Hiring a car at Alicante Airport

What this means for your booking

• A month is not four times a week. The median week here is €278 and the median month €1362 — worse per day, which is why back-to-back rentals often beat one long booking on hires of 40 days or more.
• The airport is usually the cheapest place to collect. In every market we have measured, that held — town pick-ups cost more, not less, because the suppliers compete at the terminal. See every pick-up point here.

Getting to the car

If you land late. Only 29% of the suppliers we priced shut by 22:00, and the typical desk closes at 23:00 — a late arrival is less risky here than at most airports.
What it costs. 54% of suppliers here will not collect a 23:30 arrival at all. Of those that will, 70% add a fee — typically €94 on top of the price you were quoted for a daytime pick-up. A 06:00 pick-up is dearer still, about €100, and 85% of suppliers do not offer one. Measured across 930 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 16 searches, this is how collection splits:

• Free shuttle service 50%
• In terminal 36%
• Meet & Greet 12%
• Car rental center 3%

Budget time for a shuttle. 50% 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.

35 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: low deposit 38% · average deposit 30% · no deposit 10% · low deposit option available 9% · high deposit 7% · deposit-free option available 5%.

What each supplier actually costs here

35 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.

The cheapest advertised price is not the cheapest rental here. DiscoverCars choice advertises from €166 but charges €84 for a second driver, which puts it behind Drivalia at €168 all-in.

Deposits vary far more than prices. DiscoverCars choice holds €1,950 on the main driver's card against Malco Rent a Car's €100. 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 16 searches; a supplier that does not publish a fee is not counted as free. How we measure this.