After the increases of 2024, also this year they further rise the costs to rent a car during the season of the summer exodus. This is what emerges from the data released by the Federconsumatori National Observatory
Holiday, how much it costs me. In full summer exodus it is not only the traffic that worries the numerous holidaymakers ready to land in amene locations to enjoy some, deserved, day of relaxation. This year, the increase in prices, sometimes indiscriminate, seriously undermines the possibility of “detaching” from the stress of daily life. After the increases in hotel services, equipped beaches, transport, trains and airplanes, it is the turn of car rental. After detecting an increase in prices since last year, theFederconsumatori National Observatoryurged by a series of reports sent by citizens who denounced incredible increases, has updated the monitoring of the costs of the car rental applied in the main tourist destinations of the Bel Paese.
Car rental: prices for the month of August
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The rental of a car, in particular of a medium -sized petrol shock with insurance coverage, excluding additional insurance and accessories, during the week from 19 to 25 August it has an average cost of 437.47 eurosabout the 23% in addition to the price recorded in the same week of the same month of 2024, or 355.17 euros. To this amount must subsequently be added the costs incurred for the price of fuel. In the analysis of Federconsumatori It emerges that the highest prices are applied in the cities of Bari, Palermo, Catania, Olbia and Algherowhile the major increases are recorded at the stations and airports of Turin, Rome And Napleswith an increase peaks of an increase of 95% compared to August 2024. Not only, users also report a series of difficulties in finding, close to the booking, a rental car: the few still available are rented, sometimes, at impossible prices.