Europcar Viana do castello

Large car rental companies provide professional service. There was a bit of a queue when picking up the car at the airport location, but returning the car was incredibly smooth. You simply park the car, an employee takes a quick look around the vehicle (30 seconds), and then confirms the payment is done. You can leave right away.

Seamless car hire

Booking easy. Price was only competitive as I had a voucher to use.

Even though I bought full insurance through QEEQ, the counter still tries to upsell.

The car was brand new but the engine was noisy and seemed to have trouble shifting gears even though it was an automatic and I was always driving exactly the speed limit. I was pressured into buying $600 in insurance for the one-week rental because they said that if there was even a small nick in the paint from a rock I would owe tens of thousands of Euros. The woman at the sales desk wrote down some huge numbers of fines that I would be charged. I returned the car with 600 km of mileage and in perfect condition -- but I had been pressured to buy a ridiculous amount of insurance. I will not rent from them again.

Need to update pick up point, no longer in town now by the mariner.