Hidden fees on a car rental in Canada: the damage-waiver upsell, airport concession and location surcharges, fuel and return rules, and additional-driver and young-driver charges, with the checks to run before you pay.
Applies in: across Canada
Hidden fees on a car rental are the charges added after the advertised daily rate: the collision or loss damage waiver sold at the counter, airport concession and facility charges, vehicle licensing and other recovery fees, fuel and refuelling charges, additional-driver and young-driver charges, and one-way and late-return charges. This guide covers what each charge is, the Canadian rules that limit how prices may be advertised, and the checks to run before you pay. This guide was checked November 4, 2026, against the pages in Sources. It states no company recommendation and ranks no company. It states no airport surcharge percentage or dollar amount, no per-litre refuelling rate, and no one-way fee amount, because no such figure was verified on a company page. Where a figure or term was not verified, this guide states a check instead of a figure. It is about renting a car, not buying one: the guide on getting a good price on a car in Canada covers buying, and is listed under Related guides only because the two are easy to confuse.
Drip pricing is the practice of advertising a low price and then adding mandatory fees during the purchase, so the advertised price is not attainable. The Competition Bureau defines it in those terms: when companies offer low prices to attract consumers, but then add mandatory fees so that the advertised prices are not attainable, it affects consumers' abilities to make informed decisions, according to Competition Bureau, Drip pricing. The exception the Bureau states is narrow. The practice raises concerns under the Competition Act, unless the additional fixed charges or fees are imposed by the government on purchasers, such as sales tax, on the same page.
The Bureau's best-practice wording for businesses is direct: never promote an unattainable price, because promoting a price that is not attainable due to fixed charges or fees that consumers must pay is against the law, unless it is a charge or fee only in an amount imposed by an act of Parliament or the legislature on purchasers, according to Competition Bureau, Drip pricing. A variable charge can still raise concerns: if that charge or fee is variable rather than being fixed, it could still raise concerns under the law, on the same page. For a renter, the Bureau's consumer signs are the practical test. The price you see is not the price you pay. The true total cost of a product or service is not displayed upfront, and you should not have to scroll down or read the fine print to find the total price. There are additional charges you were not expecting, and the only mandatory fees you should pay are the fixed ones imposed by the government on purchasers, such as sales tax, on the same page.
Car rentals have a specific enforcement history on this point, and it turns on how recovery fees were labelled as well as on the price itself. The Bureau's cases table records that Avis/Budget agreed in June 2016 to pay an administrative penalty of $3 million and $250,000 toward the Bureau's investigation costs, over allegations of false or misleading claims regarding the pricing of car rentals, according to Competition Bureau, Deceptive marketing practices — Cases and outcomes. That is a 2016 outcome about the practices alleged then, not a statement about any price shown today, and this guide states no penalty figure for any other company, because no other car rental penalty was verified on a Bureau page. The distinction the company pages draw in section 3 matters here: a charge the government imposes and the company must collect is a different line from a recovery fee the company elects to impose to recoup its own overhead. If a quote labels a company recovery fee as a tax, or shows a total that cannot be paid without mandatory lines added later, the quote shows the Bureau's warning signs. If a listing shows those signs today, the Bureau's page provides a route to report it, according to Competition Bureau, Drip pricing.
The counter upsell is usually a damage waiver, sold under names such as Damage Waiver, Collision Damage Waiver, or Loss Damage Waiver. At Enterprise, the Damage Waiver is offered at the time of rental for an additional daily charge, and if the renter accepts it, Enterprise waives or reduces the renter's responsibility for loss of, or damage to, the rental vehicle, including towing, storage, loss of use, administrative fees, and diminishment of value, subject to the rental agreement and applicable laws, according to Enterprise, What insurance options are available for my Enterprise rental car?. Enterprise states the cost of the Damage Waiver varies and ranges between $30-$54 CAD per day on that page. Treat that range as the page's stated range, not as a quote for your rental: the same page says the cost varies, and the figure to rely on is the daily charge on your own quote and agreement. The page also states plainly that a Damage Waiver is not insurance, that buying it is optional and not required to rent a car, and that the protection may duplicate the renter's existing coverage, on the same page.
At Avis, the equivalent product is Loss Damage Waiver. Acceptance of Loss Damage Waiver reduces the renter and authorized additional driver's responsibility to $300 or $500 CAD for loss of, or damage to, the Avis car, when they comply with the terms on the rental document jacket, and the customer must initial whether they accept or decline it at the time of rental, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). If Loss Damage Waiver is not accepted, the customer is financially responsible for the full value of accident damage, glass damage, stolen items, vandalism, and theft of the car, on the same page. The leftover amount is not one national figure. The same terms page lists exceptions: purchase of the waiver reduces responsibility to zero for all car groups at Barrie and Sioux Lookout in Ontario and in Moose Jaw and Regina in Saskatchewan, to zero except group P (FPAR) at Thunder Bay in Ontario, to $250 CAD at Magog in Quebec, to $500 CAD at Red Lake in Ontario, and to $500 CAD, or $1,000 CAD for a premium SUV, in the listed British Columbia locations, while at other participating locations the residual runs from $250 CAD for smaller car groups to $2,500 CAD for other car groups, on the same page. A further Avis term sits behind the waiver: the customer may also be responsible for reimbursing Avis for revenue lost while the car cannot be used during repair or non-recovery after theft, called Loss of Use, on the same page. Read the residual amount, the vehicle group, and the location exception on your own agreement, because the headline waiver name says nothing about which residual applies to your rental.
Two further products are commonly offered alongside the waiver, and neither is the waiver. Enterprise offers Personal Accident Insurance and Personal Effects Coverage, which it describes as optional products purchased at the time of rental, with accident benefits for the renter and passengers and cover for personal effects, under a policy underwritten by AIG Insurance Company of Canada, and available at all Enterprise locations except rentals originating from British Columbia, according to Enterprise, What insurance options are available for my Enterprise rental car?. This guide states no daily charge for that product, because the only figure on the page is for one branch and is not a general rate. Avis offers Personal Accident Insurance as an optional product providing accidental death and medical expense benefits, and Personal Effects Protection insuring personal belongings, with a maximum of $500 CAD per individual per claim excluding a $25 CAD deductible and $1,500 CAD for all individuals, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). Avis also states that public liability and property damage coverage are included in its rates at no additional charge, with liability limits of $200,000 CAD per occurrence at most locations in Canada, $50,000 CAD in Quebec, and $500,000 CAD in Nova Scotia, on the same page. Before accepting any of these products, check the two sources Enterprise itself names: credit card protections and automobile insurance policies that may duplicate the protection, according to Enterprise, What insurance options are available for my Enterprise rental car?. Section 7 explains how to check the card side without assuming it covers you.
Airport rentals carry location lines that a neighbourhood rental may not, and the companies name them differently. National states that at certain airport locations where it is an on-airport concessionaire, it is required to collect mandatory charges from customers and remit them to the airport, sometimes referred to as Customer Facility Charges, Airport Facility Charges, or Transportation Facility Charges, set out in the charges section of the rental agreement, according to National Car Rental, What are the taxes, surcharges and fees that I am paying?. Alongside those, National states that at some locations it has elected to impose recovery fees to recoup overhead, including the Concession Recoupment Fee or Concession Recovery Fee at airport locations, recovering all or a portion of the concession fees it is obligated to pay to the airport, and that the fee varies by airport and appears separately in the charges section as Airport Fee, or the like, on the same page. Alamo states the same distinction in the same terms for the United States and Canada: mandatory airport charges the company must collect and remit, and recovery fees the company has elected to impose, including the Concession Recoupment Fee or Concession Recovery Fee, according to Alamo, Are there any taxes, surcharges or fees?.
Other recovery lines ride on the same agreement. National lists a vehicle licensing and registration recovery fee, often called Vehicle License Recoupment or Recovery Fee, recovering its average annual cost to licence and register its fleet in the jurisdiction, calculated over the estimated annual utilization rate for that locale, plus certain tax recoveries not mandated to be charged to the customer, a hotel concession recovery fee, and a tire and battery recovery fee, according to National Car Rental, What are the taxes, surcharges and fees that I am paying?. Alamo lists the same family of recovery fees, including the vehicle licence recovery fee, tax recoveries, the hotel concession recovery fee, and the tire and battery recovery fee, according to Alamo, Are there any taxes, surcharges or fees?. National also states that a Frequent Traveler Surcharge will apply for qualifying rentals in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico when the renter chooses to receive frequent traveller miles or credits as part of a rental, on the National page. Avis adds one province-specific location line: in Quebec it is mandatory that vehicles registered in the province be equipped with winter tires from December to March, and all rentals will be charged a daily Tire Management Fee for year-round tire maintenance, subject to concession recovery fees, GST, and QST, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). In other provinces, Avis states that winter tire equipped vehicles may be available in the winter season at some locations, with additional fees varying by location and car group, on the same page.
No amount is stated for any line in this section, because none was stated on the company pages. Do not use a percentage or daily figure from a secondary source as the airport charge for your rental: the companies state the mechanism and that the amount varies by airport and location, and the figure that binds you is the line on your own quote and agreement. The practical check is a comparison of itemized quotes, not a claim about which pickup point is cheaper in general. Get the airport-location quote and the off-airport quote for the same vehicle, dates, and options, read every location line on each, and confirm whether an off-airport fee applies to the off-airport rental too, since National states airports impose a fee on off-airport transaction revenue that it elects to recover as an Airport Fee, according to National Car Rental, What are the taxes, surcharges and fees that I am paying?. This guide makes no cheapest-location claim, because the location lines, the daily rate, and the cost of getting to the pickup point all move the total.
Fuel is a return condition, not just a cost of driving. Under Avis's stated Canadian terms, the vehicle is rented with a full tank of gas and must be returned with a full tank of gas or there will be a charge for refuelling, and a driver who refuelled should keep the receipt for verification purposes, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). Most Avis locations offer a prepaid gas option to purchase a full tank at market value, which allows the customer to return the vehicle without a full tank, with no refund for unused gas, on the same page. A short-rental rule also applies at Avis: if the vehicle is driven less than 125 kilometres there is an additional refuelling fee unless a gas receipt is presented at the time of return, on the same page. This guide states no per-litre refuelling rate and no prepaid tank price, because neither was verified on a company page. The fuel rule stated in this section is Avis's stated rule. No Enterprise Canada fuel rule was verified on Enterprise Canada's pages, so this guide states no Enterprise fuel option and no Enterprise refuelling rate; read the fuel option written on your own rental agreement whichever company you rent from, note the fuel level shown at pickup, and keep the refuelling receipt.
The return itself carries charges beyond fuel. Both companies state that a one-way rental can carry a separate fee, with no amount verified. Avis states that based on availability one-way rentals are allowed between cities within Canada, and a one-way fee may apply, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). Enterprise states that unlimited mileage is available on one-way rentals for most car classes in Canada, and that there may be a one-way fee separate from the daily or weekly rate associated with a one-way rental, according to Enterprise, Does Enterprise Offer Unlimited Mileage?. Returning to a different location than agreed can cost more than the one-way fee alone: Avis states that if the vehicle is returned to a different location than agreed at rental, the rate could default to a different rate available on the day of return and a one-way fee will be applied, on the Avis terms page. Late return is a separate line at Avis: failing to extend the rental means the prevailing pay-at-location prices for the extra days plus a late return administration fee of $10.00 CAD for each day or part of a day until the vehicle is returned, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). Mileage is a further check, not an assumption of unlimited driving. Enterprise states that unlimited mileage is available for most car classes in Canada, while larger or specialty vehicles come with limited mileage and an incremental cost of $0.10-$0.25 for every additional mile or kilometre over the allowed limit, according to Enterprise, Does Enterprise Offer Unlimited Mileage?. Avis states a geographic mileage limit of its own: cars rented from the Atlantic provinces on unlimited kilometre rates keep those rates only within those provinces, and travel outside them is subject to a restricted mileage allowance and an additional fee, with details to be checked directly with the counter, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). Confirm the mileage allowance, the return location, and the return time on the agreement before you drive away.
Only drivers listed on the rental agreement are authorized drivers, and adding one costs money unless an exemption applies. Enterprise states that any additional driver, excluding a spouse or domestic partner, will pay a daily fee, that a spouse or domestic partner meeting the same age and licence requirements is an authorized driver at no additional charge, and that any additional authorized driver must appear at the time of rental and meet age and licence requirements, according to Enterprise, Can I Add Additional Drivers On My Rental Car Reservation?. The Enterprise charge is $15.00 per day for each additional authorized driver, unless other contractual conditions apply, on the same page. Avis sets a higher bar for the driver and a lower fee: an additional driver must be at least 25 years of age, present a valid driver's licence, complete and sign an additional driver form, and present valid credit identification, with an additional driver fee of $12.00 CAD per day per driver at most Canadian locations, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). The Avis exemptions are wider: a renter's employer or regular fellow employee while on company business, a spouse or domestic partner, and a disabled renter who completed a non-licensed renter form must also be at least 25 but are exempt from the fee and need not complete the form, on the same page. Do not transfer one company's fee or exemption to the other: the two companies state different daily charges and different exemption lists, and the charge that applies is the one on your company's quote.
Young-driver charges are daily, per driver, and tied to vehicle restrictions. Avis states that at corporate and participating licensee locations in Canada it will rent to customers aged 21 to 24 who have a valid credit card and driver's licence, at a surcharge of $25.00 CAD per day, and that renters in that age range may not rent luxury cars, mini-vans, 12-passenger vans, specialty cars, or standard, full-size, or premium SUVs, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). The Avis age rule varies by province: in Quebec the minimum age for all renters is 21 with an under-age fee of $25.00 CAD per day, and in Saskatchewan the minimum age is 18 with no underage fee, while minimum age and surcharges can vary by location, on the same page. Enterprise states a minimum age of 21 throughout Canada, a young renter fee averaging approximately $25.00 per day that can be higher or lower based on the rental location, and restrictions to specific car classes for renters aged 21 to 24, according to Enterprise, Can I rent a car from Enterprise if I'm under 25?. Enterprise lists the classes young renters may rent at most locations as economy through full-size cars, cargo vans and minivans, pickup trucks, and compact, small, and standard SUVs seating up to 5 passengers, on the same page. The two companies' young-renter figures look the same and are not the same kind of figure: Avis states a fixed $25.00 CAD per day in its terms, while Enterprise states an average of approximately $25.00 per day that varies by location and directs the renter to start a reservation to determine the fee. State no young-driver figure for any other company, because none was verified on a company page. Enter the actual ages of every driver when booking, confirm the surcharge and the permitted vehicle classes for your location on the quote, and list every driver on the agreement: an unlisted driver is not an authorized driver under the rental terms, whatever any other document says about permission.
A hold on a credit card is not a fee, but it reduces the funds available to you during the rental. Avis states that at corporate locations it will request an authorization on the charge card for the estimated rental charges plus 20 percent, or a minimum of $750.00 CAD, whichever is greater, and that while the hold is in place the funds will not be available for use, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). At licensee locations the hold amount may vary and is determined by rate, car group, length of rental, and miscellaneous charges, on the same page. Avis does not accept debit cards at the time of rental as credit identification, although debit, cash, or cheque cards can be used at the end of the rental for payment, on the same page. Confirm the hold amount for your location before pickup, and do not assume another company's hold follows the same formula, because no other company's hold formula was verified on an official page.
Taxes sit on top of the rental and on top of most accepted extras. This guide states no tax rate for any province or territory, because no tax rate was verified on an official page for it. The check is to confirm which lines on the quote are taxed and to read the tax lines on the final invoice, rather than to estimate a rate. The same discipline applies to the remaining lines on the agreement: special equipment, roadside assistance, child seats, GPS, and toll handling were not verified as priced items on the company pages, so this guide states no charge for any of them. Avis lists child safety seats, GPS, and extended roadside assistance in its terms without stating a general daily charge on the page, and states that special equipment cost per day applies at most corporate and participating licensee locations with availability and cost varying, so the check is the location's own price list, according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). If a line appears on the agreement that you did not agree to, ask for it to be removed before you sign, and check that the total falls by the amount it carried.
Card rental coverage is a certificate, not a card feature in general. The only certificate covered in this guide is for a Scotiabank Visa Commercial Card in Canadian dollars, underwritten through Manulife's First North American Insurance Company, effective March 1, 2026. It states that the coverage applies when the cardholder rents and operates a rental vehicle but does not accept the collision damage waiver or its equivalent offered by the rental agency, and it provides instructions on how to make a claim, according to Manulife, Scotiabank Visa Commercial Card Auto Rental Collision/Loss Damage Insurance Certificate. The conditions on that certificate are cumulative. Only the cardholder may rent and decline the waiver, the card must be in good standing, the entire rental transaction must be initiated and completed with the same card, the full cost of the rental must be charged to that card to activate coverage, the rental must not exceed 48 consecutive days, and the cardholder must decline the waiver on the rental contract, on the same certificate. Coverage is limited to loss or damage to, or theft of, the rental vehicle up to its actual cash value plus valid loss of use charges, and the certificate states it only covers loss or damage to the rental vehicle as stipulated, with an instruction to check with a personal automobile insurer and the rental agency to ensure adequate third-party liability, personal injury, and property damage coverage, on the same certificate. It does not cover third-party liability, personal injury, or damage to property except the rental vehicle itself or its equipment, and it does not cover loss arising from a replacement vehicle whose cost a personal automobile policy covers, intoxicated driving, dishonest or criminal acts, wear and tear, or operation in violation of the rental agreement, subject to stated exceptions, on the same certificate.
None of those terms may be carried to another card. A different card's certificate may set a different maximum rental length, different excluded vehicle types, different conditions for activating coverage, or no coverage at all. The certificate also contains a conflict that must be resolved in favour of the rental agreement. It treats any other person driving with the cardholder's permission as an eligible person whether or not that person was listed on the rental contract, while adding that all drivers must otherwise qualify under and follow the terms of the rental contract, and the rental companies require additional drivers to be added to the agreement, to appear at the counter, and to meet age and licence requirements, as stated in sections 2 and 5. Satisfying the card's permission wording does not satisfy the rental agreement's listing requirement, and an unlisted driver risks breaching the rental terms and the waiver. The check, in order, is: read your own card's certificate of insurance, confirm the vehicle type is covered, confirm the rental length limit, confirm the decline-and-pay conditions, confirm liability coverage from another source, and list every driver on the rental agreement. If any condition cannot be confirmed from the certificate, do not decline the company's waiver on the strength of the card.
Quebec's advertised-price rule is general, and it applies to goods and services, not to car rentals specifically on the official page. The Office de la protection du consommateur states that the advertised price must include all the amounts you are required to pay for the good or service, excluding taxes, that the price must be emphasized more than the individual amounts that make up the price, and that it cannot be increased unless products or services are added at your request, according to Office de la protection du consommateur, False Advertising or Misleading Information. The only amounts that can be added are those required under a government act or regulation and collected for a public authority, such as Quebec sales tax and goods and services tax, on the same page. Requiring a price higher than the advertised price is listed as a prohibited action, and a consumer who is asked to pay more than the advertised price is entitled to ask to pay the advertised price and may file a complaint with the Office, on the same page. No rental-specific Office de la protection du consommateur page was verified, and this guide states no Quebec rental-specific steps beyond that general rule and the company terms below. Do not treat the general rule as a rental price schedule: it governs how the price must be advertised, not what any company charges.
The Quebec-specific company terms that were verified sit in the rental companies' own pages, not in a regulator's rental page. Avis states the Quebec minimum rental age of 21 with a $25.00 CAD per day under-age fee, the Magog Loss Damage Waiver residual of $250 CAD, the Quebec public liability limit of $50,000 CAD per occurrence against $200,000 CAD at most other Canadian locations, and the mandatory winter tire rule with a daily Tire Management Fee, all according to Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada). Each of those is a company term for its own rentals, and the Tire Management Fee amount itself was not stated on the page. For a Quebec rental, the checks are the general advertised-price rule above, the itemized quote showing every mandatory amount except taxes, the Avis or other company's Quebec terms on the agreement, and the complaint route on the Office page if the invoiced price differs from the advertised price without an added product or service at your request.
Before you book. Decide the total you will pay, not the daily rate you will accept. Get an itemized quote showing the daily rate, every mandatory fee, every optional product with its daily charge, the fuel option, every driver and the charge for each, the return location, and the taxes. Decide the waiver question from section 2 and the card certificate in section 7 before you reach the counter, not under time pressure there. Confirm the vehicle group, the mileage allowance, and the permitted return location, under sections 4 and 5. For a Quebec rental, confirm the advertised price includes all mandatory amounts except taxes, under section 8.
At the counter. Read the agreement line by line before signing. Confirm the waiver decision is recorded as you intended, with the residual amount from section 2 visible. Confirm every driver is listed, with the correct fee or exemption. Confirm the fuel option, the fuel level at pickup, and the return time. Confirm the hold amount, under section 6. Decline, in writing on the agreement, anything you do not want, and check that the total falls by the amount it carried. Keep the quote, the agreement, and every screen or printout showing the advertised price, because a later dispute turns on what was shown and when, under the Bureau's warning signs in section 1.
After you return. Check the final invoice against the agreement before leaving the location. Confirm the fuel charge matches the fuel level and the receipt you kept, the driver charges match the drivers listed, the location lines match the pickup point, and no optional product appears that you declined. If the total charged differs from the total shown, or a mandatory fee appeared only at the counter, the reporting routes are the Competition Bureau's report route for drip pricing, the Office de la protection du consommateur for Quebec pricing complaints, and your province or territory's consumer protection office for other pricing complaints, each on the pages cited in Sources. This guide states no refund or cancellation terms for any rental company, because none were verified on the official pages; the company's refund and cancellation terms for the rental are a check to read before paying, not a fact stated here.
This guide states no airport concession or facility charge percentage or dollar amount for any airport or company, no per-litre refuelling rate, no prepaid fuel tank price, no one-way fee amount, no Budget or Hertz fee figure of any kind, no tax rate for any province or territory, no child seat, GPS, roadside, or toll-handling charge, and no Enterprise Canada fuel option or rate. It states no general credit-card coverage terms beyond the single Scotiabank Visa Commercial Card certificate, and no day limit, vehicle exclusion, or condition from any other card's certificate. It states no Quebec rental-specific regulator steps beyond the general advertised-price rule and the company terms cited. The only fee figures stated are the ones verified on company pages: the Enterprise Damage Waiver range, the Enterprise and Avis additional-driver charges, the Avis and Enterprise young-renter figures, the Avis Loss Damage Waiver residuals and liability limits, the Avis late-return administration fee and card hold formula, the Avis refuelling distance rule, and the Enterprise mileage overage range. Each is labelled with its company and its location or vehicle-group limits, and none is presented as a market rate. For every check in this guide, read the quote, the rental agreement, and your card's certificate of insurance for the rental in front of you.
Advertising a price that is not attainable because mandatory fees are added later is the practice the Competition Bureau calls drip pricing, and the Bureau's position is that promoting an unattainable price is against the law unless the added amount is imposed by government on purchasers, such as sales tax, according to [Competition Bureau, Drip pricing](https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/deceptive-marketing-practices/drip-pricing). The Bureau's consumer signs are that the price you see is not the price you pay, the true total cost is not displayed upfront, and additional charges appear that you were not expecting, on the same page. Car rentals have drawn enforcement on this point: the Bureau's cases table records that Avis/Budget agreed in June 2016 to pay a $3 million administrative penalty and $250,000 toward the Bureau's investigation costs over allegations of false or misleading claims about car rental pricing, according to [Competition Bureau, Deceptive marketing practices — Cases and outcomes](https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/deceptive-marketing-practices/cases-and-outcomes). That is a 2016 outcome about the practices alleged then, not a statement about any price shown today. This guide gives no legal advice about any single quote. If a quote shows the Bureau's warning signs, report it through the Bureau's report route on the drip pricing page, and keep a record of each screen you saw.
It reduces what you owe the rental company for loss of, or damage to, the rental car itself, and the leftover amount depends on the company, the location, and the vehicle group. At Avis, acceptance of Loss Damage Waiver generally reduces the renter's responsibility to $300 or $500 CAD, while the same terms page lists location exceptions that reduce it to zero in places such as Barrie and Sioux Lookout in Ontario, to $250 CAD at Magog in Quebec, and to $1,000 or $2,500 CAD for some vehicle groups, and states that if the waiver is declined the renter is financially responsible for the full value of the vehicle, according to [Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada)](https://production.rent-at-avis.com/avisonline/terms.nsf/TermsByCountryAndLngCategories/CA-GB-Common?OpenDocument). At Enterprise, the Damage Waiver waives or reduces the renter's responsibility for loss of, or damage to, the vehicle, including towing, storage, loss of use, administrative fees, and diminishment of value, subject to the rental agreement, according to [Enterprise, What insurance options are available for my Enterprise rental car?](https://www.enterprise.ca/en/car-rental-faqs/canada-insurance-and-protections/car-rental-insurance-us.html). The same Enterprise page states the waiver is not insurance and that buying it is optional. No single leftover figure applies across companies, so read the residual amount on your own rental agreement before you decide.
It is a recovery charge the rental company imposes to recoup part of the concession fees it must pay the airport for operating on site. National states that at airport locations where it is an on-airport concessionaire it has elected to impose a charge, often referred to as a Concession Recoupment Fee or Concession Recovery Fee, to recover all or a portion of the concession fees it is obligated to pay to the airport, and that the fee varies by airport and appears separately in the charges section of the rental agreement, according to [National Car Rental, What are the taxes, surcharges and fees that I am paying?](https://www.nationalcar.com/en/support/car-rental-faqs/taxes-surcharges-fees.html). The same page states that airports also impose a fee on revenue from off-airport transactions, which National elects to recover from customers as an Airport Fee, so an off-airport location does not automatically remove every airport-related line. Separately, National states that at airport locations it must collect mandatory charges remitted to the airport, sometimes called Customer Facility Charges, Airport Facility Charges, or Transportation Facility Charges, on the same page. This guide states no percentage or dollar amount for any of these lines, because no amount was stated on the company pages. Compare the itemized quote for the airport location with the itemized quote for the off-airport location, and confirm which lines each quote carries, before assuming the saving.
Under Avis's stated Canadian terms, the vehicle is rented with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank or there will be a charge for refuelling, and a driver who refuelled should keep the receipt for verification, according to [Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada)](https://production.rent-at-avis.com/avisonline/terms.nsf/TermsByCountryAndLngCategories/CA-GB-Common?OpenDocument). Most Avis locations offer a prepaid gas option to purchase a full tank at market value, which allows return without a full tank, with no refund for unused gas, on the same page. A further Avis rule applies to short rentals: if the vehicle is driven less than 125 kilometres there is an additional refuelling fee unless a gas receipt is presented at return, on the same page. This guide states no per-litre refuelling rate, because none was verified on a company page. The fuel rule stated here is Avis's; no Enterprise Canada fuel rule was verified on Enterprise Canada's pages, so do not assume another company's fuel option works the same way. Read the fuel option written on your own rental agreement, note the fuel level at pickup, and keep the refuelling receipt.
A spouse or domestic partner is commonly exempt from the additional-driver fee, but the exemption and the fee differ by company, and every driver must still meet the age and licence requirements. Enterprise states that a renter's spouse or domestic partner who meets the same age and driver's licence requirements is an authorized driver at no additional charge, while any other additional driver pays $15.00 per day, according to [Enterprise, Can I Add Additional Drivers On My Rental Car Reservation?](https://www.enterprise.ca/en/car-rental-faqs/canada-general/additional-driver.html). Avis states that an additional driver must be at least 25, present a valid driver's licence, complete and sign a form, and present credit identification, with a fee of $12.00 CAD per day per driver at most Canadian locations, while a spouse or domestic partner, an employer or fellow employee on company business, and a disabled renter who completed a non-licensed renter form are exempt from the fee, according to [Avis, Terms And Conditions (Canada)](https://production.rent-at-avis.com/avisonline/terms.nsf/TermsByCountryAndLngCategories/CA-GB-Common?OpenDocument). For young renters, Avis rents to ages 21 to 24 with a valid credit card and licence at a surcharge of $25.00 CAD per day, with Quebec at a minimum age of 21 and the same fee and Saskatchewan at a minimum age of 18 with no underage fee, on the same page. Enterprise states a minimum age of 21 throughout Canada, a young renter fee averaging approximately $25.00 per day that can be higher or lower by location, and restrictions to specific vehicle classes for ages 21 to 24, according to [Enterprise, Can I rent a car from Enterprise if I'm under 25?](https://www.enterprise.com/en/car-rental-faqs/canada-renter-requirements/car-rental-under-25.html). Confirm the fee for your company and location on the quote, and list every driver on the agreement.
Only your own card's certificate of insurance can answer that, and the conditions are strict. The one certificate, for a Scotiabank Visa Commercial Card in Canadian dollars, requires the cardholder to present in person, sign the rental contract, decline the rental agency's collision damage waiver or its equivalent, pay the full cost of the rental with the same card, and keep the rental to no more than 48 consecutive days, and it limits coverage to loss or damage to, or theft of, the rental vehicle up to its actual cash value plus valid loss of use charges, according to [Manulife, Scotiabank Visa Commercial Card Auto Rental Collision/Loss Damage Insurance Certificate](https://www.manulife.ca/content/dam/consumer-portal/documents/en/insurance/credit-card-insurance/scotiabank-credit-cards/visa-commercial-card-canadian-dollar/scotiabank_visa_commercial_card_travel_card_and_central_travel_account_canadian_dollar_auto_rental_collision_loss_damage_insurance_certificate.pdf). The same certificate states it does not cover third-party liability, personal injury, or damage to property other than the rental vehicle itself. Do not carry those terms to another card: a different card's certificate may set a different day limit, different vehicle exclusions, or different conditions. There is also a conflict to resolve before relying on a card: the certificate treats another person driving with the cardholder's permission as an eligible person whether or not that person was listed on the rental contract, while the rental companies require additional drivers to be added to the agreement and to meet their requirements, so an unlisted driver can satisfy the card's wording while still breaching the rental agreement. Read your card's certificate, list every driver on the rental agreement, and confirm liability coverage separately, because the certificate covers damage to the rental vehicle only.