This was an absolutely terrible experience. Nobody should ever rent from this location or this company!! We have been having a nightmare.
We reserved a car weeks in advance, for a 5pm pick-up, for 48 hours. On the day of our pick-up, an employee named Rob called us to inform us that the car we reserved would, in fact, not be there if we came at 5pm. He told us, at around 11:30am, to get to the pickup right away. We ubered to the location as quick as we could, and got there, panicked, at 1:30-2:30pm. Rob was not there when we arrived - a different employee was, instead, and did not understand why Rob told us to come ASAP. We were informed that the car was, in fact, available, and that there was no need to arrive so early. The issue for my partner and I at this point became that if we picked the car up now, then we would have to return the car 4 hours earlier than planned. If we did not pick the car up now, then we would have to uber home, then uber back to the pick-up site, to pick up the car at our scheduled time. We ultimately had to restructure our plans, for we decided to just pick the car up immediately. This whole process took quite some time, but the employee Nathaniel kindly helped us out, upgraded us, and informed us that we could have an extra hour of a grace period to drop the car off two days later.
When we go to drop the car off, a third employee is working at the desk. He asks us to give him the keys, and tells us that everything is taken care of, and that we will receive a receipt within 24 hours. After that 24 hours has passed, me and my partner received an email, charging us for a 3 day reservation, rather than the 2 days we rented the car for and returned in the time-frame. The Sixt service seemed to think that we returned the car significantly late (which we did not, at all, which that third employee could have attested to).
When we go to call Sixt to figure out what has happened, Rob answers the phone, and simply sends our complaint to HR. We also receive an invoice which reports that we dropped off our rental car at 5pm, which I suppose explains why the system marked us as returning the car late. This was, of course, almost 2 hours later than we, in fact, dropped off the car. So I have no clue how that happened.
After about 3 days of trying to resolve this matter, Sixt has finally refunded the $100 which they initially charged us for a supposed third day of rental. This only happened after days of constant calling and emailing the company, however, and providing photographic proof which we thankfully took, of us dropping the car off when we did. If we didn't happen to take this photo, I suppose our money would have been taken.
Normally, I would never blame the on-ground employees for mistakes happening at a large company. In this instance, however, I feel as though multiple mistakes were made by those who handled our rental, which compounded into an awful time. I won't be renting from Sixt again.
As I post this, I am now seeing all the reviews of people being scammed in similar ways from this company. Take the warnings: this will likely happen to you, as well.