CAR RENTAL REVIEWS ON EZU AT CHRISTCHURCH AIRPORT, CHC

I didn't get the car that I booked. I booked Toyota corolla and they gave Nissan Tiida.

RAV4 2012 rego: GLD171 and 240000 km on the clock, 23 days hire: Squeaky and full of dents and scratches. Some cracks to the plastic panels, front bumper coming off. Initially we were assigned different car as the paperwork indicated different rego (ROV004) but ended with this gem. When calling them next day after discovering another issue with the body (crack in the plastic panels) and asked if they are sure that this was the car we meant to use, the lady I spoke to insisted that is the one - even when mentioned the massive millage. Car that was not worth much on the market due to its heavy usage was tagged with $4000 excess and $2000 was blocked on our credit card in pre-approved authorisation. Note: we had the same hire costs (not excess) in 2018 in Europe (Poland) in peak season (European summer) for hiring Skoda Octavia station wagon with just 600 km on the clock, for 34 days, with half of excess. Go figure! We had a small crack in the windshield (popped up in the car wash) - happened on our watch so no disputes here. We were charged $2000 upon return and explained that once the replacement is done the difference would be returned to us. After 4 weeks of not hearing from them I have queried Easyrentcars how long shall I wait before raising alarm? A day latter got an answer from EZU that the cost of replacing of that windshield was $971 NZD (?!) where glass supply only was $550 NZD!!. One week latter (5 weeks in total) the difference finally has been reimbursed. Soooo, to recap it all: old car with massive millage, full of dents, massive excess and inflated charges for damage, slow response or none ..., still have a bitter aftertaste when thinking EZU. Never again!

Smooth and efficient - helped me to deal with EZU rental.

Terrible! Due to the pandemic, we needed to leave early and returned the car two days ahead of schedule, but the rental company insisted on not giving us a refund. Additionally, they called us to return the first car because it was pre-booked by someone else. The second car they gave us was leaking oil and was in terrible condition.

The pickup location is not far from the airport, and there were shuttles both ways. Very convenient.

Great staff, super helpful and friendly.

Great customer service, friendly and helpful - would definitely recommend.

Small company, just average.

Waited a long while for shuttle and also to get our car as the pick up location was not at the airport but off-site. We also had to make a local call to contact the company for a shuttle and that means overseas call charges for foreign visitors like ourselves. When we picked up the car and asked for the company to mark out all the scratches, they said it was our responsibility to take photos and accept the car, which already had scratches all over. They claimed that they already had a database of the car's scratches before handover (which they did not show us as they did not have it available then), and the onus was on us to do a comprehensive 100% check capturing pictures of all scratches (hard to do after a 14-hour flight!). When we returned the car after completing the rental, they claimed that we had caused some new surface scratches on the bumper even though I was not involved in any accident, and suddenly they made available a tablet showing the pictures of the pre-existing condition of the car before rental. We were made to pay an excess of $4000 before we were allowed to go catch our return flight, and the attitude of the counter staff was rude and terrible in the whole process, basically holding us back from leaving. Have shared the story with Easyrentcars on the pain points trying to claim back the partial excess from the so-called damage repair costs for the surface scratches which are just a few of the many across the car. Won't rent from these guys ever again and would recommend all NZ visitors to avoid renting from them. Unethical behaviour.

Appreciate Easyrentcars helping me claim back the partial excess, especially since the car rental company did not want to respond to me on how they have repaired the vehicle and how much it cost even after 3 weeks. Find it unbelievable that they actually repainted the whole bumper to cover up the scratches and it costed them around $1000 (see attached photo for scratches at left corner of bumper). But really big thanks to Easyrentcars for helping me close the case with the rental company and move on.

Other than being far from the airport and slow to pick us up, everything else was fine!

Amazing service from booking through to collection and drop off. Incredible price and will definitely be using in the future.

It makes customer extremely uncomfortable when your staff conducted forensic check on the returning car for almost 15 min. It does not work that way in the car rent industry.

After being offered a unsuitable standard of car the local office changed my original offer to a better Rav Four

Ok

Excellent throughout. Great service, great car. All went very well. Would definitely use again.

They upgraded us to a bigger car for no extra cost. The car had a number of dints etc however it drove well, was comfortable and for the price was excellent value for money.

Easy to book. Would be good to have a currency change ability to pay in AUD as opposed to US. Value for money was amazing and very easy process from start to finish.

No

Happy with the price paid. Car had lots of scratches and dents - I had to take lots of photos to make sure that I wasn't going to be charged for anything post-hire. Service was a bit slow on pick up - staff were available but did not attend the counter to serve us.

Very easy process. Happy with the price paid.

The car was clean inside but outside was dirty, pressure washed that didn't clean very well. Car was function but old 5-6 years at a guess.

Was hard to figure out who you were renting from. The facilities at christ church were less than acceptable the toilet was dirty and just not tended too. Staff were ok but pushed us aside when an arrogant Chinese party turned up an took over and took our ride back to the airport so we had to wait another 30 mins.

Good service attitude and clear communication, but the queue waiting time was a bit long, and it took a while to get a reply on WeChat.

Easy pickup and return, got a free upgrade to an Alfa. The staff were extremely friendly and, more importantly, professional, giving us many important reminders.

Great

The airport pickup and drop-off service was very attentive. They took us to the airport immediately after returning the car, which was great.