You have your Flatio apartment, you have your tickets but how will you get to the city centre from the airport? Or maybe you’re already in Vienna and you’d like to get a car for a small road trip through the neighbouring countries. Flatio is here to offer you some tips on and places for car rentals in Vienna that should solve these problems.
How much does it cost to rent a car in Vienna?
The prices vary wildly. You can get a car for as cheap as 10 € a day all the way to the 200 € mark. It all depends on the type of car you want to rent, the company you’re using, the place where you pick your car up (the airport sometimes charges fees) or where you drop it off and so on. It is best to compare different companies and their rates for rental cars. Autoeurope helps with just that. It takes info from various car rental companies and lists them depending on the day of arrival and the pick-up point.
What is the cheapest car rental company in Vienna?
The two cheapest car-sharing sites are Economy Bookings and kayak.com. There you can get rental for the aforementioned 10 € (or sometimes even less) and travel around Vienna or beyond. But be careful, the cheapest options are often only for small cars, such as the Mini, Smart or Fiat 500 so if you need an estate car or something larger, the price will go up. The two car rentals have many drop off points in Vienna from the old town to the airport, so they tend to be very accessible. In general, though, it is important to always look up reviews of sites and read through people’s experiences. Especially when one looks for the best deal out there.
What is the best car rental company in Vienna?
There are many car rental companies in Vienna, but these have been around for a while and tend to have a good reputation. The first is the international Sixt which is especially good for trips around the heart of Europe as it has pick up and drop off points all over the place. Other often recommended sites are Autoeurope and Gemut. It is often best to try and find car rentals through these sites, rather than at the individual car companies, as the deals tend to be better and the services provided more trustworthy (let alone more international when it comes to language accessibility).
For movement within Vienna only, there’s an alternative to the typical car rental system. DriveNow has become the leading car-sharing company in Vienna. Instead of going online and renting a car for a specific time period with the necessity of finding a drop off point for your car, DriveNow instead has thousands of cars all over Vienna which you can find on their app, rent the car without a credit card with a push of a button, get to where you need to be and just leave there. This system is far more convenient for movement within Vienna so if you’re interested, check out our article on car sharing.
Car rental at Vienna’s airport
Most car rental companies have some sort of an arrangement with the airport and have cars for rent directly by the main building. The full list of companies with a pick up/drop off point and where to find them is on the Vienna airport’s website.
Car rental in Vienna’s city centre
Similarly, most companies have rental cars in Vienna’s city centre, as well as pick-up/drop off points in South and West Vienna, Old Town or you can hire a car at the Vienna train station. The centre and old town Vienna are good places to travel to interesting places in or around the capital such as the Empress Sissi’s Hermesvilla, Schloss Hof, or Seegrotte in Hinterbruhl which is Europe’s largest underground lake.
