Gone are the days of driving around with a street map trying to navigate your way through traffic or road works. Nowadays, everyone expects a GPS device to do the heavy lifting for you. When you car hire through us, it shouldn’t be any different. Unfortunately, it is common practice for many suppliers not to include a GPS device as standard. This is a great disadvantage; however, customers do have the option to add a GPS device to their rental.
Some customers expect a GPS device to be preinstalled into the vehicle. This isn’t always the case, and those vehicles that do come with a GPS device but that wasn’t included in their rental – may find the GPS device inactivated. Because of this, we highly advise that if driving in an unknown area – you opt for adding a GPS device to your rental. For a small daily fee, a GPS device will take a lot of headache and stress out of finding your way around.
Nowadays, many customers opt for using their mobile phones navigational app. Although it is very handy, familiar and can often provide live traffic information – there are some disadvantages to take into consideration. Using Google Maps, Waze or other navigational apps can seem a good idea, it won’t offer a level of route guidance or planning that your rental cars built-in GPS device.
Adding a GPS built-in device to your rental has many advantages compared to using your mobile phone’s navigational app. Following are just some of the benefits for opting to hire a built-in GPS device with your car hire:
Luckily, when booking through us you’ll have some great GPS device offers. To find a booking that has a GPS included simply look for the green banner – stating that GPS is included or utilise our drop-down filters during the price comparison stage to select GPS included promotions. Once selected, all the available suppliers that offer this promotion for your specified dates and locations will be displayed. Here at Auto Europe, we highly recommend if possible always opting for a built-in GPS device.