Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Reviews and Complaints

I rented a car from Enterprise in Hilliard, Ohio, in May 2020. I had a contract before the one in question and the circumstances were the same.

I explained to the manager that I was working on the front lines in the pandemic. I also explained that I was staying in a guest room at the facility and that I was in a remote area, with Lima being the nearest city. I explained that I worked 16 hours and often had to go back on duty after four hours, making it difficult to get to the office to sign a new contract and I explained this.

Apparently it was an issue, but the manager said nothing. On June 26, 2020, Enterprise charged my card $359. On June 28, 2020, I was informed that the rental had been reported stolen. When I asked the manager how was I supposed to get the car back to Columbus, her glib response was, "Oh, I don't know...maybe pray to god that you don't get pulled over?" Yeah, that's what she had for me. I called Hilliard Police and explained the situation. I gave the officer the plate number and he ran it and informed me that the car had, in fact, not been reported stolen. He even gave me his contact info in the event I was stopped while driving back to Columbus.

So I made arrangements with work and after working 16 hours, I made the two hour trip back to Columbus and dropped off the rental at midnight on June 29, 2020. I retrieved my personal vehicle and made the two hour trip back to work in time to take a nap and go back on duty. I went into the app on my phone and locked my card so Enterprise could no longer charge my card, since I dropped it off. They still charged me after the rental was returned and then claimed they started the paperwork to report the car stolen and then I was placed on the Do Not Rent list.

I was treated rather shabbily. I will stop at nothing to get satisfaction and I don't care how long it takes. They were wrong and refuse to admit it.

Do not rent from Enterprise. They will lie and then double down on their lives. They can put people on the Do Not Rent list for any little thing and it doesn't matter if you're in the right or if you're innocent. They will put you on the Do Not Rent list if you share an address with someone who owes a balance to Enterprise. This company will ruin your life; I guarantee it.

My name is Pamela Jackson. I recently rented a mini van from your Matteson location on 3/29/2022. RA#616Z2Z. My interaction was first with Garrett, then Chris and finally Adrian. All gentlemen were respectful and attempted to handle my situation but I am still not satisfied and likely won’t rent from Enterprise again.

In summary, I was given a car that was older and a basic model with no clear and evident way to connect Blue Tooth. Shortly after leaving your Matteson store, I called to see if there was another option for a vehicle OR if I could get some assistance in setting up blue tooth, if the car had it. Garrett assured me he’d call me right back and didn’t. Wednesday morning I got on the road headed to Gatlingburg, TN for my daughter’s cheer competition which she had to be there by 6 pm for the first round in order to cheer if the squad moved on.

Midway through the trip, I called Enterprise on Wednesday to report that the air conditioning was malfunctioning and blowing warm air. Garrett was busy and Chris was rushed (several customers in the lobby). Chris suggested finding the nearest Enterprise and trying to swap out the cars. I should add I had 4 children under the age of 11 in the car with me. I was blown that he wanted me to figure out this problem, but I proceeded to go to two Enterprise locations. The first didn’t have a vehicle. The other one had one but it was being serviced so I had to wait for it to return from an oil change AND be cleaned up and prepared to go out. I lost 2.5 hours not to mention had to manage 4 restless children and my stress level was at an all time high knowing that I needed to be at a competition by 6 p.m. and we lost an hour in transit from the time zone change. Devon Brown of the Greenwood, IN location was fantastic. We got on the road and proceeded to Gatlinburg. Arrived at 815 p.m. and disqualified from participating in the competition. When we got out of the car to go into our hotel, the right passenger sliding door would not close. It would close and open so I had to force it to close each time someone got into or out on that side. Do you know how annoying and inconvenient that is? The sole purpose of going was for the competition. This meant I needed to find activities to fill the time that would have been filled with competitions. This cost me an additional $675. Enterprise Rental was solely responsible for my delay and thus my daughter’s disqualification and added expense. Adrian offered to cover 3 days of the rental.

I am appalled that you have these vehicles in your fleet as they are the most basic and not user friendly.

On April 1st I did a reservation for a minivan at my hometown location. Received confirmation and was headed there...they opened at 830 I didn't arrive till 9 so plenty of time to call me. As I am turning in location I receive call saying there was a waiting list of almost 20 people. I have rented several times in the past and this has happened before but they are the only rental place I trust. I asked if there was something else they had that I could rent and I was told they didn't have anything but I noticed several cars in the lot and not one customer there. So we decided to try the location several cities over and received verbal confirmation as we are leaving city to go to the location we get a call from this location saying they didn't have anything. We were scheduled to leave on our trip that morning and had to cancel our vacation. This is very disheartening and bad business.

Alamo / enterprise Geneva / Zurich

Took the car on the 26th evening in Geneva. Never was asked to check anything. I did a quick check on my own in the dark of the car park. Returned the car in Zurich on the 2nd and the very first thing the guy checked (with a UV type flashlight - never seen that before) is the windscreen …. And hop ! Find a micro dot and tell me that it is a stone chip… the car next to mine was not checked and when I had a look at it it was the same soi called the guy again he acknowledged and his colleague who did the check said «  it is ok they have full cover ». What a joke ! Next guy taking the car will have the same as me !

I did not accept the check out and I send 5 emails in 3 days with no answer. I called 3 times and explained and no one ever called then my card was debited and today I received a kind of invoice with the expert note etc…. A perfectly built process.

Si to make it short, all will now go to my lawyer and a few consumers association in Switzerland where the rights of consumers are paramount. I will also make sure I recommend the company on social media :)

I rented a car in Saudi Arabia with Enterprise Rent A Car. The employee with whom I dealt made a payment of 1000SAR on my card and made a mistake since it was supposed to be a hold for the deposit. Therefore, it's been more than three months I am struggling to be refunded my 1000SAR.

The customer service has been a nightmare, nobody can be reached over the phone and I end up speaking on WhatsApp explaining my case over and over again since it's always a new person I end up talking with.

Attached is my bank statement where you can clearly see I was debited 1000SAR.

Reservation number: [protected]

Internal complaint number: 1569

Rental location: Riyadh Airport

Please contact me in order to resolve this issue.

Thank you

On March 14, I made a reservation for a rental car due to my car being in the shop. When I went to pick it up the following day at the instructed location, they did not have a car available. Said it would be the following week. So, I called customer service. After being on the phone with them for over an hour, she said that they did in fact have available cars at the airport location. She gave me a new reservation number along with the time and location to pick it up. I found a ride to go pick it up across town at rush hour, and upon arrival, once again, I was told they had no available rentals for me at all! At this point I have missed work 3 days, wasted alot of my time, and stressed me to the max. The following day I called my warranty company and they proceeded to make me yet another reservation and I was instructed to pick it up the following morning at yet another location 45 min away from me. That night an employee of that location even called me to confirm that I was going to be there to pick it up. When I arrive that morning, they tell me they are all out of cars! How does this happen? Three times?

I am a U.S. Citizen and recently vacationed in Dublin, Ireland. My wife and I rented a car from the Enterprise facility at the Dublin airport upon our arrival. The care rented to us was a standard transmission. This was not an issue for me, I grew up driving standard transmission vehicles. My biggest concern was figuring out driving on the left and the very narrow streets I'd read about. We purchased what we were told we the "VIP" protection package for insurance, which cost us about €50/day, for 7 days. We were told that this would cover "everything" and we would not be responsible for any damage, should it occur.

The vehicle had 5775 km on it when we got in. We immediately drove to our hotel in Dublin City Center, about an 8 mile drive. As we got closer to the hotel I could smell the smell of burning clutch. The smell got progressively worse as we traveled through the city to our hotel. Eventually, the car began to smoke and the smell was unbearable. We finally parked the car and the engine light came on.

We went to our hotel and I attempted to call the rental desk at the airport several times to inform them of the issue. I either got no answer or the line was busy. The desk attendant at the hotel can vouch for this, as we had no service on our cell phones at that time and had to use the phone at the front desk. I finally sent an email to the email address listed on the business card I had for the rental desk at the airport.

A short time later, I was contacted by someone from the rental desk. I told him of the issues with the car and told him I didn't feel comfortable continuing to drive it. He told me I could bring the car back if I'd like. So, we began driving it to the airport.

Just a few miles from our hotel, the car quit working. It was running but, I couldn't shift into any gear and the car just rolled when I let off the brake. We were in the middle of a very busy roadway during rush hour traffic. I immediately contacted the road side assistance number and was told that someone would be on the way. 3+ hours later, and several more phones calls later, someone would finally arrive to help us. The local police helped us push the car out of the roadway until help arrived, luckily, otherwise we would've been sitting in the middle of the roadway for several hours! At this point, the car had 5801 km on it. So, we put 26 km on it.

I tried several times, again, to contact the airport rental desk while we waited, to determine what I needed to do to terminate the rental and get a refund. Again, I had to send an email to get any response. The person who finally called me back informed me that the car would be inspected and if it was determined that the issue was the clutch, they would charge my credit card to repair it! He told me that my insurance didn't cover mechanical issues! As you can imagine, I was dumbfounded. I was never informed of this prior to rental and I can't seem to find it anywhere in the rental agreement, which I've read over several times now.

I received another email later from the rental desk, informing me that it was determined that the clutch was the issue and that there would be a €1600 hold placed on my credit card until the repair was complete!

Here are my concerns:

1. There is virtually no way to destroy a clutch in a car in about 8 miles, which was about the time I started noticing the issues. Even someone who has never driven a standard transmission would be hard pressed to destroy a clutch in that limited amount of mileage. Within roughly an hour I was attempting to contact the rental desk to inform them that I felt there was an issue with the vehicle.

2. I feel like I'm being taken advantage of because I'm an American, and Americans probably aren't typically known for driving standard transmissions. So, they immediately assume I don't know how to drive the car.

3. This car had 5775 km on it, surely it's under some sort of factory warranty that would cover the repair?

4. I paid €50/day for "VIP" insurance coverage, now I'm being told it doesn't cover everything?

5. There was a dark cloud over my entire vacation now, because I'm constantly worried about a €1600 hold being placed on my debit card, which would leave me with nothing to spend while I'm here!

I sincerely hope you're able to help me with this. I paid nearly $1,000 for rental, taxes, and insurance and I drove the vehicle for about 16 miles. None of the money has been refunded to me at this point. I'm now being told that the money will be kept until the repairs are done and I will be refunded the amount left, if any.

This is an email that I tried to send to Enterprise in Mount Kisco NY but everyone I have contacted refuses to provide an email address. I was able to send an edited version online to a "clearing house", which indicates that it will be forwarded "down" to the "regional management team".

My credit card declined this morning for my reservation. I failed to check before I arrived, as I am in the process of moving and had just dropped my car off at the auto repair.

Shannon and Kelly at Mount Kisco NY were nice and apologetic. However, Shannon failed to tell me I could not use the same card again. I had paid the card down while I was waiting. She informed me that the "system" would not accept a card that had declined previously. She should have known or told me.

I had asked to use two different credit cards and told it would not be acceptable. I was asked for a utility bill but my rent includes my utilities. I had already provided my insurance card. This is a terribly unnecessary burden on an established customer. It was arranged to have Gary to give me a ride home, which was greatly appreciated.

I have been an Enterprise customer for a number of years, except for the last two. As a rideshare driver, I have heard many horror stories from people who had reservations with Enterprise and were left with no car at the airport, sometimes late at night. It was prevalent over the last few years but I gave your company the benefit of the doubt "due to Covid". After a few unpleasant attempts to rent a car with you guys myself before today, I believe that the scenarios presented to me were all true. Today, there was a greater effort to push me away as a customer than to keep me.

My $89 wouldn't make or break you obviously. You made an honest, hardworking customer's day much so much more difficult. Trying to move, pay for my auto repair, missing work (I use my car for business), and then being stranded 15 miles from home because of your stringent policies is terrible customer service and downright mean.

I have been renting from another company in CT since I have lived here, and I am happy to drive an hour to that facility because of the ease of renting a car and the respect they show me as a working man. I chose Enterprise today because you are a few blocks from the auto repair. All of my apprehensions about the quality of Enterprise's services and product have proved to be well founded.

There is nothing to draw me to another risky rental reservation with Enterprise, ever again. Even my being responsible for ensuring that my credit card accounts are paid and up to date will not allay my disappointment with your company. I came back to you today after a long absence. You had a chance to retain me. Instead, I was rejected by the over reaching qualification of "...a couple of utility bills"?

I called the location today to get an email address for a manager and was refused by Kelly. She gave me an 800 number. Why the secrecy? I was being considerate of the manager’s time by trying to send this communication before a phone call. Kelly at first refused to even give me his name, instead she kept “talking over me.” Inexcusable. She finally told me the manager’s name is Connor.

Please use this as a training "tale" and do what you can to address these kinds of needs and difficult experiences with your customers. Enterprise should be very concerned. People rent cars because THEY NEED ONE! Most rentals are presumably for emergency, travel, scheduling, etc. Not being able to obtain a set of wheels, whether for business or pleasure is nightmarish on top of the already stressful situation that brings one to buy your service. Having, and fulfilling, a guarantee of a simpler process to renting should be the renewed mission of Enterprise AND, certainly the least difficult part of someone's day, such as mine has been. The stonewalling by Kelly the assistant manager is baffling.

I sent this letter to the Manchester Connecticut on March 25, 2022 and haven't heard anything back:

Hello,

I'm a blunt and to the point person. Your staff at the Enterprise at the Manchester CT was friendly and nice people during my latest and previous encounters but however it doesn't address my ongoing issues with your organization. My issue is the odor of cigarette smoke in your vehicles issued to me. As I stated to several staff there on 3/21/22 that I'm an asthmatic non smoker who never smoked before and also hyper sensitive to cigarette smoke. On 3/21/22 I had three vehicles which all 3 reeked of cigarette smoke. These are the vehicles in the order I received: 1. A Jeep 2. A Black Nissan Rogue 3. A White Nissan Rogue which all reek of cigarette of smoke and to your credit I didn't contact you or bring back the 3rd vehicle the White Rogue to complain about the cigarette smoke because right now I'm TIRED of complaining. I begin smelling the smoke during my 40 minute drive to my home. I was planning on remaining silent and not ever using Enterprise again unless I received an email. I do not want any compensation for the vehicle because that's not why I'm replying. I'm replying because I'm totally dissatisfied with Enterprise in dealing with your customers smoking in your vehicles and YOU Enterprise failing to properly clean vehicles with cigarette smoke and this is a continuing issue my of personal dealings with Enterprise.

For example I was involved in a accident on March 2017 which I had to rent a car from your Meriden CT location and all 4 or 5 vehicles I received REEKED of cigarette smoke. I told that after the 4th or 5th exchange in hopes to find a suitable vehicle by management they would not be swapping out another vehicle. So I dealt with the overpowering cigarette stench for the week and the vehicles mostly sat in my parking space and for me I couldn't wait to get my vehicle back. I vowed to never deal with the Meriden CT location AGAIN thinking that this is a local issue. I didn't realize how wrong I was.

Here's another example in March 2018 again I involved in another accident which I used your Manchester CT location and this time I received a totally smoke free vehicle and my experience was great. In hindsight now I think that I just lucked out that no customer smoked in that particular vehicle's usage or Enterprise properly cleaned the cigarette smoke and after my latest experience with your location I strongly believe the former of the two things happened.

In May 2019 I again used the Milford CT location and this time it was a brand new vehicle and of course there was NO issue with smoke as I was the first person to use that vehicle.

I truly hate my experience of driving the current vehicle in my possession but however and unfortunately I have to take care of my mom who lives is in Bristol CT. If it weren't for the issue of my Mom I hate to say that this White Nissan Rogue I have would be parked in my driveway to stay only to bring back when the repairs on my vehicle are complete. I received news from the Lynch Toyota body shop yesterday 3/24/22 that they will need my car for approximately another week due to the lack of availability of a part. So I have another week of dealing with cigarette smoke. I pray that I won't have to use another rental car because if so it will not be Enterprise! I reiterate that I DON'T want ANY money from you because I understand that I have to pay for service and that's the cost of doing business even though it's less than satisfactory to me! Thank you.

I reserved a minivan on Jan 5,2022 for the week of March 11. When I went to pick up the vehicle, the only thing available was a 12 person van that got 14 miles to the gallon or a chevy equinox. The plans were to tracvel over 2000 miles so 14 miles to the gallon was not an option. The Equinox was to small causing us to leave items behind. This is the second time in a row that this has happened with Enterprise. I will not rent from you again..

From R. G. I ordered my car 3 days prior to pick up my pickup time was 12 p.m.3/18/22 I got there at 12 and my car was not ready they said it was coming out of Cape Coral I weigh there 30 minutes when they took me out to check the car. Was not the car that I order and they told me they didn't have anything else I was force to take a minivan I didn't have other choice if they were not to have the car I order all it takes is a phone call and let me know what's going on I didn't want to spend that much money in gas for that minivan I didn't have no choice just to take it and I was already 45 minutes late for my meeting this happened in3200 lee Blvd Lehigh Acres Florida office

The following is my complaint made over one month ago relating to a hire a month before that and STILL no repsonse nor refund that was promised

De: simon hasdell

Enviado el: viernes, 18 de febrero de 2022 9:27

Para: ES Facturacion Nacional

Asunto: Feedback on Employee or Service E5C1 - MADRID

Language Preference: English (United Kingdom)

Brand: ENTERPRISE

Select a Hire Location: E5C1

Topic: Feedback on Employee or Service

First Name: simon

Last Name: hasdell

Phone Number: +[protected]

Email Address: [protected]@gmail.com

Confirmation Number or Rental Agreement Number: [protected]

Loyalty Number:

Comments: I was over charged by one day hire when I returned the car. When noticing the error, the customer service agent processed a credit of Euro 114.65. I have the screen print of that when it had been processed and was told the credit would come in14 working days. It is now over that time and I have not seen the credit on my card. Please process and confirm to [protected]@gmail.com

The only reply I had was as follows :

From: ES Facturacion Nacional

Sent: 21 February, 2022 7:40 PM

To: simon hasdell

Subject: RE: Feedback on Employee or Service E5C1 - MADRID

Good afternoon

I have processed and sent your claim to our Madrid Airport office.

As soon as I have a response from them, I will inform you about it.

Thank you very much

Kind regard

Jose Antonio Higueras Gomez

Dpto, de Facturación

Direct: + [protected]

joseantonio.[protected]@ehi.com

Enterprise Holdings

Avda. del Ensanche de Vallecas nº 37

Planta 4

Madrid España

28051

and no reply from Jose on my follow up mails.

After this rental i will never rent a car from enterprise the cars are nasty and the in side is not clean the car that we got was nasty and it smell like marijuana I went out to the store and get some air freshener but it didn’t work. I called the company to let them know what was going on and they said they would not have any cars unit around 4 so they would call me back but no one ever did so i called them back and they would never pick the phone up and when they did they hung the phone up on me.

So I return my vehicle to enterprise and the day I returned it the gentleman that helped me told me that I was gonna get my security deposit back and he will give me a even bigger discount if I gave them a good review which I told them I I'll gladly do that and then I guess he went and did it without the manager knowing and then the manager Found out and said no so now I'm not getting my security deposit back and I don't think that should be my Fault for there employee making the mistake And tell me one thing And then doing another thing

November 12, 2021, I rented a 2020 Kia Sportage from the Bloomington, California Enterprise-Rent-A-Car. Initially, I was under a WALK UP RATE PLAN due to the circumstances of my unforeseen vehicle repairs. In short, I was given a cursory contract contingent on a tentative timeframe. Unfortunately, the repair services took much longer than anticipated. Upon discovery, after a few days, I noticed my credit card was charged an exorbitant block of charges. Thus, I voiced my concern for a less costly vehicle. Enterprise made no fruitful effort to get me as a customer into any less costly rental vechicle despite my requesting more than once. Secondly, I opted for insurance coverage that was misleading because I did not realize or understand the insurance premium of $21.99 was accuring daily. Notwithstanding I was charged $2,731.50 after a 28-day rental service for a vehicle returned in better condition than I received it. I washed the exterior and cleaned the upholstery from the pet dander and cigarette damage on the back seat from the previous renter.

I rented a car in Virginia Beach at a specific location to be picked up at 5:30pm. On my way to pick up my rental at 5:11 pm the agent called me to say he didnt have a car for me at that location but he called another location and I could pick up my car there. It was rush hour and on the other side of town. I called several times to let the other location know it would be impossible for me to get there by 5:50 pm. I got no answer. I arrived at 5:34pm and the doors were locked and no one was there. I missed my trip to Northern Va and the points I used to pay for the rental are still missing from my account as if I used them. The agent should have notified me way sooner than he did. I missed a very important event and left in tears.

*****This was not a vehicle accident. It was an organized crime as the SUV was targeted & damaged in the parking lot. The alarm did not turn on in the 2.5 hours I was there. to alert security*******

******************** CUSTOMER SERVICE is POOR*****************************

5. Enterprise internal operation, transportation, customer care, and policies are not in alignment with their marketing claims.

Enterprise sent an Uber to take me to the Burbank Airport to pick up another vehicle. Due to the poor service and service coordination. I wasted 5 hours of my valuable time with Enterprise Road Assistance and Regional Manager. It was 11 PM at the Burbank Airport and Enterprise requested an Uber to take me back home. I walked from the parking structure to Denny's. The manager at Denny's showed more human kindness and helped me. I paid for a Lift service to pick me up and take me home (I have not gotten reimbursed)

As a result of this incident, I was late in turning in my online homework and I was left without transportation.

Lastly, on Tuesday, I was told that someone was on the way to pick me up. No shuttle or ride came. On Wednesday I called Enterprise to report the insurance claim which I put on hold for 20 minutes.

Mercury and AAA should not send members to Enterprise.