Great experience in a small runabout

I rented a PASSAT wagon, but upon arrival, the car was unavailable. They offered me two choices: a FORD MONDEO wagon or a BMW 1 Series. I chose the MONDEO and was pleasantly surprised to find it was a brand new car with only 10 kilometers on it. I was extremely satisfied! The space is definitely larger than the PASSAT and it’s brand new! A delightful surprise!

Terrible staff at the counter, when we decline additional insurance and upgrade to more expensive car the guy (Shiv) got really unpleasant and rude. Car you pick up is in the dark garage, really hard to find it, people working there don’t speak English (garage). We loaded car with our luggage and proceeded to entrance since it was in Germany at Tegel airport, car settings were set to German language, we got outside garage to get someone to help up with the settings, when we noticed that car was absolutely discussing, dirty seats, dusty dashboard, floors not vacuumed for long time. (see attached pictures). We reported this back to counter and the guy (Shiv) asked us to remove all our luggage then they will clean this car, telling to us that he does not have other car for us in really rude way, and he does not know how long this will take. After traveling 18 hours with kids we decided to leave this place and clean the car when we get to our destination. Really not pleasant experience. Will never rent form Global again at the Tegel airport.

Did not have available the car I booked. Why not? It was fully paid in advance with a fixed arrival time. One hour into my journey the car developed an engine running fault. It took 5 hours to source a replacement car through an alternative hire company with an additional EUR580 cost.