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Car Hire & Transportation Discuss the best way of getting around Florida. |
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21 Jan 20, 10:11 PM |
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Generally always use Avis as I’ve either booked a fly drive with Ba or used avios.
Never had an issue with the cars but agree the staff in the garage at mco are pretty rude. By comparison staff at fll were excellent. Best thing to do with Avis is sign up to Avis preferred so you can avoid the desk altogether. For some reason my credit card details never transfer so I usually need to speak to someone in the garage but it’s just a credit card swipe no up selling. |
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21 Jan 20, 11:41 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
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I had a torrid time with Hertz but do believe all car hire places have on average the worst customer service on the planet, I do find it astounding.
I'm a bit worried about the MCO comments though! We've used avis twice from Tampa, first trip no problems swift service, no upselling. Second trip lady was grumpy if wasn't personal and clearly she was just miserable but I did not care as she dealt with us swiftly, when we dropped off the guy was great, didnt rush us, gave the car the once over and provided us with a receipt showing $0. Oddly this time I said to DH check it has zero and I'm putting it away safe... on return we were charged $1200 for car hire that had been paid via BA package. After being brushed off by Avis I called BA who were great, our flight changed due to potential strikes so our car hire changed and avis don't automatically transfer the funds to the new hire even though I got a £200 refund because it was now cheaper and no one could explain the zero balance receipt BA sorted it out and I had a lovely lady who personally called me back to make sure the funds had been returned. Anyway really it was all dealt with and I'm glad I didnt have to argue it in the avis car park things go wrong but it's how they are dealt with what counts
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22 Jan 20, 01:39 PM |
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Join Date: Apr 05
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I was avis preferred but as it was my first rental I had to go to the desk.
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22 Jan 20, 01:45 PM |
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Join Date: Apr 05
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Just to be clear, this was Miami airport.
I can accept bad rental desk staff trying to pull a fast one on tourists (well I cant but I guess it happens) but to not have the vehicle, send me to the wrong place twice and the all the issues on return. It was systematic from the top to the bottom of the staff. Alamo has always been spot on in MCO with little staff interaction and no attempt to take fuel costs from me. Sixt was spot on when we used them in Atlanta and Hertz I use almost monthly for work in the UK and they have been excellent. Avis Miami though? They listed my mileage for the two weeks as 200miles. With readings taken the same time as the fuel readout. Its not like we drove most of Florida in those 2 weeks lol Unbelievably bad.
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22 Jan 20, 02:28 PM |
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Join Date: Apr 11
Location: Warwickshire
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ah,
What they dot explain is taht you can go to the desk in teh garage to sort your first hire out
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22 Jan 20, 07:10 PM |
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BA were superb with me too - same service as you got - personal agent dealing with issue and following up - I was hugely impressed. She also gave me a worldwide emergency number to use from abroad for any BA issue - but this may have changed by now.
I was using Avis preferred on all my trips - name not on board once.
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22 Jan 20, 07:44 PM |
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We have used Avis through BA for the last two years and have booked again this year and have had no problem at all. In fact the first year we used them we had a fantastic agent who upgraded our 7 seat passenger van to a Chevrolet Surburban for free and wouldn’t even take a tip, it was my bday and on chatting to him said my DS would love a surburban, he asked us to wait then gave us the keys to one, he said if he can make someone happy it made his day. I think it completely depends on the agent you get like anywhere really.
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23 Jan 20, 12:22 AM |
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Very Serious Dibber
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That's really nice
I do agree it depends on the agent but there does seem to be an overwhelming number of rude car hire people. We are avis at mco for the first time so fingers crossed we don't have op experience
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