Car Rental at Trieste Airport (TRS): Full Insurance, No Deposit and Best Options With a Debit Card

Trieste Airport (TRS), also called Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, is at Ronchi dei Legionari, about 37 km by road from the centre of Trieste. For one week in November we found 431 rental offers from 15 companies here, and 56% of them were automatics. All 11 companies we recommend have their desk in the arrivals hall, and none of them uses a shuttle. Ten of the 11 accept a debit card, including Locauto, which asks for no deposit, only a symbolic 0,01 EUR authorisation at pick-up. Ljubljana is about 1 hour 18 minutes away by car, but SIXT does not allow its cars into Slovenia or Croatia. This guide to car rental at Trieste Airport covers each of the 11 companies we recommend, debit and Revolut cards, deposits, prices by month, which nearby airport to choose, and what to know before you drive into Trieste, Slovenia or Croatia.

Data last verified: October 2026. Written by Simas Krasaitis, founder of Autorentwiz and former head of car rental at ADCRent.

Short on time? The key facts:

• Desks: all 11 of our companies are in the arrivals hall of the single terminal. No company we recommend works with a shuttle
• Debit cards: 10 of the 11 accept them: Locauto (no deposit, only a 0,01 EUR card authorisation), Maggiore (200 EUR), Alamo, Enterprise and National (500 EUR), Flizzr and SIXT (about 508-868 EUR), Noleggiare (from 600 EUR), Hertz (700 EUR) and Keddy (800 EUR). Only Sicily By Car wants a credit card
• No deposit: Locauto (only a symbolic 0,01 EUR card authorisation), with a debit or a credit card, on every car class in our search
• Slovenia and Croatia: SIXT does not allow them. Locauto, Alamo, Enterprise and National allow both for free, and the others charge a fee or want written permission. Slovenian motorways need an e-vignette for the car’s plate, 16 EUR a week for most cars
• Revolut or no card: none of the 11 companies accepts cards from online-only banks, and our search found no deals without a card at pick-up
• Opening hours: SIXT and Flizzr open at 07:45. Locauto, Alamo, Enterprise and National work 08:00-23:00 every day. Sicily By Car closes at 21:29 on weekdays and 20:29 at weekends in its offer conditions
• Prices: November is the cheapest month (about 19 EUR a day on average), August the most expensive (about 49 EUR)
• Free consultation: message us on Messenger and our car rental experts will compare all 11 companies for your dates, card, route and landing time. You get the same discount as when you book through our search

Sixteen rental companies are rated by verified renters at Trieste Airport, and 15 had offers in our November search. To make our list, a company needs a rating of 8.0 or higher from verified renters at this airport and a separate score of 8.0 or higher for its staff here. Twelve companies passed both, and 11 of them had offers in our search. Thrifty passed but had no offers for our dates. Budget is rated 8.0 but missed the staff score, and Europcar, Drivalia and Avis are rated below 8.0 here. SIXT and Enterprise passed with very few ratings, 2 and 5, and the page shows no rating count for National and Flizzr, so their scores say less than the others. Our car rental in Italy page compares Trieste with the other Italian airports.

Company	Rating	Hours	Card	Deposit	Travel abroad
Locauto	9.3	08:00-23:00	Debit or credit (not Maestro)	No deposit (0,01 EUR card authorisation)	29 countries, free, incl. Slovenia and Croatia
Alamo	8.8	08:00-23:00	Debit or credit (not Maestro)	500 EUR	29 countries, free, incl. Slovenia and Croatia
Sicily By Car	8.7	Mon-Fri 08:00-21:29, Sat-Sun 08:00-20:29	Credit only	200 EUR on small cars, up to 1,575 EUR on big ones	19 countries, free, with written permission
Keddy	8.6	Mon-Fri 08:00-23:00, Sat-Sun 08:00-21:00	Debit or credit	800 EUR	17 countries with written permission, 85.40 EUR for Slovenia and Croatia
SIXT	8.5 (2 ratings)	07:45-22:30	Debit or credit	about 530-868 EUR	17 countries, 50 EUR, not Slovenia or Croatia
Enterprise	8.4 (5 ratings)	08:00-23:00	Debit or credit	500 EUR	29 countries, free, incl. Slovenia and Croatia
Hertz	8.4	Mon 08:00-23:30, Wed 08:00-23:00, Sun 08:30-23:59, other days 08:00-23:59	Debit or credit (not Maestro), credit only on the Ford Kuga	700 EUR	15 countries, 30 EUR, with written permission
National	8.3	08:00-23:00	Debit or credit	500 EUR	29 countries, free, incl. Slovenia and Croatia
Flizzr	8.3	07:45-22:30	Debit or credit (not Maestro)	about 508-610 EUR	26 countries, 50 EUR, with written permission
Noleggiare	8.2	08:00-23:59 on most days: check the desk hours in your offer for your pick-up day	Debit or credit (not Maestro or Visa Electron)	600-1,800 EUR, 190-390 EUR on its zero-excess offers	32 countries, 42 EUR, with written permission
Maggiore	8.1	Mon-Fri 08:30-23:30, Sat 09:00-21:00, Sun 09:00-23:30	Debit or credit (not Maestro or Visa Electron)	200-478 EUR	26 countries, 28.80 EUR, with written permission and extra cover

At Trieste Airport, Locauto asks for no deposit, only a symbolic 0,01 EUR authorisation on a debit or a credit card at pick-up, on all 30 of its offers in our search, the 9-seat Volkswagen Caravelle included. Maggiore blocks 200-478 EUR on a debit or a credit card, but its excess is one of the highest here, up to 3,660 EUR. Sicily By Car blocks 200 EUR on small cars, with a credit card only. Alamo, Enterprise and National block 500 EUR, and Flizzr and SIXT about 508-868 EUR, depending on the car.

Two of our companies sell offers with zero excess that come with a lower deposit and cost more per day. On these offers Sicily By Car blocks 100-400 EUR, with a credit card, and Noleggiare 190-390 EUR, also with a debit card. On its standard offers Noleggiare blocks 600-1,800 EUR. The highest fixed deposits are at Keddy (800 EUR) and Hertz (700 EUR), and on big cars Sicily By Car blocks up to 1,575 EUR.

Trieste Airport has a single terminal, and all 11 companies we recommend have their desk in the arrivals hall. The Trieste Airport car rental page says the rental offices are in the arrivals area and open with flight arrivals. Locauto, Alamo and Sicily By Car place the desk in the arrivals hall, and SIXT on the ground floor near arrivals. Enterprise and Flizzr ask you to follow the signs to the car rental area, and Noleggiare says it is at the arrivals terminal. Most of them list the address Via Aquileia 46 in Ronchi dei Legionari, which is the airport itself. No company we recommend picks you up by shuttle, so there is no shuttle to wait for.

Autorentwiz tip: we have too few Trieste requests to give figures for this airport, so this tip uses all our customers. Of all our customers who named their card, about 6 in 10 had only a debit card. At Trieste Airport 10 of our 11 companies accept a debit card, all in the arrivals hall. With a debit card, Locauto takes no deposit, only a symbolic 0,01 EUR authorisation, and Maggiore blocks 200 EUR. Sicily By Car takes credit cards only, and it had the cheapest small car in our search, a Fiat Panda. Check the card section of the rental conditions before you book, or send us your dates on Messenger and we will check it for you.

At Trieste Airport the desk hours change with the day of the week at several companies. SIXT and Flizzr open earliest, at 07:45, and close at 22:30. Locauto, Alamo, Enterprise and National work 08:00-23:00 every day. Hertz works until 23:59 on most days, until 23:30 on Mondays and until 23:00 on Wednesdays. Maggiore works until 23:30 from Monday to Friday and on Sundays, but only until 21:00 on Saturdays. Keddy closes at 23:00 on weekdays and at 21:00 at weekends.

In its offer conditions, Sicily By Car closes at 21:29 on weekdays and at 20:29 at weekends, earlier than its location listing shows. Noleggiare lists 08:00-23:59 for most days, but its data for some days did not match, so check the desk hours in your offer for your pick-up day. Sicily By Car and Noleggiare hold your car for 2 hours after the booked time, Keddy for only 29 minutes, and most others for about an hour. Add your flight number to the booking.

The nearest petrol station is the IP station at Via Aquileia 35 in Ronchi dei Legionari, on the road outside the airport, and Google Maps listed it as open 24 hours when we checked in October 2026. The Q8 easy on Via Redipuglia was also listed as open 24 hours, and the Esso on Via Pietro Micca opens at 07:00. Fill up before you return, because most rental conditions ask for the same fuel level you started with, and the refuelling charge at the desk is much higher than the pump price.

Yes, with 10 of the 11 companies we recommend, all in the arrivals hall: Locauto (no deposit, only a 0,01 EUR card authorisation), Maggiore (200-478 EUR), Alamo, Enterprise and National (500 EUR), Flizzr (about 508-610 EUR), SIXT (about 530-868 EUR), Noleggiare (from 600 EUR, or 190-390 EUR on its zero-excess offers), Hertz (700 EUR) and Keddy (800 EUR). Only Sicily By Car takes credit cards only. Hertz accepts a debit card on its small cars, but on the Ford Kuga it takes credit cards only.

At the desk you need a physical debit card in the main driver’s name. Locauto, Alamo, Hertz, Flizzr, Noleggiare and Maggiore do not take Maestro, and Noleggiare and Maggiore also refuse Visa Electron. Locauto wants the card number printed on the card, and Noleggiare wants the card valid for 1 month after drop-off. In our search the cheapest car with a debit card was a Toyota Aygo at Locauto from about 94 EUR a week, and the cheapest automatic a Volkswagen Polo at Alamo from about 120 EUR. Our guide to renting a car in Italy with a debit card explains what the desk checks.

None of the 11 companies we recommend at Trieste Airport accepts cards from online-only banks such as Revolut: all of them list cards from online-only banks as not accepted. The conditions of Keddy name “Revolut Credit” among the accepted credit cards, but the same conditions list cards from online-only banks as not accepted, so we would not count on it. Our search also found no deals at Trieste Airport where no card is needed at pick-up. If a Revolut debit card is the only card you have, you need a card from a traditional bank in the main driver’s name to rent here.

Locauto asks for no deposit at Trieste Airport, only a symbolic 0,01 EUR authorisation on a debit or a credit card at pick-up, on every car class in our search, from the Toyota Aygo, about 94 EUR for the week, to the 9-seat Volkswagen Caravelle. Apart from Locauto, we found no offers without a deposit. With a debit card, Maggiore blocks 200 EUR, but its excess runs up to 3,660 EUR. Noleggiare blocks 190-390 EUR on its zero-excess offers, also with a debit card, but these cost more: its Hyundai i10 cost about 406 EUR a week with zero excess, against about 95 EUR without it. With a credit card, Sicily By Car blocks 100 EUR on some zero-excess offers. Our guide to saving money on car rental shows how to weigh the deposit against the price.

At Trieste Airport the excess, the part of any damage you pay yourself, was about 1,300-2,800 EUR at most of our companies in our search. Locauto had the lowest standard excess, from 1,200 EUR, and the highest was at Maggiore, up to 3,660 EUR. Noleggiare had 68 offers and Sicily By Car 12 offers with zero excess, at a higher price. You can cover the excess in two ways.

Full coverage added online when you book costs less per day, but the desk still blocks the normal deposit, and if something happens you pay the company and claim the money back from the insurer. The company’s own cover costs more but removes the excess on the spot and can cut the deposit, as on the zero-excess offers of Noleggiare (190-390 EUR) and Sicily By Car (100-400 EUR). Maggiore also asks for its extra cover if you take the car abroad. If you already bought full coverage, you do not need the desk cover as well. Our pick-up tips show how to film the car and what to check at pick-up.

The rules below come from the rental conditions of the 11 companies we recommend, for small cars unless we say otherwise, and the conditions of your own offer are what counts at the desk. Most companies accept only a physical licence, not a digital one. Send us the driver’s age on Messenger, and we will check which offers allow it.

• Minimum age: 18 at SIXT and Flizzr. 19 at Sicily By Car and Noleggiare, and on the smallest cars at Locauto, Alamo, Enterprise and Maggiore. 21 at Hertz, National and Keddy. Most companies want the licence held for at least 1 year, and Alamo, Enterprise, National and Keddy for 3 years
• Bigger cars: the Leon estate and the 9-seat Volkswagen Caravelle need 25 at Locauto, Alamo, Enterprise and National. The BMW 1 Series needs 21 at SIXT, and the Opel Crossland 21 at Maggiore, with the licence held for 2 years. Locauto wants the licence held for 3 years on the Leon estate and the Caravelle, and Noleggiare on the Peugeot 5008 7-seater and the Ford Focus estate. Sicily By Car keeps 19 even on its 9-seat Mercedes Vito
• Young driver fee and maximum age: a young driver fee applies under 25 at all our companies except Sicily By Car, where it applies under 23. The conditions do not state the amount. The maximum age is 80 at Noleggiare, which adds a senior fee over 75, and 82 at Sicily By Car. The other nine set no maximum age
• EU or EEA licence: Italian law requires no International Driving Permit (IDP). A licence issued in an EU country is valid anywhere in the EU (Your Europe), and none of our 11 companies asks for an IDP with an EU licence. Their conditions name EU licences or residents, not Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, so with a licence from one of these, bring an IDP
• UK licence: with a photocard licence you need no IDP to drive in Italy (GOV.UK), but Locauto, Sicily By Car and SIXT still ask for one from drivers who live in the UK. Alamo, Enterprise, National, Keddy, Hertz, Noleggiare and Maggiore accept a UK licence without one
• Other licences from outside the EU: Italian law requires an IDP or an official Italian translation with the licence (Art. 135 of the Highway Code), so bring an IDP. Hertz accepts licences from some countries without one, such as the USA, Canada and Australia, but we still advise the IDP because of the law. Alamo and SIXT ask for an IDP with any licence not printed in the Roman alphabet. Hertz also asks for a return flight ticket, and Noleggiare for your flight details

Across all offers, car rental at Trieste Airport costs about 30 EUR a day on average over the year. November is the cheapest month at about 19 EUR a day, about a third below the yearly average, and March and January cost about 24 EUR. August is the most expensive month at about 49 EUR, and July is close behind at about 47 EUR. December, at about 32 EUR, costs about the same as April. The average rental here lasts about 5 days, and about 7 days in July and August.

Daily average across all offers at Trieste Airport for each pick-up month, data from October 2026. Prices move every day.

Season	Months	Average per day	What to expect
Low	November, March, January, February	about 19-25 EUR	The lowest prices of the year, November above all
Shoulder	October, May, April, December	about 29-32 EUR	Good value outside the holiday weeks
High	June, September	about 38-40 EUR	Early and late summer
Peak	July, August	about 47-49 EUR	The most expensive months, August above all

These starting prices per day by car class come from the companies we recommend, in our November search. The cheapest small car was a Fiat Panda at Sicily By Car, about 93 EUR for the week, with a credit card only. A medium car started with a Peugeot 308 and an SUV with a Jeep Avenger, both at Locauto. 56% of all offers at Trieste Airport were automatics. Cars with 7 or more seats started at about 371 EUR a week, for a Peugeot 5008 7-seater at Noleggiare, and the cheapest premium car was an MG ZS at Noleggiare, about 202 EUR a week.

Autorentwiz tip: from Trieste Airport many trips cross a border, and the cheapest offer is not always one you can take abroad. SIXT does not allow Slovenia or Croatia at all, so a day in Ljubljana or Istria in a SIXT car breaks its rental terms. The fee for Slovenia and Croatia is 0 EUR at Locauto, Alamo, Enterprise and National, but 85.40 EUR at Keddy, and Maggiore also asks for its extra cover. On Slovenian motorways you also need an e-vignette bought for your rental car’s plate. Send us your route on Messenger, and we will check which offers allow it and what the crossing costs.

Trieste Airport is about 1 hour 9 minutes by car from both Venice Marco Polo Airport (121 km) and Treviso Airport (113 km), on the A4. The biggest difference for renters is where the desks are. At Trieste all 11 companies we recommend are in the arrivals hall, and no company uses a shuttle. At Venice Marco Polo the desks are on level 3 of the P1 car park, about 300 m along a walkway, and several companies pick you up by shuttle. Ten of our 11 companies at Trieste accept a debit card, against 11 of 13 at Venice Marco Polo.

What we compared	Trieste (TRS)	Venice Marco Polo (VCE)	Treviso (TSF)
Offers for one week in November	431 from 15 companies	912 from 28 companies	601 from 23 companies
Companies we recommend	11	13	10
Revolut and online-only bank debit cards	Not accepted	Not accepted	Not accepted
Drive from Trieste Airport	–	about 1 hour 9 minutes, 121 km	about 1 hour 9 minutes, 113 km

The Venice airports have more choice. At Venice Marco Polo our search found the cheapest small car at about 32 EUR for the week, at Target Rent, which works with a shuttle. At Trieste the cheapest small car was about 93 EUR a week at Sicily By Car, and no budget shuttle companies work here. If your trip is to Trieste, Friuli, Slovenia or Istria, Trieste Airport puts you closer: Ljubljana is about 1 hour 18 minutes away and Rovinj about 1 hour 48 minutes.

The fastest route from the airport to central Trieste takes the A4 (E70) motorway and then the SS14, and Google Maps flags tolls on it. Piazza Unità d’Italia, in the centre, is about 37 km and 34 minutes away. Udine is about 41 km and 33 minutes away on the A4 and A23, also with tolls. The drive times in this guide come from Google Maps in light evening traffic, so allow more time during the day.

Trieste is close to the Slovenian border, and the rules for taking the car abroad differ a lot by company. SIXT does not allow Slovenia or Croatia: its list of 17 countries includes Austria and Switzerland, for 50 EUR, but not these two. Locauto, Alamo, Enterprise and National allow both countries for free. Sicily By Car allows them for free with written permission. Maggiore charges 28.80 EUR and asks for written permission and its extra cover. Hertz charges 30 EUR, Noleggiare 42 EUR, Flizzr 50 EUR and Keddy 85.40 EUR, all with written permission.

Slovenian motorways need an e-vignette. According to DARS, the Slovenian motorway company, it costs 16 EUR for a week, 32 EUR for a month and 117.50 EUR for a year in class 2A, which covers most cars and SUVs up to 1.3 m high above the front axle. Class 2B costs 32 EUR, 64.10 EUR and 235 EUR. The e-vignette is linked to the registration plate, and with a wrong plate the toll is not deemed to be paid. Buy it for your rental car’s plate on the official DARS e-vignette site or at a DARS point of sale, and check that the plate and class are right. The routes to Ljubljana and Lake Bled use Slovenian motorways.

Istria is in Croatia, and the fastest route from the airport to Rovinj, about 145 km and 1 hour 48 minutes, crosses Slovenia, so your company must allow both countries. Slovenia and Croatia are both in Schengen, and there has been no border control between them since 1 January 2023. In winter, winter tyres or snow chains on board are required on the motorways of Friuli Venezia Giulia, such as the A4 and A23, from 15 November to 15 April. Slovenia requires winter tyres with at least 3 mm of tread, or summer tyres with chains, from 15 November to 15 March and in winter conditions. Croatia requires winter equipment on specified roads from 15 November to 15 April. In our November search only 10 offers came with winter tyres, all at Sicily By Car, and none with snow chains, so ask for winter equipment when you book.

The centre of Trieste has large pedestrian areas and ZTL streets. The city’s official street list from 2021 names Piazza Unità d’Italia, Piazza della Borsa, Piazza Verdi, Via Cavana and part of Viale XX Settembre as pedestrian areas, and the streets of the Città Vecchia, the old town, as ZTL. In the type A ZTL, which is mostly pedestrian, the vehicles that may enter drive at 10 km/h, and in type B zones such as Borgo Teresiano parking is for residents on weekdays. Access permits are for people with a private garage or courtyard inside these areas, as the Comune di Trieste permit page explains, so do not drive into these streets with a rental car. Staying at a hotel in the centre? Ask the hotel where to park before you arrive.

For a day in the centre, park in a garage and walk in. Molo IV is a multi-storey car park on the waterfront, Parcheggio Silos is next to Trieste Centrale station, and Park San Giusto is built inside the hill, with a lift up to the castle and the cathedral. Saba Foro Ulpiano is another garage near the centre. Parking on the white lines along the seafront at Barcola is free, and Opicina has a park-and-ride. In 2024 the blue lines in the city were paid from Monday to Saturday, 08:00-20:00, and the EasyPark app was accepted.

The basilica of Aquileia is the closest: about 12.5 km and 15 minutes on the SS14, a route on which Google Maps flags no tolls. Miramare Castle, on the sea near Trieste, is about 31 km and 28 minutes away via the A4, or about 27 km and 30 minutes on the SS14 coast road. Piran, on the Slovenian coast, is about 79 km and 1 hour 3 minutes away, and Ljubljana about 121 km and 1 hour 18 minutes.

Lake Bled, with its island church and castle, is about 171 km and 1 hour 42 minutes away via Ljubljana, on Slovenian motorways that need the e-vignette. Rovinj in Croatian Istria is about 145 km and 1 hour 48 minutes away, through Slovenia. Venice is also within reach: Piazzale Roma, where cars stop, is about 132 km and 1 hour 20 minutes away on the A4, with tolls. Before you cross a border, check that your company allows the country.

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