I had a reservation booked and paid for 2-3 months in advance for a suburban to be picked up at the Union Station location at 530 pm. When we arrived at the Denver airport Saturday 7/18, I decided to call and confirm that we would be to Union Station shortly. The first woman that I spoke with informed me that Union Station had closed at 5pm and that I would have to wait until the next day. I told her that she had lost her mind and that someone was going to give me a vehicle one way or another seeing as how 6 of us were stranded at the airport. I also asked her why it would let me schedule for the vehicle to be picked up at 530 if they were going to be closed. She didn't have a good response. She proceeded to transfer me to the airport location where I spoke to Joshua and explained everything that was going on. He told me that the Union Station location should still be open. He then put me on hold for a few minutes and came back on the line and told me that unfortunately, they were closed and they couldn't help me because the airport location was sold out. Once again, I told him that I didn't care how but they were going to give me a vehicle whether it was through them or another rental company. He told me that I should've received an email or something stating that the location would be closing early. I told him the last email I received was 2 days before confirming my reservation and saying that everything was set and ready to go. I then forwarded him the email so he could see for himself. He looked it over and said let me see what I can do. At this point, I told my family that we were getting on the shuttle and going down to the office to take care of the situation After being on the phone for over an hour, and being put on hold for over 30-45 minutes, Ahmad gets on the phone and informs me that there is nothing that can be done because there isn't a manager on duty and they have no authority to fix the problem and proceeds to tell me that he had customers in front of him, that he would have to go. At this point, I was livid! We arrived at the airport location and started speaking with Joshua. I asked him what we were going to do to fix the problem. He told me that we would have to come back the following day to pick our vehicle up when the Union Station location opened. I said so Sixt is going to reimburse me for the hotel tonight and then compensate for all of the BS. He said he couldn't guarantee that because he wasn't sure. Ahmad finally steps over and tells us that the Union Station location is closing early bc of "protests" & covid. I said well nobody communicated anything to us! He said was unable to get in contact with a manager but that he has a managers minivan that he can give us and that we can either stay in Denver that night and pick the suburban up the next morning or just keep the minivan the whole week. We already had a cabin 4 hours away paid for for the week so staying in Denver wasn't an option. He said that we would be compensated for the screw-up but couldn't tell us how much bc he wasn't a "manager".
I said you guys could've saved us a lot of trouble from the get-go by saying "hey, I'm sorry for the mistake but we can put you in a minivan and get you on your way" instead of all the bs we had to go through. Ahmad told me to contact the Union Station location Monday morning and they would take care of the problem. It was also kind of ironic that at the same time we were in the office another customer was bitching because he wasn't getting the vehicle or similar vehicle that he paid for. Monday morning rolled around and I called Union Station. I believe I spoke with Tessa. After explaining the situation, she told me she would credit the car seat fee, one way fee which didn't make sense because it was not my fault that we had to get a vehicle from the airport location to begin with, and then the $100 fuel credit that I had. She sent me a confirmation email. When we returned the vehicle the following Saturday 7/25, a lady met me at the car to get the keys and informed me that I should be receiving an email confirming the credit in the next few hours. I thanked her and we went on our way. Today which is 7/27, I still have yet to receive an email so I called earlier and was informed that the contract was closed therefore my issue would have to be sent over to billing and it should be evaluated and I should hear something within the next 48 hours.
ABSOLUTELY THE WORST RENTAL CAR EXPERIENCE I'VE EVER HAD. THE BUSINESS IS VERY UNORGANIZED, UNPROFESSIONAL, AND POORLY COORDINATED AND OPERATED. NEVER AGAIN WILL I EVEN CONSIDERING RENTING A VEHICLE FROM THEM. I READ REVIEWS BEFORE I RENTED AND MOST WERE NOT GOOD BUT I DECIDED TO GIVE IT A SHOT & ULTIMATELY GOT SCREWED! read more