With over 120 car rental businesses on magnificent Fuerteventura as well as a confusing amount of car hire agents, deciding which car hire company to choose can be a uninteresting encounter.
Do you select a familiar name, and then learn an evenly highly regarded local car leasing business is a good deal cheaper? Do you decide on a company simply to discover when you arrive that they don’t have an office near to where you’re staying?
At Cheap Fuerteventura Car Hire we believe that if we’re encouraging you to explore Fuerteventura’s countryside, then we should also provide some information to help you decide which car rental business on Fuerteventura is best suited to your particular needs, so we’ve compiled this guide to help the decision making process.

Taking your hire car to La Gomera
Some people want to know if they can bring their hire car to other Islands. Most car leasing firms on Fuerteventura don’t allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your rental car to La Gomera only. However, the cost for taking a hire car, plus two passengers to La Gomera can be around ?145 on the Fred Olson ferry and around ?130 on the Naviera Armas ferry, so it might work out cheaper to lease a car once you’re there.
Petrol prices on Fuerteventura
Petrol is considerably cheaper in the Canary Islands than in many other places; at the time of writing, around ?0.80 per litre for unleaded (sin plomo 98), obviously this changes. The island is well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you don’t have to be concerned about running out of fuel. However there are some especially long stretches where there aren’t any stations and we’ve included warnings about these areas in our website.
There are also important differences in prices between assorted companies on Fuerteventura. PCAN and Texaco are mostly a few cents cheaper per litre than BP, Shell and Repsol with CEPSA falling somewhere in between.
Parking
It seems common sense, but having read the occasional report on travel watchdog websites of people having their hire car towed away, I’m not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home.
Don’t park on yellow lines and be wary where you see blue lines; these commonly mean you need to feed the parking meter.
Above all don’t guess that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and wherever there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sod’s law.
Insurance
It’s worth checking with your car insurance company if your policy covers you when driving abroad. If it does, you might not need insurance through the car rental firm on Fuerteventura.

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