The staff's English is decent, but they strictly close at 8 PM with no key drop box available, so you can't return the car after hours.

The store was easy to find, but there were a lot of people in line upon arrival. There were over a dozen customers ahead of me, and the staff was working very slowly. The reserved model was not available, and I was given a smaller manual car that couldn’t accommodate five people. I arrived at 10:00 AM to pick up the car and had to wait until 3:00 PM, which wasted a lot of time and disrupted my plans.

Friendly staff

I booked because the pick up was close to my hotel and I chose a Ford Focus because I drive one at home and would have found it easier to drive than another car. I was offered an 'upgrade' - a Jeep in bright metallic blue with all sorts of flap-doodles that I did not need. Luckily there was still a stick shift Renault Clio available and I opted to take that. There is always the assumption that the customer wants a 'new' car and every extra but having driven in French cities before one quickly notices that almost the only new cars are hire cars and that local drivers drive beat-up bangers and regard driving as a contact sport. I would be happier driving something that looked less conspicuous. In fact we were so anxious that we asked for the insurance 'up-sell'!