Car Hire - Merged Threads

smallblueplanet

gonna try a new thread

mcgi6ah2

The employee AWD code is getting quizzed at car pickup and phone calls are made to verify any story given. Not sure if this is everywhere, so you may want to try it and have a backup booking elsewhere...

BritishBeef

mcgi6ah2 wrote:

The employee AWD code is getting quizzed at car pickup and phone calls are made to verify any story given. Not sure if this is everywhere, so you may want to try it and have a backup booking elsewhere...

How do you know? Could you expand? Has this happened to you?

Risky

please expand on this as i have a booking for next week and need to know asap - i can see that they have stopped accepting it on the website please anyonw who has used this in the past week expand or report ???
thanks

mcgi6ah2

I used the code for a booking in the USA and was categorically told that they weren't allowing bookings with this code. They eventually processed the booking with a different discount, giving less off than the employee AWD code, but still a good price.

coolio_2

I am about to book using the A code for Avis, but don't want to get turned away at the airport as the cars are already selling out for the period i want to go

PNEfan

If you have an Egg card, log in to your account, choose Egg Rewards, then Privileges.
This takes you to Holiday Autos website, but prices are discounted automatically by 10%.

kelloggs36

Why do car hires charge different prices depending on which country you live in? I have got round this by booking the car and giving my correct address, but stating that I am resident in whichever country provides the cheapest price - saving hundreds of pounds! I have received e-mail and postal confirmation and nobody every queries this at the collection points. I have done this for the past 2 years and have just booked again - the difference is almost 200 quid!!!! It seems bizarre that if I enter Italy as my country of residence, but I am hiring a car in France, that I am charged so much less than if I entered France as my country of residence, and if I dare to put Great Britain in as my country of residence, the price shoots up almost by double!! This doesn't seem fair to me! Are we Brits SO much worse at driving that we must pay that much more?

carolrhos

Could anyone please who has used this firm let me know how dependable they are they seem very reasonable.I'm flying to Lanzarote on the 11th of January

arthurp8

Ditto regarding any reviews of company - they are cheapest for my 2 weeks later in the year - and also give free 2nd driver and free child seat!!