Avoid Avis at all costs. When we rented in Chartres in 2011, everything that could go wrong went wrong:
- no car at pre-booked pickup point (Chartres Railway Station) They don't even have an office there, just a plate on a wall.
- had to get taxi to another pickup point, miles away.
- blatant misrepresentation of car's features by hire salesman, in an apparent attempt to get us to trade up our rental.
- several hundred euros overcharge following return of car (later refunded after contacting an Avis Ireland official based in Cork).