TO CELEBRATE French Week (January 11 – 18th) low cost car rental firm holiday autos is offering up to 25% off car hire in France for pick-ups in January, February and March.

One week's fully inclusive rental has been slashed from £149 to £112* for hire of a Renualt Clio or similar.

Hire of a family compact car starts at £190* for one week – down from £239.

holiday autos offers more than 500 rental locations across France including Paris, Lyon, Nice, Biarritz.

Discounted prices are available online at www.holidayautos.co.uk .

For bookings and information visit the website or Tel: 0870 400 0010.

* Prices based on one week's rental booked online in January 2004, for pick-ups before March 2004. All prices may vary due to date, location and vehicle availability. Discounts based on edition 21 offline brochure price Vs current online price. Standard terms and conditions apply.

notes to editors:

Founded in the UK in 1987, holiday autos revolutionised the leisure rental market by offering pre-bookable, fully inclusive car hire packages Following the early success of the company in the UK, the company expanded first into Europe and then globally. What followed was one of the fastest and largest expansion programmes the travel industry has ever seen.

Today the holiday autos group is the world's largest leisure rental company, operating out of 40 countries worldwide. In 2002-03 group turnover was £158million. In March 2003 holiday autos was bought by internet lifestyle solutions giant lastminute.com for £43million. holiday autos founder Clive Jacobs remains company chief executive and is also a vice-chairman of lastminute.com.

At 42, Jacobs is the youngest person to have been welcomed into the travel industry's honoured Hall of Fame, joining the likes of Richard Branson, Lord Forte and Bill Butlin.

for media information contact:

claire williams
pr manager
holiday autos uk & ireland ltd  

t: 01276 413929
m: 07776 201090
f: 0870 400 4460
email: clairewilliams@holidayautos.co.uk
w: www.holidayautos.co.uk