i arrived 50 minutes early and they made me wait the whole hour to get my rental eve thou the car wa

Very satisfied.

This is my second time renting from this specific location. I actually went out of my way to use this office instead of a closer one because the customer service here is always amazing. The manager is wonderfully accommodating, friendly and makes the pick up and drop off process a complete breeze. Definitely my favourite location for car hires in Pasadena / LA area.

I reserved a compact car but was assigned a minivan whose control panel was so complicated and unintuitive that I actually felt it made driving far more dangerous. I requested a refund and strongly urged them to remove the car from their fleet.

Bad stuff in return

They charged me extra, and i called the police

See next comment for the initial problem. The person at the pickup location had me call budget customer service, which was awful. I could not hear the representative, who occasionally just said things that were read off a card ("there is no note for that specific situation", which, as a standalone sentence, literally doesn't mean anything). After speaking for several minutes, I offered to send the email I received. I was told how to do so (only telling me the case number after having sent it once) only to be then told that it would be reviewed in 3-5 business days. I received an email the next day answering questions that were not in any way related to the issue I discussed at length on the phone and saying that the drop off location said I'd returned the car without fuel when I still had the car. This was incredibly bad service and makes me think that the entire customer service operation is purely scripted and not worth bothering with. I held budget as a preferred service before. Not any longer. The man at the counter at the pickup (Lee Kirstein?) was wonderful, called his manager to fix the issue, and made the whole thing possible