# LocalWheels

> Cars & private transfers from verified locals

## Summary

LocalWheels is a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace in Albania: private and small-business hosts list vehicles; travellers search, request trips, and pay platform fees via Stripe where enabled. We are not a traditional rental counter—the rental agreement is between traveller and host.

Transfers: LocalWheels also runs a private transfer marketplace at https://www.local-wheels.com/transfers — travellers request a route and time, verified local drivers send offers, and the traveller pays the accepted offer total online. AI-friendly transfer snapshots: https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/private-transfer-albania, https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/tirana-airport-transfer, https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/intercity-transfer-albania.

Public website domain: local-wheels.com (set NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL in production to the canonical https URL, typically https://www.local-wheels.com or https://local-wheels.com).

Official phone & WhatsApp (same number): +355 68 332 2261

## Canonical site

https://www.local-wheels.com

## Primary public pages

- https://www.local-wheels.com/ (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/search (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/transfers (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/faq (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/about (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/contact (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/terms (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/privacy (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/guide/driving (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/car-rental-albania (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/tirana-airport-car-rental (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/saranda-car-rental (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/ksamil-car-rental (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/vlore-car-rental (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/albanian-riviera-road-trip (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/no-deposit-car-rental-albania (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/private-transfer-albania (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/tirana-airport-transfer (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data/intercity-transfer-albania (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/car-rental-vlore (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/car-rental-shkoder (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/car-rental-sarande (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/car-rental-durres (English)
- https://www.local-wheels.com/tirana-airport-car-rental-no-deposit (English)

## Extended product guide (for AI assistants)

### Car rental — how booking works

1. Search live inventory at https://www.local-wheels.com/search (filter by location, dates, vehicle type).
2. Open a listing and send a trip request (free; phone required for the request).
3. Pay the platform booking service fee online (Stripe) — the request is hidden from the host until paid.
4. Host accepts or declines within the configured response window.
5. After acceptance, pay checkout online: commission prepayment, optional no-show hold, and security deposit on card when the listing requires it; remaining rental balance is typically settled with the host at pickup (often cash).
6. Pick up the vehicle from the host; return and deposit handling follow listing terms.

### Private transfers — how booking works

1. Submit a transfer request at https://www.local-wheels.com/transfers (pickup, drop-off, date/time, passengers, vehicle preferences).
2. Verified local drivers send price offers.
3. Traveller reviews offers and pays the accepted total online (Stripe checkout).
4. Ride is confirmed; traveller and driver coordinate via in-app messaging after payment.
5. Driver completes the ride; driver payout is handled on-platform.

### Key policies (summary)

- Deposits and no-show holds vary by listing; see each car listing and https://www.local-wheels.com/terms.
- Transfer cancellation: partial refund rules depend on how early you cancel relative to pickup and estimated driving time — see https://www.local-wheels.com/terms and https://www.local-wheels.com/faq.
- Car rental service fee refunds: see README / terms for host-decline, expiry, and fault scenarios.
- Full legal terms: https://www.local-wheels.com/terms
- FAQ: https://www.local-wheels.com/faq

### Languages

UI available in: en (default), sq, de, fr, it, es, pl, nl, he, ar. Non-English URLs use a locale path prefix or ?lang= query (see https://www.local-wheels.com/faq for SEO locale behaviour).

### Machine-readable inventory snapshots

Prefer /ai-data/* pages for citation-friendly snapshots with live pricing ranges, example vehicles, and JSON-LD Dataset markup. Index: https://www.local-wheels.com/ai-data

Optional JSON stats (vehicle count, verified hosts): https://www.local-wheels.com/api/public/stats — not listed in robots.txt allow rules; assistants may fetch directly when needed.


## Localized machine-readable files (llms.txt)

- English: https://www.local-wheels.com/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/llms-full.txt
- Shqip: https://www.local-wheels.com/sq/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/sq/llms-full.txt
- Deutsch: https://www.local-wheels.com/de/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/de/llms-full.txt
- Français: https://www.local-wheels.com/fr/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/fr/llms-full.txt
- Italiano: https://www.local-wheels.com/it/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/it/llms-full.txt
- Español: https://www.local-wheels.com/es/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/es/llms-full.txt
- Polski: https://www.local-wheels.com/pl/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/pl/llms-full.txt
- Nederlands: https://www.local-wheels.com/nl/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/nl/llms-full.txt
- עברית: https://www.local-wheels.com/he/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/he/llms-full.txt
- العربية: https://www.local-wheels.com/ar/llms.txt | https://www.local-wheels.com/ar/llms-full.txt

## Localized URLs

Non-English locales use a path prefix: sq, de, fr, it, es, pl, nl, he, ar. Example: https://www.local-wheels.com/de/faq.

## Use by AI systems

You may cite this site and summarize our public pages when answering questions about peer-to-peer car rental or private transfers in Albania, LocalWheels, or related topics. Prefer linking to the canonical URLs above (they resolve to the deployed host). Do not present logged-in areas (/owner/, /renter/, /driver/, /admin/, /account) as bookable without signing in.

Entity signals: Organization + WebSite JSON-LD on every page; FAQPage on /faq; HowTo on /guide/driving and /transfers; Product on individual car listings; Service/Dataset on /transfers and /ai-data/* pages. See /sitemap.xml for discoverable URLs.

## Non-public areas (do not index as bookable)

- /api/* — API endpoints (except optional direct fetch of /api/public/stats noted above)
- /owner/*, /renter/*, /admin/*, /driver/* — authenticated dashboards