#Zipcar return to different location full#

I pay as low as $7 an hour for a Mazda 3, $9 an hour for an Audi A3, Mini, VW Golf. Oakland/Berkeley does have the weekend availability problem but if I know I am going somewhere on the weekend I can book as late as Friday night and still get a car I want. Now, I rent cars in the Downtown Oakland area so I can't say the same for SF but thats just me. The cars are always clean and I have never had a low fuel situation. He also was not charged for the reservation and got $25 in credit. Also, since I was under 21 at the time, they had to change the reservation to my passengers account since I couldn't rent cars outside UC. They instantly called me a cab, booked me a new Audi A3 in the FiDi and refunded my entire reservation + $75 in driving credit. I had an Audi A3 breakdown in SF on the way to Startup School, I told them I had an appointment. Personally, I have never had a negative experience with a Zipcar.

#Zipcar return to different location full#

Again unlike other conventional rental companies which would happily provide you with a full damage waiver.įortunately it didn't happened to me but there's a bunch of horror stories around when ZipCar users were asked to pay fully for the damaged car or had to fight with ZipCar for a long time even if it wasn't their fault. You can buy an extended waiver which covers only 750$ in damage. using almost any other car rental company. 5 or more hours using ZipCar equals in price to a 24hrs.

I personally found myself extending reservation hours a few times, hurring up like crazy when there was not an option to do it. If you need a car for more than that you're certainly better using a conventional rental company.Ĭonsidering that a few rental companies offer 'driver pickup and dropoff' service it makes ZipCar highly inconvenient and stressful if you think about all above mentioned issues.

This might be true if you're using ZipCar a couple times a month for a few hours. Despite taking a car for a couple of hours the first thing I have to do was to locate a gas station and fuel the car.įirst of all, advertised 'starting as low as' prices are non existent or impossible to find. The other annoying issue has been a car low on fuel. I still have to use this dirty car for my business trip. And the only thing I could do is to report the issue to ZipCar. No way I would be happy to exchange this stress and ruined plans for 50$ in driving credits!Ī couple of times the car I reserved was as dirty inside/outside as it can be after days of abuse on the country roads or in the mud races. The second time my reserved car was out of order, it just simply wouldn't drive normally. Needless to say how frustrating the whole experience was. ZipCar CSR on the phone refunded my order and offered drive credits but has no idea of what was going on. Once I reserved a car for a day for a very important trip but when I showed up at a parking location my car was missing. It happened to me twice but this was enough to make me reconsider ZipCar. Unless again you'd like to travel to an inconvenient remote location or book 3 days in advance. This makes the idea of using ZipCar useless because now you need to waste an hour of your time commuting to a remote ZipCar location. Most ZipCars are spread evenly between locations and in a popular ones you can only reserve something available a few days in advance. There's no way you can reserve a ZipCar exactly WHEN you need it. I've being a ZipCar member for a year and this is why I cancelled my account recently: