About Europcar International UK and Ireland

Europcar discount codes and voucher codes are listed above. This page covers the UK and Ireland operation; the company runs separate country sites with separate promotions, and codes do not cross between them.

About Europcar

Europcar is one of the large European car hire companies, with branches at UK airports, city centres and rail stations. Alongside the standard car fleet it rents vans and commercial vehicles, which is a meaningful share of its British business.

Hire pricing works differently from most retail, and understanding the shape of it is worth more than any single code.

How hire pricing is built

The headline rate covers the vehicle and basic cover with a large excess attached. Almost everything else is priced separately: additional drivers, young driver surcharges, child seats, satellite navigation, one-way fees, and fuel policy.

Excess reduction is the largest of those extras and the one that catches people out at the desk. Buying it there costs several times what a standalone annual excess policy from an insurer would, so the sensible time to decide is before travelling, not while queuing.

Booking well

Book early for peak periods, because airport fleets are finite and prices rise steeply as availability thins. Check the fuel policy: full-to-full is the fair one, and anything where you prepay a tank rarely works out in the customer's favour.

Inspect the vehicle carefully at collection and photograph every existing mark before leaving the bay. That five minutes is the single most useful thing anyone does in a hire car transaction.

Using a Europcar discount code

Choose the branch and the dates, enter the code at the booking stage and confirm the total before payment. These are listed as Europcar discount codes, voucher codes and promo codes.

Hire offers are tied to booking windows and collection dates rather than applied continuously, which is why the codes here read as date ranges. A code usually reduces the vehicle rate and leaves the extras untouched, so the saving is smaller than it looks on an order with several add-ons. Prepaid rates take codes more readily than pay-at-desk ones and are less forgiving if plans change.