I struggled last year finding a car with winter tyres out of Venice. The usual consolidators did not bring up any options or the usual "we cannot guarantee" type answers. Eventually after exhaustive searches, I found availability by going directly through the Italian website of Hertz which bizarrely appeared to be offering a different selection of vehicles than the international (or UK) website. What's more, they were offering a reduced hire rate for limited mileage hire (100km per day included). As this was more than adequate for my needs, it brought the price down nicely :wink:.
The tyres proved essential as both on the way up to resort and on the way back we hit some fresh snow on the roads. Thankfully, we were able to manage with just the tyres. Without them, we would have faced the awful task of fitting chains :twisted:
