Enjoyable, easy, stress free.

I had previously rented directly from this company. While they do promote additional services, I personally had no issues with my experience. It was pretty good.

Your office open hours is until 2AM. In some cases it's crucial! If you supposed to be open till 2AM, you have to be open until 2AM without any exceptions.

Following the public information about Europcar open/close hours, they should be open until 2AM. We came to counter an 1:20AM and they told that we are very lucky because the office is going to be closed at 1:30AM. Didn't get the reason.. Some kind of renovation in the area and they close the area earlier. This mean that we had a good chance to spend the night at the airport in the case we spent a little bit more time at New Zealand biosecurity.

I think it is important to give the car and receive it to check it is in good conditions before leave the place. But the staff didn't do that, so we needed to leave with a photograf register about car condition as well as when we wanted to return the car after our trip.

It was a bad experience. I went to pick up the booked car (Intermediate | Holden Commodore or similar) at Europcar Auckland, and was told that the car I wanted was not available, and the "similar" cars were not available as well. They then proceeded to offer several other cars, which were all downgrades from what I booked online. I rejected the downgrades, and Europcar staff said "that's all they have", and that "they can't do anything about it". I left the shop with a downgraded 1.4L Turbo Jeep Compass, which was much cheaper than what I have already pre-paid. I'll never use their services again.