Renting a car in Costa Rica can be affordable and trustworthy.

Avoid high rental car fees in Costa Rica and lose the worry of crazy unexpected insurance fees while hiring a fully insured car with an established car rental company.

GUD for your wallet.
GUD for the environment.
GUD for your peace of mind.

ANXIETY-FREE
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We eliminate any headache related to renting a car in Costa Rica. Our rental quotes include all mandatory insurances and offer full coverage at a fraction of the cost.

The more you search for a car rental in Costa Rica, you

Find dreadful stories about getting unexpected fees at your counter agent,

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Keep getting more confused about how insurances work in Costa Rica,

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Are worried that your car rental company is not trustworthy and will not be able to back you up if needed (or will not give you your deposit back)

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If so, we’re here to show you that booking a rental car in Costa Rica can be easy, painless, and affordable!

Making the old, new.

Affordable

We use high-quality cars dismissed by other rent-a-cars because they exceed the two-year-old rule. This way, we can offer lower car rental prices without sacrificing safety! Our prices are fully insured, which means you’ll be supported and worry-free every step of the way.

Trustworthy

We’ve been in the car rental business for 35 years with our sister company. This gives us ample experience to provide support and professionalism throughout your vacations in Costa Rica.

Environmentally-friendly

According to Mike Berners-Lee, the author of How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything, the emissions from making a car can be just as high as the emissions from driving it over its entire lifetime. Keeping our cars for as long as we can and taking good care of them—especially if they’re still reliable is the most environmentally friendly way to operate a car rental business.

A rental car’s life is way too short

We take the cars from our sister brand that are no longer “accepted” by international rental car standards because their models are two years or older.

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We extend their life cycle, ensuring their conditions are up to high-quality standards.

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We rent them to travelers who are looking for affordable car hire in Costa Rica while staying fully insured throughout their vacations.

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GUD for your wallet, GUD for your peace of mind, and GUD for the environment.

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“The faster you replace a car, the more CO2 it emits. It’s no different with electric cars because when the demand for new cars increases, it shoots up manufacturing emissions.”

— Shigemi Kagawa, professor of Economics, Kyushu University

What to know when comparing car rental prices in San José, Costa Rica (SJO)

Most car rental companies in San Jose Airport (SJO) Costa Rica - and elsewhere- will show you their exclusive price first.

This means that on top of this, you have to add all insurances, including the third-party liability insurance (SLI) which is mandatory to purchase in Costa Rica (no credit card insurance will cover this one). The same happens with third-party vendors (online travel agencies), who will also try to sell you their own insurance. When you reach the rental car counter, you can find the unpleasant surprise of paying much more for insurance than the initial rental quote!

If you find yourself comparing prices, make sure you’re comparing apples to apples: the same car model + full insurance coverage.

FAQs

  • Your getting an older car. International standard for car rental companies require that car models have to be less than two years. So, for example, for 2025 a rental car should be no less than a 2023 model. So you car will be older than that, yes.

  • Hard no. There is no stricter safety regulations than the mechanical workshops of a car rental company. Each car goes through constant preventive maintenance after each rental to make sure that no matter a car’s mileage, you’re always under the highest safety guidelines.

  • We’re making sure that you’re getting a fair price based on the fact that you’re not getting a new car, yet keeping in mind that you’ll be fully covered. We’ve made deep pricing analysis to make sure you’re getting a GUD quote while maintaining our offer under the market that includes premium insurances.

  • Because we want to make sure that your safety is of outmust priority, we only offer our products fully insured. This gives us, and you, complete peace of mind while mantaining transparency in our fees.

  • Yes. As long as you leave us your flight details in your booking confirmation, we’ll have our staff waiting to pick you up at the airport and take you to our counter agent which is less than 2km away from the Juan Santamaría International Airport.