DECENT STAFF - but cars are not the greatest.....#worstcarrentalever…read more
HORRIBLE! I wish I could not give it a star rating. This might be long, but its worth the read. My wife and I were about to take a road trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco, we picked up the car from Santa Ana Airport (Even worst than all the others we went too)... We got the car as a weekly rental and picked it up late wednesday night, drove it around on thursday, left on friday... the car had an interesting smell which we brought to the attention of the Dollar attendant and he mentioned to just leave the window open and it should go away.
On friday morning, my wife and I noticed we had multiple welts and bug bites on our body... we then had dinner with some great friends and they brought it to our attention it could be the car... Infact it had to be... All the signs pointed to the car, how are both of us getting welts, the car still smelled, and that night (friday) as we drove to Ventura, i killed a bug in the car.
The next morning en-route to Hearst Castle, we caleld the dollar customer service and they offered to exchange the car when we got to SFO, but no further compensation... On the way from Hearst Castle to San Fran, I was able to kill four more bugs, and just made the 4 hour drive very uncomfortable.
We took the car to a small location at the Wharf, the gentleman was there, but gave us a replacement car in really poor condition and could not provide us with anything else. the breaks were awful, the inside smelled, the seat kept moving, all we thought about was how can you rent this car to ANYONE... worst of all, the tired flattened out during our drive and had to refill it. I dont know what happened, but once we filled it, it was fine....
The next day we dropped off the car in San Jose to get a new one, THis car was very good, but after all the complaining we did, still nothing but an exchange in car. The people were rude and rushed us out of the car, sadly the lady who rushed us got into an accident with our car as we was sending it to be fixed, she rear ended another dollar car and yelled and said that the breaks were really bad, but literally that was our car 10 minutes ago! imagine!
Tookt he car, had no problems with the new one... and returned it and the lady, although she was really nice to us, she understood how much trouble we went through and offered us a little compensation and told us to call the location we rented from.
We did just that, called Santa Ana Dollar, over and over, 3 to 4 times a day... its sad to even mention, but we kept getting put on hold, said they were busy and could not help, they would call us back, literally, spoke to the manager there, BRET, he put us on hold for 40 minutes only to call off a different phone to hear he went on Lunch, at 10am? LITERALLY the WORST car rental experience My wife an I ever had.
PLEASE pay the 10 dollars a day more and RENT WITH ANOTHER COMPANY!
BRET - Awful manager at the Santa Ana Location, its not been 2 weeks and am STILL waiting for any call back....
I really hope this review helps someone one day.