ALAMO - Venice Marco Polo Airport Information, Car hire Instructions & Policies

Easy to locate the checkout counter and actual vehicle. The back seats were a bit dirty, the car was great and we didn’t have any issues.

Counter staff were horrendous. We had planned on adding a driver and potentially taking out extra insurance. The counter staff scoffed at us when she found out we ordered a panda. "good luck" was the response when she saw the buggy and intimated it would never fit. She also used the words "up sell" constantly without giving any insight into what we were getting in the up sell, just that we had to have it in order to get xxx. I work in tech sales and I would never ever tell a client "oh in order to get xxx you need to buy an upsell" invest in a consultative sales team. If the staff had of said something like "we can't offer xxx on the base package unfortunately, but we can upgrade you for £xx and you will be able to get what you want plus all these other benefits" the experience would have been far better.

I clarified prior to booking the car to make sure that I can drive the car into Bosnia and I even clarified again when I picked up the car. Everyone said there won't be any issues, but I was not able to enter Bosnia when I came to the boarder. It's in the law that a original green card is needed to enter Bosnia. Alamo just gave me a copy and said it will be good enough. I had to leave the car and get a taxi to Bosnia and rent another car. I do want a refund on the car.

Very disappointed that you consider a station wagon and a minivan to be the same class of cars. I booked my car very early to make sure you get it right. If you didn’t have a minivan available you should have given me a better car, not a worse one. I was tired, had three kids with me and no time to argue with the personnel but this is two times that I am renting a car in Italy and I am extremely disappointed with the lack of customer orientation those people have.

The counter staff in Venice were very busy when we went to pick up our vehicle but they worked quickly to look after everybody as fast as possible. The only thing I thought could be improved would be signage directing people to the proper area to fill out the appropriate forms.

Excellent

Overall experience was good. No complicated procedures. To pick up the car, you only need a passport, credit card, and a driving license. Successfully picked up the car with a UK driver's license that I've had for just over a year, without an IDP. A 500 EUR credit card pre-authorization was returned the day after returning the car. The staff inspected the car carefully when returning it, so make sure to take a video around the car before renting to avoid any disputes. Got a Golf, which was a bit small but suitable for four people. The car only had a type-C port, so remember to bring an adapter.

Great experience, very simple procedures, the car had only 900 kilometers on it, excellent condition