Cheap Car Rentals in Playa del Carmen

- budget said they didn’t have my reservation on file because I made it 24 hours ago - they said they’ll do a direct deal with me - they charged me $76 / day instead of $37 as agreed per my Kayak booking - they charged me extra for insurance (the Kayak price didn’t mention this ?)

Takes hours to fix a car

The location of the office is wrong on all GPS apps, so it took us almost an hour to find. The number we called from the email confirm couldn’t find our reservation so couldn’t verify that they were the right location. When we got there, we had to wait 25 minutes for the person in front of us to get their car. Then when we got to the front of the line they said they didn’t have our reservation. We made it that morning and they said it takes hours to get to their system. So they spent 30 minutes calling budgets help number. Then when they confirmed it- they said I had to pay a minimum of $60/day for insurance or put down a $2,500USD deposit plus $8/day to track the vehicle. I reserved the vehicle until 7pm, and when I said I would be back around 5 or 6 they said they close at 4, and we had to keep the car for the night. If we wanted to park it in their garage for the night it would be $15/hour. It took about an hour and fifteen minutes from the time we walked in the door at budget to the time we got the car. When we returned the car that took another 25 minutes and they couldn’t figure out how to give me back the money they placed on hold my card at time of reservation. I am still waiting for that $250 to be returned to my card.

When you rent a car in Mexico, Avis is the way to go. In Mexico, there is a mandatory liability insurance required by law. That insurance is rarely covered by your personal insurance and is provided by the car rental company. If you rent with other company, they will charge you that insurance at very high costs (an extra at your initial booking price). But at Avis Mexico, there are no bad surprises. That insurance is always included in the online booking price. Again, Avis is the way to when you are renting a car in Mexico.

Avis staff is great. knowledgeable and friendly. I had a great experience with them

The car rental process and vehicle were fine. It took over 2 hours to return the car. Understaffed location and lengthy process for a location serving 4 separate companies.

Pick up time 12.00 (reservation was confirmed) arrived to pick up point at 12.45 - no cars. Never again

No return on mail

You are “forced” to accept the insurance which is higher than the cost of car rental. They will not accept insurance provided by my premium credit card. The option are either take their insurance or pay another fee which is closed to the price of their insurance if consider using my own credit card provided insurance plus a outrageous amount like $14,000 deposit to be charged on the credit card.

I cancel and they never give me back my money

They didn’t find the reservation. Also, they told me that if they could find it, it will be a $35,000 USD deposit. Which is a straight-up lie. Completely unprofessional and lazy.

The process at pickup took over an hour and a half in a tiny little room with only one desk worker. Then we had to wait for them to wash the car. When it was time to return the car they tried saying there was a new scratch and we showed them the pics we had taken upon pickup and they then believed us. Returning the car took about 25 minutes.

We never used it. We tried to cancel, and were unable to. I feel the website is deceptive, and will not use again.

There is nothing to say besides that this location looked like it hasn’t been open for days. I think kayak and the National rental car dealership in Playa Del Carmen need to communicate better. We showed up at 4 pm to get our car and it was completely closed. Says their open till 6, and our pick up reservation was for 5

The car was clean and had no problems and the pre-inspection was thorough. That gives a very comfortable feeling It would have been more comfortable if the tank was full. We now had to stop for gas soon after we picked-up the car