Sanam Rent a Car L.L.C. (National Car Rental...
A National Car Rental customer review by GetHuman user GetHuman-canada7 from November 29th, 2017
Background on GetHuman-canada7's case
GetHuman: GetHuman-canada7 - can you tell our other National Car Rental customers when your case took place?
GetHuman-canada7: Sure. It was morning, on November 25th.
GetHuman: Did you reach out to National Car Rental, and if so, how?
GetHuman: And which of these common National Car Rental customer issues best describes the reason you wanted to talk to them?
(Shows GetHuman-canada7 a list of common National Car Rental problems)
GetHuman-canada7: "Change booking" was why I was trying to call.
GetHuman-canada7's review of National Car Rental customer service
GetHuman: So how would you sum up your experience for GetHuman's National Car Rental customer community? We'll censor any IDs, numbers, or codes and any inappropriate words here out of respect to the millions of other customers using this resource.
GetHuman-canada7: Sanam Rent a Car L.L.C. (National Car Rental )**PO Box *****, Dubai, UAE**Tel: **** * **** *****Fax: **** * **** **********@***.com**www.national-ae.com***When renting, the desk attendant was texting on his phone and looking at papers and ignored me when I walked up. I finally had to ask him to give me service.** **He was painfully slow as the line built up behind us. He said * of my credit cards were declined even though I have used all the cards recently in Saudi. It took forever to get the car.** **He blocked a ****AED deposit even though the rental agreement showed ****AED and was very argumentative when questioned about it.** **When examining the car for damage, he wouldn't let me write down additional scratches. I had to grab the damage report from him and write the additional scratches I found. He kept saying, wash the car first and then come back and report scratches.** **Once in the car, after every stop when I I had to keep pushing on the accelerator until finally the car would jump forward* it wouldn't accelerate smoothly.** **Once on the highway headed to downtown Dubai, the low tire pressure warning came on while I was on a * lane highway. I had to search out an air pump in an unknown town and found that every tire was low on air. I filled every tire evenly to **psig but the warning light never went off the whole * days.** **Two days later in Dubai, we were trying to exit a parking garage and there was a delay because of traffic so I was stopped on the incline out of the garage.** **The automatic transmission let the car slide backwards down the slope and I almost hit a very expensive car behind. The guy honked and then came out of his car to yell at me that I almost hit his car.**For several minutes on the slope waiting for traffic to clear I had to hold the brake to keep from rolling backward.** **When I was finally able to exit the garage when traffic cleared, I was pulling up the slope and a warning went off that the transmission was too hot and I needed to pull over. This was in the busiest portion of Dubai during the holiday evening and there was of course no place to pull over.** **When we arrived to drop off the car, there was no sign indicating the National drop off so I went past and got stuck at the parking exit gate. It wouldn't open so I could circle around because it said I hadn't pay. Many cars behind were honking and I had to back up but there was no way to get back to the National dropoff.** **The National guy finally came after we called and I was telling him about all our problems. He was trying to blame everything on me and was most discourteous, the same as the National rep when we rented the car.** **I have rented vehicles all over the world but never have a experienced so many problems with a vehicle and the staff. My wife is traumatized by the experience of driving in a new country in the traffic and wondering if this car is safe.
GetHuman: Let's quantify your experience contacting National Car Rental. On a scale of 1 to 5, how easy is it go get help on a National Car Rental problem?
GetHuman-canada7: I'd give them a one out of five for ease of finding your way to help.
GetHuman: What about quality of communication. How would you rate that on a 1 to 5 scale?
GetHuman-canada7: I'd give them a four out of five on communication.
GetHuman: And what about National Car Rental's ability to quickly and effectively address your problem?
GetHuman-canada7: For that I would say three out of five.
GetHuman: And finally- any advice for other National Car Rental customers?
GetHuman-canada7: Call them early in the day or late. Don't forget any personal or account information you might need for National Car Rental to know who you are.
GetHuman: Well there you have it. Some useful feedback and words from GetHuman-canada7 taken from his National Car Rental customer service problem that occurred on November 25th, 2017.