Ferrying Icelandic rental car vs renting on Faroe Islands
My trip starts and ends in Iceland, I'm considering the option of ferrying an Icelandic rental car across to the Faroe Islands (vs dropping off and renting another one on the Faroe Islands). Smyril lines allows you to take a car across, I've asked them if they allow Icelandic rental cars, no answer yet.
If anyone has done this, is there a more practical and/or less expensive way of doing this ? Anything related to taking a rental car to another country in Europe I should know about ?
Update
I got answers from both Smyril and Hertz in Iceland. Smyril says it's fine, Hertz says cars are supposed to stay on the island. I guess I could ask another rental company but I feel the answer might be the same.
Trip details: These are now likely to change, but the initial plan was to land in KEF, drive around counter clockwise for a week, hit the ferry, spend a week in the Faroe Islands, come back and complete the loop, all with the same car.
Best Answer
I know from my trip to New Zealand that it is a potential issue to put a rental car on a ferry.
I rented a car via internet and gave as a pickup the south island and as a drop off the northern one. When finally in NZ and trying to pick up the car, they told me that is not possible despite me having a confirmed booking. They claimed that the insurance company does now allow them to do that.
Since it was an international car rental company and they most likely have global insurance contracts, I would assume that you might face the same issue. So better call them first and confirm.
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