Avis Rent A Car

Ya know, renting a car is renting a car… it’s all pretty cut-​and-​dry. The only thing that can make a difference is how nice the people are that you come in contact with. Don’t ALL businesses know that yet?
Anyway, the guys at the counter (wish I had his name) and the guy that brought the car around… so nice. Not «official Avis nice»… the kind of nice that takes more than a plastered on smile and reciting «avis script». Maybe corporate tells the guys to show a bit of interest but these two were genuinely competing with each other to try to tell my wife and I where the best places were to drive in the Cotswolds.
Of course, you get the same game that you get at ALL rent-​a-​car places… the insurance price that they give you on the phone is what they have unless you want the «complete» insurance… and then maybe you want the «totally complete» insurance. All these levels of insurance that, if you knew about them from the beginning, you might go elsewhere, so they give you they teaser rate on the phone then tell you just before you are about to drive away in a car that has the steering wheel on the opposite side to go drive on a road where you drive on the opposite side (and it’s raining out) that you might want the other insurance packages «just to be sure»… oh well, the guys were still really nice.

This Avis location in Oxford is adjacent to the train station, so it’s extremely useful if you are arriving by train. The range of cars available is typical of any other branch and you do have the option of dropping the car off at any of their other branches. However, driving in Oxford can be a bit difficult as parking is very difficult and where available, quite expensive.