Garden Route Car Rental

Car Rental Services offers you low cost car hire in George, Knysna, Mossel Bay and other Garden Route Locations with car rental branches conveniently located all over the Garden Route. Our car hire rates are inclusive of all insurances and taxes and may also include unlimited mileage and a zero excess. We rent cars from George's top car rental companies, offering you a wide choice of vehicles ranging from economy to luxury rent a cars. Car Rental Services will find you the best deal for car rental in George and the Garden Route.

Contact us to start the easy reservation process to book car hire in George and the Garden Route. Low cost and best value car hire in the Garden Route is what we would like to offer you. We can arrange car hire with Europcar car hire, National rent-a-car, Avis, Alamo car hire, Hertz car rental, Budget car hire and other well known car rental companies!

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Satellite Navigation and Smart Tour Guide
Satellite navigation includes our unique Smart Guide, a must for all George and Garden Route self drive travelers. Enjoy a guided tour including useful information about South African history, fauna and flora, food, local entertainment, what’s hip, hot and happening in the vicinity as you drive past. A daily service fee applies.

Car Rental in Garden Route - Location Information

GEORGE AIRPORT CAR RENTAL
George Airport, George
Station Code: GEOA
Tel: 044 876 9017
Fax: 044 876 9050
Emergency: 082 305 0018
Mon - Fri: 06:30 - 20:00
Sat: 08:00 - 15:00
Sundays : 09:00 - 19:00
Public Holidays: 06:30 - 20:00

PLETTENBERG BAY CAR RENTAL
Shell Ultra City, c/o N2 & Marine Way, Plettenberg Bay
Station Code: PLET
Tel: 044 533 6470
Fax: 044 713 3176
Mon - Fri: 08:00 - 17:00
Sat - Sun: Closed
Public Holidays: Meet Reservations

The Garden Route

The Garden Route is a popular and scenic stretch of the southern coast of South Africa. It stretches from Mossel Bay in the Western Cape to the Storms River which is crossed along the N2 coastal highway over the Paul Sauer Bridge in the extreme eastern reach of the Western Cape. It includes towns such as Mossel Bay, George, Knysna, Oudtshoorn, Plettenberg Bay and Nature's Valley.

It has a maritime climate, with moderately hot summers, and mild to chilly winters. It is one of the richest all-year-round rainfall areas in South Africa, most rain falling in the winter months, brought by the humid sea-winds from the Indian Ocean rising and releasing their precipitation along the high mountain ranges just inland of the coast.

The Route is sandwiched between the Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma mountains and the Indian Ocean. The Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma indigenous forests are a unique mixture of Cape Fynbos and temperate forest and offer hiking trails and eco-tourism activities. Nearly 300 species of birdlife are to be found in a variety of habitats ranging from fynbos to forest to wetlands.

Ten nature reserves embrace the varied ecosystems of the area as well as unique marine reserves, home to soft coral reefs, dolphins, seals and a host of other marine life. Various bays along the Garden Route are nurseries to the endangered Southern Right Whale which come there to calve in the winter and spring (July to December).

Although the most popular exploration of the Garden Route is by car, it is also the site of Africa's last remaining passenger steam train, the Outeniqua Choo Tjoe.

Few routes in the world can offer experiences close to those of the Garden Route. South Africa's famous Garden Route started off only encompassing a narrow coastal stretch of 300 km between Mossel Bay and the Tsitsikamma Mountains. These days, though, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Garden Route sprawls all the way from Cape Town along the southern Cape coastline to Port Elizabeth.

The section of the coastline first called the Garden Route is an extraordinary region, blessed with a mild climate, year-round rainfall and unique vegetation. Some of South Africa's most ancient forest remnants are here, evergreen and folded into inaccessible ravines. There is also fynbos, part of a unique floral kingdom recently proclaimed a natural World Heritage Site.

The sensitive Garden Route coastline is protected from overdevelopment by South African National Parks in three areas - the Wilderness National Park, the Knysna National Lake Area, and the Tsitsikamma National Park.

The towns of the Garden Route include Mossel Bay, Wilderness, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay and Nature's Valley - some of South Africa's most popular tourism towns for locals and foreign visitors.

Make a point of setting aside as many days as you can for the Garden Route, because this area can make time disappear.

Southern Right whales take over the Garden Route shoreline between June and November, making the long trip northwards from Antarctica to give birth and loll in the unspoilt bays. They're often seen leaping and lob-tailing just beyond the breakers.

At Knysna you can touch, feed and walk with Knysna elephants. These are not part of the original (and legendary) Knysna forest elephants, but are rescued orphans that have become habituated to people.

There are hikes through magnificent Garden Route scenery and vegetation, some to be tackled over five to seven days (notably the famous Otter Trail and the Outeniqua Hiking Trail) and a wide variety of trails that can be done over a few hours or a day.

Every morning, the quaint steam-engine called the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe puffs its way along the lakes, estuaries and ravines between Knysna and George.

The Garden Route golf courses here are among the best in the world, designed by masters and offering spectacular views.

Adrenalin-junkies can go shark-cage diving or fling themselves off the Gouritz River bridge for the highest bungee jump in the world. There is also blackwater tubing, horse riding, abseiling, canoeing, boating, surfing, diving and deepsea fishing.

And of course, if you blur the boundaries of the Garden Route as almost everyone seems to do, there is even more to see.

Garden Route Car Hire in George
Garden Route Car Rental