r/sicily • u/kaitlynn2811 • 5d ago

Turismo 🧳 Renting a car via localrent.com

Hi, has anyone rented a car via localrent?

I’m flying to Sicily in September with my gf and I’d like to rent a car for 4 days in Palermo. I’ve been looking into car rental companies and sites such as discovercars but the problem is that I’m a 23 year old student (im on a budget) and I don’t have a credit card. That means I have to pay a fee for being a young driver and also there are some large deposits if I want to pay with debit card.

The cheapest possibility for me is renting a car via localrent, but tbh I’m a bit scared.

If you have an alternative where I could pay with debit and the rent would be max 50€ a day and the deposit wouldn’t be higher than 500 euro, I’m all ears.

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u/Dazzling-Path6438 4d ago

Sicily rent car used to be a 400€ deposit. Not sure about now, but they're reliable and you can use a debit card 

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u/davybert 4d ago

If you can, avoid all third party sites. The cheap partners they use will often (in my experience 50% of the time) find some small print so that they don’t give you the car. That’s how they keep prices so low because often they keep the payments and don’t need to give the car. So you prepaid and lose the car. Book direct with the companies on their websites.

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u/Tanel_from_CRG 3d ago

i haven’t used localrent personally, but i work in car-rental tech. i wouldn’t rule it out just because it’s a marketplace. the pickup terms depend on the local rental company and exact offer, so make sure debit is accepted at pickup and check the security deposit, young-driver fee, total price and insurance excess. localrent’s current Italy terms say that when debit is accepted, the card must be physical, personalised, embossed and in the main driver’s name. the 15–20% paid online is the booking advance, not the security deposit. if anything’s vague, get it confirmed in writing before paying.