Easy but with improvements could be perfect!

The car was great, I would have expected the offices to open earlier than 9am at an international airport but we were told what time so that was ok. However, the central London drop off is atrocious, there’s barely any signage to know where to go/park drop off keys, and I got more help with dropping the car off from the security guard than the scant Hertz staff.

I couldn’t use the Price drop protection for some reason, the link just took me round in circles on the app. Maybe it’s because I made the account after booking the car, I’ll see next time I guess.

Staff were great. Although the vehicle delivered was a lot larger than I had booked it worked out well for us.

All went smoothly.

Car was changed for the better as I ended up with a mercedes! Pickup time was surprisingly slow, probably not enough staff at reception.

Booking process was easy.

Pre-check prior to hire was not rigourous enough - this resulted in me being charged for stowed tyre inflator. This was apparently missing on my returning the van. So it was missing when I drove the vehicle off - unbeknown to me. For stowed (therefore hidden) parts, rental companies should have checklist of items renters need to check before leaving the forecourt. Wholly unreasonable for hire companies to expect renters to have mental list of all hidden equipment (spare tyre, jack, high viz jacket, triangle etc etc) that they need to check before leaving so that they do not get charged excesses on return! I contested this with Hertz and they waived the charge fortunately. But unpleasant.

Like: End to end reliability, condition of car, performance. When the former renter only refilled the vehicle to 3/4, we obtained a small refund to honour this.
Dislike: Hard to return at Luton Airport (car return not well sign posted) but not Hertzs fault. Airport needs to do better.