they dont even deserve a star for the poor service
I sent an email to Avis Customer Service upon returning from South Africa, which includes all the details of the absolutely ridiculous rigmarole we were put through while dealing with this company during our vacation. I sent this email on Feb.20, 2018 and it is now Mar.1, 2018, and I have received no response. If you are planning on renting a car while in South Africa, DO NOT USE AVIS (or Budget, which is the same company), as you will receive no help and likely no response.
Make sure you check your car for damages before you drive off! Go down on your knees, check, check, check, as they invented damages to charge me extra when I returned the car!
Awful branch of Avis.
Be careful with this branch. They do not follow their own procedures and seem to be constantly under staffed resulting in mistakes, which ultimately end up on your credit card. Still waiting for my refund
Small branch. Good service. No dedicated preferred counter.
Reliable and service top notch.
Very simple very easy. No problem airport
Before arriving in Lanseria I contacted both Avis and South African airways to make sure that I could rent a car using the air miles I had build up without any problems. I used airmiles so that I didn't need a credit card to rent the car because South African banks don't allow students to have credit cards. So after spending the non refundable airmiles I went to AVIS Lanseria and gave them my reference number. They then took the deposit off my debit card and only then told me I couldn't rent a car with a debit card, despite being told numerous times over the phone that I could. They then turned me away telling me that my deposit would be returned. After a week however my deposit wasn't returned and I haven't been able to get back my air miles. I then proceeded to make 25 calls over 5 days to get back my deposit, being told each time they were contacting the bank and would call me back at the end of the day which they didn't. Only on the 5th day did they tell me that the deposit hadn't been logged on their system and so they had no record of taking it and thus couldn't return it to me. Eventually I managed to contact someone who seemed to know what was going on and they returned my money After a week and a half, and I still have no air miles. This is the worst customer care experience I have ever encountered and I highly encourage everyone to avoid this branch. Try Europecar or Tempest across the road.
Efficient and effective. Better than other larger airports in the area.