This Budget Car Rental is inside the Halifax Stanfield International Airport and it was one of the few places that still had cars available in late August 2022, so we were very grateful. Mind you, we paid a pretty penny for the rental.
Gone are the days when you could, without any reservations, walk into a car rental company and have your pick of cars. The Covid-19 Pandemic caused lots of car rental companies to decrease their fleet size as demand plummeted, then when business picked up again, there were supply chain issues, so not enough cars.
We searched high and low for a car rental so we could drive from Halifax to the South Shore to scatter the ashes of a dearly departed. Budget came through for us, although not exactly at a Budget price. We paid about $435 (all in) for a Hyundai Kona for 2 days (47.5 hours to be exact).
Online reservation was user-friendly, quick and easy. I appreciated the text and email confirmations and reminders. We had no problems when we arrived the day of the rental. Counter staff were courteous and efficient. We had to do our own inspection of the car. We noticed a huge chunk missing from the passenger front fender. We flagged down a staff member and he marked it on the paper, initialled it, kept a copy and gave us a copy. Then we were on our way.
The car was clean. I know they wiped it down with disinfectant wipes because some of the surfaces, like the rearview mirror were pretty streaky, lol. I'm good with that though, glad they disinfected the car.
Overall, a good experience with Budget Car Rental, even if the price was more premium than budget, lol. read more