Car rental in Italy

[aberose]

I am renting a car in Italy and found the same price from booking.com and directly from sicily by car. Is there any reason I would want to book through one or the other?

Is it worth to buy or rent a GPS over using waze which will eat data on my phone?

Thank you

[PlatinumGuy]

Buy an eSim and use Waze

[aberose]

Any recommendations on which eSim to get?

[PlatinumGuy]

Airalo is good

[aberose]

Driving from Italy to France. The price for the Europe eSim is much more than getting Italy and France separately.

How many gb does waze use approximately?

[aberose]

i found online info on data usage for waze.

can someone help me with my other question:
I am renting a car in Italy and found the same price from booking.com and directly from sicily by car. Is there any reason I would want to book through one over the other?

[Car Wiz]

Any experience regarding the need of an international drivers permit (IDP) in Italy?
Taking from Noleggiare in MXP. (If anyone has general experience with them it’s also appreciated.)

[aberose]

You need an international drivers permit in Italy. I was stopped and had the IDP and was OK but the police needed to see it.

As far as rental in MXP, I rented from another company once and was very not happy, the next time I rented from Noleggiare and had a great experience from A to Z. You can pm me for more information.

[aberose]

i found online info on data usage for waze.

can someone help me with my other question:
I am renting a car in Italy and found the same price from booking.com and directly from sicily by car. Is there any reason I would want to book through one over the other?

I rented once from Sicily by car and had a horrible experience. I was renting a minivan so maybe it's more difficult in Europe but the service was terrible, the car was not ready for over an hour and it was in horrible condition. You can pm me for more information.

[Yrenzoni]

I just canceled my trip but I did a lot of research on car rental. my best advice is get to the car rental when they open, 8:30am.
Also the car rentals in Italy are privately owned so don't expect to get any recognition from hertz status or enterprise...