All things were good. No hassles or sales pressure at pickup, no problems at drop-off

Due to traffic, we returned the car nearly an hour late, but no extra fees were charged. Very considerate service.

Very good service, the car rental office was a little tricky to find at first as they had moved to a new office around the corner. The car was spacious and a good spec, it was a smooth process on collection and return just be careful of the ztl zones.

Great

Car was not what I paid for. I was given a compact car (VW golf) instead of the intermediate car I requested (was supposed to be something in the same class as an Audi A3). The counter staff (Locauto) argues with me at length about this, arguing they were of the same class and wanted me to pay more for a different car, which I refused. Further, the process took quite a bit of time, from the counter to actually picking up the car. The car also had significant damage, which the person who gave me the car assured me he noted on the ipad/tablet, but who apparently did not. Consequently, when I dropped off the car, the Locauto staff person gave me a hard time about the damage and said I would definitely have to pay for it. She then made me write a statement regarding the damage under penalty of perjury. This process held us up when we had a flight to catch. I then got an invoice for 400 Euro by the time I landed in the US, which clearly demonstrated that they did not perform any investigation. The email with this invoice only gave a total of 48 HOURS to contest the charge or my credit card would be charged, which is a ridiculously short window, especially for people with long flights. I did contest the charge and they did drop it, which also is evidence that they did not investigate the damage prior to charging me and caused me unnecessary delay and stress.

Counter staff were horrendous. We had planned on adding a driver and potentially taking out extra insurance. The counter staff scoffed at us when she found out we ordered a panda. "good luck" was the response when she saw the buggy and intimated it would never fit. She also used the words "up sell" constantly without giving any insight into what we were getting in the up sell, just that we had to have it in order to get xxx. I work in tech sales and I would never ever tell a client "oh in order to get xxx you need to buy an upsell" invest in a consultative sales team. If the staff had of said something like "we can't offer xxx on the base package unfortunately, but we can upgrade you for £xx and you will be able to get what you want plus all these other benefits" the experience would have been far better.

Easy to locate the checkout counter and actual vehicle. The back seats were a bit dirty, the car was great and we didn’t have any issues.