SCAM rental.

Dublin airport car rental. Google. Easy. Arrive in Dublin. Call Easyrentcars. Stand in pickup location for 25 mins. Get on bus for 40 mins to car rental site residing 800 yards away. Reason: it’s a Hilton hotel shuttle. Route: drive 5 miles away from airport in rush hour traffic, drop people at Hilton, turn around and drive 5 miles through rush hour traffic back to airport and drop off poor car rental customers at Easirentcars. Wait for 30 mins to speak with front desk. Provide €2600 ‘deposit for damage’. Watch staff look perplexed that I wanted the car on the booking. Informed that a 7 seaters isn’t on site. Sit down and contemplate some inappropriate actions. 20 minutes later car arrives. Wait further 10 minutes as paperwork not ready. Woman on reception laughs saying it’s not always like this. Contemplate more bad things. Drive car away and drink heavily. After journey is completed. Angry. Unlikely to use them again even if I had to drive my family away from an apocalyptic event.

Samantha was extremely unprofessional, she swore on numerous occasions and tried to rush the damage paper work, being very lax about it. On return, I had to argue my case for 60 mins that I did not damage the vehicle and again Samantha handled the situation terribly. She refused to look at the vehicle and claimed she did not remember, even though she came up to me before this and tried to pick up our conversation from the last day. Terrible experience and very vindictive.

A complete fraud and disaster.

Long wait for pickup/ rude unapologetic staff- I was told 5 minutes but was waiting over 45 minutes for the pickup, rang office 4 times. Was spoken to rudely and abruptly by 3 team members, they constantly said just 5 minutes away but I waited 45 mins and they were unapologetic about being so late. Took a further 1/2 hour or more to get to the office and get on the road. Hiring cars without road tax - When checking out, a guy beside me was complaining - he was waiting a month for a refund- due to returning his hire as it had no tax. No road tax? with a hire company? I did not think to check my tax disc? I gave the benefit of the doubt and thought this must be a one off surely? however over Easter I was pulled in by gardai and my vehicle had no up to date road tax on it. The company was unapologetic upon return of the car. I only got away with a fine/confiscation because the garda was local and took my work that it was a hire and he let me go. Poor customer service - They are so unapologetic and unhelpful and I doubt their integrity. The only small redemption is the girl Lauren who did eventually come to my assistance and was the only polite/genuine/helpful person in my whole experience with Easirent.

When picking up the car the guy at the counter painted a very scary picture of insurance situation and informed me that to be fully insured I need to purchase very expensive insurance. I know this is his job and everything he said was accurate but I found it very scary. And the whole process took too long. When I dropped off I found the guy accepted it was rude. He dropped me off at the airport by double parking and gave me a "safety first" advice when I was going to get off from offside of the van. But because he double parked, the near side was equally dangerous.