Hyrbilar på Palma de Mallorca flygplats

Insurance

Plus: Cheap car, worked, no issues, Bluetooth audio on lowest priced car

Minus: The check-in clerk tried to sell me their insurance with "I hope you read the conditions" for more than the price of rental. I said I already have an insurance from Kayak where I booked it. She started that first of all they do not work with Allianz which is the provider and that it's not possible because Allianz could not know what car they are renting me. On the insurance conditions of Allianz, which was quarter the price they offered, there was a line that said that I should call them if the checkin clerk explains that it's not valid, I started dialling and suddenly it was possible to leave a deposit as a credit card authorization, don't get another insurance. The car smelled of cigarettes when I got it, but it was probably cleaned and it was a residual smell. It was quite difficult to find ace at the airport. The information said it's operated by Rhodium. Which in turn is operated at the airport by goldcar. So after getting an ace car, I had to find Goldcar which was not mentioned, but I figured.

You have to pay additional insurance. Even if you had one.

Plus: There is nothing I liked about Ace/Goldcar in Palma the Mallorca. The only thing is the fiat 500, but i think i need to thank fiat for that.

Minus: First i couldnt take car without additional insurance, even if i had one. Then, i couldnt pay with my eur card as it was mastercard. They wanted visa. There were 4 of us, so i had to discuss additional insurance amount with my tripmates. When we agreed for that 100 eur more, there were noone to help us as this guy i was talking to went for a break. When finally he got back, i wanted to pay this 80€ for the car and insurance, he told me that there will be 80€ more beacuse of some deposit and i would get this back when we get the car back. When we gave the car back, nobody cheked the car/fuel.. I dont even know if i get deposit back, on the parking lot there was noone to help us. they told us „leave the keys” and i was asking „what about my deposit? Nobody cheked the car.” They guy said „you probably get it back within 24hours”. But its one hour left and i dont think so..... even if the car was cheap, all additional payments and we could take bigger car from other company...

Where the heck is ACE?

Plus: Car size...no B cars available so we were given a "C" car

Minus: In Mallorca, there are NO signs directing one to 'GOLDCAR', the ones who handle ACE. Have to ask where to go for ACE. Then not much at GOLDCAR that says ACE. Was not scheduled to pay for insurance. Our credit card covered that. But agent insisted that if we didn't take insurance the 1300 euros charged for a 'hold' would not be returned when car was returned, but a month later and we would have to ask the credit card company for that 1300 euros. Completely deceptive people who I would NEVER rent from again overseas.

Minus: it was horrible. we never found the reservation and we ended up having to pay three times as much.

Minus: Our reservation time upon booking through priceline defaulted to 12 pm, but our flight didn't get in until 6 pm. I had called priceline and they said not to worry about it, but when we got there, they said our rental had expired and they couldn't find us in the system. Now we had to book a brand new rental, which was of course much more expensive and included insurance we could not decline.

Mostly good/ 2 issues not good

Plus: The car was nice and a good price. The staff at "Goldcar" were professional.

Minus: I wasn't told that I needed to pick up my Ace car at Goldcar. Had to make an international call in Mallorca airport to help line to find out. Bought Allianz ins. on kayak and it wasn't recognized at Goldcar. Had to buy another much higher priced insurance at the counter. Then had to make 2 more international calls to find out what insurance I did purchase so I could cancel it. Not what you want to do when you are overseas.