Carrentals.co.uk Launches 12 Days of Christmas Competition, Supporting StreetSmart

LONDON, December 6, 2011 -

An iPad 2, London Eye tickets and more are up for grabs in a new festive competition that will also help support homeless charities across the UK

Christmas is coming early for 13 lucky winners in the Carrentals.co.uk ‘12 days of Christmas’ giveaway, which is offering the chance to win a prize a day in the run up to the festive season.

An iPad 2, Amazon vouchers, tickets for two for the London Eye, a vineyard tour and tasting, and more are all up for grabs starting from 12 December.

The competition will offer a prize a day for 12 days, followed by a prize draw of all entrants on the 24^th December for the chance to win the iPad 2.  

Carrentals.co.uk is also donating the total cost of the prizes to the homeless charity, StreetSmart.  StreetSmart helps over 90 homeless charities in 19 cities across the UK, and has so far raised and distributed over £4.7million to support a range of work including education and training initiatives, supported housing and health issues.

To enter the competition, each day visitors are given a clue to find a Carrentals.co.uk snowman hidden on the site. Once customers find the URL where the snowman is hiding they use it to enter the competition.

Gareth Robinson, Managing Director of Carrentals.co.uk, says: “We have some great Christmas gifts to give away this year - it’s up to the winners whether they keep them or give them to friends or family on Christmas Day!  But we also wanted to give something to help the thousands of homeless people who can find it particularly hard at this time of year.  StreetSmart helps many of the smaller homeless charities across the UK whose work is vital, and we hope our Christmas campaign will go some way in helping provide a range of support.”

For full details on the Carrentals.co.uk ‘12 days of Christmas’ competition and all terms and conditions visit www.carrentals.co.uk/media/12-days-of-christmas.html. For further information on StreetSmart visit www.streetsmart.org.uk.

Carrentals.co.uk is the UK’s leading car rental comparison site, comparing deals from up to 50 rental companies including Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Holiday Autos and Sixt, in over 15,000 locations worldwide including car hire in Italy, Spain, UK and car hire in Cyprus.

About Carrentals.co.uk

Carrentals.co.uk was launched in February 2003 and grew to become one of the UK’s leading online car hire companies by 2006.

In 2007 the company re-launched its site to create the first major online price comparator in the travel industry. Using the latest technology the Carrentals.co.uk site now searches up to 50 different car hire websites, providing an impartial comparison of the best prices available in over 15,000 locations.

Websites searched include Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Ebookers, Hertz, Holiday Autos, Opodo, Sixt and Thrifty, with the Carrentals.co.uk site quickly comparing prices and allowing customers to refine their search by car type.

The Carrentals.co.uk site also features over 5,000 pages of travel information in a mini-guide format.

In 2008 Carrentals.co.uk was voted Best Car Hire Website in the Travolution Awards, and in 2010 it was Highly Commended in the Best Meta-search/Price Comparison category. To book or for further information visit www.carrentals.co.uk

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