Do not use this Hertz location. I reserved a compact petrol automatic vehicle for a trip to the…read moreIsle of Skye May 2023 in October of 2022. I provided flight details in my reservation. I was delayed and when I tried to change the flight details, the app allowed me to delete the original information, but not add new information. I arrived four hours after the "pick-up time", at 2 in the afternoon. My friend had arrived two hours earlier and they told her that they gave away our car and could only offer us an electric vehicle.
We repeatedly stated our extreme discomfort with bringing an EV to one of the most remote locations in Scotland, 3 hours away from the airport. Neither of us had internet data on our phones for this trip, so we clearly told the employee at this location that we wouldn't be able to use the QR codes he offered us while we were at charging stations. He dismissed our concerns, assuring us that there are charging stations "everywhere" and that the Shell fob included with the rental would work so we could charge. We still had a number of concerns, but he was flippant, dismissive, rude, and rushed us because they were busy. He then argued with me for 15 minutes about whether AAA entitled me to a second driver for free and tried to make me pay an additional amount for our second driver. When he brought us out to the car, he explicitly stated that he wasn't going to spend much time showing it to us because he was busy.
I can say with confidence that if it weren't for some of the kindest people in Scotland (do visit the Uig Hotel whose operations manager is one of those people), we would have been stranded because of this employees refusal to listen to our concerns and adequately address them, and because of Hertz's flippant violation of our reservation.
There are five charging stations on the Isle of Skye (which I knew in the Hertz location from the map I pulled up with Wifi). What I didn't know is that all of those locations are run by ChargeScotland, not Shell. We weren't given a ChargeScotland pass, so would be required to use an app or website. Without wifi, that was impossible, not to mention I couldn't download the app because I'm not from Scotland. The first charger we went to was unuseable because it doesn't have an identification number posted on it, which is required to use the website.
We then went to the only off-brand station, a slow-charge outside the Uig Hotel, where operations manager John graciously gave us the Wifi password and a hotel guest saw us struggling and came to inform us that the car has to be closed and locked (which no one told us, and the Hertz online guides didn't say) and to help us figure out the Zest machine. We finally got a charge started there and went into the restaurant. We charged 20% in 1.5 hours. The next day, after discovering that the only other nearby charging station in Portree wasn't working at all, we returned to the Uig Hotel where John gave us his personal ChargeScotland pass so that we wouldn't end up stranded.
Even then, some of the stations were broken and since we'd been poorly educated (with no specific manual materials provided), we didn't know that the fast chargers applied to our vehicle.
We lost many hours of our vacation because the employees at this Hertz location violated our reservation, never tried to contact me before giving away our car, and flippantly dismissed our concerns and discomfort.
The complaint process has also been ridiculous. We demanded a full refund for the car they gave away and they offered a 50% refund because I "hadn't provided flight information" and the renter must "ensure a car is suitable for" her. Do not trust these people or rent from them.
Hertz was also impossible to get ahold of in any way. No phone number connected to a human being and the number for the office charges several cents a minute. They dumped an EV on two unsuspecting American women, violating our reservation. This situation caused us to have to change plans along with endure undue stress during our vacation. I would give 0 stars if possible.