Whilst we rent cars on most visits we don’t tend to during July and August anymore, the cost is excessive, we don’t make much use of it as it’s hot and the kids want to spend the day in the pool, you can’t park anywhere, our favourite places being Arenales, SP, Guardamar and Alicante are gridlocked. What we do is use the buses and taxis to get around spending around 30€ a week which is significantly less than the €250 to rent, we’ve also got lots of good neighbours who drop us places if we’re stuck,