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Inclusions/Exclusions & Optional Extras

Enhance your car rental with GPS, additional drivers, and child seats by requesting them during booking or at the counter, ensuring a safe and convenient journey for all.

GPS

When making your car rental booking online, you may find the option to add a GPS to your reservation. After selecting a vehicle, you will typically arrive at the vehicle details page, where you can request a GPS. If this option is not available, it might be due to sold-out availability, or because GPS units are not offered from that specific location with your chosen vehicle. Additionally, for one-way itineraries where you are not returning to your starting location, a GPS may not be an available option.

It's important to remember that if you believe you are selecting a particular model because it has an in-built GPS system, each vehicle is displayed as "or similar." When making your reservation, you are booking a vehicle category, not a specific model. Within each category, the rental car company may utilise up to five different models.

Additional Drivers

Should you wish to add an additional driver to your reservation, this can only be done at the counter when you collect your vehicle. For the additional driver to be added to your rental agreement, they must be present at the time of collection and provide a full, unrestricted driver's licence.

Child Seats

As you create your reservation online, and after selecting a vehicle suitable for your family, you will have the option to add a child seat. On the vehicle details page, locate the "Child Seats & Equipment" section and choose the child seat suitable for the child travelling with you.

Your child seat options may include a Booster Seat, a Forward Facing Child Seat, or a Rear Facing Child Seat. Australia's child restraint laws are as follows:

  • Children aged between 7 to 16 years: Required to use a booster seat or an adult seat belt when travelling in a vehicle.
  • Children aged between 4 to 7 years: Must travel in a forward-facing child restraint with an inbuilt harness or a booster seat.
  • Children aged between 6 months to 4 years: Should travel in a rear-facing child seat or a forward-facing child seat with an inbuilt harness.
  • Children under 6 months: Must travel in a rear-facing child seat with an inbuilt harness. Please note: Baby capsules are generally not available for hire from car rental companies.

Tips for Choosing and Using a Child Seat

Booster Seats Booster seats are typically held in place by the child's own body and the vehicle's lap-sash seat belt.

  • Only use a lap-sash seat belt with a booster seat.
  • Ensure that the sash part of the seat belt crosses your child's shoulder and does not touch their neck.
  • If your booster seat has a top tether strap, it must be used correctly.
  • Choose a booster seat with an expandable headrest. This feature allows you to adjust the height of the booster seat as your child grows, ensuring proper fit and safety.
  • Opt for a booster seat with an anti-submarining feature. This design helps keep the lap part of the seat belt low on a child's hips, preventing them from sliding under the seat belt in a crash.
Expert Tip

Expert Safety Tip: Keep your child in a booster seat or forward-facing child restraint until they can pass the five-step test. This usually occurs when they are around 145cm tall.

Forward Facing Child Seats When securing the inbuilt harness on your child, their shoulders should be below the shoulder height markers. If your child's shoulders reach the harness slot, move the straps to a higher slot. You should transition your child to a larger forward-facing child car seat or a booster seat if their shoulders:

  • Are above the highest slot for the harness.
  • Have reached the shoulder height marker available on some restraints.

Rear Facing Child Seats It is recommended that you keep your child in a rear-facing child car seat until they have outgrown their rear-facing child car seat, ideally until they are at least twelve months old. You should move your child to a forward-facing child car seat if they have reached the upper limit of the shoulder height marker, or if their shoulders are above the highest harness slot.

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