Cancun Peninsula

The Mexican staff member at MAS Car Rental was terrible. She made things difficult just because I'm Asian. First, the shuttle bus stop was hard to find; remember to look for the sign above with 03 after you exit. This might have been my own mistake, so future customers should take note. Then, from the time I showed my booking confirmation to when I finally got the car, she created all possible difficulties. She tried to make me buy full insurance even though I already had it. She wanted proof of third-party liability insurance, which I found out from the rental company's customer service was something they should provide and I don’t need to buy. She claimed my documents were only in Chinese and not in Spanish (which was a lie), so I had to send her the confirmation email on the spot. She said she wouldn't accept my credit card because it was opened in January, and they only accept cards open for more than a year (customer service confirmed this was a lie too). She then took at least 20 minutes to read my bilingual booking and wouldn't let me talk to customer service (thinking I was recording her). Finally, only after I got really angry did she complete the credit card process. Can you imagine it took 1.2 hours? I've driven in over ten countries and didn't expect the worst service to be in Mexico. Future customers should be aware. PS: No problems with police and driving around the Yucatán Peninsula was very easy.

The car rental process at Cancun Airport is quite efficient, and the service is very enthusiastic. There were no unnecessary upsells or difficulties. I think the main reason is the high traffic here, they neither have time nor need to make money by being difficult. Additionally, all the rental companies are lined up together, so the competition is fierce. If they have a bad attitude, they'll lose.

They added insurance without consulting us, but they eventually removed it at our insistence. Everything else was satisfactory.

I told them I had already paid 206 yuan on the car rental website and only needed to pay 115 yuan worth of Mexican pesos at the store, but the staff still charged me 1113 pesos for three days of car rental. They said this is the store policy, so I ended up paying over 200 yuan more. Very dissatisfied. It's better to go directly to the car rental company.

MEX insisted that I purchase their insurance package even though I had already purchased through EasyRent. After showing my EasyRent insurance certificate, they informed me that the MEX insurance was still required, but reimbursable by EasyRent.