Easy, simple with friendly staff

Overall good, but I have a small complaint. When we arrived at the pickup point, they spent quite a bit of time trying to upsell us different upgraded models. I wouldn't mind this normally, but they ended up using nearly 30 minutes for the sales pitch and counted that as part of my rental time. This means the rental period started from the moment they greeted me, not when we finished the process, and 80% of that time was spent on upselling.

Excellent

There is a free shuttle bus from the airport, but the pick-up point at London Heathrow Airport was hard to find, and we had to wait a long time for the Europcar shuttle. The rental office is quite far from the airport. The car pickup was smooth overall; we booked an Audi A4 but received a Mercedes C-Class. The staff didn't try to upsell anything, but they also didn't provide detailed information on driving rules and other considerations.

The only regret is that even though we had already purchased full insurance in our country, which included scratch coverage, the counter insisted that it wasn't valid, saying there was no coverage below £1000. This made us very uneasy and confused throughout the trip.

Old, damaged, scraped, dented car! Embarrassing having to drive it around