Cozumel Car Rental & Jeep Rental Options

If you price shop before you travel and make reservations with the international desk of major companies, you may find a deal on Jeep or Car rentals. If you do wait till you get to Cozumel before you make your reservation, many of these companies will come off the rate card if asked, especially for a weeklong rental. The two most widely rented vehicles are open (no doors) canvas topped jeeps and Volkswagen beetles. Most companies will also have air conditioned sedans and a few will even have mini-vans or more exotic autos.

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We’ve used at least 4 of the companies listed below on numerous occasions and never had what we would call a really "bad" experience. On occasion, cars we’ve picked up had NO gasoline (like the time we ran out of gas driving from the car rental office to our house) but no one has ever attempted to charge us for damages we did not cause or charge more than the agreed to price. With that said, inclusion in this list should not be interpreted as a recommendation.

  • Avis Airport, 87 20099
  • Budget Rent A Car Ave. 5 at Calle 2 87 20903
  • Chac Rental 1a. Sur between Ave 10 and 15, 87 233-25
  • Executive Car Rental has numerous locations around town including the airport, all 3 cruise ship piers and a couple hotels.
  • Hertz Airport, 87 23888
  • Less Pay, located at the Hotel Barracuda, owned by John, an expat from the States has jeeps, VW sedans and Safaris, which used to go by the name "The Thing" when sold in the US you ask, he’ll deal on a weekly rental. Telephone 87 24744.
  • National Car Rental Airport 87 20099
  • Rentadora Aguila between Calle 3 & 5 on Ave. Melgar is a good source for Jeeps. Over the years, we’ve used this company many times for both jeeps and for a mini-van on a couple of occastions. Telephone 87 20729
  • Rentadora Isleña builds and rents dune buggies as well as VW Beetles. The buggies are a lot of fun but are so popular that on more than one occasion, they’ve been unavailable when we tried to rent them. In addition to offerring the Tarzan Tours you’ll read about elsewhere in this document, this is the same company that rents our house in Cozumel.

We’ve never used Smart Rent a Car and we have heard mixed reports on them. But if you check the web page, they sometimes offer some pretty good deals although a good part of the savings are eaten up by the mandatory insurance. They’re at 5 Ave. Sur. # 180, Tel: 87-2-06-77.

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