Budget price, great service (Budget)

Member Name: Zahooga

Product:	Budget
Date:	20/08/01 (153 review reads)
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Advantages: Convenient location, Good clean cars, rescue protection

Disadvantages: none!

I hired a car from Budget during my recent trip to the US. Having shopped around, I chose to hire via Aspect Car Rental (see separate opinion) in the UK, so all my insurance, CDW, SLI etc were included - this made life much easier.

When I arrived at the airport to collect the car, all I had to do was hand over my licence and car rental voucher - they had all of my other details from the agency. I even got a choice of car colour.

The car I got (a Compact in rental parlance) was a Ford Escort. Pretty basic model, but with everything you need. As I hadn't driven in the US before, they even gave me a good atlas, as well as a quick run down on driving an automatic (another first).

The car itself was clean and quite new (only 5000 miles on the clock).

Over the two weeks, I did over 700 miles, all trouble free. If I'd had any problems, apparently all I needed to do was to call their rescue service (all included in the price).

Returning the car was a breeze - just pulled up to their drive in return desk, handed over the keys, and got my receipt there and then - none of the hassles I've heard about with prolonged waits for vehicle inspection.

All in all, Budget hit the mark with service and the quality of the vehicle - I'd use them again!

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