Stay away from Budget!
Pros: They gave a car...
Cons: Absolute nightmare to work with these people. Rude customer service. Sneaky people trying to find any fault with the car to charge the insurance. Had to fill in paperwork because of a tiny rock chip. Good luck getting a hold of anyone to make any changes to the reservation. Ruined our vacation.
Not the car I reserved
Pros: The customer service agent cancelled the reservation for us at the desk.
Cons: We were going to be given a Subaru Outback as a standard size SUV. There is no way that that car qualifies as a SUV, let alone standard size. They had no other cars they could rent us. The excuse was that that was the car that was set up in Budgets "list" of approved cars for that class. If that is the case, then Budget really needs to review their list. The desk agent was nice enough, but one of the workers that came in reeked of smoke and was not very pleasant to her when she had asked him if the full size SUV (an actual full size one, a GMC Yukon I believe) was available. He got a bit gruff and said that we could have it if we only wanted it one day since it needed an oil change and some other work.
Pros: The vehicle itself
Cons: Budget added their insurance to the rental fee. It ended up being very expensive!
Pros: The car we received had only about 3000 miles on it and it was a nicer car than expected.
Cons: The car was very dirty when we picked it up. Chocolate on the seat, greasy fingerprints all over the interior. We mentioned this when we picked it up and asked if they could fix it. To which they said that they had just run it through the carwash and vacuumed it. The had no other clean cars with which we could exchange it.
We called customer service and they gave us one day free and told us we could exchange the car at any budget location. We did.
When dropping off the car we had to wait 30 minutes before being helped. The attendant was spending a very long time chatting with a customer and playing with their dog while a line of 3 or 4 other customers waited.
Cons: I ended up cancelling my car rental after the tire fell off the rental car a few miles away from pickup. They were unable to get me a replacement car because they couldn't release a new one to me until they collected the damaged one, and they could not find where they had towed their car to. It was a nightmare.
Pros: Customer service accommodated me with a returned car that hadn't been serviced.
Cons: Car I reserved was not available.
Cons: Good
Customer Service on Phone okay, everything else sa
Pros: Best rate out of everyone. I needed a mini van at the last minute. Van was clean, shiny and brand new. On time. Counter was easy to work with. I picked it up at a site not at the airport. Discount for prepay rental. About $13 dollars less than posted online.
Cons: Customer service on the phone was confusing. I called at night and it sounded like I was talking to someone from the phillipines and she was going off of a script. I had to ask her to repeat what she said. Having worked in call center I get what it's like so I cut her some slack but they should drop their script to be more engaged with the customer. After prepaying the rental at a discount, the lady transferred me to someone else probably also from. Phillipines selling vacation plans. "Congratulations you won" The guy was friendly with accent, he made a good conversation with me. I didn't want to purchase anything or looking to book a vacation so he was cool with it but hung up abruptly.