Vilnius city is Lithuania’s largest city and also the capital of the country. In 2009, the city was named the Capital of Culture for Europe. Vilnius Airport is a civil airport which is the largest in Lithuania and various airlines operate at the airport such as Aerosvit airlines, airBaltic, Brussels airlines, and Czech airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair and Wizzair among others. You can rent a car of your choice at the airport and visit interesting destinations like Old Town which is uniquely surrounded by a beautiful defence wall.
Other key places that you can visit include the Gediminas Castle, upper Castle Museum, Three Crosses Hill, Vilnius Cathedral, St. Ann’s Church and Angel of Uzupis Statue. Actually, there are so many sights of tourist interest in Vilnius and the best way to visit most of them if not all is by hiring a car from one of the agencies. When hiring a car, one of the things that you must be very careful about are hidden charges which can significantly increase the cost of car hire. Unfortunately, most rental agencies are very cunning and tend to take great advantage of ignorant clients by charging them extremely high prices for hiring a car.
Just like at other airports, car rental companies at the airport charge airport surcharges and taxes which are unfortunately a great proportion of the entire price. While airport charges and sales tax should be the same in this airport, you will realize that they also tend to vary from one agency to another. Unfortunately, regardless of what you do, these are charges that you can’t avoid and are sometimes high as 30 percent.
If you are a smart shopper, you can manage to avoid some of these airport charges like concession recovery fees and customer facility charges. This can be done by entering into an arrangement with the car hire company to pick up and drop off the car at a location outside the airport. While some of the companies might insist charging you extra for this, it might be far much less than if you paid the airport surcharges. The most important thing is for you to consider the possible inconveniences that this might bring and determine whether it is worthy it or not. Sometimes, if you are still flying back to your origin place via Vilnius Airport, it really doesn’t make sense to drop off the away from the airport and then start searching for transportation to take you to the airport.
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