The practice of car hire has become quite common in recent times. Therefore despite being smaller in size, tourists hire cars in Paxos during holidays. As a result of this, you can find lots of car hire agencies in Paxos. Hiring a car not only offers you the privilege of travelling according to your plan but also protects you from the excessive crowd in the local vehicles.

Well, now a question arises how safe it is to travel to an unknown place in a rented car in a situation when you even don’t know the roads? An answer to this question is that it is not as risky as it sounds until you are smart enough to deal with all types of people. There are certain tips which you can keep in concern at the time of hiring a car.

Some of these safety tips to rent a car are:
1. Know the Actual Process: Nowadays, as every activity is performed online, booking a car online is not a daunting task anymore. The only thing you need to do is to be smart and knowledgeable. Before booking a car, do not stick to the car rental agency that appears on the first position of your search results page. It is better to consult at-least five to six agencies before booking a car. Doing this will help you in comparing their prices, types of cars, and other facilities offered by them. There are some deals which at first instance look very beneficial and interesting, but their reality comes out at the time of making the final payment. Therefore, before booking the car for your travel always understand the whole process of booking and the formalities properly.

2. Ask for the Insurance Coverage: It is one of the important questions to ask from the car rental agency. Normally the insurance companies and credit card providing institutions offer the facility of travel insurance to their clients. Therefore it is better to check with them about travel insurance. If your rental agency is offering the insurance facility, then understand the whole policy properly before signing the contract.

3. Check the Car: Before receiving the key of the car, check it thoroughly to ensure that it is not damaged from anywhere, and also have all the features that you want to access during your travel. It is seen that sometimes the car rental agencies charge an extra amount from their customers for damages which happened in the car before it was given to customers. Try to take pictures of the car before driving, so that if the agency asks for the payment of damages, you can tell them these damages were present before you took the car.

These are three safety tips which you need to consider at the time of renting a car.