Holidays, everyone has them, unless your poor. Turns out if you do take a holiday you will almost definitely be poor afterwards thanks to ever increasing costs. Getting around a place you don’t really know is often difficult, which is leading more and more of us to use car hire as the chosen method of transport on holidays.

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Not only down to the convenience of having transport immediately from the airport and back, but it also opens up many more possibilities for people travelling around a country, allowing you to see and cover a much greater distance easily. But a new report published by the Mirror newspaper claims that the cost of car hire has soared over the past few years, with the cost of car hire in Cyprus and Spain reportedly increasing by 200% over the past 2 years alone. The headline of the article claiming that ”car hire costs us more than holiday”.

Experts in the industry believe prices will increase again this summer due to a shortage of vehicles. Shortages are becoming more and more common as car hire companies reduce fleets to cope with the recession, forcing prices up. Personally, I used car rental in LA recently and it was seriously cheap. But then again travel in the USA is much cheaper that in Europe. Domestic flights are a fraction of the price they are in the UK. I had 5 flights around the US & Canada within a few weeks and together they must have cost me no more than $550. So there you go, problem solved: go to the states.