No. 3902Anonymous 13th July 2017 Thursday 8:57 pm3902Car rental hire insurance/CDW/etc in the USA
Can someone PLEASE explain this?
I've booked a car hire through enterprise USA for a week in August in California.
Here's what I want to know (and no-one in either enterprise USA or UK can explain to me):
What are the differences in coverage if I book through Enterprise UK as opposed to Enterprise USA?
It seems that with my current US booking I'm covered for literally jack shit, but the policies and emails are worded so vaguely I'm sitting here with a throbbing headache trying to understand what the fuck is going on.
With my USA booking, what exactly am I covered for, and what do I need to purchase?
Can anyone please clarify? I feel like this isn't as complicated as I'm making it out to be; I'm just a spack.
>>3902 Just buy third-party hire insurance. It's usually cheaper and normally has higher limits than whatever the first-party plan offers. They'll generally also prompt you for extra cover if you tell them you're going to the USA. This does come with the downside that the hire firm will insist on a massive deposit as a foreigner using a foreign card, and you'll have to pay them before the insurers will reimburse you.
>>3903 This is what I'm worried about. How much will I have to pay them? The full value of the damage? An excess? Having phoned up both the UK and the US they seem reluctant to tell me.
>>3902 You'll be covered for almost nothing in the US, unless you tick the collision damage waiver box, its usually a few extra dollars a day. I think you just have to suck it up.
