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Do you have a special occasion coming up and need to find a great gift? why not spare your feet the walking distance and simply have a look at what is available on ‘Thanks Darling’?

This is a site with a difference: there is an astounding variety of gift ideas available - absolutely everything to suit any age and anyone. Men and teenage boys are especially difficult to buy for but on this site you will have not trouble finding something at all.

They have hampers, gifts for sports enthusiasts, experience packages and even some ideas for those who like to get an adrenalin rush out of life.

They offer online purchasing from a very safe and secure site as well. You would have to walk a long way to find so many different gift ideas in one place so definitely have a look: someone will certainly say “Thanks Darling” if you do.

I’m terribly stingy when it comes to hiring a car. Whenever I can, I spend the time to go through all the car hire companies operating in the airport that I’m flying to because their deals change at different times.

Yet, every single time that I’ve done that recently I’ve ended up with Holiday Autos.

They’re not really a “proper” car rental firm in that you won’t find a sign in the airport saying “Holiday Autos desk” and that’s what keeps their prices low. Whereas Hertz, Avis, Europcar and the rest are paying for people to staff their offices (and each one has thousands of offices) and to buy enough cars to be able to offer you things like a guarantee of having a car, all that Holiday Autos do is negotiate a bulk hire rate and pass the savings on to you. I say “all” but, of course, that’s hard enough I’m sure.

One of the interesting things I found is that although Europcar are normally the outfit that supplies their cars around Europe, it costs more to hire the same car directly from Europcar and the terms of the rental aren’t as good either. For example, I wanted to do a one way drop off once: the Holiday Autos price was 30€/day for the car whilst the Europcar rate was 50€/day AND there was a 100€ dropoff charge from Europcar vs none from Holiday Autos.

Anyway, save yourself both time and money and just book with Holiday Autos. Just be sure to book well in advance as they do sell out of the very best offers quite early.