# Car rental recommendations for Ireland trip?

**URL:** <https://community.tourradar.com/t/car-rental-recommendations-for-ireland-trip/33677>\
**Category:** Ireland\
**Created:** [July 6, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.tourradar.com/t/car-rental-recommendations-for-ireland-trip/33677 "2025-07-06T13:17:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![lisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f08c70/32.png) [@lisa](https://community.tourradar.com/u/lisa)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.tourradar.com/t/car-rental-recommendations-for-ireland-trip/33677/1 "2025-07-06T13:17:00Z")

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anybody have good & bad experiences with renting cars in Ireland? any company you would recommend? we’ll fly into Dublin and will stay for a few days near Galway in an Airbnb that is hardly reachable without a car haha we could rent the car either in Dublin and drive over or take the train to Galway and hire a car there - we don’t really have a preference!

bonus points: where would you take your car from Galway to explore the best parts of Ireland? thank youu!

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**Author:** ![lisa\_h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@lisa\_h](https://community.tourradar.com/u/lisa_h)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.tourradar.com/t/car-rental-recommendations-for-ireland-trip/33677/2 "2025-07-06T13:45:00Z")

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I think I used Hertz back in the days. Rented the car in Dublin and left it in Shannon. Def compare prices as the few for dif stations can differ a lot

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**Author:** ![andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@andy](https://community.tourradar.com/u/andy)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.tourradar.com/t/car-rental-recommendations-for-ireland-trip/33677/3 "2025-07-06T14:34:00Z")

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I’d always start with [rentalcars.com](http://rentalcars.com), they compare all the providers. Generally I book with one of the big names - Avis, Hertz, Europcar, Enterprise, or Alamo.

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**Author:** ![roann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.tourradar.com/roann/32/2003_2.png) [@roann](https://community.tourradar.com/u/roann)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.tourradar.com/t/car-rental-recommendations-for-ireland-trip/33677/4 "2025-10-02T14:15:29Z")

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@lisa have you considered doing an organized adventure? That way you don’t have to worry about rentals and you get chauffeured around? 😉

Plenty of options to choose from here: [10 Best Ireland Tours & Trips 2025/2026 - TourRadar](https://www.tourradar.com/srp/d-ireland)