The rules, on one page.

Who can drive

• 21 and over, licence held for at least a year.
• Under 25 adds €8 a day, already inside the total you see.
• A second driver is free and gets registered at pick-up, with their licence.

What to bring

• A valid licence for the main driver.
• Passport or identity card.
• A credit card in the main driver's name. Prepaid and debit cards cannot hold the deposit.
• Licences issued outside the EU need an International Driving Permit alongside.

Deposit

• €300 held on the card at pick-up. Held, not charged.
• Take the zero-excess cover and nothing is held at all.
• The release goes out when the car comes back; how fast it clears is your bank's business, usually three to ten days.

Insurance

• Every hire includes third-party, theft and fire, and collision cover with a €300 excess.
• Zero excess costs €12 a day and takes your liability to nothing on bodywork, glass, tyres and underside.
• Not covered: lost keys, wrong fuel, damage done by an unregistered driver.

Fuel

• Full to full. Bring it back with what it left with.
• Anything missing is charged at pump price plus €15 for the trip to fill it.
• Or take the prepaid tank at €65: leave full, return it however you like.

Mileage

• Unlimited on every car, with no bands and no exceptions.

Length, discounts, hours

• 2 nights minimum.
• 10% off from 7 nights, 15% from 14. It applies itself.
• The airport desk runs 6:00 to 23:30. Outside that a collection can be arranged for €25.
• Collecting and returning at different desks: €30, once.

Extras

• Child seat €5 a day, capped at €40 for the hire.
• Sat nav €4 a day, capped at €30.
• Capped means that past a certain day the extra stops adding up. The breakdown says so on the line itself.

The convertible in winter

• The Fiat 500C is not hired out between 1 November – 15 March.
• Those nights are struck through on the date ribbon, so you find out while you are picking the dates.

Leaving Sicily

• Anywhere in Italy is fine.
• Tell us before you board a ferry. It costs nothing, and without the heads-up the crossing is not covered.
• Outside Italy, no.

Damage, fines, wrong fuel

• We walk around the car together at pick-up and photograph what is there. Same photographs when it comes back.
• Fines reach us months later: we pass your details to the issuing authority and charge €25 for handling it.
• Wrong fuel: the tow and the tank flush are down to whoever was driving.

Cancellations

• Free until 48 hours before pick-up.
• Inside 48 hours we keep one night.
• No-show without a word: two nights.

The seasons

The multiplier applies per night. A week straddling July and August pays the August multiplier on the August nights alone.

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