{"id":456,"date":"2009-01-29T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiatravelblogarun.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/29\/self-drive-car-rentals\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T13:19:00","slug":"self-drive-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/self-drive-cars.html","title":{"rendered":"Self Drive Car Rentals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first ever tryst with self driven rented car was on a longish <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/road-trip-bangalore-to-goa.html\">trip to Goa<\/a>. Since then I have stuck to personal cars and have never bothered renting one. But a lot of people love to take a bigger car on rent and go on multi-day trips. Shrinidhi has a detailed post that answers all the basic questions for the first timer. Is it economical? How much do they cost? What are the risks? etc,..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Santro, Indica: Rs 1300-1500\/Day, Getz\/Swift: Rs 1800-2000 per day, Ford Ikon, Accent: Rs 2000-2200 per day, Ford Fiesta, Honda City: Rs 2200-2500 per day, Civic, Skoda Octavia, Toyota Corolla, Chevy Optra, Scorpio, Innova: Rs 3000-4000 per day. (note: A security deposit ranging between Rs 5000-20000 will be payable..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enidhi.net\/2009\/01\/self-drive-rental-rate-comparison.html\">Self Drive rentals: cost comparison, procedures and more<\/a>. He has many more stories on self driven rental cars. The post has links to all of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first ever tryst with self driven rented car was on a longish trip to Goa. Since then I have stuck to personal cars and have never bothered renting one. But a lot of people love to take a bigger car on rent and go on multi-day trips. Shrinidhi has a detailed post that answers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[514],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving","tag-driving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-7m","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}