Originally Posted by
iahphx
Unless something has recently changed, it has always been extremely expensive to rent a car in one European country and return it to another. Basically, it's un-doable except in extreme cases.
On the other hand, there's usually no drop charge returning in a different city in Europe as long as it's in the same country.
This is exactly my experience: You can rent a car in one corner of France and return it in another far-flung corner of the same country with no / minimal one-way fee, but cross a border and the drop-off fees are prohibitive.