With more than 120 vehicle leasing firms on magnificent Tenerife as well as a bewildering number of car hire agents, settling on which car leasing company to pick out can be a wearisome incident.
Do you select a familiar name, and then realize an likewise trustworthy local car leasing firm is a great deal cheaper? Do you select a company just to discover when you arrive that they don’t have an office near to where you’re staying?
At Cheap Tenerife Car Rental we believe that if we’re encouraging you to explore Tenerife’s countryside, then we should also provide some information to help you decide which car rental company on Tenerife is best suited to your particular needs, so we’ve compiled this guide to help the decision making process.

Taking your hire car to La Gomera
Some people want to know if they can bring their rental car to other Islands. Most car hire companies on Tenerife don’t allow this. Some, like CICAR, allow you to take your leasing car to La Gomera only. However, the cost for taking a leasing car, plus two passengers to La Gomera can be around €145 on the Fred Olson ferry and around €130 on the Naviera Armas ferry, so it might work out cheaper to lease a car once you’re there.
Petrol prices on Tenerife
Petrol is considerably cheaper in the Canary Islands than in many other places; at the time of writing, around €0.80 per litre for unleaded (sin plomo 98), obviously this fluctuates. The island is very well served by petrol stations, so most of the time you don’t have to worry about running out of fuel. However there are some especially long stretches where there aren’t any stations and we’ve included warnings about these areas in our website.
There are also significant differences in prices between various companies on Tenerife. PCAN and Texaco are generally a few cents cheaper per litre than BP, Shell and Repsol with CEPSA falling somewhere in between.
Parking
It seems common sense, but having read the occasional report on travel watchdog websites of people having their hire car towed away, I’m not so sure. Treat parking exactly as you would at home.
Don’t park on yellow lines and be wary where you see blue lines; these usually mean you need to feed the parking meter.
Above all don’t believe that because everyone else is double parked, parking on crossings, corners and where there is the smallest space, that you can do the same, unless you want to invoke sod’s law.
Insurance
It’s worth checking with your car insurance company if your policy covers you when driving abroad. If it does, you may not need insurance through the car leasing firm on Tenerife.