Sixt rental cars
Oct 10th, 2008, 02:31 PM
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Sixt rental cars
Someone on the tripadvisor.com web site recommended Sixt as an alternative to autoeurope/europcar for Nice rentals. Has anyone used this company? If so, was your experience good?
Oct 10th, 2008, 02:47 PM
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Oct 11th, 2008, 08:38 AM
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Hi, Ira--
It's not the price so much as all the extra charges, along with the Europcar requirement to return the car with an empty fuel tank. On our last trip we had, as usual, pre-paid for the rental. When we returned home we discovered an "additional charge" for $75, and then a week later came another.
Judging from the lengthy post here about Europcar, I'm concerned that the company is finding creative ways to charge customers more than the contract amount.
It's not the price so much as all the extra charges, along with the Europcar requirement to return the car with an empty fuel tank. On our last trip we had, as usual, pre-paid for the rental. When we returned home we discovered an "additional charge" for $75, and then a week later came another.
Judging from the lengthy post here about Europcar, I'm concerned that the company is finding creative ways to charge customers more than the contract amount.
Oct 11th, 2008, 10:44 AM
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If Auto Europe places me with Europcar on my next rental I am going to look elsewhere.
That extra fuel charge is a ripoff. Not only do they charge quite a bit more per liter of petrol than local gas stations, but you are stuck also paying for the gas left in the tank when you return the car.
Do you want to take a chance riding around France on empty?
And Auto Europe has no control over that charge unless they demand a policy for their rentals which would give one the option of full or empty.
Every consumer advocate will tell you to pick up the car full and return it full.
That extra fuel charge is a ripoff. Not only do they charge quite a bit more per liter of petrol than local gas stations, but you are stuck also paying for the gas left in the tank when you return the car.
Do you want to take a chance riding around France on empty?
And Auto Europe has no control over that charge unless they demand a policy for their rentals which would give one the option of full or empty.
Every consumer advocate will tell you to pick up the car full and return it full.
