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Dear Amigos I know many of you have visitors in the summer months, many of whom will look to hire a car during some part or their entire visit. Did you know that from 2008 to 2009 the fleet for tourism rental cars available in Portugal dropped by 20% from 50.000 cars to 40.000? This was matched by a similar drop of 20% in the number of clients looking to rent cars - but only outside of the peak months! The drop off in clients during the months of July and August was just less than 3% (Portuguese Tourism Board numbers), which meant there was a shortfall of 9.700 cars during this period, equating to a total of around 30.000 rentals requests which were unable to be fulfilled. With further reductions in the number of cars held by the various rental companies the situation is expected to be even worse in 2010. For more information click on the following links to see articles on this subject in The Resident: http://www.algarveresident.com/story.asp?ID=33528 As part of our service to Amigos members we have taken steps to provide our membership with a solution to this problem. We have had discussions with an extremely reputable company, Amoita Cars, who, as well as being local to Sao Bras, provide car rentals at many locations all over Portugal and have agreed the following:
We strongly recommend that, if you do not want to be disappointed, you book as soon as possible because they are already receiving many requests for rentals and when they are gone, they are gone. To make your reservation or to investigate their services contact:- tel: (+351) 289 843 137 |
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