CAR RENTAL REVIEWS ON EUROPCAR AT DENVER AIRPORT, DEN

The car was brand new Sedan Hyundai Elantra. The Waiting time for my turn advance to the counter was horrible, waiting time at least 60min. Your staff attending to my booking was trying to influence me to "upgrade" to a more durable care that can manage snow driving instead of proceed with arranging the unit which I had done pre-paid via online weeks ago at price I prefer. The upgrade offer was like US$150+ verses my pre-paid US$40. That's was a shoker to us when I realised it was somehow convincingly blabbered thruout and "upgrade" was arranged. Until I saw the paper to sign, I had decided not to proceed with the upgrade.

Disappointing that Europcar didn't have an easy way for the car to use Denver's toll roads in a simple "pay as you go" way. I.e Several of Europcar's competitors at Denver airport fit tags to their cars, so that you can use the toll roads and simply pay just for the individual trips you've taken at the end of the rental. Europcar/Advantage don't do this. The advice from the staff was simply "don't use the toll roads". This was rather inconvenient.

I had to take 3 different cars until I got one that had no problems. In addition, my contract spoke of a car and did not make local consultations, pushing it into a lower value car. Service was poor for employees, despite the difficulty of finding them when they were having trouble getting a car that was working properly.

Europcar were unable to tell us whether we would receive a 4WD/AWD car before picking up. They also don't fit cars with winter tyres (despite us requesting them). Both of these can be made a legal state requirement to drive on Colorado roads during winter storms, as happened numerous times during our trip. It was only through luck that we received a 4WD and so could get by without proper winter tyres. This is a huge safety issue, it's crazy to be sending people out driving on Colorado roads in the middle of winter without winter tyres.

Long wait for the shuttlebus. Waited 90 minutes in the line to get the car, unacceptable. Will never use Europr/Advantage again.