Moneymaxim, the UK’s leading website for comparing car hire insurance, have today enhanced its services by launching the UK’s only comparison service that allows customers to find the best online deals for car hire and car hire insurance.

The new service means that those looking for the best deal on their car hire can find the best excess free car hire package anywhere in the world in seconds!

The service has been designed to be totally transparent - so users can easily see whether buying an ‘all inclusive’ package is the best way to risk free motoring this summer, or whether booking car hire and insurance separately will deliver the biggest savings. The unique service from moneymaxim.co.uk combines the car hire search functionality offered by carrentals.co.uk with the car hire insurance comparison search engine moneymaxim launched to such acclaim last year.

Bookings can be made separately for either the car hire or car hire insurance if preferred. The new service which can be found at the car hire hub on www.moneymaxim.co.uk and compares over 50 car hire suppliers and 100 insurance policies, with all results being displayed on one page - and the moneymaxim.co.uk customer assistance team are on hand in case of query.

Mark Bower, Managing Director of moneymaxim.co.uk said;

“Over the past year thousands of customers have found high quality car hire insurance through our site, but we have also frequently been asked to help in reducing the hassle in finding car hire for customers as well.”

“We see demand for excess free car hire growing as the potential liability customers face if involved in an accident, having their hire car stolen or even a chip on the windscreen can be really significant.”

“We also display prices for both daily (from £1.90 a day) and annual car hire policies (the latter run from under £38) as we found customers were frequently been quoted excess insurance prices far in excess of the cost of an annual policy. These policies are particularly attractive for anyone taking more than one break a year.”

Simple step-by-step guidance on getting the best deals using the moneymaxim.co.uk search tool is provided online, although help is also available with online chat or via a freephone number if customers want to discuss their options.

Bower continues:  “The market for excess insurance is really competitive with premiums on policies bought directly from the insurers falling by as much as 20% since this time last year and we are sure our new service will enable many to cut the overall cost of their car hire considerably in 2011.”