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Car rental in Riga

Riga is a very beautiful city, as here a lot of ancient and old buildings were preserved that don’t leave anybody cold. Among all Baltic capitals, it is Riga that seems to be a real megalopolis. The city is full of life, it attracts a great amount of tourists, makes them coming here again and again. Riga is a city full of green parks and small cosy cafes. The city seems to be leaped from the fairy pages. You will certainly like this city. New and old amazingly combines in Riga.

Travelling in Riga you would certainly like to see as more sights as possible, do shopping, visit various museums. To have enough time for all you planned and to move around the city and country comfortably, we recommend you to use car rental services. On the bookingcar.ru website you can see affordable car rental deals and book a car you like right now. Advance booking allows you to order a car to be delivered directly to the airport of Riga. You can also order a car to be delivered to your hotel.

Benefits of using bookingcar

Incredibly low prices
Huge discounts and special rates
No hidden fees and commissions
All details are indicated in the rental terms. There are no fees for credit card processing.
Free cancellation & modification
Free of charge 24 hours before pick up
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We collaborate only with reputable car rental companies and always guarantee high level of service.
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You can search through all companies at the same time. You save time since we have already compared the prices, and you only have to choose!
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Round-the-clock multi-language customer service, 7 days a week

Parking Parking rules and cost
Permissible blood alcohol levelStandards for maximum permissible level of alcohol in the blood
Traffic regulationsInformation on traffic rules
Fuel costsAverage fuel cost in various countries

Parking of a rented car in Riga

Irrespectively of where your car is parked, don't leave anything valuable inside it. Toll parkings irrespectively of their location and zoning, can cost 0,6-8 LVL for first hour. The most expensive parking is that in the Old Town. Even paid parkings at evening and nighttime are free of charge. Parking in left-bank Riga is also free of charge. Mostly the parkings are paid via pay machine. If you didn’t pay for the parking, filling station's worker can block a car's wheel. You can contact them by phone and also must pay a fine. Note that in the Old Town area there are also some free of charge parkings.

Blood alcohol content allowed

Maximum blood alcohol content allowed is 0.5 ‰. If blood alcohol content is 0.5-1.0 ‰, a fine is 300-450 LVL, and can be punished with driver's licence confiscation. Further exceeding of the blood alcohol content allowed leads to a fine in the amount of 600-1000 LVL and driver's licence confiscation up to four years.

For those drivers who have less than two years of driving experience, maximum blood alcohol content allowed is 0.2 ‰.

Driving regulations

Driving regulations in Latvia have no significant differences from the Russian ones. There are some things that you have to know about not to be imposed a fine and get troubles during your vacation. For example, don't forget to fasten the seat belts, at any time of the day switch on the low beam, transport children in a car in special car safety seats only. Naturally overtaking in wrong place, passing through the red traffic light, wrong parking, not stopping at police officer's demand, going at contraflow lane, and other violations lead to punishment.

Fuel

Filling stations in Riga can be found very often, so you don't need to watch the fuel. One can fill a car with (RON95 and RON 98) petrol or diesel engine. There are also gas filling stations. If you are going to a long trip, you can take petrol with you.

Prices for petrol in Riga:

RON95 - 1.31 EUR
RON98 - 1.35 EUR
Diesel engine - 1.28 EUR

One can pay with cash or with a credit card. Some filling stations are automatic and some are working with staff. Fuel in Latvia is of high quality.

Indicative rates for car hire in Riga

Volkswagen Up
Sity: Riga
from 16€ a day
Volkswagen Polo
Sity: Riga
from 16€ a day
Volkswagen Golf
Sity: Riga
from 26€ a day
Volkswagen Jetta
Sity: Riga
from 27€ a day

I can't imagine a journey without a car. It's awful to drive by bus. I often use car rental services and arrange everything via this resource. Quite often I get excellent price offers when renting executive cars. I like direct payment without any redirections and lots of offers. Support service works promptly and efficiently at any time of the day, which is also a definite advantage.

2017-01-04

Vladimir Mats

We returned from Copenhagen. To be well-travelled on the trip and save money, we had rented a car. Before the flight we found a suitable car and paid for it via this site. We got it at the airport, where we were met by a representative of the provider. There were no difficulties or worries. Everything was great.

Riga car hire from 16 eur a day