Surprice at Catania Fontanarossa Airport

Pros: Everything, friendly staff, speedy pick up and return, lovely car.

Cons: ...

Pros: Although the wait at the desk was long, the representative took us to the car and explained everything.

Cons: The wait at the counter.

Pros: Very difficult to find, actually need to look for AutoOne. Car was not in great condition. Rental staff unfriendly and don’t answer ringing phones, a few of them just standing around.

Cons: Most of it. Poor experience, wouldn’t use them again

Pros: Alessio was phenomenal, my car had been cancelled as my flight was over 2 hours late. At 11pm he was heading home and stayed around to sort me out with a car.

Cons: It's hard to find the office and is a long way from the arrivals

Pros: Nothing

Cons: No signs to the rental desk, car wasn't even rented by Surprice but by a company called Auto-One also no sign or available directions, nobody could help because Surprice doesn't exist. Car hadn't been cleaned or inspected prior to our rental as indecated by the fact that the car was covered in dirt and washer bottle was empty, no member of staf to show where the car was parked, just given keys and told to find the car. No pack in the clove box to indicate who to call in the event of a breakdown.

Pros: Nothing, it was the worst car rental service I ever experienced.

Cons: The agents are extremely rude, cant speak proper english, scam you and refuse to help you in any shape or form.

Pros: good car for the price, value.

Cons: hard to find SurPrice kiosk, and agent not very helpful, did not print contract for me and forgot to email it.

Pros: The car was very efficient and respected my desires

Cons: Quick and precise

Pros: Good car and good value. Efficient P/U & D/O once you found the agency.

Cons: Difficult to find rental agency / office. Not enough agents (2) for all of the people waiting.

Cons: It was extraordinarily difficult to find the office at the airport - no signs, no email directions, no one else knew where it was. The car had some significant scrapes on all sides, in addition to the large logos identifying the rental agency.

Pros: When I got to the desk, it was a quick turn around to receive the keys of the car. When I dropped back the car there was no hassle over damage or scratches . Normally in Catania other rental companies charge you a lot extra for very minor scratches.

Cons: Very hard to find the exact location as they seem to use another name . The car was well used (45000 km) and had 16 scratches on it and the car was parked in the furthest position away from the airport in contrast to all the other rental places. All there cars have signs on them saying (Rent me- nollegio mi) which in Catania can be a disadvantage as everyone knows that you are a tourist and tend to target those cars for theft

Pros: Went there at 7.30am and they opened at 8.15. I've made the full insurance and cost me 60 euros a day that was so expensive. when I booked the card that told 10 euro a day so my calculation was about 160 and not 310 euros.

Cons: When I went to puck up the car and found d the windows dirty and asked the attendant for help he just told me I can't help and moved away

Pros: Happy staff!

Cons: Car was not clean, ex-renters personal belongings still in the car. Also the car had a fair bit of superficial damage and the staff just said take photos.

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Everything they never told me what to dio when returning the car. I had to make a decision how to return car and use drop box for key. 3 other people alwso upset as no one in office no signs nothing they just followed what I decided to do I spent almost 1 hour figureing out what to do and I just parked where I got the car and it was very dark at 6AM.

Pros: The service was terrible particularly trying to get help after the car broke down

Cons: Slow service, important details not disclosed such as the car being a diesel, we ordered a mid size car but were given a large one. The worst was not getting help when the car broke down, they didn’t answer the phone for over an hour, they didn’t provide any assistance with getting a new rental, they told us to contact road service and then were angry that the car was towed. They were not helpful and were blaming us for the breakdown.

Pros: The car was very good

Cons: The rental company was very difficult to find. Some directions would have saved us an hour searching. Extremely long queue to check in , not enough staff. Car was rented from surprice which is a sub if autoone who are sub of discovercars!! Our excess purchase from discover was not recognised by autoone and very heavy pressure to buy more insurance. We are v unhappy.

Pros: friendly staff on the desk

Cons: problem with remote opening and closing of the car

Pros: Great expiriance, new car, helpfull stuff

Pros: Nothing malgré le dépôt, ils n'ont pas voulu nous donner de voitures

Cons: Aucune information, nous avons dû chercher ailleurs une voiture qui nous a coûté le double du prix

Pros: Nothing this is not how you should act to customers

Cons: The service, the fact that we payed double, and they didn’t respect our car reservation

Pros: All was very good !

Cons: Nothing

Pros: The reservation on. The website was perfect . But the car that we choose @surprise rent Catania wasnt a station (they dont have them ) Oke , the suv was good but a little less space in the trunk. But the most teriribble thing was , on the desk @surpise they trying to sell insurance policies , That the insurance @discover was not good enough.

Pros: Quality of vehicle

Cons: waited 2 hrs in a que

Pros: Hard to locate, no proper signage. Advertised as offering an Audi or equivalent but admitted they do not or have never stocked Audi cars. Given a poor Skoda instead with the passenger airbag turned off and unable to activate. Very dangerous!

Pros: They spoke English

Cons: They didn't give me the car

Pros: Notting

Cons: Horrible

Pros: Nothing. The office was understaffed and the people unhelpful and dishonest.

Cons: Everythihng. They stole 1700 Euros of my money.

Pros: N/A

Cons: They were forcing me to take additional security saying that even I payed for full coverage throigh discovery cars, it is not full coverage, but if I pay to them 160 eur and 300 eur deposit the car will be fully covered.

Pros: us to rent a car on the name of our wives but they wantd to charge us more than double. in the end of the day yoav dekel rent for more than 700 euro and yosef ophir moved to avis and rent for more expensive taarif. as to u, u took your comission and left us helpless as dogs. u should be a shame of your servise. u simply stole our money and we will never recommend on u. we are very dissapointed!!!

Cons: 1. A map with the rental office location would be very good, I've spent at least 30 minutes trying to locate them. 2. Insurance coverage - website information vs pick up information are conflicting.

Pros: Car was in a rather poor state, but was ok and clean. Except the issue that I was not allowed to read the documents I was signing, the dropoff went well.

Cons: They wouldn't let me read the documents I was signing. They made me pay another insurance while this was already included in the online booking. Poor communication.

Cons: they provided a car that broke down. And I still had to pay.

Pros: I liked everything

Cons: none

Pros: Fiat Tipo was spacious and consumed little petrol

Cons: Surprice office very hhidden in Catania airport. Poor air Conditioning in the office when outside is 40C, long waiting time, highly bespoke process, agents pushing extra cvd insurance at ridicoulius prices with intimidating selling tecniques. i was charged a 22 euro car clean up fee up front, apparently applicable to all long rentals, first time I hear of this. Car was full of stickers 'auto one rentals' , had a massive sticker on the rear right windscreen with a huge bar code

Pros: Sérieux, expliquations claires.

Cons: Néant

Pros: - with the additional insurance at the return they did not even check the car

Cons: - not real similar car as in offer (german versus italian quality) - push selling of additional insurance - lot of rental stickers and scratches on car

Cons: The car pick-up was very far from the terminal and hard to find. It wasn't even listed as Surprice, but AutoOne.

Pros: no problems great car.

Cons: Time spent picking up the car - there was many customers ;)

Pros: Horrible. I have never had such a terrible experience. Our flight was delayed and they claim that is a no show. Then scammed us and others there to purchase extra insurance.

Cons: Our flight was delayed and they claim that is a no show. Then scammed us and others there to purchase extra insurance.

Pros: The girl was kind but it didn't help a lot

Cons: Nothing..

Cons: weren’t welcoming, I stood for a few minutes before being served. surprice bullied me into paying €220 for insurance to cover everything other theft, said I’d be liable to pay €300 if I got a scratch.. if I didn’t take policy then I had to pay €1200 deposit.The staff wouldn’t accept documents showing enhanced cover, seemed more interested in competing with each other as to who could sell their own policies. Wasn’t explained were to drop off car on return, not shown the car controls. Poor service

Pros: New car , price

Cons: Attitude, waiting, location

Pros: Long q. Insurance pressure sales.

Cons: Everything. Amateurish service and felt like I was an in convenience. Top it off try and stitch you up on return with scratches that were there on pick up.

Cons: The car was dirty

Pros: Car was in good condition and suited our needs.

Cons: See review above; also, pickup took over an hour with long queues. There was no one available for an early morning drop-off before 8 am.

Pros: The car I received in the end was ok, but only after having spent a substantial amount of time discussing my booking with the representative. He initially gave me an extremely small car although I had booked a station wagon and explained that we had a fair amount of luggage. The representative at the drop-off was skilled and service-minded

Cons: Almost impossible to find the rental desk due to a lack of signs. Extremely long waiting time to pick up the car. Representative handling the pick-up had absolutely no idea about customer service and was apparently not trained for the tasks he was expected to perform. I was charged for cleaning of the car, even though I actually received a dirty car.

Pros: Bad!

Cons: Tried hard to scare me into buying even more

Pros: Nic

Cons: Czekaliśmy dwie godziny na odbiór samochodu a przed nami w kolejce były tylko dwie osoby. Pani która nas obsługiwała oznajmiła nam że pełne ubezpieczenie z DiscoveryCars nic nie pokrywa i musimy wykupić ubezpieczenie na miejscu za 242 euro. Ponieważ nie daliśmy się na to namówić przy zwrocie samochodu uznano że zarysowaliśmy felgę i całe koło jest do wymiany za co z depozytu zabrano nam 100 euro nie wydając żadnych dokumentów. Zawsze korzystamy z DiscoveryCars, zawsze byliśmy bardzo zadowoleni

Cons: The service was terrible. I spent 3 hours there due to not having the appropriate car available fir me. In the end they gave me a car that should not have been rented out to anyone. When I brought the car back I was told I was very lucky nothing happened to us due to the car not working properly. I was made to pay for insurance there when I already purchased full coverage. It was a horrible experience. Everyone who rented a vehicle were upset due to the double insurance, 1200 euro deposit etc.

Cons: The partner company “surprice” has charged me 22euros upon delivery for “cleaning interior and exterior” of the car. It was in the contract but no one advised me when they delivered the car hoping, of course, to charge me in the end knowing that no one reads the contract… it’s bad faith.

Pros: nothing

Cons: Not easy to find at the airport (the signs are for AutoOne, not Surprice), unfriendly approach of the representatives, the final price for twice as much even though I had full coverage pre-booked. No windshield wipers fluid in the car. Very unpleasant experience, I will avoid AutoOne/Surprice rental in the future.

Pros: I worked with a really great guy - who was clear and helpful. My observation was that there was a lot of tension from customers around the Credit card deposit and 'extras' and so people were not behaving very well. I worked with the operative with respect and calm. It helped.

Cons: It was confusing to find the booking office. The path from the airport to the office was narrow at times, gravel at times which is not helpful when carrying a lot of baggage. The office was small and very hot despite air con. These are challenges the world over - so I don't make a big thing about it.

Cons: Cost of i Surface much higher than price of car

Pros: The car was almost new

Cons: I genuinely havn't got time to type everything that was bad about it......it was all bad. Please call me, probably easier and quicker if I explain in person.

Pros: Nothing at all

Cons: All of it see above

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Service was very bad

Pros: Speed of procedures

Cons: The car was a bit dirty

Pros: Surprice is not easy to find, lack of direction and on the day we had to pick up the queue was extremely large very hot no consideration to us in the heat no attempt to take care of anyone absolutely would not recommend or use again

Cons: The girls were professionally on carrying out there duties

Pros: also, they tried to make me pay for the cleaning of the car despite not disclosing this to me.

Pros: They ask 22 euro extra for cleaning, or you have ti clean it Bye yourself

Cons: New car

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Everything.

Pros: The car was nearly new

Cons: Queue for 1.5 hours to pickup the car and half an hour queue to return

Pros: nothing

Cons: everything

Cons: It was extremely difficult to find them. Their business is handled by AutOne whose office is the most remote. There was no signage to help. It took ages then we had to search for our cars in a remote unlit and unmarked car park in the dark at 23:30. On return we had to park them in the same place in the dark. There were no available spaces in their area - and we only knew it was theirs with the help of a passing member of another firm. The agent did come in a just acceptable time. more...

Cons: I was conned into paying extra insurance which I thought I had paid with discovery cars , this however was not the case so I will be telling people not to use discovery cars or surprice in the future .picking up the car was chaotic and i had to wait 2 hours to get it all sorted

Cons: nothing, do not know english, lies, try to manipulate the

Pros: Nothing

Cons: I didn't rent the car from you. We arrived late. It was extremely difficult to find the agency as I was looking for Discovercars. Then the woman told me that it was a big problem not to have a credit card but a debit card. In this way she told me a higher price. That was the moment when I left you and got my car from another agency. At 11pm I had no patience for your fantastic service.

Pros: Nothing

Cons: It took more than an hour to be seen by the staff at collection. The car was dirty, both inside and out. There was damage to the car not noted on the sheet provided by Surprice. When I told them they said take photos and it would be sorted out on return. When I returned the car, I was told to Whatsapp the photos to Surprice otherwise I would be charged for the original damage, even though I showed them the photos. The Whatsapp number they gave me was incorrect, so unable to send photos.

Pros: No service! STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY! CROOKS!

Pros: The car supplied was an upgrade and clean and new

Cons: The wait to get served and the ordeal of refusing additional insurance

Pros: Nothing. Stay away from this company

Cons: Extremely slow check in. The basic car had no AC and no cruise control. There was a STRONG petrol or gas smell which made it difficult to drive with the windows closed. The car should not have been rented

Pros: service and friendliness of the staff Priscila

Cons: Time to pick up the car

Pros: I ordered Ford focus stw (kombi) and i received Ford Puma which is way smaller.

Cons: I would like to get what I ordered and paid for.

Pros: Niente...mi hanno addebitato la caparra e poi nn mi hanno dato la macchina perché non hanno accettato la mia carta di credito American express

Cons: Insurance was a joke

Cons: Don't accept debit cards.

Pros: good car, cleaned well

Cons: time spent collecting car

Pros: Nothing

Cons: It was even not possible to find easily the car rental, because it was not even its name on voucher.

Pros: the car

Cons: extra insurance time spent picking up car

Pros: nothing

Cons: very bad and not friendly at all

Pros: Amex not accepted

Cons: Amex not accepted

Pros: They sent the contract by email

Cons: they took to much for closing the contract they dont provide me the car promised (Similar Audi A1 and they provide me a small Lancia) the fact that the push strongly for a insurrance from them , even trying to say that the one provided by you is not always the best and not covering as they are covering

Pros: I had to wait more than 1hour for the shuttle bus at the airport. And it took more than 1 hour to take the car. There werenot enough people to serve customers. When drop off the car I had to wait also more than 1 hour. And 1of 3 speaks English and I had to use a Google translate app to communicate with them.

Cons: Everything was awful. I will never use their car.

Pros: slow process

Pros: The man who collected us in the minibus was pleasant and friendly.m

Cons: The young woman at the office was under a lot of pressure. She didn’t apologise that although as had booked an automatic, she didn’t have one. Not good service atall.

Pros: Nothing - a scam. Maybe run by criminals who don't care about people.

Cons: Arrived, couldn't find the pick up van, waited an hour to speak to the desk staff, watching them argue with other customers. they said we were 2 hours late and our car was gone and they couldn't help us and sent us back to the airport . Including myself 5 people were served and all either had an argument with the staff or got sent back to the airport. Cars were downgraded, released and staff unhelpful. A very costly start to our holiday as we had to rent on the spot with a different company.

Pros: Nothing

Cons: They overcharged, made me pay for insurance when I declined. Didn’t have my car that I booked. Blamed me for everything. Lied continuously

Pros: skoro nový vůz, čistý

Cons: delší doba vyzvednutí auta, všechny údaje zadané na webu znovu přepisovali..... neuznání kompletního pojištění

Cons: they ask you to pay car insurance again.

Cons: Surprice was really suprice, very unpleasant and very expensive. Surprice was substituted by AutoOne.it, my suspission is due to wrong reputation of Surprice. Your form does not provide enough space for my text, so I will post it to google map review Catania, Autoone, Via Don Giacomo Alberione, 21 Please, read it there. Avoid this rentcar company and use any other, right in the airport. Have physical credit card, as Italy (or their rent car companies) is still in deep electronic history.

Pros: quick response to last minute requests nice, friendly team

Cons: The charged me for a defect in the wheel cover that i did not cause.

Cons: Very slow service. Only 2 agents. Had to wait a long time for the shuttle to pick the van up. Booked auto but got manual and no refund for the difference . Would not use again

Pros: Customer service

Cons: They make me leave a $1,200 deposit fir insurance purposes... while I had already paid $499.00 for full voverage insurances to your company

Pros: The car. Except that nothing, those guys were totally unprofessional.

Cons: The staff!

Pros: Havde intet med surprice at gøre

Pros: Very cordial. Very efficient. Picked us up from the airport within 5 minutes of calling,

Cons: The van available was too high and not in line with what we booked. With that type of van, you cannot park in an underground parking. Also we had to be very careful in country roads because of trees.

Pros: Car we hired was not available but was clean and new.

Cons: Confusing and inefficient. We paid for a 7 seater but didn’t get discount. Car wasn’t there that we had paid for and ordered.

Pros: Like I mentioned above the information I was given about the office was incorrect, it was not at the airport and we had to wait a long time to be picked up from the airport which wasn't great but I do appreciate it was busy and you only had so many people to deal with rental but after traveling with three children and a elderly lady it wasn't great waiting a hour to be picked up to collect car and then it took around 1 hour 45 minutes after this to actually sign paperwork and get the car

Cons: Information about the office being at airport was wrong Needed more people working so pick up would be faster

Pros: The people working in the bureau

Pros: They were helpful and made the process smooth and easy. It seems like a small company that provides personal care.

Cons: Nothing.

Pros: Nothing

Cons: You have to call them to get a shuttle from the airport, but all of the pay phoned there are broken. There was no way of getting in touch with them so I had to walk 2 miles to the depot with my bags

Pros: Low price but very unsure and risky…

Cons: CAR dirty. Not possible to check on damage. Discussions about insurance. Heigh deposit.

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Nothing

Cons: poor communication with customer Wrong information about pick-up location Long wait for collection of vehicle Inefficient staff and under-resourced (not enough staff to deal with long queues of customers) Long collection process Antiquated paperwork system - lack of IT system Similar experience when returning car.. ie slow, lack of staff, long paperwork process, no technology, etc.

Pros: Good value for money

Cons: We wait a lot for picking the car

Pros: Good car

Cons: They were difficult at pick-up trying to solicit upgrades and very expensive insurance, even after I explained that I already had full cover. I had to phone DiscoverCars (Chris) to leave a note of protest, obviously at a cost, as they were saying that DiscoverCars will not reimburse me should I have an accident.

Pros: good price, efficiency of the lady at the desk, cool car for Sicily (Smart) which is easy to drive in the narrow streets and to park

Cons: Waiting time at the airport to be picked up, lack of information which car/who will pick me up (no Surprice but Go Parking), the driver didn't know neither who he has to pick up. Didn't ask for an automatic but had one, time to take some habits ! Indicated in the announce 'full tank' / 'full tank', it was not (2/8), not cool

Pros: Very pleasant to deal with, will definitely booked another car with them

Cons: No seating in the waiting area or outside. The van was not cleaned from previous rental...I think is bad service

Pros: Nothing

Cons: It was very unclear that the car would be given away after 2 hours. Due to a delayed flight, we were left stranded in the airport and ended up spending 3 times the fee to get another car

Pros: The company accepted Amex for a hold, and the car was clean. Drop-off was also easy. The representative was friendly but clearly overworked as the sole person dealing with customers.

Cons: Extremely slow and tiring collection experience - took us several hours. The company misrepresented the cars it had available on the website - we had booked 2 Audi A3s (or similar) and received a Fiat 500x & VW Golf (both had been priced at a cheaper rate online, but we did not receive any refund for the difference - the rep claimed they were 'similar cars'). The car was in terrible condition - the right wing mirror was severely damaged (which is dangerous on Italy's narrow roads).

Pros: Very fast service, friendly, no long waiting times for shuttle, good new car, easy to find

Pros: kindness and problem solving capacities of the staff

Cons: the initial difficulties in getting the car, notwithstanding the regular confirmation of the reservation by DiscoverCars.

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Bad management, bad customer service, location further away from airport...

Cons: Disorganized. Did not have the car ordered. Got one with the service warning permanent on!! Was told “10 minutes” to get car. But was one hour!!

Pros: The car was cancelled!! I was left stranded with my family

Cons: Our flight was rescheduled to an early morning (6:30 AM). We drove through the night from another city to leave the car at the agency before the flight , but there was no transfer from the agency to the terminal building (about 2.5 km away) although it was advertised that it's working 24/7 so we had to get a taxy.

Pros: It was not good

Cons: Nothing it was not good, we did not get the car and the service was poor. Where is our refund? Also the hotline was not available

Pros: Good car efficient pickup

Cons: Finding the the shuttle was very diffucult . ended taking a taxi

Pros: Nothing!

Cons: They have no system whatsoever to keep track of the cars. They answer the phone while talking to you and leave you waiting. The cars were marked with strange numbers on the windshield and have a huge autoone logo as publicity. The place in the airport where the shuttle is supposed to pick you up is not marked. I waited 30mins and other people waited an hour. Never again!