Con men !!!!

A very terrible car rental experience. The return was scheduled for the early morning of the day we were flying back home. When we arrived at the parking lot to return the car, we discovered the car key battery was dead. We contacted the rental company, but since we needed to catch our flight, we couldn't wait for their staff to fix the issue. The rental company instructed us to take a taxi to return the car key to their office. Since the dead car key battery was their fault, we returned the key and left for our flight. Unexpectedly, they maliciously charged us nearly 300 euros, including towing fees, parking fees, and some inexplicable management fees. This rental company already required an excessively high deposit of 2000 euros, which was unreasonable and seemed designed to facilitate these malicious charges.

It took 90 mins from calling office for pick up to arriving at office for car .. then they didnt have correct vehicle , they tried to palm me off with little Peugeot, I'm 6ft 3 ! so then they offered another car , it was scratched and dented all around , front bumper was unsecure as it had a bump previously, I opened the car up and it was filthy , hadn't been cleaned, previous hirer documents , empty coffee cups , sweet wrappers , smelling of cigarettes.. anyway I had to take it as i was late for my meeting at this stage .. I drove a few miles down the road and realised there were 2 yellow warning lights on , and I couldn't check what they were for as there was no vehicle user manual and to top it off the whole media system was in spanish .. also there was insufficient fuel in vehicles..you couldn't make it up .. I sometimes get Hertz and I always get a new or new ish vehicle sparkling clean and fresh .. I have pics to back up all the above ..

Easirent has not yet refunded the deposit of 2100 euros they charged.

Long wait for pickup/ rude unapologetic staff- I was told 5 minutes but was waiting over 45 minutes for the pickup, rang office 4 times. Was spoken to rudely and abruptly by 3 team members, they constantly said just 5 minutes away but I waited 45 mins and they were unapologetic about being so late. Took a further 1/2 hour or more to get to the office and get on the road. Hiring cars without road tax - When checking out, a guy beside me was complaining - he was waiting a month for a refund- due to returning his hire as it had no tax. No road tax? with a hire company? I did not think to check my tax disc? I gave the benefit of the doubt and thought this must be a one off surely? however over Easter I was pulled in by gardai and my vehicle had no up to date road tax on it. The company was unapologetic upon return of the car. I only got away with a fine/confiscation because the garda was local and took my work that it was a hire and he let me go. Poor customer service - They are so unapologetic and unhelpful and I doubt their integrity. The only small redemption is the girl Lauren who did eventually come to my assistance and was the only polite/genuine/helpful person in my whole experience with Easirent.

+ves: Value was good compared to others. Drop off was handled OK. Fuel deposit was swiftly returned. -ves: The car (Hyundai i10) was smaller than expected having paid for a "Fiesta or similar". Lots of unnecessary & unclear choices for insurance and fuel combinations. Pick up location wasn't clean. Collection from Airport took too long.

Easy to use, good price