Great Ocean Road

Friendly counter staff but as it was a holiday weekend, it took a bit longer than expected to get the car.

Amazing price, much more reasonable than I expected.

Southern cross station branch of Europcar office is small and service is just Moderate. We have to collect our booster seats from another branch due to the agent’s some mistake. The car is ready to collect and it only spend about 15-30 mins but because they didn’t have booster seat so we have to collect it from another branch and it spend us extra 45 mins. Cleanliness of car is moderate, it’s kind of dusty inside and the car we got is overdue service of 5000km which they said it’s alright. Anyhow we didn’t have any prob of car thru our journey and trip. We didn’t get Kia carnival as we booked but we got Mercedes Benz Valente, people mover car without auto car door. It’s kind of hard to push.

I get a replacement Holden car which is better than the original Toyota car. It takes me longer than expected for returning the car. It may be due to that it is being the busiest time of the day especially on a public holiday.

It is easy to hire a car on Easyrentcars.com. I will use it next time.

The pick-up office location wasn’t clear and so took 30 mins walking around southern cross station to find. EuropeCar office had one person and a huge queue and it wasn’t clear in the booking process that insurance wasn’t through europecar.

The first impression was terrible and uninviting by counter staff, (as we walked in he was arguing with another customer as they didn't have their baby chair as promised) but we hoped for better situation as we had no special requirements. Once it came down to pay deposit, the gentleman didn't want to accept my card since it was not embossed and argued it cannot go through payment even without trying. After 510 minutes of persuading to try he called someone on the phone and it was suddenly possible to process. Car was in good technical condition, however we found the items from previous owner and inside and was not cleaned inside at all.