Hi, they can be a bit funny about this and charge far more, or at least that was the case about 15 years ago, so hopefully thinkgs have changed.
I wrote off my OH car just over a week before we were due to go to France in it and the travel insurance we had booked for the journey only covers the car from the week you intend to travel.
We looked into hiring a car and to hire in England would have been fine but to take abroad they were quoting around £2000 as it was leaving the country even though we tried to hire through companies that also had european branches.
Things may be different now of course.
We solved the problem by my husband's mother lending us her car and us lending her my little car that was not capable of the journey but was fine for the little running about she did. Just the extra cost of added MIL to the insurance than. Hubby covered for any car and the travel breakdown just needed different car details.
PS we have also had an exhaust drop off in France (travel insurance covered the repair and hire car for a few days but not parts and it dropped off due to a problem when driving off the ferry not poor maintainence), a punctured tyre, on a car with a little space saver spare, another problem with an exhaust (solved by hubby this time with radweld type stuff) so travel cover for the car can be very useful. (that is over a few trips not one lol and not had anything go wrong for years now)
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Topic: Hiring a car in UK to drive to France??
