bargain Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Broadbeach Bargain Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service; Broadbeach Office | |
Budget Australia | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise and Ashmore Offices | Safe |
Carters Car Rental | Tweed Heads Office | |
Choice Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service | |
Cut Price Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Dave's Car Rental | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise Office | |
East Coast Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise Office | |
Enterprise Rent a Car | Surfers Paradise Office | Safe |
Europcar | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise and Southport Offices | Safe |
Firefly Car Rental | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Flag Rent a Car | Arundel Office | |
Gold Coast Family Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport; Varsity Lakes Rail and Accommodation Services; Currumbin Waters Office | Safe |
Hertz | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise, Southport and Currumbin Waters Offices | Safe |
iRentals | Gold Coast Airport Service | |
Jacks Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise Office; Accommodation Service | |
Jucy | Gold Coast Airport Service; Coolangatta Office | Safe |
Lewis Auto Hire | Gold Coast Airport Service; Miami Office | Safe |
Nerang Car & Truck Rentals | Nerang Office | Safe |
Network Car & Truck Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service | |
Pacific Paradise Rent A Car | Gold Coast Airport Service; Accommodation Service | |
RaD Car Hire (Rent A Dent) | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Ready Car Rentals | Burleigh Heads Office | |
Redspot | Gold Coast Airport Service | Safe |
Rent a Bomb | Currumbin Waters Office | |
Select Rent a Car | Gold Coast Airport Service | |
SEQ Rent A Car | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise Office | |
Star Rent a Car | Burleigh Heads Office | |
Suncoast Car Rentals | Gold Coast Airport Service | |
Surfers Paradise Car Hire | Gold Coast Airport Service; Broadbeach and Surfers Paradise Offices | |
Surfers Rent A Car | Gold Coast Airport Service; Mermaid Waters Office | Safe |
Thrifty Car Rental | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise and Southport Offices | Safe |
United Car Rental | Gold Coast Airport Service; Surfers Paradise Office | Safe |
We subscribe to a private rental car website monitoring service which has gathered detailed information on well over 100 different rental companies throughout Australia, including all companies listed above. In the process of conducting their forensic analysis, they have created 22 different standards measuring the consumer fairness of each rental company's terms & conditions of rental, transparency and clarity of information, disclosure, service levels and fees. They have awarded Gold Star status to us and only another two operators in all of Australia for complete compliance with every one of their 22 standards. One of the other two companies is on the Sunshine Coast and the other is our associate in Sydney.
If you are considering using a 3rd party insurance excess reduction policy, you need to fully understand the shortcomings that may be in your intended rental company's insurance cover at standard excess levels - the exclusions that we have mentioned within our "compare" section (Single Vehicle Accidents; Hail Damage; 3rd Party Cover etc.) will not be covered by your outside policy if they are excluded by your intended rental company, because they won't be "excess" items, but rather "uninsured" items - thus becoming just like driving through flooded waters etc.
Family Car Rentals Reviewed on Google by 192 People. Rated 4.3/5
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