bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2012
Yep they will charge an extra day if late returning.
I worried about a rusted area on a car I rented recently but when I returned it the guy went out to check the car and said I was fine. I thought to myself how could a car rust in a week, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they tried to blame me. I was feeling a bit of relief that I took a picture of the car in the garage before I left to show my husband. If I zoomed in I could see the little area that was the issue. Anyway, it was a non issue but I worried a little about it.
We rented a one way rental in Savannah last year. It was a small location that also had moving vehicles. The guy did not try to sell me any insurance since I declined it on my reservation, but he did require me to provide my insurance card, which no one had done before. He typed it into his computer.
Whenever I've rented I saw it right in the rental agreement what the cost would be per week, day, and hour. I've never seen one that didn't have an hourly rate if late or just baked into the scheduled return time as an estimated total (like a 50 hour rental). And often I've shown up a half hour late and was waived the extra hour. So who has only a daily rate? I've never seen that from any of the majors like Avis/Budget, Hertz/Dollar, National/Enterprise/Alamo. I've also seen some weird situations like once I was renting from Budget but there was nobody behind the counter. The Avis agent at the adjacent counter went right up and handled it, but it was really joint Avis/Budget. And from what I could tell they pulled the cars out of the same inventory even if they had different prices.