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Posted a response under airport question. You will have no problem. Avis even have an office at the small TSB airport near Malalane!

where is the best place to rent a car when flying into J'burg ?

Thanks !!

There are plenty of car rental agencies at the airport and the rates vary quite widely depending on what type of car you want. I would recommend getting quotes from all the usual suspects by going to their South African websites (can't mention names but you know the ones) and also getting quotes from international travel websites - often you get really good deals there.

Hi aidan and welcome to the forum.

There are quite a few threads dealing with car rentals.
I am sure if you have a read through them you will be able to get a pretty good idea of all you need to know.

Here
Here
And Here

Welcome iadan,

Hope you will benefit from this forum.

Elsa

Thanks sooooo much for the great links !! We will be visiting Kruger for 11 days in Sept...our first trip to Africa....and we are VERY excited

I've been researching this all very carefully and I agree it's hard to compare apples with apples.

I finally stumbled across a website that seems to list all the main car hire companies, at least in JNB and the prices seem to be the cheapest I have found. LIke a last minute hotel web site.

We booked and have had confirmed a VW Polo for with Air for just $25 Aussie per day which is just 178R, or $23 USD.

CarRentals.com

Hi there,

I know it was mentioned further up the post but we have used Autoeurope on our 3 visits. As said their site is a consolidator so we have had 3 different companies out of JHB airport. (All big names) On the last 2 trips we have been about £125, R1800, $235,for seven/eight nights with aircon and zero excess insurance for a four door basic model. The zero excess takes out the worry. I checked out the site mentioned in the previous email for our May dates and on first look it seems cheaper but when you add tax and even basic insurance
it hikes up the price. Worth shopping around.

Enjoy your trip.

Hi One thing to look at is the glass cover I travel a lot in the Mpumalanga Limpopo area and have to replace my windscreen about every 2 to 3 years due to chipping this damage is caused mainly by stones thrown up by oncoming cars on the tar roads.

Hi One thing to look at is the glass cover I travel a lot in the Mpumalanga Limpopo area and have to replace my windscreen about every 2 to 3 years due to chipping this damage is caused mainly by stones thrown up by oncoming cars on the tar roads.

You will have to make sure the rental company is open when you want to pick up the car. I wanted to rent a car from KMIA for 8 days but many rental companies are strangely enough closed on (parts of) saturday and sunday.

A warm welcome to the forum Hans!

One thing to always consider when renting a car is that the company you opt to use has offices close to or near the area you will be using it in, if something goes wrong you want to be able to recieve a replacement and not spend holiday time fixing a cheap but limited companies car.

One thing to always consider when renting a car is that the company you opt to use has offices close to or near the area you will be using it in, if something goes wrong you want to be able to recieve a replacement and not spend holiday time fixing a cheap but limited companies car.

That is a good tip. Still the office can be far away. I remember well being stranded in Namibia far away from the Windhoek office. We were very lucky that someone drove by and recognized the logo of the rental company. It turned out he was a personal friend of the director. With a lot of trouble we were able to use a phone and could just barely tell the rental office our location. Some 4-5 long hours later (by that time it was pitch dark) help arrived....