{"id":24120,"date":"2016-08-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-delayed-flight-could-leave-you-without-your-rental-car-and-deposit\/"},"modified":"2016-08-27T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T06:05:34","slug":"a-delayed-flight-could-leave-you-without-your-rental-car-and-deposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-delayed-flight-could-leave-you-without-your-rental-car-and-deposit\/","title":{"rendered":"A delayed flight could leave you without your rental car and deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCar hire contracts can include clauses that penalise you for late arrival, as one family found out at great expenseIs Brad Rees this summer\u2019s unluckiest holiday car renter? Rees paid \u00a3364 to hire a car for his family\u2019s two-week summer holiday in Sardinia, using online agent Holiday Autos. Things started to go wrong when the family arrived at Bristol airport, with the flight delayed by two hours. But it got worse when they finally touched down in Sardinia.At the carousel in arrivals, the suitcase belonging to Rees\u2019s wife Frances failed to show up. It turned out \u2013 45 minutes after scouring the airport \u2013 that another couple had wrongly picked up the bag. They eventually found them bickering with a car hire agent on the other side of the airport. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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