Car rental, rent-a-car or car hire services are usually offered by a companies that rents cars for short periods of time for a fee. It is is usually organized in a large number of local branches, primarily located near airports or busy city areas and most of them also offer online reservations through websites. There are also third party websites like online travel agencies and other services which compare quotes from the major car rental agencies. Alongside the basic rental of a vehicle, car rental agencies typically also offer extra products such as insurance, GPS navigation systems, entertainment systems, and even sometimes mobile phones. Car rental services can be divided in two major types.  A group of companies own their own cars or fleet and may have agreements with car manufacturers to provide all the cars for that fleet, like Hertz or Europcar for example.  Other car rental company instead operate on a broker model and have commercial agreements with other car rental companies to provide access to their fleets of cars such as many web car hire services offering excellent services. We reccomend you to some excellent locations where you will able to find a cheap and efficient car hire service, like: Lanzarote, Alicante, London.