Car rental in Limassol where the day rate drops the longer the car stays with you

The form counts hours, not calendar dates. Collect at 10:00 on a Monday and return at 12:00 on the Tuesday, and it reads two days and lets the request through. Make that return 10:00 on the Tuesday and the clock shows one day, which it turns down. A car for a single day is something only our Paphos card sells.

We hire cars in five towns, but a Limassol car cannot be dropped in Larnaca or Nicosia on the way somewhere else. Our form asks for one town, and both ends of the hire are chosen from places inside it, so walking into the return charge by accident takes some effort. Paphos keeps its own fleet at its own prices, and two model names that appear on both cards belong to different cars, so a stay based in Paphos is hired in Paphos.

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Take a small economy car for three days: 3 × 45 comes to 135 EUR, the waiver adds 3 × 15 = 45 EUR, and the hire totals 180 EUR. The 300 EUR deposit is taken at collection on top of that and paid back when the car returns.

Ten days in a small hybrid sit in the 8 to 14 band, so 10 × 45 = 450 EUR. Because the hire is five days or more, the kilometres are unlimited, and the waiver would add 150 EUR if you want it.

At one end of the card, the Nissan Sylphy saloon costs 60 EUR a day on a short hire. At the other, the executive class starts at 130 EUR and comes down to 90 EUR once a hire reaches 22 days. That Mercedes-Benz E-Class is the one diesel car we hire; the twelve others burn petrol or run as petrol hybrids.

The delivery area is settled when we confirm. Addresses in the city, such as Limassol Marina or Germasogeia, are the kind we mean; we print no delivery hours and draw no map, because the edge is not fixed in writing. One named rival is just as loose: AmberCar offers delivery "within the area of Limassol city, without any extra cost" (13 August 2026).

If you searched for "rent car limassol without deposit", note that this page quotes two separate 300 EUR sums. The deposit is money we hold on every single hire and hand back at the end. The excess is the ceiling on your share of bodywork damage once you have paid the 15 EUR a day waiver.

Cash works, and so does a card. What decides a card is whether it takes a pre-authorisation, not the name printed on it: any card that does, Revolut included, is accepted subject to approval, vehicle category and rental conditions.

For anyone typing "car rental limassol no deposit", smaller holds do exist in this town, all read on 13 August 2026. Chris Car Hire holds 500 to 1,000 EUR by group and releases it after 15 days. AutoTrust holds a sum equal to its excess, 300 to 900 EUR, by card or cash, and sells a Super CDW billed as "Zero Excess and Zero Deposit". Privilege advertises "No deposit". So a lower or absent deposit can be had here, just not from us.

Fuel works level for level: hand the tank back as full as it came, or we fill it and bill the fuel plus a refuelling fee. Kilometres are unlimited on a hire of five days or more. The paid unlimited option sold on short Paphos hires does not exist on this card.

On a Limassol hire, 300 EUR is the ceiling on what you pay toward bodywork damage, provided you took the waiver at 15 EUR a day. Skip the waiver and the whole repair falls to you. The 300 EUR deposit is a separate sum and comes back when the car does.

Driving off asphalt also sits outside the waiver. A car may go 15 metres past the last asphalt to turn, and no further. Beyond that, each violation costs 450 EUR plus 20 EUR per started kilometre in the economy, hybrid and saloon classes, and 600 EUR plus 30 EUR in the crossovers, the SUV, the seven-seater and the executive car; the car records its route and GPS evidence counts. For scale, published Limassol excesses ran from zero to 2,000 EUR on 13 August 2026: Chris Car Hire 1,000 to 2,000, AutoTrust 300 to 900 by group with a zero-excess Super CDW, and Privilege advertising "No Excess insurance". We sell no zero-excess product.

Third-party cover is in every rate because EU law makes it compulsory for any vehicle normally based in a member state: Directive 2009/103/EC, Article 3. Directive text checked on 30 September 2026.

General information about our own terms, not legal or financial advice. Terms can change, so confirm them with us when you book.

Comparison sites headlined Limassol on 13 August 2026 with KAYAK at "from £18" a day, down from £23.25 two days before, and Discover Cars at "from £7" for small cars. A headline figure says nothing about the class, the length or the excess behind it, and that one changed within two days.

Our terms are ahead in five places. The rate, the excess and the waiver's day price sit together on one page, while none of the five Limassol firms read publishes both a rate and an excess. Drivers start at 21 against 25 at two named firms, with no young-driver surcharge. Every car is an automatic, and nothing is paid before pick-up.

The cars belong to us and the prices are set by us, so no commission is earned by anyone when you send a request from this page. A question like "which is the best rental company in Cyprus" has no neutral answer here; compare the terms above for yourself.

Payment happens at pick-up, cash or card, alongside the 300 EUR deposit. Nothing is taken before that.

Worked through: a 75-year-old taking a small car for 10 days pays 10 × 40 = 400 EUR, and 15 % on that is 60 EUR. At 78 the same hire carries 30 %, which is 120 EUR. The waiver and any extras are never surcharged, and a 22-year-old pays nothing extra on a Limassol car.

Other firms in town read differently, all on 13 August 2026. Chris Car Hire's terms say drivers must be "25 years old and over", then set out a rule for drivers under 25 in the same document. Enterprise publishes a maximum rental age of 79. Andys Motors warns that bookings under 23 "may be cancelled" and may charge extra for additional drivers aged 69 to 79.

A licence issued in any EU country is recognised in all of them: Directive 2006/126/EC, Article 2. Directive text checked on 30 September 2026.

The same directive, in Article 4, sets 18 as the EU minimum age for a category B licence; 21 is our rental rule, not a legal age. If your licence was issued beyond the EU, raise it with us in the request.

General information about our own rules, not legal advice. Confirm your drivers with us when you book.