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Car hire Italy

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:17am
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Lawrie

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Hi

Currently in Spain but going to Pisa next month for a week and wondered if anyone could recommend a car hire company 

I have a car in spain but having read some horror stories about car hire and all the add ins etc concerns me so if anyone has any experience they would share that would be most app

RichT

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:41pm

RichT

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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:41pm

I would avoid Goldcar at all costs - from personal experience; and also they have been investigated by the Daily Telegraph and Which? magazine as the most complained about car hire company in Europe!

I have used Centauro in Spain and never had any issues and they also operate in Italy.

Hope this helps!

Lawrie

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:52pm

Lawrie

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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:52pm

RichT wrote on Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:41pm:

I would avoid Goldcar at all costs - from personal experience; and also they have been investigated by the Daily Telegraph and Which? magazine as the most complained about car hire company in Europe!

I have used Centauro in Spain and never had any issues and they also operate in Italy.

Hope this helps!

Many thanks all personal experience really geloful

Rodan

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:19pm

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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:19pm

RichT wrote on Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:41pm:

I would avoid Goldcar at all costs - from personal experience; and also they have been investigated by the Daily Telegraph and Which? magazine as the most complained about car hire company in Europe!

I have used Centauro in Spain and never had any issues and they also operate in Italy.

Hope this helps!

Interesting comment Rich …… we have a flat in Fuerteventura and I have noticed that none of the hire cars now have the normal Goldcar yellow sticker on the rear window !!

They all now have a similar yellow/gold sticker that reads “Meta” or similar !,

All readers of this forum, PLEASE do not use this company …… they will use all sorts of tactics to take extra money from you. They rejected my credit card twice, after the card company gave them an authorization number, forcing me to take out their extortionate insurance cover. 
Once I returned to the airport desk a few days later, demanded the Complaints Book and after they refused to give it to me, I contacted the Guardia Civil, who came to the desk with me, was my money refunded.

NEVER use them please, even through car hire brokers. Always look who you are getting the car from before you complete the contract.

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