We have rented a car for our 2 weeks here from Europecar, whom we have used several times before and found to be very good.
The 2nd night we are here, I get out my rental papers and - oops - we are due to pick up the car a day earlier and I forgot to change it when I decided to stay in Bratislava 2 days not one! We have half an hour to find the pickup spot, but magically, it’s the Sheraton which is at the top of the road our hotel is in! We puff up there, and the nice young agent Vedra tells us “that was for yesterday, I don’t have the car here now. Just wait here.”
We cool our heels for about half an hour watching all the smart business types here for conferences - meeting and greeting, strutting their stuff, being very important on the cell phones. Vedra returns, he has a car for us, same as we booked, it has not been properly prepared (only half full of gas) but it’s parked only minutes away. Not only that, it is parked in a lot for free and we can leave it there. Instead of returning it there to him, we can simply drive to airport (half an hour) and avoid any parking charges at all. We are up for that.
It is a brand new car, and having refused the $10 a day GPS, we find it is in there and he says, I will just leave it working. It is a godsend, but also backed by my Google Maps (my UK SIM car and service have proved absolutely invaluable on this trip and I have not used the 1G a month either as we have great wifi everywhere.)
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