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Article: IF YOU'RE TOO OLD TO RENT A CAR, THIS MUST BE MOROCCO SOME PLACES SET LIMITS: 65, 70, 79
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2003
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A tourist would expect that rental car companies have minimum age
requirements, simply because driver licensing agencies do, too. What
might surprise someone expecting to drive around his or her foreign
destination is that the Hertzes and Avises of the world set upper age
limits in some places.
Hertz, for example, will not rent to drivers over 65 in Morocco.
Its age limit is 69 in Egypt, 70 in Kenya, Malta, and Papua New
Guinea, 75 in Tahiti, and 75, or in some cases 79, in Ireland.
Limited awareness such limits sometimes leads to embarrassing
situations at the rental car counter. One reader, who asked not to be
identified, said she knew an elderly gentleman who recently took a
woman younger ...