North Cyprus Guide

Planning a trip to North Cyprus raises questions that a typical travel blog answers vaguely or not at all. Is your driving licence valid here? Can a rental car cross the border from the south? What does fuel actually cost this year? Which beach justifies the drive? This guide exists to answer exactly those questions — one page per topic, with concrete numbers, at least one table per page, and a visible "last updated" date you can hold us to.

Every page follows the same rules. The opening paragraph answers the question directly, so you are never three scrolls away from the point. Figures carry year markers ("as of 2026…") instead of quietly going stale. When the facts change, the page changes — and the date stamp with it. If a page here says no deposit is required, that is because the company writing it takes no deposits.

That company is Kipra Rent A Car, a Famagusta-based rental firm whose entire fleet is automatic and air-conditioned, with VAT and third-party insurance included in every price, no deposit and no credit-card requirement. The questions answered in this guide are the ones our guests ask us every week — at Ercan Airport, at the Larnaca crossing, over WhatsApp — turned into public reference pages.

One distinction worth knowing: the guide and the blog split the work. The blog carries news, data analyses and itineraries; the guide holds the permanent reference answers that get updated rather than replaced. A topic lives in exactly one of the two, so you will never find two competing versions of the same answer.

The sections below run from rental policies and driving to costs, beaches and long stays, and they grow with every content batch. If your question is not covered yet, check the FAQ or ask us on WhatsApp — recurring questions decide which guide page gets written next.