Greece Travel: Travelers Reviews

Swift Car Rentals

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Elias had the only car rental agency in the Plaka. All the other agencies were on Syngrou and had familiar names like Budget, Hertz, Avis, Inter-rent and so on. I went to Elias and asked him if he would give people from my website a discount?
No problem.
Would he deliver the cars to the airport, ferry or hotels?
Sure that's normal.
Would he drive people to the National Road so they don't have to deal with Athens traffic until they have had a few days driving experience.
Great idea!
Not only would he do that, but he would meet them at the National road when they wanted to return the car!
He's a good guy too.
Matt Barrett

Dear Katarina and Elias,

I just want to thank you very much for providing us means to see more of Greece. Katarina driving us out of Athens was great help and I am very grateful to her.

We were heading to Naphlion, but finally we landed a couple of kilometres further in the town of Tolo. And thank God we did. We found accomodation in a very nice hotel just by the sea.

By the way, you can recommend Tolo to your clients as a nice spot to stay when visiting Peloponese: plenty of hotels and tavernas and nice sandy beach.

Parking the car in Nikis Street at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday was not as easy as Katarina had told us but we somehow managed to find a spot. Right before the waste basket. As agreed, we returned the car key to the reception at Nikis Hotel.

Once again, thanks very much.

Regards,
Tom Baldowski

Matt -- I want to report a good experience we had with Swift, from whom
we rented a car during our recent trip to Greece based on your
recommendation.

Our car broke down on the way from Sparti to Kalamata (fortunately not
too far from Sparti).  We were able to get it towed back to Sparti.  The
car could not be repaired.  We telephoned Swift from Sparti and decided
to take the bus back to Athens, rather than waiting for an extra day to
have a new car delivered.

When I sat down with Swift the next day, he agreed to a completely
equitable settlement.  He paid for the towing, the bus to Athens, the
extra half tank of gas I had just put in, and two days of the six day
car rental.  He couldn't have been more cooperative.

My only suggestion -- please urge Swift to put the name and telephone
number of the towing service he has an arrangement with in each rental
car.

Dear Matt,

I wish to thank you for all your efforts at GreekTravel.com. It is a treasure trove
of all things Greek - it answered so many of the questions we had. Being our first
trip abroad it went a long way toward making it a fearless experience. We even rented
a 9 passenger Fiat Scuda from Swift Rent-A-Car that was listed on your web site. They
went as far as to deliver it to where we were staying in northern Athens - at night -
for around US$6! Amazing service and really pleasant guys as well!

On the down side, I did return to the sates with quite a coffee addiction! The frappé
is a wonderful thing. Starbucks doesn't quite have anything quite like it. I also
made the mistake of swirling my morning "Greek" coffee and just about fell out of my chair!

We tried just about every food there was to offer - even the Kokoretsi. Cheese fondue
in the cool night air in Thessaloniki with mandolin music in the background is
something everybody should experience.

Thanks again,

Doug Heckaman II

Below is the result of your feedback form.  It was submitted by
Carroll & Karen Schroeder (ckschroed@aol.com) on Thursday, October 25,
2001 at 10:14:20
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Comment: I only wish I could say I needed a car Elias, we just wanted to
thank your company for the excelent service you gave us in September, and
will recomend it highly.  Your service of driving the customer out of the
city to a safer driving location is a great advantage over your
competition, and one we would recomend to future customers. Also your very
good English and patients with your customer were very admirable.
 Hope we can do business again one day.
Carroll & Karen Schroeder

We will be in Greece this year but will not be renting a car!  We will miss seeing you but we are renting a house on Hydra - what can I say?  Hope you have a wonderful summer and next year we will contact you.  Your cars are great and last year when you drove us to the "freeway"  - that was super!  Recommend you to everyone!

Dear Elias,
               Thank you for your excellent service to us during our recent
trip to Nafplio. We had a wonderful vacation and explored some of the
beautiful Peloponnese. The car was great to drive and of course we were
able
to visit some of the more inaccessible archaeological sites having our own
transport! I am beginning to plan another trip sometime in the future to
discover more of the Peloponnese so we shall definitely contact you if we
need to hire a car!
                           Yours,

                               Vanessa and Richard

dear Elias and Julia:

I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful service during our recent
trip to Athens. We were very happy with the van and impressed by your
seriousness in delivering the car at the promised time, despite the
misinformation given by the people at the Astor. Thank you also for
escorting us to the outskirts of town, despite Julia's multiple other
commitments. We had an excellent trip and the van worked wonderfully,
never giving us any trouble.
Again thanks for your very good service and personalized attention.

Best regards,

    ileana