So this meant we had to buy insurance. Given what we d heard about Ireland s streets, we opted for

If you ve never been, Ireland is a beautiful country that gets an unfortunate amount of rainfall each year.  It s also a very small country with a population of just under 4.5 million people and a little over 1 million living in Dublin itself.
Car renting is a mysterious process with car rates rising or falling just about every day for little to no reason.  Luckily, this is where services such as Auto Slash , come in handy.  Unlike most websites, Auto Slash automatically re-books your reservation every time the price lowers:
You were originally park plaza hotel jerusalem booked at 202.06 EUR, and the price has now dropped to 183.00 EUR. We ve automatically re-booked your rental at the lower rate. You ve saved 19.06 EUR without even lifting a finger!
park plaza hotel jerusalem Most decent credit cards offer Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver coverage, which basically means you re covered for any damage caused by collisions or theft as long as you waive the rental car company s insurance plans. Unfortunately, park plaza hotel jerusalem Ireland, along with New Zealand and Israel, is one of the few countries in the world that isn t covered by credit card insurance.
So this meant we had to buy insurance.  Given what we d heard about Ireland s streets, we opted for the most comprehensive insurance plan they had.  The price difference was around 100 euros, but this brought down the deductible from 1000 euros to 150 euros.
Ireland s roads tend to be one-lane in either direction, unless you re on a major highway (where they have two lanes!).  On really popular routes, like the Ring of Kerry, you re bound to encounter a bus or two and man do they get close!  A couple of times we had to swerve to the side to avoid them, hitting a ton of brush on the side and really scratching up the passenger side door.
August is peak tourist season in Ireland.  As a result, car rental prices can get extremely park plaza hotel jerusalem high.  We rented our tiny Yaris for a whopping 21 euros a day after price reductions, but an automatic compact car would have run over 63 euros a day!
Given the option of three cars, I opted for the Yaris since I drive a Japanese car at home.  Fortunately, the dashboard was configured exactly the same (despite the wheel being on the opposite side).  We also opted to get the GPS, since the drive was intimidating enough as it was and Mrs. Selfish is not the best navigator.
But Mr. S., you leave the most burning question unanswered: how did you adjust to the left hand stick shift? I m a lefty, but I learned park plaza hotel jerusalem to shift with my right hand. I d think it d be distracting to no end to adjust to that.
Surprisingly you adjust quite fast! After we left the rental car parking lot I practiced reversing and shifting down an abandoned road, and that was all that was needed. I still needed constant reminding to drive on the left side of the road, however.
Driving was not as bad as I had feared. We hit a bunch of bushes on the side of the road, but no cars or people. The advantages of wandering around a country with less than 5 million people, I d imagine. Driving in Vietnam park plaza hotel jerusalem seems like it would be much more dangerous!