Our flight did not match the booking time, requiring us to pick up the car a day earlier. Communication was difficult until we met a fellow countryman who was a supervisor in the hall. She enthusiastically helped us resolve the issue and provided excellent car usage suggestions. Unfortunately, we did not exchange contact information at the time, and we don't even know her name. Such a pity.

Budget rental was really impressive! First, at pick-up: They initially didn't have the Tahoe model we booked, so they provided another SUV of the same class. When we saw a Tahoe in the garage, we asked the staff and they patiently helped us switch to the preferred model. During the rental period: Unfortunately, our car window was broken in San Francisco (no items were lost). We immediately contacted Budget customer service, and within 10 minutes they helped us with the registration and guided us on how to switch cars. That evening, we went to San Francisco airport and exchanged for another Tahoe. The process was quick and convenient. Since the insurance covered everything, there were no extra costs.

My husband picked up the car, which seemed to take a lot of time, over an hour. It wasn't a full tank as described on the rental website; we had to fill it up there. Returning the car was very convenient, just hand over the key to the service desk. Although we bought full insurance, they tried to sell us an additional rescue insurance for 6 yuan per day.

The car was dirty and in a bad condition

We waited in line for over an hour before we reached the desk where we were then offered a Volkswagen beetle instead of the Ford mustang convertible we had booked months before because there was no mustang available (it does state or similar but anyone who believes a VW beetle is similar to a Ford mustang is delusional!!). We were then told if we waited 20 minutes we could have a mustang from another hire company (Avis). We waited over an hour then finally went back to the desk and we were told there is a blue mustang waiting for us. We went to collect the car and realised the paperwork was for a red mustang which we found and confirmed with Avis staff was the correct car.. as I went to drive off I realised the rear view mirror was completely hanging off.. we tried to fix it but couldnt so spent ages trying to get help from staff. Eventually someone arranged for a different mustang to be bought over from Avis, this took another 45 minutes, when this arrived it had no GPS so we had to wait a further 30 minutes for this to be rectified.. overall we were there for well over 3 hours which ruined our plans for our first day of our holiday. The car had also not been service as we had to buy engine oil and windscreen wash too plus one of the rear seat belts was stuck! Overall this was a very stressful and poor experience and we will not be booking with Budget or Avis ever again.