I arrived early, 2.5 hours before the scheduled pick-up time. With my limited English, I managed to complete the rental process with the help of an African American guy at the counter. Since I was early, the reserved car wasn't back yet. They switched me to a car of the same class. The picture showed a Nissan, but I couldn't find a Nissan in the lot. When I asked the staff, he casually pointed to the area and said I could pick any car I liked. How generous! When returning the car, I drove to the designated spot where a white guy scanned the rental code, checked the gas and mileage, printed a receipt from his device, and everything was done in just 3 minutes. Quick and easy.

Since my girlfriend and I are both under 25, we had to pay an additional $25 per day for insurance. The staff cleverly used this extra fee to upgrade our car from a Class A to a Class B Taurus (known as Ford Taurus in our country). We enjoyed ten days with a 3.5L V6 engine, which was fantastic.

Quick and easy procedures

We picked up the car at San Francisco Airport. The staff handling the pick-up kept insisting that I buy full insurance, even though I already purchased an additional insurance from ZuZuChe. The rental came with plenty of insurance, but he said it wasn't enough. He asked which cities we were visiting, and when I mentioned Las Vegas, he charged an additional fee of around $2 per day, saying that if I didn't pay it now, I would have to pay it in Las Vegas. During our trip to and from Las Vegas, we didn't encounter any such charges, and my friends in the US hadn't heard of this either. Up to now, I have no idea what the extra charge was for. Returning the car in Los Angeles was fairly smooth. We rented a minivan, and the car condition was okay. However, it wasn't very clean inside when we picked it up, and only the USB port on the main dashboard worked, making it inconvenient to charge mobile WiFi or phones in the car.

Car had a dent in the back, plus no navigation and the Sirius XM stopped working after a couple of days.

Really easy to deal with, fantastic customer service.