Europcar

With my job I have to travel to Europe quite a lot, this travel also entails carrying quite a lot of equipment, so flying is really out of the question, both practically and cost wise. To get to Europe, the best option for me is to drive, and I'm certainly not going to use my own car! Also my office is some 250 miles from my house, so I could use my own car, but looking from a cost perspective, I can claim 40 pence per mile up to the first 10,000 miles (Inland Revenue rules) or I can hire a car, which benefits me on 2 counts # I'm not wearing my car out # It is actually cheaper for the company ... more

Anyone who started driving in a virtually penniless state will be familiar with this scenario, In my early driving days, I owned old cars, the type that scraped through the MOT and got you from A to B, but for those runs over about 100 miles, were not really an option. I started off hiring cars from a local dealer, as I didn’t own a credit card, and then progressed to the larger dealers who were much cheaper with a little help from my father’s credit card and a friendly assistant at National until the day I had a tyre blow-out in the middle of nowhere, long before the days when mobile phone ... more

Europcar Car hire in Crete BEFORE ARRIVING IN CRETE: I booked two cars with this company for our stay in Crete on the internet prior to our arrival in Crete. I chose this company because on the website they offered: A) Reasonable prices – no amazingly cheaper but competitively rated B) No extra charge for 2 stage 3 car seats that we needed for the grandsons C) They would deliver to and collect the cars from the place where we were staying. I booked and gave my credit card details on site and waited for confirmation that I would be getting 2 cars and the two car seats too. I did get two emails ... more

I am quite the type of business traveller, so I know that you can have good and bad experiences with every rental car company. There have been times, when I rode a lot more mileage on rental cars than on my own. So I am not saying, Europcar is a bad company, but I had a rather bad experience, so just read on your own… Once upon a time my wife and I had to make a little trip from Munich to Leipzig (Germany). We actually were planning on doing this by car, so we can have a few stops and visit a view places on the way. But of course destiny can be cruel and so can be traffic forecasts on the ... more

Terrible rip off from Europcar - and all round bad service. We won't be using them again! Since we live abroad, for a trip back to the UK we booked a car to be picked up from Gatwick airport, travelling with our two children aged 2 and 5. At the reception desk in Gatwick airport, we were given a great deal of verbal information by the clerk. This included choices about dropping the car off out of hours, choices about buying a discounted tank of petrol (including information about how many miles to the gallon the car would do, locations of supermarket petrol stations, information about how to ... more