American cities top list of favourite road trip destinations

Data from travel search engine, KAYAK, reveals that American cities top the list of UK travellers' favourite international destinations to hire a car and hit the open road. The prospect of driving on the right hand side of the road and navigating six lanes of traffic doesn’t faze us as Orlando, San Francisco and Los Angeles are all amongst the five most popular international destinations for Brits to hire a car.

Travel search engine, KAYAK, have developed the list of the UK’s top five hire car hotspots using the one billion queries for travel information which they process annually. KAYAK’s website helps users travel smarter and lists 36,000 car hire locations worldwide.

Britain’s Top Five International Destinations for Car Hire
 
1. Orlando
2. Los Angeles
3. Malaga
4. San Francisco
5. Geneva

Even though American destinations have proven the most popular for road trips, we Brits are less eager to adopt traditional US vehicles. KAYAK’s data reveals that when getting behind the wheel less than 1 per cent of Brits choose to hire SUVs and pick-up trucks; instead, 31 per cent opt for economy models which cost an average of £20 per day.

Typically Brits hire a car for nine days, giving plenty of time for an adventurous road trip or to discover a new area.

Annie Wilson UK Managing Director of KAYAK commented “Car hire is a wonderful way to explore a new destination and it’s interesting to see the pull that America has over us as travellers. Hollywood has created some truly classic American road trip movies, and with Orlando, Los Angeles and San Francisco all appearing in the UK’s top five favourite international car hire destinations, it’s clear that we fancy ourselves as the modern versions of our favourite screen heroes. Though in a typically British way, we’d rather explore from the comfort of a small hatch back than going authentic and renting an SUV!”