{"id":18641,"date":"2020-04-12T19:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyprusescape.com\/?p=18641"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T09:35:18","slug":"renting-car-cyprus-travel-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyprusescape.com\/renting-car-cyprus-travel-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus Travel Tips: Renting a Car in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to the first part of my series of practical travel tips for Cyprus<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have landed here while planning your holiday in Cyprus, you have probably spent a fair amount of time reading all sort of travel guides and tips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is this one different?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was written by a local expat who lived on the island for 6 years, and spent a fair amount of those years on the road, in own and rented cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I too found lots of travel tips and advice specifically on renting a car in Cyprus and decided to dedicate these next keystrokes to correcting some of the assumptions and incorrect information provided out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me explain. How you see certain things as a tourist or visitor is very different from living in the country and knowing it inside out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mentality, habits, common scams and why Giorgos always leaves the car blocking the main road when he pops out for a frappe. The fact that someone has driven a rented car on the island for 5 days does not make them an expert unfortunately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, these are the same people that offer expert advice and set some very inaccurate expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve previously written about the local encounters you might experience on the roads<\/a>, the non-existing traffic rules enforcement and the national Olympic sport also known as parking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let’s get to the basics of what it entails to rent a car in Cyprus (some of these bits were covered in the post I linked above).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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