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No security deposit is required with these leases. Which is to say, no security deposit is charged to (or merely authorized/blocked on) your credit card upon the pick-up occasion. Indeed, no money at all changes hands upon the pick-up occasion. Rather, on that occasion you only need present your valid domestic drivers license and passport and your copy of the lease contract.

Otherwise pick-up and drop-off proceed almost identically to that of a car rental. In fact, many clients report that the process is even easier because all the paperwork is already taken care of and there tends to be no line of customers waiting at the desk. At the airport locations, courtesy phones and/or reception desks are in place to connect you with a shuttle that will take you to your vehicle nearby, where an associate will introduce you to your vehicle and send you on your way. Long before you arrive you will be provided with detailed directions and contact information regarding your pick-up and drop-off locations. Sorry, but it is not allowed to pick-up or return vehicles offsite or at cities or airports not listed on this page.

All the vehicles in the tax-free short-term leasing program originate at factories in France. They are delivered piggy-back on a truck, just like a brand-new vehicle is delivered to a dealership. Indeed the vehicles are brand new. Such delivery preserves for you that new-car feel and smell. The cost of such delivery and the return, a cost which also involves certain importation fees if the vehicle is delivered outside France, is passed on to the customer in terms of certain pick-up/drop-off charges associated with only the locations outside France.

Paris Charles de Gaulle airport CDG airport

The Renault pick-up/drop-off charges are listed below. (These fees for the Renault Trafic are higher, as computed and presented by our online reservation software.) Such fees are additive. For example, if you pick-up in Rome and return to Frankfurt, you must pay a total of US$350 in terms of such charges. If you pick-up and return in Rome, say, you must pay US$400. Our online reservation software carefully works these fees in to the total prices it quotes to you.

  • All pick-up/drop-off locations in France — free of such charges
  • Amsterdam Schipol (AMS) airport — US$150 each way
  • Avignon TGV train station — free
  • Barcelona Prat (BCN) airport — US$150 each way
  • Biarritz airport — free
  • Bordeaux (BOD) airport — free
  • Brest (BES) airport — free
  • Brussels Zaventem (BRU) airport — US$150 each way
  • Calais ferry port — free
  • Frankfurt international (FRA) airport — US$150 each way
  • Geneva Cointrin (GVA) airport — free
  • Lisbon Portela de Sacavem (LIS) airport — US$200 each way
  • London Heathrow (LON) airport — US$300 each way
  • Lyon (LYS) airport — free
  • Madrid Barajas (MAD) airport — US$200 each way
  • Marseille (MRS) airport — free
  • Milan Linate (LIN) airport — US$200 each way
  • Milan Malpensa (MXP) airport — US$200 each way
  • Montpellier (MPL) airport — free
  • Munich FJ Strauss (MUC) airport — US$150 each way
  • Nantes (NTE) airport or train station — free
  • Nice (NCE) airport — free
  • Paris city — free
  • Paris Orly (ORY) airport — free
  • Paris Roissy (Charles de Gaulle - CDG) airport — free
  • Porto (OPO) airport — US$200 each way
  • Rome Fiumicino (FCO) airport (alias da Vinci) — US$200 each way
  • Saint-Louis - Basel/Mulhouse (MLH) airport — free
  • Santiago de Compostela (SCQ) airport — US$200 each way
  • Strasbourg (SXB) airport — free
  • Toulouse (TLS) airport — free
  • Vigo — US$300 each way
  • Zurich Kloten (ZRH) airport — US$150 each way
  • If you want to pick-up or return at Antibes city, Bordeaux city, Brest city, Cherbourg city, Clermont-Ferrand airport, Dijon city, Hendaye city, Geneva city, Lille airport, Lille TGV train station, Nancy city, Nimes city, Pau airport, Peripignan airport, Rennes airport or Rennes TGV train station, please ask IdeaMerge for a special solution.

    insurance and assistance

    During the time the Renault Eurodrive contract is valid, the client has the benefit of fully comprehensive (liability, collision, fire, theft of vehicle, act-of-God) zero-deductible (a.k.a. zero-excess) insurance and 24/7 assistance. Yes, the "big things" listed above are completely covered, but so are the little things such as scratches and dings. The countries in which this insurance and assistance are effective consist of the following:

    Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands (Holland), Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.

    If you want to drive in Albania, Belarus, Iran, Israel, Moldova or Ukraine, ask IdeaMerge for a special solution.

    tires

    The tires included with short-term, tax-free leases are multi-season tires. By "multi-season" we mean tires that are not specifically designed for muddy and snowy conditions (which tires bear the code "M+S") or for snowy conditions in particular (which tires bear the international symbol of a snowflake); i.e they are not — we repeat, not — the sort of tires which are colloquially referred to as "winter tires" or "snow tires". Rather, multi-season tires are the sort of tires standardly delivered on new cars. Where and when road or weather conditions, and perhaps laws or ordinances or such, dictate the wise or requisite use of specific tires or specifically embellished tires (e.g. tires fitted with snow chains or socks), it is the driver's responsibility to abstain from driving until such tires are installed on his or her vehicle. It is nevertheless the client's responsibility to return the vehicle with the initial (i.e. original) set of tires installed or co-present; otherwise the client will be billed for those initial tires. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden, for example, have laws which dictate the use of winter tires. It is the client's responsibility to research and understand such laws in relation to his or her itinerary. Renault Eurodrive has instituted a new service with the Eurodrive Road Assistance in order to facilitate, upon client request, the change from multi-season tires to winter tires, this via the Renault network in Switzerland and in Germany. This service consists in identifying the closest Renault garage to the place where the client is or will be and then arranging an appointment for the client with the garage. The purchase and labor costs for the change of tires will be billed directly by the Renault car dealer to the client, and the client will still be responsible for returning the vehicle with its initial tires.

    You can study the UK Automobile Assocation website to learn more about winter tire requirements and other compulsory equipment per European country.

    Regarding snow chains, it is vital that you check and if necessary maintain the tension of the chains frequently, and certainly after every short journey. Also, with the chains fitted do not drive faster than about 35 miles per hour (60 km/h).