As you will often notice flights tend to be cheaper during midweek periods which means normally the sale prices you are bombarded with by airlines generally are of no use on weekends. Of course it is difficult to get time off work at certain stages of the year and when demand is high, prices are high.

In order to find the cheapest car hire South Africa deals there are a few things you can do

• Use a price comparison websites such as ours. Why search South African car hire prices at just one firm when you can search multiple suppliers at the same time?

• Try a few different dates. You will be surprised at how big a difference in price there can be. It’s all about availability so it’s well worth taking the time to get a few car hire quotes if your travel dates are not set in stone.

• Try searching by car class in order to only show cars which you are interested in. This will help you make an easy decision by seeing the values each rental car can offer side to side.

• Take advantage of our cheap car hire excess insurance offer as it will mean a substantial saving towards what you may be charged for the same policy at the car collection point.