"Hot" car rental service on April 30 holiday

(Baonghean.vn) -Mr. Trung's family in Van Tien - Hung Dung (Vinh city) has been in the car rental service business for decades. Mr. Trung said that if at this time last year the price was around 1.2-1.5 million VND/day/7-seat car without a driver, this year it has increased to no less than 2 million. Although the price is higher than last year, it is still difficult to rent a car.

Not far from Mr. Trung's house is Mr. Hoang Van Chien's house, which also rents cars. Mr. Chien said: The family has only been in the car rental service for less than a year, but the recent Tet holiday as well as the April 30 holiday this year were very crowded. Since the beginning of the year, there have been customers renting cars to go to the pagoda every day. For the April 30 and May 1 holidays, customers booked a rental a month ago. With a 7-seat Innova, customers can rent a car for themselves for 2.2 million VND/day, excluding gas and fees. For cars with a driver, the price is calculated by km, and also depends on the type of car, new or old.

At Mr. Chien's family's car rental facility, we met Mr. Tuan from Ben Thuy - a customer who came to rent a car for a trip. Mr. Tuan said: "I have been planning to rent a car to go to Da Nang to watch the fireworks for a long time, but because of the complicated work arrangements of my wife and I, there were no 4-seater cars to rent. In the end, I had to rent a 7-seater car, which was both expensive and consumed more gas. But anyway, being able to rent a car at this time is lucky."



The demand for car rental for travel is increasing, although prices have increased, many establishments still do not have cars for rent.

A friend in Yen Thanh asked us to rent a car to go to Hoi An ancient town, so we called Mr. Khoa - the owner of a long-standing car rental business in Hung Phuc ward. We made several appointments before we could meet him and were told that renting a car at this time would be useless. Finally, thanks to information from an acquaintance, we went to meet Mr. Hai in Ha Huy Tap ward. After working abroad in Korea and saving up a fair amount of capital, they discussed buying a car first for family travel, then renting it out. At first, they only had a Honda Civic, but after a while, they saw that the service was profitable, so they asked someone in Ho Chi Minh City to buy two more cars, a Vios and an Innova, both of which were used cars. Mr. Hai shared: "I can't always drive for customers, so for self-drive car rental, the top priority is still customers who drive professionally for government agencies, then have acquaintances. And even if they are acquaintances, the requirements we set are that they must have an ID card, a car driving license, and a deposit." Luckily, we were able to rent a Honda Civic for 1.7 million VND/day for you.

According to the reporter's investigation, this year the price of rental cars is 20-30% higher than the same time last year, and about 50% higher than normal days, even 70% in some places. This year's high price increase is due to the sudden increase in demand for sightseeing, although personal cars in Vinh city have recently increased a lot. And due to the high demand of people, all car rental contracts during the April 30 holiday do not rent for short periods of time by the hour or 1, 2 days, but customers must rent cars for 4-5 days or more. Up to this point, car rental contracts are almost fully booked, many businesses and establishments have had to refuse to serve customers because there are no more available cars, the car rental schedule is full.

However, according to the experience of Mr. Thang - a driver of the North Central Coast Maritime Insurance Company, when renting a car, customers need to check the car carefully, especially the engine; need to carefully negotiate with the lessor about any damage, and review the terms of the contract to avoid possible problems.

Thu Huyen