Car hire prices at Alicante Airport

For November 2026 at Alicante Airport, use £25 a day as your benchmark for a Compact, the Ford Focus size, booked around a month before your trip. For the same month and booking time, a Mini, the Fiat 500 size, averages £17 a day, while an Economy, the Peugeot 208 size, averages £22. Booking in the last 2 weeks brings the Compact car average down to £20 a day, £5 less. Check the price checker against your exact dates before accepting your quote.

For November 2026 at Alicante Airport, waiting until around 2 weeks before your trip gives the lowest Compact car average: £20 a day, against £25 around a month before. Across the year, a Compact car averages £40 a day around 9 months before your trip versus £26 around 2 weeks before, so you have not missed the lower average by leaving booking late. Across the 395 airports we track car hire prices for, 65% of our customers booked within a month of pickup, from 24,946 bookings.

Drivalia is the cheapest company at Alicante Airport for a Compact car over the last 12 months, averaging £24 a day, but you need a credit card for its £1,195 deposit. Drivalia has an airport desk and scores 74/100 from 290 recent reviews. For a Compact car over the same 12 months, Thrifty averages £27 a day from 1,211 prices, £3 more a day, and scores 85/100 from 858 reviews. Thrifty also requires a credit card, but its typical deposit is £854, so compare the hold as well as the daily price.

The cheapest company can cost you a longer queue or a bigger deposit, so check the review score and desk wait beside each car in the results before you book.

Choose Budget for the highest review score at Alicante Airport: 87/100 from 175 recent reviews, with an average desk wait of 19 minutes. Budget is not the cheapest: for a Compact car over the last 12 months, Budget averages £33 a day against Drivalia at £24, £9 more a day. Drivalia scores 74/100 from 290 reviews, so the cheaper option has a lower review score. Enterprise does not yet have enough reviews for a score.

Review scores are CarTrawler customers' own, from the last five months; the score and the desk wait sit beside each car in the results.

At Alicante Airport, typical deposits range from £128 with Key N Go to £1,708 with Sicily by Car, while 5 of the 21 counters accept debit cards, so filter by card before comparing prices. Another 4 counters accept debit cards for some cars only, while 12 require a credit card. Check the deposit and card rule beside your chosen car to confirm you can collect it. Extras charged at the desk are listed under each car with their prices.

If you bring your own child seat, check your airline's rules first: most carry one free, some charge.

At Alicante Airport, check card requirements and leave time for collection: 12 of the 21 counters require a credit card, and Enterprise averages a 28-minute desk wait. If you plan to use a debit card, filter first: 5 counters accept one and another 4 accept one for some cars only. Check your available card balance too, because Sicily by Car typically holds £1,708. Allow for the desk wait before arranging your next appointment; Alamo averages 27 minutes and Record averages 25 minutes.

Fuel is full tank out, full tank back on 96% of prices at Alicante Airport, so there is no fuel charge to be surprised by.

Choose a Compact, the Ford Focus size, at Alicante Airport for easier parking without dropping to the smallest cars; for November 2026, the average is £25 a day around a month before your trip. A Compact car seats 5 but takes 3 bags, so check luggage before choosing it for a full group. At the same booking time in November 2026, an Economy, the Peugeot 208 size, takes 2 bags at £22 a day, while an Intermediate, the Nissan Qashqai size, takes 4 bags at £29 a day. Automatics are 53% of cars offered over the last 12 months, so filter for one if you prefer it; across all batches, an automatic Compact car averages £38 a day versus £34 for a manual Compact car, £4 more a day. Electric cars are 1% of cars offered over the last 12 months and hybrids are 4%, so use the fuel-type filter rather than relying on an unfiltered search if you want either.