I ended up not picking up the car. The AVIS counter staff had a very poor attitude. I will check immediately if the refund has been processed. In the end, there was no choice but to rent a car at a much higher price—double the cost—or take a taxi.

Satisfied

This was a fantastic experience, and I gained some valuable experience myself. As someone who isn't fluent in English, it was easy to find the rental car location at the airport by simply looking for the icon of 'a car with a key on top.' Credit cards with the UnionPay logo were also accepted (I noticed on this trip that UnionPay cards are no longer widely accepted in many places in the U.S., so I recommend switching to a chip-enabled foreign currency card before your trip). The counter staff asked if I wanted insurance. I had already purchased full coverage on the app, but for convenience, I added toll fee waivers and the option to return the car without a full tank. Including the $200 deposit, the final bill came to over $1,270 (the app indicated it would be $860 paid at the counter). Looking back, if you do thorough travel research, there's no need to spend extra money on these options. Picking up the car was very straightforward—just find the parking spot with the rental company logo, and you can drive off. A minor hiccup occurred when there was no car at the designated spot initially, but the parking lot staff were excellent. They quickly arranged another vehicle of the same category. The car was brand new, though there was a small scratch on the rear bumper. They assured me it was already marked. And with that, my vacation began smoothly.

I reserved a Tesla and was offered a Hyundia and a Mercedes. Hyundai is not the same class of vehicle. The Mercedes software was in beta stages. Lane keep assist would bounce around the lane even leaving it, it was if a drunk driver was driving. Navigation system failed 80% of the time either couldnt' find the location like Leogo land for instance but could find Legoland Holiday Inn. 4 out of 5 charging locations it directed me to were behind locked gates. Charging port wouldn't open and required 20 minutes with another Merc owner to figure out. Regenerative braking would simply give up by design at 20Km/hr in other words stop breaking coming up to another car at about 3 car lengths away nearly causing an accident. Later if stopped at about 80km/hr. The car a is a disaster and would stop anyone from owning an EV if they didnt' know better. AVIS customer support was useless. They told me to drive back to the airport to talk to the front desk about changing my reservation. I asked why would i spend a 4 hour round trip driving instead of talking ot them on the phone to confirm they had a car available. This was not possible apparently as they are to busy for existing customer to pickup. I was obviously annoying the CR asking such questions. Upcharged for Tolls. I was told I would go through a ton of tolls on my trip at least 10-15 and that I should purchase the flat toll fee. I went through two. A roughly $20 charge was turned into $70. Upcharged for charging. Asked how much I thought I was going to spend charging the car up before drop off convinced I should spend $20 to charge it at drop off. The Merc comes with Free 30 minute charging more than enough to charge the car to full. Further lies.

The pick up was slow, 25 minutes, despite there only being 3 people ahead of me in the queue, but at least it was in the terminal.

Booking worked well and the price drop guarantee worked with a reduction on the original price.