Jamie
Pay by Credit Card. Claim a charge back.
TL;DR: Get the deposit back by claiming a charge back on your credit card. Make sure you pay the deposit by credit card so that you are protected! Very similar experience to everyone else. We were due to pick up a car at Antalya airport at 10pm and I had given them our flight number (which arrived on time at 9:30pm). No one was there. They would only communicate by whatsapp text, despite the fact it said to call them. We eventually got picked up at 10:45pm. Long story short they forced us to pay for the extra insurance due to mysterious problems with my credit cards and we didn't get out of the hire place until about 1am (we had our two kids with us!). Of course we had to pay the deposit on top of the extra insurance, which as others have said, wasn't just authorised like normal, it was actually taken. And despite having paid for the extra insurance they stipulated that we would be charged anyway if there was damage and we didn't get a police report. The car they gave us was terrible. It constantly warned us about tyre pressure, which was waved off as "a chronic issue". The car drove OK until we reached any hill (we were driving to Cappadocia ffs!), where any truck we had overtaken would catch us up and overtake us! I was really stressed that the car might just break down in the middle of nowhere, until the owner of a hotel we were staying at said, "oh no, those cars are just like that!" Happily they didn't find anything wrong with the car when we got back, but they then informed us that they wouldn't refund the deposit for 21 *working* days. 21 working days came and went and we had to apply to our credit card for a charge back. The one thing I will say is that true to their word they gave us a lift to and from the airport and the guy who did was lovely, albeit a maniac driver!



