More on the Rental Car Options in Bulgaria

August 11, 2007 on 4:19 am | In Travel outside of China, Bulgaria, Bulgaria tips and tricks |

Recently I was browsing through some of the travel Forums on-line and came across some strange information about car renting in Bulgaria.  Per the writings there “most of the car rental companies in Bulgaria used old cars and were fronts for foreign rental companies who did not want to reduce their rates….”… Yes, there are local companies that contract with Hertz or Alamo for example but Alamo in the US is clueless about their availability of cars in Bulgaria — I speak from experience. Two years ago I tried to rent from Alamo (I have tons of business with Alamo) and they promised me (reserved ) a car for me and gave me the contact info for their office in Bulgaria, then when my wife called the local office they had no record of any reservation etc.

Long story short we have rented two years in a row from a local company in Sofia (they have branches in Plovdiv and Varna as well). The company is Global Rent a Car. Their cars are good. This year (we just returned from two weeks in Bulgaria — came back to the States last weekend) we had a Toyota Land Cruiser with 34K kms on it. Almost new. Last year we had a Suzuki Grand Vitara.

I would recommend the car rental company. They even waited for us at the Airport when our flight from the States via London, was delayed by 10 hours! We arrived 1am in the morning…!!!

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  1. The thing indicated on TT about BG carrental firms is about price difference: BG companies who have lower rates usually rent out older cars. Nowhere was stated that all BG companies rent out older cars, there are also a lot of them who rent out brand new ones. (Like the one you recommend, obviously)

    Comment by Schlomo — August 16, 2007 #

  2. I understand your point but I my point was that I managed to rent a better car for lower price from a Bulgarian rental car company than from Hertz….I have used Hertz and the car they offered was not that hot (an older — 50K km Seat - similar to a Passat)

    Comment by Administrator — August 18, 2007 #

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  5. Try to make use of the public transport when you are in China. It is one of the experiences too.

    Comment by Campervan Rental New Zealand — April 16, 2008 #

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