Cheap headline rates through booking sites. Check the card and deposit rules carefully first.
A broker rate more than a desk: the headline price on the comparison sites is real, but it assumes their own insurance excess and a credit-card block that catches people out. Work out the all-in figure with the deposit and the excess before deciding it is cheaper than the local firms.
Every hire desk here blocks a deposit on a real credit card, not a debit card, and the block is often 300 to 500 euro on a small car; read that line before anything else. The rovinietă, Romania’s road-tax vignette, comes with the car and you do not buy one. Taking the car over a border needs written permission on the contract: Bulgaria and Hungary are usually a tick-box for a fee, Serbia and Moldova are non-EU and many firms refuse them outright.
Photograph every panel, both bumpers, the wheels and the windscreen before you drive off, and film the fuel gauge and the mileage. Winter tyres are a legal requirement in Romania whenever the road is snow-covered or icy, so from November to March ask which tyres are fitted and get it on the contract. Full-to-full is the fuel rule to insist on; anything else is priced against you.
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