Thrifty Car Rental Review

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Guest's Review of Thrifty Car Rental Car Hire

31st Aug 2009

Overall Rating

1 stars
  • Value for money
    2 stars
  • Country & City of hire
    dublin
  • Choice of vehicles
    Poor
  • Date of hire (month/year)
    28/08/09
  • Condition of vehicle
    Average

Booked a car for a week through Holiday Autos whose agent at Dublin airport is Thrifty. The Thrifty desk was the only one with a queue. Had paid CDW to Holiday Autos but Thrifty wanted to charge me again at 15 Euros a day. I assume this would have been 120 euros for a friday to friday hire. This is about half the annual cost of insurance on my own car. The excess was 1100 euros which they did say (eventually) I could claim back from Holiday Autos. Decided to risk it. Next scam is that they charge for a full tank but you must bring it back empty (no refund) - I have never had this before. Next scam they charged 61 euros for fuel in a puergot 107. How did they get so much fuel in. Next scam - I was told that the toll on the Liffy on the M50 bridge was charged automatically to them and would then be charged back to me on return of the car at a rate of 4.50 euros. On crossing the bridge I noticed the toll was 3 euro but am told that account holders only get charged 2 euros so they are making 125% mark up. I will never use Thrifty again nor holiday autos.

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  • RosePearl on 9th Sep 2009

    This reviewer's experience was identical to ours. We rented a Hyundai Q10 for 2 days and were charged for 37 litres of fuel(Hyundai spec for this model states 35 lite tank) at and addtional cost of nearly 43 euro to our rental. A total scam.