Continental Hire Car recommendation please

[Booster]

Mum and Dad are off on holiday and need to collect a hire car in Geneva and return it to Lyon.

Can any of you frequent renters recommend a firm that would be good for a Golf sized car please? Any discount codes at all please?

[theduisbergkid]

Hertz. There might be cheaper, but their service is usually spot on, I should know.

If you enrol them in the Hetz Gold club (free, no CC details needed), they get a priority counter so no queues, normally get a free upgrade, and sometimes get an extra day's rental free voucher by post/email and they apply a 5% discount automatically IIRC. At most big European airports you just walk out to the carpark and jump in the car with no paperwork required.

Here > Hertz Gold Plus Rewards - UK

ETA - Just remembered. If you return the car to a different depot, they charge you a it extra, if it's in another country, it's a sh*tload extra. Geneva airport is on the French/Swiss border, play with the booking and see if it's cheaper to pick one up from the nearest one on the French side of the border. There will also be no surcharge for airport location. A taxi 5km down the road to France will probably save them a load of money. Try it. ETA again, found it, try this one "Geneve Airport - French Side"

Edited July 4, 2012 by theduisbergkid

[Booster]

That's the kind of info I was looking for cheers mate!!!

[theduisbergkid]

No worries. Some nice roads in that area, please remind them that nothing handles like a rental

[theduisbergkid]

In the Times travel section yesterday there was a story about one-way car rental charges, apparently, the only big company in France not to charge extra for a one-way rental is Hertz. I wasn't aware of this.