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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve been planning for years to take an extended vacation to Ireland this summer, but held off booking due to COVID uncertainty.  I’ve been saving time off work plus unpaid leave in order to have a full 6 weeks.  I’m not wealthy but I have friends from college plus relatives with whom I can crash, plus the splurge of a week in a nice AirBnB.

Now, after changing jobs and restructuring my life yo allow this to happen, I have hit the wall of car rental prices, which are 4x what they were 3 years ago!  There is no way I can afford to book a car for that long through a regular car rental company, and I would be staying in rural location so public transport isn’t really an option.

Aside from being really nervy and asking around with relatives to see if anyone would like $1000 to let me borrow their car for a month (plus the cost of adding me as a 2nd driver on their insurance) does anyone have any idea of alternatives, like short term leasing or car swapping or something?[/quote]

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