When traveling through NZ, was NEVER told that needed to change cars at the ferry, between the north and south island. Had to change all my ferry bookings at the last minute. Absolute nightmare of an experience and neither Europcar nor Easyrentcars.com wanted to take the blame for the lack of notice. VERY unimpressed with both. Would have rented from other companies if rentals hadn't been sold out.
We'd booked a Toyota RAV 4 auto (or equivalent) but were given a Nissan Quashquai (on the South Island) which is smaller than a RAV 4. For the North Island we got a Kia Sportage which wasn't as clean as it could have been.
About QEEQ:10.0/10
Excellent service and email communication throughout.
Booked a large 4x4 SUV but got a small 2wd instead. Couldn't give us a good reason why we couldn't get the vehicle we booked. Their vacuum cleaner didn't work. And had no staff.
Very shambolic. A bad experience.
About QEEQ:10.0/10
Good. But wondering if we missed a message from Europcar to earn that they couldn't fulfil their vehicle obligation.
The car was fantastic. The staff at check were good but there were not enough of them. There was a high volume of people picking up cars on arrival with only 2 staff on the counter. Wait time of almost 1 hour and 30 mins was not ideal after long flights and 2 young children.
About QEEQ:10.0/10
Great service!
Look forward to using you again in the future!
We arrived to find the car we had booked wasn’t available
They offered us an “upgrade” to a compact car or the 8 seat people mover we ended up with
When asked about the car we booked we were told it wasn’t available and the only cars available were the compact and a couple of people movers.
We ended up taking the people mover as we had two small girls with us
The booster seats that I had emailed to confirm that they would be installed had to still be installed before we could go to the car
It was a stressful start to our holiday and some people in line wouldn’t have been getting a car at all
It was a terrible experience when you pay for a small SUV and you get a sedan and you are told its a similar vehicle.
The staff had no interest or care, all they kept saying is it has 5 seats and can hold your bags.
About QEEQ:8.0/10
If you are going to let people book a SUV can you atleast make sure it comes with some sort of guarantee that your customers dont end up in a sedan. If I wanted a sedan, I would have booked a sedan and saved money. Im writing this review and I kind of know there is no hope in hell anything is going to come of it, but I have to try.
“Great car shame on them about the paperwork, double dipping payment & held $$ and overcharging.”
About Europcar:9.0/10
Disappointed as they have overcharged me. Booking was for NZ$316.83 (AU$302.83) + $200 bond, So AU$502.83 was frozen on credit card. But when I returned the car they charged my card with NZ$373.83 instead of the $316.83, petrol was filled there was no reason to take any extra. Invoice still has not been supplied despite requested. Further they were still holding the AU$502.83 a week later in pending as well as being paid on the 17th for the car. So they had double dipped my card for 5 working days overdrawing it as well as taking an extra $57 with no explanation.
“Less attention to detail otherwise it was a great experience.”
About Europcar:8.0/10
I would like to share a constructive feedbacks as follows:
1. Counter check in staff
The counter staff were awesome and nice, they informed us in advance that they're new, they did their best to follow all the written instructions to help with the pick up process. Behind us there were 3 other customers. But shame for Europcar, they should have some senior staff to assist the new staff to avoid long queue and complaints.
2. Full tank for the new renter
Make sure to check the fuel meter when the previous renter return the car to make sure it's full tank. I
I picked the car up with millage at 3679km (pic.#1) , just realized when I was travelling at 3772km - mileage left to travel 765km (pic.#2), it was just 3km away from airport that the fuel meter showed only 15 bars (full tank is 16 bars). For the clear details at 3777km when I pulled over to take another photo (pic.#3). I didn't bother to return to the counter to complaint as I had an appointment that I was late because of the long process.
In the middle of the trip, I refuelled and it showed 16 bars on the fuel meter and millage left to travel 926km (pic.#4). From this only, I felt cheated as if only I took the vehicle full tank, I would have travelled another 161km.
Another clear information (pic.#5) when I refuelled again at the Z-petrol station by Frankton Road in Queenstown before return the vehicle at Queenstown airport which only 2.5km away. Again, millage left to travel still 957km and not 765km as when I picked up.
Thank you.
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