I'm back for another disappointing and frustrating weekend rental experience @ ATL.
One part of that experience is my return to the green cone aisle. The counter agent told me to go to the Compact aisle. It was late, and there was no greeter in the garage. The Compact aisle turned out to be being used as a staging area. If there had been one compact there, I would have insisted on taking it.
I was not alone out there. There was a young couple(they were already out there when I got to the garage) searching the garage for their rental, and another single guy searching, too. The garage is hot on a summer night.
I then began searching the garage for any compact Versa-like car. The smallest car I remember seeing was a 200 on the Emerald Aisle! The Executive Aisles were well stocked, as seems to be the norm for ATL on weekend.
I finally made my way back to the dreaded green cone aisle. One poster on another thread noted that sometimes the choice @ National is your choice of which color Impala. Imagine my surprise to get to the green cone aisle with my Emerald Reserve compact reservation, and find nothing but 8 Impalas!
Then it became choosing the least of 8 evils.
I had now been outside in the heat for 25 minutes. Just as I was about to pull away an attendant brought out an HHR. I stopped the Impala where it was, and bolted to the HHR. As I was driving off, I noticed one of the attendants who brings up the clean cars was directing the single guy to a Mustang convertible they had parked againts the wall.
This was only one of the problems I have had with this rental. IMHO, something is not right with National @ ATL on weekends. So for now I would suggest that unless your reservation is for Emerald Executive, you might want to consider another rental car company.
As I was leaving, the single guy in the Mustang was behind me; but that young couple was still looking for their rental.