Paphos town, Kato Paphos, Coral Bay and the airport
Car Hire Paphos LTD hires out its own cars in Paphos. On our rate card read 26 August 2026, a Nissan March costs 65 EUR for one day, 40 EUR a day across 3 to 6 days and 25 EUR a day for 15 to 29 days. An optional 15 EUR-a-day waiver caps bodywork damage at 300 EUR, and nothing is paid before pick-up. For car hire in Paphos town, we hand the car over at our office, your hotel or the airport.
You pay at pick-up, in cash or by card, and we take the 300 EUR deposit then too. It comes back at return. No prepayment.
Pick a collection time at least 8 hours after you send the form. A request in before 20:00 is answered that evening, a later one the next morning. We reply between 08:00 and 23:00, Cyprus time.
Four Paphos handover points: our office, the airport, Coral Bay and Kato Paphos. We also hire from a Limassol office on its own card, and deliver to Larnaca, Nicosia and Ayia Napa. Each car goes back to the town it left; a return anywhere else is charged from 300 EUR.
Paphos hire at a glance
Nine cars you can ask for in Paphos
We hand cars over at four Paphos points: at three we bring the car to you, and at our office you come to us. Between 09:00 and 17:30 a handover is free, except an airport pick-up under five days, which is 20 EUR. Outside that window it is 30 EUR per end, and a hotel return is free at any hour.
A delivery needs a street address, because a named area spans several kilometres. The address never changes the price.
In Paphos the form lists the office, delivery to your address, the airport, Coral Bay, Chlorakas and Kato Paphos as delivery areas, and seven named hotel points. Several of those hotels take no weekend pick-up; the form says so when you choose one.
We hire cars in five towns and run no one-way hire between them. A car collected in Paphos goes back to a Paphos point, and a return in another town is charged from 300 EUR.
Limassol has its own office at Analipseos 1, Kato Polemidia, Lemesos 4154, with a separate rate card, so hire a Limassol trip from there. Larnaca, Nicosia and Ayia Napa get delivery only; ask us how delivery there works.
Give the address and a time on the form. Inside 09:00 to 17:30 delivery is free, outside it 30 EUR for that end. Ending the hire at a hotel is free at any hour.
We deliver to Chlorakas, the village just north of town, on the same terms as Coral Bay. Our office is on Apostolou Pavlou Avenue in Paphos, not in Chlorakas.
Hires of 30 days and more are quoted all-in on our long-term page or by phone, not here.
Buggies are hired in Paphos only and have their own pages.
Staying up the coast? See hiring a car in Coral Bay.
Starting in Limassol instead? Go to our Limassol car hire.
For the other towns, see car hire elsewhere in Cyprus.
Staying a month or more? Read monthly car hire in Cyprus.
An economy car is 65 EUR for one day, 40 EUR a day across 3 to 6 days and 25 EUR a day across 15 to 29 days. The full length of the hire sets the band, so all ten days of a ten-day hire are charged at the 10-to-14-day rate. The waiver adds 15 EUR a day. Card read 26 August 2026.
| Class | 1 day, EUR | 3 to 6 days, EUR a day | 15 to 29 days, EUR a day | Seats | Cars in the class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy city car | 65 | 40 | 25 | 4 | Nissan March, Mitsubishi Mirage |
| Compact hatchback | 70 | 45 | 40 | 4 | Nissan Note |
| Hybrid | 85 | 60 | 50 | 4 | Toyota Vitz Hybrid, Nissan Note e-Power, Honda Fit Hybrid |
| Seven-seat MPV | 110 | 75 | 65 | 7 | Toyota Sienta Hybrid |
| Eight-seat van | 120 | 80 | 75 | 8 | Nissan Serena |
| SUV, four-wheel drive | 160 | 80 | 75 | ask us | Nissan X-Trail |
Every car is automatic, and the rate includes third-party liability and 24/7 roadside assistance. The waiver is the only add-on.
Search results on 13 August 2026 showed headlines of £7.01 a day (TravelSupermarket), Momondo headlining £11 with an average from £20, £13 (Kayak) and £24 (Skyscanner). One Paphos firm footnotes its advertised prices as "for rentals of 16 days+" (Arenda, 3 August 2026). Those headlines sit below our 65 EUR one-day figure, and none of the snippets shows an excess.
How we read and date these figures: the way our rates are checked.
Four days in a Nissan March, collected at the office at 10:00: 4 × 40 = 160 EUR for the car, 4 × 15 = 60 EUR for the waiver, 220 EUR together. That includes 800 km (200 a day); ticking unlimited kilometres adds 4 × 20 = 80 EUR. The 300 EUR deposit is held and handed back at return.
Keep the car a fifth day and the bill is 5 × 40 = 200 EUR, with unlimited kilometres and nothing to tick. Ten days cost 10 × 30 = 300 EUR, because all ten take the 10-to-14-day rate.
A family taking the Toyota Sienta Hybrid for ten days pays 10 × 65 = 650 EUR, plus 150 EUR with the waiver. The Sienta has no young-driver charge for anyone aged 21 or over, and the child seat and second driver are free.
The day rate carries liability cover, roadside help, a second driver and a child seat. You can add the waiver, unlimited kilometres on a short hire, and out-of-hours handovers.
Unlimited kilometres on a short hire is a box you tick on the form, never ticked for you. Leave it empty and nothing is added. From five days kilometres are unlimited anyway.
Three sets of hours apply. We reply from 08:00 to 23:00, and a request in before 20:00 is answered the same evening. The office is open Mon to Fri 08:00 to 19:00, Sat and Sun 09:00 to 16:00. The 09:00 to 17:30 window only sets the handover fee. The day rate itself does not move with the hour or the weekday (measured 24 August 2026).
Source: our own terms. Handover fees set 2 September 2026; mileage, deposit and young-driver settings 19 September 2026; office hours 29 September 2026.
The deposit is the 300 EUR we hold at pick-up and hand back when the car returns. The excess is the most you pay toward bodywork damage once you buy the 15 EUR-a-day waiver, and it is also 300 EUR. Two figures, kept apart.
Other firms go lower. Thrasos advertises a 250 EUR excess with no deposit and no excess block (13 August 2026). PafoRentals and Paphos Car Rental both advertise zero excess on a full-insurance product, the latter for drivers aged 25 to 75 (3 August 2026). On excess alone, those firms publish lower figures than ours.
What the waiver does, and what you pay, in six situations:
| If this happens | What the waiver does | What it costs you |
|---|---|---|
| You return the car undamaged | Nothing to claim | The 300 EUR deposit comes back; the waiver days you chose stay paid |
| A scraped door, waiver bought | Caps your share | At most 300 EUR |
| A cracked windscreen or a split tyre | Not covered: glass and tyres sit outside it | Not capped by the waiver |
| Damage under the car or inside it | Not covered: underbody and interior sit outside it | Not capped by the waiver |
| A lost key | Not covered | Not capped by the waiver |
| Driving past the end of the tarmac | Not covered: off-road use sits outside it | 450 EUR per violation plus 20 EUR per started km for the small cars; 600 EUR plus 30 EUR for the X-Trail, Sienta and Serena |
The deposit is 300 EUR whatever the car and however long the hire, paid at pick-up in cash or by card. Any card that takes a pre-authorisation works, whatever its brand, Revolut included, "subject to approval, vehicle category and rental conditions".
We do take a deposit. Two Paphos firms advertise none (Thrasos, 13 August 2026; Arenda, "no deposit (Full insurance)", 3 August 2026), and one aggregator's supplier holds an amount on your credit card that "requires the PIN code" at pickup (EasyTerra, 3 August 2026).
One Paphos firm names "€500 and €1,500" as the usual Cyprus deposit (Arenda, 3 August 2026). That is their figure, not ours.
General information only, not legal or financial advice. Terms change, so confirm with us when you book. Figures on this page were checked against our fact record and rental agreement on 29 September 2026; the rate card was read on 26 August 2026.
Each card sends a request for that exact car; nothing is set aside until we write back to confirm. The figure shown is the one-day rate.
Hybrid city car
Economy city car
Compact hatchback
MPV, 7 seats, class I
Economy city car
Hybrid hatchback
Van, 8 seats, class I
Hybrid hatchback
SUV 4WD, class G
Photos show the model. The car you drive may differ in colour or detail.
You can drive our cars from 21 with a licence held two years, shown as the original, and up to 90 on the pick-up date. Surcharges apply at both ends of that range, and only to the rental line.
The minimum age is 21, with at least two years since the licence was issued.
The youngest named driver sets any young-driver charge, and the oldest sets any senior one.
Under 24: +15 % on six cars; X-Trail under 29: +10 %; Sienta and Serena: none; 74 to 75: +15 %; 76 to 90: +30 %; over 90: refused.
Bring the licence itself to the handover; a photo or photocopy is not accepted.
A 22-year-old on a four-day Nissan March pays 15 % of the 160 EUR rental line, 24 EUR. The waiver and handover fees carry no surcharge. Settings as read on 19 September 2026.
For a 78-year-old on a seven-day Nissan Note, the rental line is 7 × 40 = 280 EUR and 30 % of it adds 84 EUR. Nobody over 90 can be named as a driver.
The largest local firm by fleet hires to a "Driver aged 25 to 74" and adds "€5/day" from 74 (Elephant, 3 August 2026). Alamo's Paphos page runs 25 to 79 (13 August 2026); EasyTerra says limits are "determined by the various car rental companies" (3 August 2026). Arenda welcomes under-25s too (3 August 2026).
Public rules, not ours, decide which licences are valid here: the EU's Your Europe page on licence recognition says a lifetime licence issued in any EU country is valid in every other one. A licence from outside the EU is left to each country to accept, and since the EU sets no rules for an international driving permit, one can be turned down (checked 12 August 2026). the UK government's Cyprus travel advice says the photocard UK licence can be used here, while holders of the old paper version may need to upgrade it or carry a permit (checked 12 August 2026).
These are our hire rules, not Cyprus road law.
General information only, not legal or financial advice. Terms can change, so confirm with us when you book.
At least one Paphos firm publishes a lower excess than ours, and several take no deposit. Our age range runs wider than Elephant's and Alamo's, our dated rate table sits next to the excess, and our off-road penalties are stated in euros.
| Term | Car Hire Paphos | What named Paphos firms publish |
|---|---|---|
| Excess | 300 EUR with the 15 EUR-a-day waiver | 250 EUR, no excess block (Thrasos, 13 Aug 2026); zero on full insurance (PafoRentals, 3 Aug 2026) |
| Deposit | 300 EUR, card or cash, returned | None (Thrasos, 13 Aug 2026); "no deposit (Full insurance)" (Arenda, 3 Aug 2026) |
| Mileage | 200 km a day under 5 days, or 20 EUR a day for unlimited; unlimited from 5 days | Unlimited on every hire (Elephant, Arenda, Paphos Car Rental, 3 Aug 2026; A.S Alpan, 13 Aug 2026) |
| Second driver and child seat | Free at any length | Free (Paphos Car Rental, 3 Aug 2026) |
| Youngest driver | 21; +15 % under 24 on six cars | "Driver aged 25 to 74" (Elephant, 3 Aug 2026); 25 (Alamo, 13 Aug 2026); under-25s welcomed (Arenda, 3 Aug 2026) |
| Oldest driver | 90; +15 % at 74 to 75, +30 % at 76 to 90 | "€5/day" from 74 (Elephant, 3 Aug 2026); 79 (Alamo, 13 Aug 2026) |
| Delivery | Free inside 09:00 to 17:30 except a 20 EUR airport pick-up under five days; 30 EUR outside | Free to both airports and other Cyprus locations (Thrasos, 13 Aug 2026); "from €10" (Arenda, 3 Aug 2026) |
| A dated rate table | Yes, next to the excess; card read 26 Aug 2026 | Not both on one page at any of the seven sites observed (3 and 13 Aug 2026) |
Hire elsewhere if you want the lowest published excess, no excess, or unlimited kilometres on a three-day hire. Our terms fit a driver aged 21 to 24 or over 75, and anyone who wants every figure in front of them before sending a request.
A comparison site shows a lower headline and more suppliers than we can. A request to us settles the whole bill, the excess and your drivers' ages before you commit.
| What you are deciding | Through a comparison site | A local firm's own site | A request to us |
|---|---|---|---|
| The headline day rate | £7.01 (TravelSupermarket), £13 (Kayak), £24 (Skyscanner), 13 Aug 2026 | Prices "for rentals of 16 days+" (Arenda, 3 Aug 2026) | 65 EUR for one economy day; lower bands with length |
| Is the headline the whole bill | No: a lowest or an average figure (Momondo, 13 Aug 2026) | Depends on the firm and the length | Day rate, waiver and any handover fee, all on this page |
| Excess shown before you pay | Not in the headline (13 Aug 2026) | 250 EUR (Thrasos, 13 Aug 2026); zero on full insurance (PafoRentals, 3 Aug 2026) | 300 EUR with the waiver, printed above |
| When money leaves your account | Varies by supplier; EasyTerra's supplier holds an amount on a credit card at pick-up (3 Aug 2026) | On delivery (Thrasos, 13 Aug 2026); a €30 booking deposit (Paphos Car Rental, 3 Aug 2026) | At pick-up, plus the 300 EUR deposit |
| Who checks an unusual driver (age 22, age 84) | Limits "determined by the various car rental companies" (EasyTerra, 3 Aug 2026) | From 25 (Elephant, 3 Aug 2026) | Our age bands, 21 to 90 with a surcharge at each end, are printed on this page |
| Is the figure dated | No date shown (TravelSupermarket, EasyTerra, 13 Aug 2026) | Not beside an excess at any of seven sites (3 and 13 Aug 2026) | Yes: card read 26 Aug 2026 |
Booking.com's search snippet put the average day at $38 and a week near $267 (13 August 2026). That is an average across suppliers and ours is a band for one car class, so the two do not compare directly.
Headlines drift. EasyTerra's lowest-priced named Paphos supplier went from £12 to £15 a day between 3 and 13 August 2026, and TravelSupermarket's headline from £6.88 to £7.01. Neither page put a date on its figure.
This page earns us only the hire fee for our own cars. No booking site pays us for sending you anywhere, and the page carries no affiliate link.
With us you pay at pick-up, cash or card, and leave the 300 EUR deposit. Nothing leaves your account before then.
Our cars stay on asphalt. The rental agreement allows 15 metres past the end of the tarmac to turn round, and no further. For dirt tracks, hire a buggy.
Driving into these needs our prior written approval, and a car is never given it: Adonis Baths, Avakas Gorge, Lara Beach, the Blue Lagoon, White River Beach, Fontana Amorosa and Akamas Nature Park itself.
For the March, Mirage and Note class, 450 EUR per violation plus 20 EUR per started km; for the X-Trail, Serena and Sienta class, 600 EUR plus 30 EUR. Each entry counts separately, and a track your map app calls a road is still off-road under the agreement.
Buggies go on the tracks, on routes we agree with you in writing before you set off.
Routes and rates are on the Paphos buggy page.
On a hired moped or quad, the UK government warns, cover is normally limited to third parties, so damage to the machine itself falls on the rider (FCDO, checked 12 August 2026).
For buggies across the island, see buggy hire in Cyprus.
The car logs geofence entries and the distance driven off-road, and the agreement accepts that GPS record as evidence for the penalty.
the UK government's Cyprus travel advice. Our terms exclude a trip north of the Green Line unless you carry insurance bought for the north and the documents it requires, and have asked our permission first. The UK advice says cars hired in the Republic often have no cover in the north, and that cover is sold at crossing points such as Agios Dometios (checked 12 August 2026).
The UK government's Cyprus travel advice warns (checked 12 August 2026) that asking for a passport as a deposit is illegal in Cyprus and says never to hand one over. Our deposit is 300 EUR, by card or in cash.
General information only, not legal advice. Rules and terms change; confirm with us when you book. Figures on this page were checked against our fact record and rental agreement on 29 September 2026; the rate card was read on 26 August 2026.
We keep no counter in the terminal. One of our team meets your flight in the arrivals hall, and the airport page covers the landing step by step.
The day rate is the same at every Paphos point; only the handover fee differs. Inside 09:00 to 17:30 an airport pick-up under five days costs 20 EUR and the office nothing; outside it both cost 30 EUR; from five days they match. Three days in an economy car: 120 EUR from the office, 140 EUR from the airport.
Staying in Paphos town with little touring planned? Price the touring days alone against the whole stay, since length sets the day rate.
Land after 17:30 and the airport handover is 30 EUR, the same as a late office collection. The 8-hour notice runs from when you send the request, not from when you land.
For the full landing routine, read collecting the car at PFO.
Ask as soon as your dates are fixed. A request costs nothing, since nothing is paid before pick-up, and the one lead-time rule is a pick-up at least 8 hours away.
DataForSEO monthly search volumes, pulled 13 August 2026, United Kingdom and Cyprus.
UK searches for car hire in Paphos peaked at 6,600 in August 2025 and fell to 1,900 in December 2025, while Cyprus searches held at 4,400 from July to October 2025. That shows when people search, not when prices move.
Our day rate does not change with the hour or the day of the week. Only the handover fee changes, at 17:30 and 09:00.
Twelve answers on cost, hours, drivers and cover.
In a Nissan March, three days are 3 × 40 = 120 EUR, and the waiver adds 3 × 15 = 45 EUR, so 165 EUR in total, with 600 km (200 a day) included. We also hold a 300 EUR deposit at pick-up and return it when you bring the car back. A handover outside 09:00 to 17:30 adds 30 EUR for that end.
The day rate is the same at any hour and on any day. Only the handover fee changes, to 30 EUR for a collection outside 09:00 to 17:30. The office is open until 19:00 on weekdays and from 09:00 to 16:00 at the weekend, and a weekday collection after 17:30 pays that fee.
It is 300 EUR on every car and every length, and yes, cash is accepted. So is any card that takes a pre-authorisation, Revolut included, subject to approval, vehicle category and rental conditions. We take it at pick-up and return it when the car comes back. It is separate from the 300 EUR waiver excess.
Yes. Under five days, 200 km a day is included, so four days give you 800 km. For more, tick unlimited kilometres on the form at 20 EUR a day, 80 EUR over four days. It is never pre-selected. From five days there is no limit.
Both can. A 22-year-old pays 15 % on the rental line of six of our cars, and nothing extra in the Sienta or the Serena; the X-Trail adds 10 % for anyone under 29. A 78-year-old pays 30 % on the rental line. Every driver needs an original licence held for two years, and 90 is the upper limit.
Nothing, if the handover falls between 09:00 and 17:30. Outside that window a delivery costs 30 EUR for that end. Leaving the car at a hotel at the end of the hire is free at any hour. Put the street address on the form; it does not change the price, but the driver needs it.
You may go 15 metres past the end of the asphalt to turn round. Beyond that the penalty is 450 EUR per violation plus 20 EUR per started km for the March, Mirage and Note class, or 600 EUR plus 30 EUR for the X-Trail, Serena and Sienta class. The waiver does not cover it, and GPS records count as evidence.
A return in a town other than the one you hired in is charged from 300 EUR. We run no one-way hire between our towns, so a car collected in Paphos goes back to a Paphos point. For a trip starting in Limassol, hire from our office there, which has its own rate card.
Send it before 20:00, Cyprus time, and you hear back the same evening; after that, the answer comes the next morning. We reply between 08:00 and 23:00. The pick-up you ask for has to be at least 8 hours after you send the request, and nothing is held until we confirm.
No. Glass and tyres are outside the waiver, as are the underbody, the interior, keys and any off-road use. The waiver costs 15 EUR a day and caps what you pay for bodywork damage at 300 EUR; the waiver does not cap damage to the excluded parts.
Neither costs anything, at any length of hire. Name the second driver on the request and ask for the seat there too. The age bands apply to every named driver, so a second driver aged 74 or over brings the senior surcharge onto the rental line.
Thrasos advertises a 250 EUR excess with no deposit (13 August 2026). PafoRentals and Paphos Car Rental advertise zero excess on a full-insurance product, the second for drivers aged 25 to 75 (3 August 2026). Our excess with the waiver is 300 EUR, so if the excess decides it for you, look at those firms.
Tell us the dates and where in Paphos you want the car, and the reply sets out the whole bill before you commit. It is a request, and nothing is held until we confirm. We answer from 08:00 until 23:00 Cyprus time, and anything that arrives before 20:00 gets a reply that evening.
+357 99 173 142 · info@carhirepaphos.cy
Car Hire Paphos LTD, HE 2334542, Apostolou Pavlou Ave 33, Paphos 8046, Cyprus · +357 99 173 142 · info@carhirepaphos.cy · no prepayment, you pay on pick-up · English and Russian spoken
We re-read our rates whenever our card changes, and the other firms' terms every 90 days.
General information only, not legal or financial advice. Confirm the terms with us when you book. Figures on this page were checked against our fact record and rental agreement on 29 September 2026; the rate card was read on 26 August 2026.
