Florence Car Hire

Terrible experience

Cons: I rented the car for less than 24 hours, picked it up at Firenze, dropped it off at Rome. It was advertised that the price would be 49 euros. That is what I paid when I picked it up. The lady that provided the rental agreement at the counter asked me if I wanted to fill up the gas before dropping it off in Rome or if they can do it for me for a ridiculous amount of money, like 3 times the amount it costs to fill up the gas.I said I would fill it up. She laughed and said OK. I didn't understand what that meant but didn't think much of it. She knew the are in Rome because she explained to me how hard it was to get there, to find the little garage door in between the skinny streets of Rome. When I was ready to drop it off, It took me around 2 hours to find the ONLY gas pump in the whole area and it was broken. THEN, I understand why that lady laughed at my thought of attempting to find a gas station around the area. WHY DIDN'T SHE SAY SOMETHING AND JUST LAUGHED? It was just after midnight, around 12:25 and I had to drop the car off at midnight. There was nobody at the drop off location ( so nobody waiting for the car). At the end my bill was for 134 euros! SO like $180 for less than a day! And today, 4 months later, they attempted to charge my credit card again for an extra $35, for no reason. Stay away from Hertz! You have been warned. oh! And customer service ignored my request to go over charges. They didn't even send me an updated bill until I requested it. Never again Hertz.

very very long wait at the Firenze office

Pros: friendly and detailed service when it was our turn

Cons: very long line out the door into the street, cramped environment for waiting. We had no idea there was a machine inside to take a number (because there was no indication and no staff providing direction to people waiting outside) so we wasted some time in the queue before getting a number.

Wrong car

Cons: We rented an automatic Jeep Cherokee or similar SUV through your website and it came through to the rental agency in Florence as a Jeep Wrangler. There were three of us with 6 pieces of luggage. The Florence agency did their best to accommodate us. It appears the problem was with your website.

Company policy would not let me rent a car

Pros: Price was a great value, but not at all honest for what I was paying for.

Cons: I went to pick up the rental and, because I am 22, I expected that I would have to pay more. However, Hertz does not allow rentals under the age of 23 so my friend offered to be the rental driver. They do not accept bank cards - only credit cards and could not use the bank card my 25 year old friend had, so we had to rent from another company and got charged €170 instead of the €46 Hertz offered. Super upsetting.

Needed a Car Wash

Pros: Car size and reliability.

Cons: Car was filthy on pick-up in Florence. Agent was nowhere to be found when we arrived for pick-up, waited for over a half hour. Return in Rome was confusing, had to drop off the car at a different location then where the agent was.

Cons: Our train didn't get in until 3:00pm and the office closed at 1:00pm to pick up the car. We went to the people at the drop-off location, and the man was extremely rude and unhelpful. Finally, a competent woman came along and helped us out. We ended up waiting over 1.5 hours to pick up a car.