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5 Responses to “Which rental Car company in Panama will let you drive in Costa Rica or vice versa?”

1. yellowstone Says:
   November 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 am

   This is not a good idea–for the most part Costa Ricans leave their cars in a parking lot at the border when they go to Panama because of the complicated paperwork. Where are you travelling to in Panama? If you are going to Bocas for instance, a car is just an expensive hassle.
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2. americanhero_11 Says:
   November 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 am

   Not sure if you can, but you could buy a car, drive it across, and sell it later if not damaged excessively.
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3. soar_2307 Says:
   November 23rd, 2009 at 4:21 am

   If you rent a car from any rental agency, you must ask them if it is permitted to drive the car up to Costa Rica.

   Here are just a few names of agencies:

   Avis – - – - – > > > > > http://www.avis.com
   Dollar – - – - > > > > > http://www.dollar.com
   Hertz – - – - -> > > > > http://www.hertz.com
   Thrifty – - – - > > > > > http://www.thrifty.com
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4. conde_c_b Says:
   November 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 am

   For your own safety and the safety of other passangers, with you, may I highly recommend that you do take a flight towards Costa Rica and leave the headaches behind.

   Welcome to Panama.
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5. egeorge Says:
   November 23rd, 2009 at 5:22 am

   Hi W Q.
   I just called Budget and Thrifty, same answer from both of them: NO, you can not rent a car here and drive it down to Costa Rica (or viceversa). Budget told me there is an agreement among rent-a-car companies between both countries about this.
   The safety issue I guess do not matter now but I did travel some years ago in my own car and I had NO problems. In the border did not let you go trough after certain hours (duty hours) in those days.
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