Hey everyone!
My friend and I are possibly planning a trip to Ireland at the beginning of September. One of the ideas we're tossing around is to fly into Shannon, and have a car rented for approximately 2 to 2 and a half weeks.
We don't like the idea of being "stuck" in one spot (ie. hotels, cottages, hostels, etc.), and we also don't like the idea of big "tourist-traps" (ie. Dublin) or guided tours -- we want to do this on our own!
Once we get over the whole driving on the other side of the road (we're from Canada) -- we do have a couple of other questions that hopefully you smart people of Y!A will be able to assist us with to give us an overview of what to expect:
- Age requirments for renting a car? (By September, we will both be 24)
- What insurance would we need? (Right now, we both hold "Secondary driver" insurance on our parent's vehicles. Would we have to bump this up to full insurance/primary driver for the sake of our trip?)
- Would GPS be recommended -- or are the locals as friendly as we've heard to assist us when we get lost -- which we plan on. LoL
- Any other notes you can put forth about renting a car would be helpful!
Thanks!
My friend and I are possibly planning a trip to Ireland at the beginning of September. One of the ideas we're tossing around is to fly into Shannon, and have a car rented for approximately 2 to 2 and a half weeks.
We don't like the idea of being "stuck" in one spot (ie. hotels, cottages, hostels, etc.), and we also don't like the idea of big "tourist-traps" (ie. Dublin) or guided tours -- we want to do this on our own!
Once we get over the whole driving on the other side of the road (we're from Canada) -- we do have a couple of other questions that hopefully you smart people of Y!A will be able to assist us with to give us an overview of what to expect:
- Age requirments for renting a car? (By September, we will both be 24)
- What insurance would we need? (Right now, we both hold "Secondary driver" insurance on our parent's vehicles. Would we have to bump this up to full insurance/primary driver for the sake of our trip?)
- Would GPS be recommended -- or are the locals as friendly as we've heard to assist us when we get lost -- which we plan on. LoL
- Any other notes you can put forth about renting a car would be helpful!
Thanks!