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    Avis/ Budget car rental at Islip Macarther Airport on Long Island has to be the the worst place in the entire country to pick up a rental car. I was here 3 years ago , I should have learned. there is only 3 people in front of me. I've been here an hour and half and line hasn't moved. I've been here almost as long as my flight. Brand new building with zero staff. There are people who checked in already and still waiting for there car to be " cleaned". If I knew this would happen again I would have flown into JFK. This airport is empty for a reason. This is one of them. No one seems to care. Don't ever use Avis/ Budget from here. You've been warned.

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    everything was absolutely quick, easy, fast, and car I reserved was actually there ..... usually…read morethings don't work out that easy.... this surprisingly did !!!

    Horrible Experience being Lied to and strung along during a very difficult time…read more.. I landed at MacArthur on a Monday for a 1 week stay with visit my family after moving out of state. I dealt with JoAnn at the counter and she SEEMED like she was going to help me with this very difficult situation. The 2nd day of my stay, my 59 year old brother in law suddenly passed AWAY. With all of us in shock and disbelief, i headed into the MacArthur location and informed JoAnn what my family was dealing with. I also brought here in a friend (a refferal) that also just came in. He rented a high end car from them as well. I explain how I will now be staying for 2 weeks and I was hoping they could help me with some savings/better rate since I hadn't used a AAA discount, teacher discount, or any other I qualified for. Right away, JoAnn started asking for a positive Google/YELP review, and promised me her Manager Mark or Mike (I dont recall exactly the name) would "Hes gonna do somthing really nice for you..." Once again immediately asking for a positive Google/Yelp Review. She showed me a very high $ number on my projected recipt for the 2 weeks, and assured me it wouldnt be the high $ number Id be charged. Once again telling me they would be retroactively applying some type of discount, and once again, "My manager will be doing somthing really nice for you..." I stopped in the Budget office 2 other times asking if she had an opportunity to speak to her manager so I knew what Id be in for. With the sudden death of my brother in law, and all the other costs that come with an unexpected passing, YES I was deffinitly being spending conscious. Each time I was given the "My managers gonna do somthing really nice for you" response. I show up to return the clean vehicle with a full tank, go in to return the keys and speak with JoAnn one last time. I ask if I could speak to and thank her Mystery Manager before I fly home.JoAnn shows me my big printed out recipt with all her handwritten notes to her manager. I then also furnished her with the Funeral Card for my 59 year old brother in law and she added some additional notes. She them PROMISED me I would be getting a call Tuesday morning before my card was charged. Once again, she was adamantly requesting a positive Google/Yelp Review. I promised I would. Once home, Tuesday morning came and I was shocked and disappointed to see i had been banged over the head for that "Very high $ number." No phone call or email. I have reached out for 3 days trying to get in touch with the Macarthur airport budget location at the 631 981-5041. ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THROUGH! I speak to a dozen reps from the National Budget Rental Center and they cant get me in touch with anybody. One guy "Brendan: gave me a phone number to speak to 303-834-2938, that turned out to be a fax number. I was also given centralbilling@AvisBudget.com to complain to, but at this point , after every other resource being inaccurate , the only typing i'm going to be doing is on google and yelp. JoAnn definitely earned my confidence and fooled me. I even feel bad typing this as I thought she was going to help me. I'm just thoroughly disappointed in myself for allowing myself to be strung along and deceived like this. I hope they feel good taking advantage of somebody during one of the hardest times somebody could go through. Im still shaking my head in disbelief. I really thought they were gonna do the right thing. Shame on me... Theres your review Budget @ MacArthur Airport... Like I promised

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    We reserved a sedan but when we arrived, only minivans and pick up trucks were available (not just…read morefor us but for everyone in line regardless of what they had reserved). We took a minivan. It smelled like cigarette smoke and was dusty/dirty inside. No way to call the location to see if a different car was available the next day.

    We reserved a car for a 2-week vacation when we went to pick it up we waited 2 hours before we…read morefinally got our car. They told us that they just waiting for the cars to be cleaned. ps the car we got was not running so great first the car would not start so we needed a jump start ok then a few days later driving through the Midtown tunnel and going east a few miles on the 495 we broke down after being in stop-go traffic and the car just died. We had to be towed we could not get in touch with Budget they needed an address we were just sitting on the highway and could not give them an exact address so they said they could not do anything. Then we call 911 to try to get help cars were wising by at 65 -70 miles an hour. We had to get out of the car because where we were stopped we were half in the left lane because there was a very small area we realy did not know what to do. Stay in the car or get out was I was never so afraid we would be killed. We were there for 3 1/2 hours before we finally got towed which cost us $190.00 then we got to Butegt at LaGuardia where we waited in a line for about an hour or so to get to talk to someone to get another car. When we did get to talk to the woman she was not sure what to do but lucky for us another guy heard what happened to us & he got us another car to finish our trip. Both cars we got had very high mileage Budget may be less money than other agencies not sure. But I can tell you I will never use them again!

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