SCAM & SHADY EUROPCAR car rental at the Huatulco airport. Fair warning to any travelers. DO NOT USE…read morethis company. How are they even still in business and do they take any of our reviews and complaints seriously?! Do they even care?!
We're a traveling group from San Diego. Sometimes we rent cars in Mexico based on our vacation needs. This would be our fourth trip to Huatulco and then we come across this crap on Tuesday, November 5, 2024: $60 for basic car, for 4 days. Season travelers that we are, we usually take the lowest insurance rate. The desk person tells us that it would cost $200 more to rent the car on top of $60 rate, otherwise, we can't rent. We heard her loud and clear and we spoke Spanish. The desk person did not budge, there was no wiggle room for negotiation, or given another offer to help our situation, but that. Then, here comes along this male staff standing at the desk area beside her (identified later as a sales person for a local resort) stating, if we attend a time-share presentation, he would offer us a car rental at a much lower rate. A double scam! Um, NO THANK YOU and we took off in a taxi, to our resort. Our taxi fare for the four of us was 400 pesos. We're told 350-400 was typical fare.
Very unsatisfied with Europcar rental car in Huatulco, but very satisfied that we decided to leave the shady establishment and did not entertain their scam plan.
WARNING
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Additional note, here's typical reply from the owner or who were runs EUROPCAR :
"All the comments from our clients are really important for us, as their feedback is always taken into consideration to improve, grow and being able to offer our clients remarkable experiences.
We would kindly like to ask you if you could please contact us via email at mx_customerservice@europcar.com.mx just to know more details about your rent process.
Kind regards."
So, if our comments and feedback are so important and "will take in consideration to improve " how about starting with your prices and training staff to NOT scam us