what are yall talking about?
if you pick up a car at 10pm for 1 day it's due back at 10pm unless location is closed before then...who the hell charges late fees if it's brought back less than 24 hours but past the booked time? this has never happened to me with any rental car with any company anywhere in the world
exception to this is weekend rate where you're dropping on a tuesday past 1200 or something, but they wouldn't ding if brought back at 1230 or 1300 or something
but otherwise just chill, it's a 24 hour rental
Originally Posted by
docbert
Exactly. But the thing to remember is that you need to ask.
If your contract is pre-printed, then it'll likely have a time on it either matching the pickup time you reserved, or some fixed time after that depending on the location (I've seen 30 mins, 45 mins, or 60 mins later). If you simply accept that and drive away, that time is the one that applies.
However a quick trip to the booth will get the time updated to the current time.
Common at smaller airports where there isn't an exit booth. Normally you'll pickup the contract and keys at the booth, and it's not uncommon for it to be pre-printed.
yeah this happened to me
so i said "hey it says here my pickup is at 9 but it's now 1030"
and she say "yeah it's chill we log you going out so invoice will update"
sure enough final invoice reflected the time i left the lot and the time the agent with the handheld pda scanned the barcode on my car at 1015 or something