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Car Rental

Searching for a car rental provider? Here you will find numerous providers including Thrifty, Europcar, Hertz and Budget among others. So find the car rental company that has the right sized car for your needs now. If you are thinking of buying a car you can browse through our car section to see if anything matches[...] more
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Car Rental - Hertz

Hertz

(+) Excellent prepaid rates, nice car, helpful staff (-) Confusion over discount rates, high excess if you don't pay the waiver charge (*) (On Ciao since: 06/2000)

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Alamo Rent A Car

(+) Cheap, nice and helpful employees etc. (*) (On Ciao since: 12/2000)

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Car Rental - CarJet

CarJet

(+) You can choose whether to pay up front or on collection (-) Read the small print for the hidden charges and then try to find your car! (*) (On Ciao since: 07/2000)

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Europcar

(+) Good cars, good locations, easy (-) None that I have found (*) (On Ciao since: 04/2001)

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Car Rental - Enterprise Rent A Car

Enterprise Rent A Car

(+) good prices, pick up service, take debit cards, don't require a licence for 12mths (-) Perth branch closed at weekends, sometimes no vehicles available (*) (On Ciao since: 08/2001)

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Sixt

(+) Great selection of vehicles, reasonable prices. (-) Bad experience, read on (*) (On Ciao since: 02/2001)

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Europa Rent a Car

(+) Best value at Palma airport - no insurance excess (-) Fuel policy - no refund for unused fuel (*) (On Ciao since: 07/2005)

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Dollar Rent A Car Worldwide

(+) Friendly staff, lots of locations, good selection of cars, accept younger drivers (-) pricey for younger drivers, no inspection of car prior to rental...not always a bad thing... (*) (On Ciao since: 11/2000)

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Car Rental - EasyCar

EasyCar

(+) Very cheap, new cars, easy online booking (-) Inflexible rules, possible unavailability of car, excessive fines (*) (On Ciao since: 10/2003)

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Avis Rent A Car

(+) convenient, reliable, god service (-) Price (*) (On Ciao since: 12/2000)

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Car Rental - holidayautos.com

holidayautos.com

(+) Time Saving, Cost Competitive, Leading Car Rental Companies (-) as there is a third party involved, there is a risk the booking process might go awry (*) (On Ciao since: 07/2001)

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National Car Rental

(+) Could Choose Car (-) No Club Membership (*) (On Ciao since: 05/2002)

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Sky-Tours.com

(+) none (-) seems like a con, no customer service response via email, no customer service phone number (*) (On Ciao since: 06/2004)

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Car Rental - Record Rent a Car

Record Rent a Car

(+) Quick, Cheap, Very Helpful (-) none (*) (On Ciao since: 05/2005)

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Car Rental - Budget Car and Truck Rental

Budget Car and Truck Rental

(+) Good prices, good vehicles, quick to rent (-) None that spring to mind (*) (On Ciao since: 07/2000)

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Hertz Hidden Charges

Advantages: Nice Car
Disadvantages: Hidden Charges, unable to speak English

I hired a car from Hertz from 18th-21st Decemeber 2009. I collected it (having pre-paid for it IN FULL on expedia.com) from Paderborn airport on arrival and dropped it off again having re-fuelled the tank long before the time specified. As you can imagine i was a little shocked when a further £49.57 was debited from my account on 24th Dec?! I emailed Hertz and 2 weeks later i have finally got my reply - an invoice showing the following... RENTAL ...
...37.80 ABORTIVE DELIVERY CHARGE 7.00 VOUCHER** -103.62 VAT 8.51 INVOICE AMOUNT 53.31 EUR Now this shocks me because as previously stated, i collected and dropped off the car so does abortive delivery charge meaning they are charging me for NOT having it delivered?? Also, i did not request and "winter equipment" i can only assume that they are refering to winter tyres which are legalling required in Germany so surely this should have been included ...

smashingbirduk 07.01.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Hertz

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Paid 681 $ /441 € for one night rental car!!!!

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: Unbelievable customer policies! Unfriendly. Short term money is more worth than a satisfied customer.

Very poor customer policies! Alamo really surprised us with very strange business ethics! To sum up my experience: Alamo personnel give customers false information (about reimbursement and about car details). Alamo cannot handle special requests (we needed a special car and tried to solve this in advance). Alamo rather takes short term money instead of building a long term relationship with a satisfied customer. The whole story: We made a reservation ...
...this special car we phoned Alamo in Reno in advance which car to book and explained that we definitely need this car type and no other. They told us we need a Full Size SUV and promised us that this is no problem. Once being there it turned out that the Full Size SUV hat no stow & go function. Unfortunately, we got into Reno with the last flight, so being back at the Alamo station we found this station already closed and everybody gone. So we had ...

skyblues2 24.09.2008 · Read full review
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Carjet - don't use this company

Advantages: Cheap but beware if you have a problem
Disadvantages: Poor customer service who keep missing the point

...they are having financial difficulties. Carjet sent a bulk email to cancel the reservation which went to my junk email box - I therefore didn't find it! Arrived at Palma airport late at night without knowledge of the cancellation and was only able to find a very expensive tiny car for my family including 2 small children - made the holiday very difficult and stressful. They don't seem to care about the stress this has caused and refuse to talk to ...

mapollard 21.08.2009 · Read full review
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Europcar - you get what you pay for. Terrible experience.

Advantages: Large dealer network
Disadvantages: Extremely poor customer service and poor dispute resolution

Put simply, Europcar in our experience are to be avoided at all costs. They may well be one of the cheapest providers, with a large network of vehicles, but our experience is that this company pays little or no regard to the needs of its customers. If you do rent a car from them, check the exterior AND the interior thoroughly BEFORE you sign the papers as we were not given the opportunity to do so before the vehicle was checked out and this caused ...
...properly on return. With most other companies this would be resolved quickly, but due to the unavailability of the customer service department, the issue still lingers without resolution. They took money from our account without any discussion or justification and then ignored attempts to communicate with them. And be prepared for potential additional charges to be added to your card after the rental, without any prior discussion attempt to explain ...

davyjcrow 10.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Europcar

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The car from hell?

Advantages: Pick up and take back
Disadvantages: Car not checked before hire - beware. Check befor you set off.

A few months ago I hired a large car, which turned out to be a very ugly (only my opinion) Chrysler Sabine. I hired it for 10 days to go on holiday with. Not going away till the Sunday I had to pick it up on the Saturday. The car was less than 6 months old. When I picked it up I discovered one of the rear passanger doors would not open. The manager virtually said 'tough luck' - as I wouldn't need the door I took the car. When I got home I removed ...
...rear of the car. On Sunday i drove a few miles to fill the tank. (had a tesco money off voucher-so didn't use a local garage). On the way back the temp guage reached its upper limit. I drove slowly home. When the car had cooled (I had to delay leaving for my holiday) I checked the expansion tank. IT WAS EMPTY!!!!!. It needed 2 and a half litres of water to fill it! While I had the bonnet up I checked the oil. The dipstick came out dry!!!! So as we ...

revnick 22.06.2009 · Read full review
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