One-Way Rental
A one-way rental lets your pickup and drop-off points be different. Instead of looping back to where you started, you leave the car at your destination — a different city, a different airport, sometimes a different country.
It is built for journeys rather than round trips. A classic Moroccan example is flying into Tangier in the north, driving down through Fès and the desert, and handing the car back in Marrakech or Agadir without retracing your route.
The freedom usually comes with a one-way fee that reflects how far the company must move the car to get it back into circulation. Drops within the same region can be cheap or free; long cross-country ones cost more.
Book it as a one-way from the start rather than improvising. Returning a normal rental to the wrong city without arranging it first can trigger far bigger penalties than the planned fee.
Related terms
One-Way Fee (Drop Fee)
A charge for returning the car to a different location than where you picked it up.
Drop-Off Policy
The rules for where, when and in what condition the car must be returned at the end of the rental.
Cross-Border Driving
Taking a rental car into another country, which usually needs prior permission, extra paperwork and a fee.