Hertz Car Rental at Brest Lesquin Airport

Brest Bretagne Airport, or formerly known as the Brest-Guipavas Airport, is located approximately 10.2km, or 6.4 miles northeast of Brest city centre, in the Finistère department of France. It has the official airport code of BES, and is an airport of reasonable size, since that it handles close to a million passengers per annum. It is also mentioned to be Brittany’s most popular airport. Facilities of Brest Airport are more than adequate, and passengers have various transportation options from which to choose. There is a good selection of car hire companies available; include the company of Hertz Brest Airport. Hertz provides all their customers with excellent car rental services, and has a wide range of vehicles for hire.

At Brest Airport, there is a new terminal building, with three levels, and it is capable of handling up to 1.8 million passengers per annum. Passengers will find the airport’s facilities to be modern and attractive, and all within easy walking distance. The car hire companies, including Hertz, are found in the arrivals area, and the rented cars are parked in one of the nearby car parking lots. At this rental location, Hertz is open from Monday to Thursday, between the hours of 08:00 and 19:00, and from 20:00 to 23:00. On Fridays Hertz is open from 08:00 to 23:00, on Saturdays from 09:00 to 18:00, 20:00 to 20:30 and from 22:30 to 23:00 and on Sundays from 11:00 to 12:00 and from 13:00 to 19:00. The Brest Airport car hire companies are generally available to meet each arrival flight at the airport, but rentals and returns out-of-office hours may be arranged as well.

Hertz is the largest provider of car rental services in the world, and has over ninety years of experience in the industry. There are over 8,000 Hertz rental locations in more than 150 countries on the globe. Perhaps one of the reasons why Hertz is such a popular choice for car hire is their range of vehicles which can be more specifically reserved, by their makes and models, rather than just by category. These vehicles are found in the Hertz Green Collection, the Hertz Prestige Collection and the Hertz Fun Collection. From Brest Airport, customers can drive the VW Polo, Opel Corsa, Renault Megane Clio SW or the Peugeot 308 HDI Auto from the Green Collection, and these cars are all light on fuel and environmentally friendly, or the Smart For Two, Fiat 500, Audi A1, Mini Cooper and BMW Series 1 118D Sport from the Fun Collection. The Hertz Prestige Collection features a wide range of vehicles, from convertibles such as the Volvo V70, BWM 320 and the Mercedes E Convertible, to larger vans which are able to seat up to nine people, for example, the Mercedes Viano. There are also several SUVs available, including the Volvo XC60, VW Touareg and the BMW X6.

Many of the Hertz vehicles mentioned include a GPS system in their rentals, which can be most useful for all drivers unfamiliar with the area of Brest. The GPS is known as the Hertz NeverLost In-Car Navigation System, and it has many features that make finding any destination an easy task. The system offers a choice of languages, a colour touch screen with clear and accurate visuals, turn-by-turn directions in voice and visual mode and comes pre-programmed with thousands of points of interest. Other items of equipment for hire from Hertz include child seats and luggage racks, as well as hand controls for disabled customers. Hertz hand controls are available on certain types of automatic vehicles, and are useful for those with a lower limb disability. It may also include a steering wheel knob for additional assistance. From Brest Airport, hand controls are available free of charge, but should be reserved in advance.

Alternative vehicle options from Hertz include the Chevrolet Spark, Peugeot 107, Opel Corsa, Opel Astra and the Ford C-Max, as well as the Peugeot 5008 and Citroen C8 for up to seven passengers, and the Opel Vivaro for nine travellers. Vehicles from the majority of the Brest Airport car rental companies can be organized as one way hires, and from Hertz, one way hires are referred to as the Rent-It-Here and Leave-It-There service. A one way hire allows customers to collect their rented car from Brest Airport, but then to return it to a different rental location. This location can be in France or in another country. Brest Airport one way hires returned within the country of France will usually incur no additional charges.

At Hertz, Brest Airport, passengers will need to be at least 21 years of age for the rental of smaller sized vehicles, and 25 years of age or older for larger and specialty type vehicles. A valid drivers license will need to be shown by all drivers listed on the rental agreement, and in some cases, an International Driving Permit is required. An IDP is mainly requested when the local license is printed in a non-Roman alphabet. For the payment of the rental period, customers will need to use a major credit card, for example, American Express, Diners Club, Eurocard, Mastercard or Visa.

Hertz, at their Brest Airport car rental location, can be contacted for all further details.

Address:                      Brest Airport
                                   Guipavas Airport
                                   Brest 29490
                                    France

Telephone Number:    +33 02 98848806

Fax Number:              +33 02 98321421