MaaTini Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I thinking about to rent a Pick UP for Weekends to make some "Touring" Anybody has made good or bad Experiences with local Car Rentals and can recommend and name one? Thanks for any Answer Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaParent Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Hertz, Budget, Avis are all here. I rented a Fortuna once from the car rental place located in the hotel at Royal Garden, Hertz I think (?), as it was the best deal I could get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siam2007 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Budget and Avis almost always have great deals (as long as you avoid XMas/New Year and Songkhran season of course). just check their website or call the HQ to ask about "special promotions". Renting from Budget, Avis or Hertz for almost ten years, I never ever paid more than 1K THB per day (for a regular saloon-car though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaiclan Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Agree - we always used Hertz, Avis or Budget and is always cheaper than using a local rental place. We used to hire the Fortuna at 1,800 a day (for 3 days) whereas locally couldnt get them to go lower than 2.2k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Budget in Tipp Plaza provide good service, cars in good condition, reasonable prices, a wide selection of vehicles, insurance and they don't hang on to your passport like the fly-by-night operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jehricaholic Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Forget about these big names with their big prices. In Jontiem on Thrappraya Road @ Thepprasit is 'Expat Car Rental'. Rented from them several times, very friendly and speak English well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmac Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 OP is asking about pickups. Hertz and Avis do not seem to rent pickups in Pattaya according to their websites. Gave up after only checking 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguston Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Try Holiday Rent-a-Car on Pattaya 3rd Road.- 8/151 Moo 6. ( The "top" end of the road,close to Tesco/Lotus ). Falang owned - speak to Grahame,the owner or look at pattayacar-rent.com. Fair prices, full insurance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaiclan Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Forget about these big names with their big prices. In Jontiem on Thrappraya Road @ Thepprasit is 'Expat Car Rental'. Rented from them several times, very friendly and speak English well. We used to use Expat Car Rental and paid 2.2k (sometimes 2.4k) per day. Only when they didn't have a Fortuner available were we forced to use one of the biggies (in this case Budget). We were shocked that the price was only 1.8k per day for a 3 day rental for fully loaded Fortuner. On top of that we were renting at the airport so we saved the taxi fare to and from Pattaya to boot. Not sure if the deals are not as good for saloons and little cars but if anyone wants a 4x4 then renting from a local hire company does not make any sense financially. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Q cars in Jomtien Beach Condo have been around for years and have a very good reputation afaik. http://qcars-pattaya.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTH Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I’d second Holiday Rent-A-Car. Here are two semi recent threads that the OP can look through as well: Thread1, Thread2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chang_paarp Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Try Holiday Rent-a-Car on Pattaya 3rd Road.- 8/151 Moo 6. ( The "top" end of the road,close to Tesco/Lotus ). Falang owned - speak to Grahame,the owner or look at pattayacar-rent.com. Fair prices, full insurance I'm another who can recommend these folk. Take your passport the first time, they copy it and keep it on file, saves time and bother in the future. The owner Grahame is a pom and speaks understandable English as does his staff, they also remember their customers even after a couple of years. They have delivered a car to me on the darkside (no cost), one staff member with a bike to take the other back, they already had my details so it was painless. A copy of the class1 insurance is in the glove-box along with all the phone number you will need, but we all hope we don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaParent Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Q cars in Jomtien Beach Condo have been around for years and have a very good reputation afaik. http://qcars-pattaya.com/ Yes Qcars have a good rep among expats working here especially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jehricaholic Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Try Holiday Rent-a-Car on Pattaya 3rd Road.- 8/151 Moo 6. ( The "top" end of the road,close to Tesco/Lotus ). Falang owned - speak to Grahame,the owner or look at pattayacar-rent.com. Fair prices, full insurance I'm another who can recommend these folk. Take your passport the first time, they copy it and keep it on file, saves time and bother in the future. The owner Grahame is a pom and speaks understandable English as does his staff, they also remember their customers even after a couple of years. They have delivered a car to me on the darkside (no cost), one staff member with a bike to take the other back, they already had my details so it was painless. A copy of the class1 insurance is in the glove-box along with all the phone number you will need, but we all hope we don't. pom = Pomeranian dog = Pomegranate fruit??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timekeeper Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Try Holiday Rent-a-Car on Pattaya 3rd Road.- 8/151 Moo 6. ( The "top" end of the road,close to Tesco/Lotus ). Falang owned - speak to Grahame,the owner or look at pattayacar-rent.com. Fair prices, full insurance I'm another who can recommend these folk. Take your passport the first time, they copy it and keep it on file, saves time and bother in the future. The owner Grahame is a pom and speaks understandable English as does his staff, they also remember their customers even after a couple of years. They have delivered a car to me on the darkside (no cost), one staff member with a bike to take the other back, they already had my details so it was painless. A copy of the class1 insurance is in the glove-box along with all the phone number you will need, but we all hope we don't. pom = Pomeranian dog = Pomegranate fruit??? DV CARS, THIRD ROAD DOWN FROM HOLIDAY RENT A CARS , BOTH IN LOCATION AND COST google is your friend Pommy The term pommy, pom or pomme,[1] in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, commonly denotes a person of British (usually of English heritage) origin. A derogatory term, it was controversially ruled no longer offensive in 2006 by the Australian Advertising Standards Board and in 2010 by the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority.[2] Despite these changing views, many British people or those of British origin consider the expression offensive or racist when used by people not of British origin to describe English or British people, yet acceptable when used within that community: for example, the community group British People Against Racial Discrimination was among those who complained to the Advertising Standards Board about five advertisements poking fun at "Poms", prompting the 2006 decision.[3] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siam2007 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Q cars in Jomtien Beach Condo have been around for years and have a very good reputation afaik. http://qcars-pattaya.com/ Yes Qcars have a good rep among expats working here especially. I had an extraordinarily bad experience with Qcars (Jomtien branch) a few years ago, which was so bad, that the actual rental of the reserved car didn't actual commenced..... they treat you like a beggar, not like a customer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ungabunga Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Expat Car Rent, at the junction of Thappraya/Thepprasit as mentioned previously have always been good to me ohhh... and they have a shiny New Ford Ranger in there at the moment, which looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Off topic nonesense removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I think most places are ok but of course it's all 50/50 on experiences etc. I recommend taking pictures with your cam before signing the contract and making sure the person renting knows that you did. I found a place last year on the dark side on soi Kho talao just before the big market on the left side that had a beautiful pick-up I rented to go to Chiang Mai and back. Sorry I don't have the name of the rental place but they were great. Also on soi siam country club, just across the railway tracks on the left coming from Sukhumvit has pick-ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satcommlee Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 There are many, I would use www.escape-rentals.com as I have actually smashed up one of their cars and it was no hassle, just loss of 5000 baht deposit. They are on Soi Diana. It's only when you cause damage you'll get to realise how good the hiring company is... Many don't have proper rental insurance, many may keep your passport as security and many will hit you for charges while the car is off-road being repaired. Anybody else smashed up a rental car and had a good experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikkoid66 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I rented at this place several time. Hertz is doing 674 baht/day for 2 weeks rental, they ask me 1100 baht a day. Same car (Viao)...you said cheap? Also one time I rented a car there that was smelling like vomit and cigarette (of course we didn't realized that before we made 200 km because they put a lot of perfume). Me and the kids had the worse travel with a car ever, driving windows open, you can imagine. I would have returned the car but I had about 800 km to do and have booked for the kids etc...and was already far away. Forget about these big names with their big prices. In Jontiem on Thrappraya Road @ Thepprasit is 'Expat Car Rental'. Rented from them several times, very friendly and speak English well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiBob Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Beware of One Stop Car Rental near View Talay 2. They want to keep your original passport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGImInPattaya Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 There are many, I would use www.escape-rentals.com as I have actually smashed up one of their cars and it was no hassle, just loss of 5000 baht deposit. They are on Soi Diana. It's only when you cause damage you'll get to realise how good the hiring company is... Many don't have proper rental insurance, many may keep your passport as security and many will hit you for charges while the car is off-road being repaired. Anybody else smashed up a rental car and had a good experience? Smacked up a Honda Accord good I rented from Avis once...no problem...purchased the collision damage waiver for like like B100 and only liable for B 5k. When they came to pick up the car, they even asked me if I wanted another one to continue my journey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayman Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 (edited) +1 for hertz.. Make sure you check the website for specials and book online or over the phone to lock in the special rate. Last time I rented from them was the 555 special which if you wanted the full boat insurance was like 750 a day.. no min/max time. Was a super deal on a brand new car with FULL 0thb deductible insurance. http://www.hertzthailand.com/EN/ Edited January 17, 2013 by Jayman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackPuddingBertha Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 +1 for hertz.. Make sure you check the website for specials and book online or over the phone to lock in the special rate. Last time I rented from them was the 555 special which if you wanted the full boat insurance was like 750 a day.. no min/max time. Was a super deal on a brand new car with FULL 0thb deductible insurance. Yes. I got that price a couple of times prior to buying a car. I would NEVER rent a car here unless it came with zero excess insurance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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