I made an online reservation on Europcar.com this morning two hours before the intended pickup…read moretime. The website offered three smaller cars available: a Fiat, a Lancia (I think), and a Peugeot. I prepaid for the Peugeot with my AMEX. When we arrived, the guy said "sorry, no cars available." He then said "however, I do have a larger car for more money." Bait and switch. Hard for me to believe that he went from having plenty of small cars and two hours later, nothing, given that it is off-season. We just took the train instead. For us, we thought we'd try driving in Italy for a day but for those who are planning a vacation and need a car, I'd be leery of this place. Keep in mind that there are few car rental agencies in the area so it would be best to get a car in a larger town, such as Genoa.

For my first rental car experience in Italy, yes I am brave!, I chose to fly into a "smaller"…read moreairport and pick up my rental car with a well-known brand such as Hertz. (Also helps that I'm a Hertz Gold card member.... but in the states I end up renting my cars with other companies due to lower rates and corporate requirements.) However, I can happily say that not only did I choose Hertz because of the brand-name -- their online prices in Genova were better than other large-name rental car brands. (By A LOT!) When you collect your keys, the Hertz counter can be found inside the airport on the main floor after you collect your baggage. There are a ton of rental car companies, so you can't miss Hertz. Service was friendly, and extremely quick. (Maybe too quick?) They didn't ask if I needed a map or anything, and basically just told me in Italian that my car was outside. The car I reserved online was the exact make and model that I reserved -- a Fiat Panda. (In Italy all cars are small, so you may as well just save yourself some money and reserve economy.) After about 20min of learning how to get the car into reverse, I was off. The car was fine for my entire journey - - no issues at all. Well, there was no AUX port - - that would've been nice for my iPod. (Luckily I had a Jambox with to listen to some of my music inbetween the local radio stations.) I don't really think there was much of a "Gold experience" here, so nothing to comment there. Easy to return back to the airport. If you go through the round-about of the airport, you'll find a Total petrol station north of the airport to refuel. (Recommendation: use cash, not a credit card though - - just in case the machine sucks in your card. That would be a bummer of a delay to the airport.) Just dropped off my keys to the desk attendant -- and that was it. Easy.

WERE CHARGED FOR THE SERVICE WE DIDN"T ORDER AND DIDN"T KNOW ABOUT…read more We rented a car Reno Cleo with Hertz on the 8 of July 2016 in Genova Airport (Italy). We returned it on the 18 of July 2016 in Termini station, Rome, Italy. We reserved the car in advance and paid most part of the amount. So the amount left to pay was 71 GBP as we are residents of UK and paid for the car in local currency. When we picked a car in the airport we asked *specifically* at the counter that we DON'T need any additional insurances or services and so on. I've showed her the printed email confirmation. We stressed that we were happy with the basic franchise for a car provided. The person at the counter at Genova Airport spoke mostly Italian. But I tried to outline that we want only services that were ordered online!!! The person told us that in this case if we provide the fuel we'll pay 71 GBP (which was mentioned in the email confirmation) when the car is returned. While returning the car back I asked again how much we are going to be charged. And the Hertz employee who got the car back said he was not sure as it is done automatically. However according to the bill we received on 20 of July 2016 we were charged 156 GBP which is much more than we have in the email confirming the reservation. This is a very disappointing experience. I used to take cars from a few other companies before. And there were also a lot of positions with the different additional services. But when booked and paid online nothing extra appeared in the bill at the pick up/drop off points. I would expect that if you book everything online in advance and even pay basically most of the amount you won't be charged extra especially if you mention it. The support service refused to do anything about the situation. They just said that the service was added on their system, sorry and deal with it. I probably don't speak Italian and I am bad at currencies. But I expect the international company employees to speak English and I usually trust people. Just don't use Hertz ever! Pay for the things you know about! By the way we found significant scratches while checking the car (before taking it) that were not documented . Could have been charged for that too, I guess, if we didn't notice it early.

Avoid like a plague !!! We had a reservation several weeks prior to arrival. Arrived on time 12pm…read moreand lady didn't care to help much at all. "We don't have any cars and I can't help you" you can return and check later at 2:30pm "we are closed now for lunch" so we sit on steps for hours and at 3pm lady says sorry no car go to next city two hours away and they should have a car there ... seriously !??? Hertz you suck balls this will be a formal complaint and will go on to all friends and family. Stay away from this hellhole if you value your time and sanity.

Arrived at 8:30am, was told it would be a few minutes. Here I am at 10:30am with a lobby full of…read morepeople waiting for cars. ZERO sense of urgency. Would not suggest coming here. A total waste of time!

This was my worst car rental experience ever. After waiting 40 minutes in line (I am a Hertz Gold),…read moreI was told they did not have a car in the category booked and tried to sell me a better car for $60 / day more. When I protested, they gave me keys to a car. The car was badly damaged and dirty. When I returned, they gave me another car after 20 minutes, which was also dirty and not the category I booked. But, it was after a long flight and I was bushed. So, I just drove off. When I dropped off the car, they had to audacity to now tell me I damaged the car. I certainly did not. From the reports I read here, this is a scam that Hertz perpetuates on it's customers to make a buck.

Place is a scam. Rented a Tesla for the low price of €560 euros for 2 weeks. Guy takes my card and…read moreputs a €2700 euro deposit charge on it without asking and pushes my card over the limit. I promptly cancel the rental upon realizing this and he says the deposit will be refunded back on my account that evening. Two days later it's still not there. Guy was nice until that happened and the line was long. Mon avis is to go to Avis!