Hiring a car at Keflavik Airport

What this means for your booking

• The cheapest sticker is usually not the cheapest car. With 100% of suppliers charging about €61 for a second driver, two cars advertised a few euro apart can be €61 apart by the time you drive away. We put that fee into every price the moment you say you need one.
• A month is not four times a week. The median week here is €518 and the median month €2231 — worse per day, which is why back-to-back rentals often beat one long booking on hires of 40 days or more.
• Airport or town desk? We have not measured which is cheaper yet, so we won't guess. We are measuring it now and will publish the numbers. See every pick-up point here.

Getting to the car

If you land late. Only 38% of the suppliers we priced shut by 22:00, and the typical desk closes at 00:00 — a late arrival is less risky here than at most airports. Measured across 472 offers that publish their desk hours; a supplier that does not publish them is not counted as open.

Not every supplier here hands you the keys in the terminal. Across 4 searches, this is how collection splits:

• Free shuttle service 42%
• In terminal 36%
• Meet & Greet 16%
• Outside of terminal 6%

Budget time for a shuttle. 42% of suppliers here are off-airport, which is usually why they are cheaper. It is a real cost in minutes at both ends, and worth weighing against the saving.

22 suppliers appeared here across our searches, at several separate pick-up points. See which is nearest you and what each costs.

The fine print, measured

These conditions vary more between airports than most people expect. We measure each of them everywhere we sweep: deposits · debit cards · second-driver fees · desk hours.

Deposit banding, as the suppliers classify it themselves: average deposit 31% · no deposit 30% · high deposit 30% · low deposit 6% · deposit-free option available 2%.

What each supplier actually costs here

22 suppliers appeared in our searches. These are the ones you are most likely to be offered — chosen by how often they came up, then ordered by what they really cost, which is rarely the same order as the advertised price.

Prices are for a one-week hire. Mixing rental lengths would make the column meaningless — a fee charged once per rental is a very different share of a week than of a month — so this table is built from week-long searches only.

Deposits vary far more than prices. AddCar holds €3,600 on the main driver's card against SIXT's €500. It is released after you return the car, but it has to fit.

"With 2nd driver" is the advertised rental plus that supplier's additional-driver fee — our definition of the total, and the only one we rank on. Full cover is quoted separately and never added in: many travellers hold annual excess insurance or rely on a card, and folding in an assumed purchase is precisely the trick this site exists to expose. Medians across 4 searches; a supplier that does not publish a fee is not counted as free. How we measure this.

How customers rate each supplier at Keflavik Airport

DiscoverCars customers' scores for each supplier's desk here, out of 10 - only suppliers with at least 30 local reviews. Scores under 6.5 are marked. The slowest pick-ups come first.

Source: DiscoverCars customer reviews of each supplier at this location, as shown with every search; medians across our searches. Scores change as new reviews come in.

Keflavik Airport against other airports

Across the 34 airports we measure, a second driver is cheapest at Tenerife Airport South (typically €7) and dearest at Kos Airport (€240). All second-driver fees.