Car Hire Columbia - Mini guide to Columbia

Columbia - Truly A Delightful Place

The capital city of South Carolina, Columbia is a main industrial, educational, cultural and tourist destination situated in the core of a fertile farm region. From the beautifully maintained antebellum architecture to the swamps of the state house with its battles scarred barricades and nice interiors to the riverbanks, Columbia undoubtedly is an enchanting city.

Columbia has a vast variety of interesting cultural, recreational and historical sights to delight the residents as well as the visitors. Consistently, ranked as top travel destinations in the southeast Carolina, the botanical garden and the riverbanks zoo is dwelling place for more than 2,000 mammals, invertebrates, fish and reptiles. The visitors can also watch the daily feedings of sea lions and penguins. Across the zoo, the Riverbanks botanical garden characterizes 70 acres of gardens, wood lands, plant collections and historic ruins.

The city’s premier museum, the Columbia museum of art, preserves more than five thousand objects, which includes pieces from the renaissance and the Baroque periods. Adventure children’s museum, South Carolina state museum and the museum of African American culture are some other attractions of Columbia.

The Earth Day festival in Finlay Park amass together ecological booths and customary festival favorites. Also, the Riverfest celebration which takes place in springs featuring music, a 5K run, food and art and craft and also the Cayce Conagree Carnival featuring river activities, food and rides attracts large numbers of tourist every year almost from all over the world.

Besides, Columbia experiences all kinds of weather, however, autumn, spring and winter are quite mild, with occasional winter nights. Furthermore, the city is at its most fine-looking in the spring when azaleas and various other spring flowers bloom. However, the summers can be a bit hot.

Also, Columbia is simply accessible from any part of the country as almost six airlines serves at the Columbia metropolitan airport. However options like buses, trains and cars are also available in Columbia, which can be used according to the requirement and the budget.

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We rent the following types of cars: Economy (Vauxhall Corsa or equiv.), Mini, Small family (Ford Focus or equiv.), Medium family (Toyota Avensis or equiv.), large family (BMW 5 series), 4x4, SUV, Convertible, Van, Sports car, Luxury cars.

Hire cheap cars from the following suppliers, Ebookers, Opodo, Avis, Expedia, Sixt, Thrifty and budget rental prices from EasyCar, Budget, Holiday Autos, Economy, 121carhire.

The major suburbs in Columbia are: Arthurtown, Brandon Acres, Cayce, Dentsville, Eau Claire, Forest Acres, Kinsler, Rosewood, Sandwood and Springdale.