
National Car Rental
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National Car Rental has 1.5 star rating based on 58 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Choosing my own car, Price selection, Ability to chose any vehicle on the lot based on membership level.
Cons: Customer service, Fraudulant charges, Customer service representative she was out of control.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Use another Rental Car company.", "I am very very angry because your Marseille & Toulouse office in France neglected my e.mails and never answered to my 4 e.mails. And they illegally withdrew 1,690.40 Euro from my credit card. If you experienceed this case, how do you feel?", "Do not rent from this agency. Customer service is horrible.", "Don't rent from national cause there lieing company", "Manager needs to provide response to customer email questions and answer phone".
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
National Car Rental has 1.5 star rating based on 58 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Choosing my own car, Price selection, Ability to chose any vehicle on the lot based on membership level.
Cons: Customer service, Fraudulant charges, Customer service representative she was out of control.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Use another Rental Car company.", "I am very very angry because your Marseille & Toulouse office in France neglected my e.mails and never answered to my 4 e.mails. And they illegally withdrew 1,690.40 Euro from my credit card. If you experienceed this case, how do you feel?", "Do not rent from this agency. Customer service is horrible.", "Don't rent from national cause there lieing company", "Manager needs to provide response to customer email questions and answer phone".
Most users ask National Car Rental for the discount as a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Customer service and Reliability. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Verified Reviewer |Inappropriate Customer Service at DFW Airport- Greg Manager
National Car Rental- Terrible Customer Service at DFW Airport. On Thursday, January 25, 2024, my wife reserved a car from National at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, under my name. I arrived at the rental desk at approximately 11:30 pm. The original agent asked for my driver's license and credit card. I asked the first agent to be gentle my driver's license has a small crack, and it is the only one I have to travel. He took one look at my license and said it would not work. He then went to the manager Greg. Greg came out from the back office and said "Sorry, we cant accept your driver's license. It has a small crack. It says in our company policy that we cant accept a driver's license thats been altered."
My driver's license is clearly not altered. It was used at the airport to get through security and TSA, but I cant get a rental car. You need a better physical ID. I also have my Arizona ID on my phone for this reason.
Greg, "That doesnt work here. Sorry." I pleaded to make a copy of my license to run it through whatever machine was there again for confirmation. "Please, I need a car to get to my wife and daughter." Greg and the other agent made zero attempts to be helpful at all.
Greg, "No sir not here not today. Sorry, it's company policy."
I then asked to see this company policy.
Greg paused for a second and replied, "No, I dont need to show you the company policy."
I replied, that this was just not right and that this is terrible customer service. Greg, "Well, it is what it is. Now youre for sure not getting a car." Ill never rent from National again.
Greg, "Well, it doesnt matter to me, you can leave the airport now."
Thats *** you shouldnt act that way towards customers. I'm going to report this and come after your job.
Greg, "Man you can have my *** job. Ill see that you never get to rent a car from National again."
This type of service is 100% unacceptable and should not be tolerated by anyone working at National. There are choices in the rental car industry. National will NEVER be a choice of mine after this experience.
Preferred solution: Free Car Rental
User's recommendation: Use another Rental Car company.
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Verified Reviewer |Your Marseille office have stolen Euro 1,690.40
I rented your car on Oct 14, 08:00am at National Marseille office and returned it at 22:00pm in the same day at Toulouse, France.
The staff working in Toulouse office pointed scratch on rear bupmer and I said him these scratches were already existed when we picked up the car.
And we already sent pictures & videos which we took at pick up place for his comparision.
Everybody can easily see it existed at the time of pick up clearly.
In spite of my 4 times of evidence submission by e.mail, your Marseille office withdrew 1,690.40 Euro illegally from my credit card account.
To solve this ridiculous case, I came to send letter.
Your prompt answer will be appreciated.
Hoin Kim
Tel. +82 (10)27** **44
- No follow up from customer service
- Gave me serious damages
- In spite of withdrawing
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: I am very very angry because your Marseille & Toulouse office in France neglected my e.mails and never answered to my 4 e.mails. And they illegally withdrew 1,690.40 Euro from my credit card. If you experienceed this case, how do you feel?
Not seeing reservation on app
Preferred solution: The rental to be added into my app so that I can receive credit .

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Verified Reviewer |Will not return my lost item that I paid to have shipped
I accidentally left my cell phone in the rental car at Raleigh Durham Airport They called before I boarded to tell me that they had found it. I paid $36 through their lost and found company to have it shipped to me.
They generated a tracking number that same day but have not shipped it over a month later. I have made at least 15 calls to customer service and left messages in several departments. No one has contacted me yet and this started on August 31st. Today is October 13th.
Totally worthless and unacceptable customer service. The worse part is that I am an Executive Elite level customer with them.
- Ability to chose any vehicle on the lot based on membership level
- No follow up from customer service
Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered
User's recommendation: Do not rent from this agency. Customer service is horrible.
They canceled my reservation
- Liers
Preferred solution: Law suit for discrimination
User's recommendation: Don't rent from national cause there lieing company
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Verified Reviewer |Request Assistance Statement of Nonavailability
I need assistance with Reservation No 108769**** for vehicle pick up on 14 Aug 2022.
Unfortunately I was not provided vehicle for reservation due to no vehicles at Patrick Henry Airport, Newport News VA location.
I have emailed the manager (Information Listed Below) requesting a statement of nonavailability to turn into my travel office for adjusted travel cost explanation for the dates reserved. 14 - 26 Aug 2022.
and have not received any response by phone or email.
Assistant Branch Rental Manager
Mr.
Darius Baskerville
(757) 874-****
darius.baskerville@***.com
It is imperative I provide my travel manager with documentation to validate my travel changes. Corporate assistance is requested to meet my needs.
Richard Fee
richard.fee@***.com
254 319-****
- Have been customer for 12 years
- First negative instance with company
Preferred solution: Statement of Nonavailability
User's recommendation: Manager needs to provide response to customer email questions and answer phone
Overcharged
- Choosing my own car
- Customer service horrible
Preferred solution: Price reduction
User's recommendation: no!!!
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Verified Reviewer |Scammed for extra insurance cost
- Insurance added that wasnt needed
Preferred solution: Price reduction
User's recommendation: Don't Use National in Mexico.
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Verified ReviewerBait and switch
When trying to use the points to rent a car for my oldest son, they stated that they had to email a coupon for up to 3 days of rental. I actually talked to National the week before the scheduled rental and the representative told me that it was all worked out.
He gave me a confirmation code and a case number and when arriving at the car rental they charge my son over $800. This is the last time that I will use National / Enterprise for rental car.
- Customer service horrible
- Customer service
- No refund for their error
Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered
User's recommendation: Use a different rental car company!
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Verified Reviewer |Atrocious Customer Service
PLEASE READ THIS STORY! Six adults flying from Denver CO to Burbank Bob Hope Airport on 7-30-2021 for brother-in-laws celebration of life.
Southwest flight delayed so we called National customer service who told us our flight information was in their system and that someone would stay at the rental counter up to 2 hours past the original close time (11 PM) which was 1:00 am and this was confirmed by the person I spoke with. Flight landed approximately 12:20 and my husband made a BEELINE to the National Rental Car counter and got there approximately 12:35. There was absolutely NO ONE there. He had a security guard tell him that they were union workers and couldnt stay past closing time.
What?!? So at 1:00 in the morning we had to schlep our luggage and walk to the closest hotel - a Marriott and rent 3 rooms for the night at $288 a pop. The next morning, I called National customer service to make sure we still had a vehicle available to us - which we did - and to discuss getting reimbursed for those hotel expenses as well as the 1 night of Airbnb we had already paid for which totals over $1300. I spoke with Oscar who escalated my situation to Claudia.
Claudia told me that they couldnt help me with reimbursement but I should talk to the local manager. So, my husband and I walk over to the National counter and speak with Khiry Lucas who is, I think, the station manager. He told us the most he could do is credit us two days of rental fee. This was not acceptable as that was around $500 and were out over $1300.
He then spoke with his manager, Erik Zuniga but we werent able to come to an agreement so we asked him to have Erik call us and we made sure we left both our cell phone numbers and my email address. Khiry also showed us Eriks contact information in his phone so we could take down his cell phone number. This was on Saturday, July 31st. Erik NEVER called us back.
On August 3rd my husband received an automated email from National asking how was our experience so he let them know just exactly how *** it was. He then received an email that said someone from National would get in touch with us. No one ever did! When I tried to follow up with Erik Zuniga on August 5th the number that Khiry showed us (661-794-****) I got the message that the subscriber you have dialed is not in service Perhaps I wrote down the wrong number but thats not very likely.
So - I called customer services AGAIN and spoke with Louisa who, after hearing my story, transferred me to Amelia who said she would have someone from the Regional Admin Office call me - this was supposed to be someone who was over the Burbank airport station. No one ever called me. So..I called again on August 6th and spoke to someone (cant find my notes to share their name) who AGAIN said she would have someone get back with me. No phone call.
At this point Im ready to lose my mind over these shoddy business practices. My last phone call was on August 9th and I spoke with Lenda and then spoke with Kimberly who was in their escalation department. Kimberly told me she would escalate my complaint to both her boss and then someone from the Regional office. AGAIN NO ONE EVERY CALLED ME BACK.
Every single time Ive called, notes from the conversation are entered into their system and while the customer service personnel have been very apologetic and confirm my phone calls are in their system, no one in management has ever called me back. Additionally, I tried to call other phone numbers for National trying to get help in this situation and every single time Im routed back to customer service.
At this point, my husband and I are going to contest the charges for the time we did have the rental car and that will almost be a wash for the 3 hotel rooms we had to pay for due to Nationals ineptitude but doesn't cover the over $400 we lost for our Airbnb. I plan to keep calling until I speak with someone who can explain to me why this type of customer service is acceptable .
- Choosing my own car
- Being stranded
- Management not taking responsibility for their errors
Preferred solution: Reimbursement for out of pocket charges incurred as a direct result of their poor customer service as well as reimbursement for a missed night of Airbnb.
User's recommendation: There are many rental car agencies to choose from - stay away from National!
Horrible experience
San Jose CA airport
Flight was delayed and we kept in touch with national. Their promise was that there would be someone there for us.
Nobody was there. Other companies were open, but not National.
After finding a cab and a hotel room, we were told that we had to find our own transportation and return to the airport to get our car. When we get there, the manager chose to fight over who was right instead of getting our car. She had a regional manager on the phone and he told her to give us the car.
She said " I'm not going to do it" and walked away from us, the customers with a prepaid reservation through Priceline.
After the regional manager tells us that our reservation is worthless, that our business is not wanted nor welcomed and that we should leave.
Have been working with customer service for nearly a month, but they keep coming back to the same thing.
They keep submitting the complaint to the people who caused the problem expecting them to actually care enough to do something other than covering their butts.
Thanks for making my wife cry and a great start to a vacation. That you get 4 stars for.
User's recommendation: Please find a better company with better customer service
Exceptional customer service
User's recommendation: Go National
Swap my rental
Trying to resolve an issue
Need receipt
Preferred solution: My receipt for the rental
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Verified Reviewer |Issue was already fixed.
User's recommendation: Open schedule time for customer service
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National Car Rental features a large number of vehicles of different kinds to choose from. The customers of the company have many options: pickup trucks and convertibles, economy and full-size autos, minivans and SUVs, cargo vans and 15 passenger van rentals, etc. There are locations of the company at the most popular business travel and vacation destinations throughout all over the world: the United States and the Caribbean, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Australia. National Car Rental offers some discount options which include Last Minute Specials, Car Rental Email Specials, 25 Off Weekly Rentals, Free Weekend Day as well as Free Upgrade.

National Car Rental is ranked 121 out of 563 in Rentals category
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A small crack wouldn’t require someone to be gentle with it. That being said if whatever feature allows it to be scanned with reader or scan gun and crack wasn’t through DL #, name or address, they should have accepted it.
I would however be worried your ID is flagged and shared with other car rentals/airlines. I’d probably go get a replacement soon.