EastCoast Car Rentals at Hobart Airport

Pros: friendly

Cons: nothing

Cons: The Hyundai i30 we hired… great car in all respects EXCEPT the Apple CarPlay was glitchy - kept ‘losing’ contact with my phone at annoyingly at critical intersections!!

Pros: Very helpful group. Easy transfer to car pick up through shuttle bus. Whole process was quite quick and thorough. Happy with the car provided

Pros: several texts before arrival about pick up

Cons: long walk to pick up shuttle

Pros: Their full project this h is good for road trip since it’s really easy to hit animals on the way.

Pros: Ronnie was so nice! And all people behind the desk. Thank you

Pros: Excellent, friendly staff

Cons: They sell full coverage package twice

Pros: You were very quick and helpful

Cons: I'm confused about the status report you sent after I returned it.

Pros: Communication

Cons: All good

Cons: The bond returns takes time.

Pros: Front suspension had issues

Pros: People who checked vehicle were nice

Cons: Extremely rude and unfriendly woman at service counter

Pros: Efficient and good electronic systems

Cons: Shuttle bus took too long on arrival.

Cons: Number plate rattle

Pros: Not very much at all

Cons: Very slow pick-up process due to what seemed a lack of organisation.

Pros: East Coast rentals were organized and efficient

Pros: Honesty when being told about the extra charges needed if we had an accident.

Pros: Very helpful and friendly service

Cons: Nil

Pros: They knew what car was reserved.

Cons: They couldn’t offer the car what was reserved. We were told, that we got an “upgrdade”, but didn’t feel about it.

Pros: Friendly efficient service. Shuttle to airport was timely with great staff. Reasonably priced for a well maintained, comfortable vehicle.

Cons: Took me a little while to get used to left side indicators but just an observation, not a criticism.

Pros: The front desk

Cons: asking for insurance after it was paid did not recognise paid insurance

Pros: East coast were great they explained everything really well.

Cons: The fact I had to pay insurance to reduce excess when I already paid it with discover ....

Pros: Friendly staff.

Cons: Quick and easy.

Pros: No

Cons: They were not customer focussed and they did not prompt or their partnership with your company positively.

Pros: Everything was efficient and easy

Cons: When we picked up the car the woman tried to pressure us into buying $590 of extra insurance. She stated we were running a risk using the insurance when we booked the car.

Pros: nothing

Cons: Off site is a distraction, distrust regarding filling vehicle.

Pros: Most staff were very friendly and helpful.

Pros: The good things about the Eastcoast car rental was they have the free shutle bus that ready in 15 minutes

Cons: The Eastcoast car rental officer tried to manipulative the customer by not telling us that the customer only need to pay the balance amount, because they said the pre-payment that have been deducted by the Discovercar was not receveid by Eastcoast car rentals and they demanded in order for customer to pick up the car, the customer need to pay the full amount on top of the pre-payment. This is very disappointed and un-professional.

Pros: Direct and up front

Cons: Additional insurance cover to what the "third party" site offered. Misleading information from the beginning. Best not to use Discover Cars, and book straight with East Coast. This info should be linked on line as an option before the booking.

Pros: Dont charge everything is never told us before. And try to gibe the new one for the car. Dont use the old car

Cons: They charge me for something indonknow

Pros: Hi, Hyundai Kona was a nice car to drive and it was reasonably presented given the kilometers it had traveled

Cons: As I mentioned, before, I believe I was misled regarding the extra insurance that was offered at the counter.

Cons: Allocation of vehicles！No, the type of car I originally rented! down one level…

Pros: As I landed my phone stopped working, The driver to their yard put his own phone on hot spot so i could correct what was going on with my phone. Their way was really showing a well balanced team of individuals, just happy to be there and help if required.

Pros: Very Quick response to my emails when i required revisions to my car rental requirements

Pros: Friendly staff

Cons: Nothing to mention

Pros: Clarity of information, ease of picking the vehicle, pick up and drop at the airport

Cons: Better and newer cars

Pros: Great service upgraded the car excellent

Cons: There had been a smoked in previously and could still smell it

Pros: Overall good

Cons: Ask further insurance

Pros: Staff friendly and helpful.

Cons: There is always confusion over insurance requirements for car rentals. I feel the agents are always pushing hard to sell you extras when at the counter, especially insurance.

Pros: They were all an excellent team & a pleasure to deal with....

Pros: Excellent service, helpful agent with well described policies, car features, etc

Cons: Nothing - service was excellent

Pros: Good value for our money and very economical on fuel

Cons: Nothing to do with the service , we felt the car was a little low for Australia but it was the car we asked for

Pros: Simple pickup and return. Good airport transfers and friendly staff.

Pros: Friendly staff

Cons: Nothing

Pros: No problems picking up car and they gave me a car for my extra Large Body.

Cons: $5,500.00 Excess, had to take out extra Insurance to get down to $0000

Pros: Very personal and friendly

Cons: Nice people to talk to

Pros: Very friendly and helpful! Knowledgeable about local and state tourist attractions

Cons: Nothing everything was fantastic

Pros: Efficiency

Cons: The car (MG) was a bit clunky, but there was no mechanical issues.

Pros: Service was good pick up and drop off at airport great

Cons: Didn’t particularly like the brand of car

Pros: Friendly, helpful staff, good cars (apart from the fact that ours broke down !).

Cons: The service was great but it was quite tricky to find the office when approaching from the North on the A3 (?). You can see it a mile off but the roads and roundabouts made it difficult to actually get to. The Sat Nav tells you to turn into a street/road but they are badly signposted, if at all (not the company's fault, probably the council's, maybe they need to talk to them ?).

Cons: Once car was returned i felt they didnt care anymore there was no help to lift suitcases into bus for return trip to airport. fella stodd and watched didnt offer to help. when we arrived it was a different story very helpful note it was differnet people

Pros: Promt and very friendly, great service

Cons: Car was a bit worn but overall great car in the current market conditions

Pros: Provided with a great car. Clean inside and out.

Pros: Good quick, friendly & efficient service.

Cons: STOP ALLOWING 3RD PARTY BOOKINGS!!! Seriously though! Im still $150 out of pocket as a result.

Pros: their staff was nice and polite

Cons: they were not flexible in swapping a big to a small car . Being a small car industry it was expensive with less options . I got a MG3 as I had opted for a Suv but preferred honda which was not there . MG was old - did nt have good pick on hills and speed which was needed when driving in Hobart . Over all the service was good but expensive and less options and hence would not prefer to go with them again .

Pros: flexible and friendly service

Pros: Value for money. Got the car we booked.

Cons: The pick up time was long and as a couple of shuttles of clients arrived from airport at the same time there was no real queue or priority in getting rental car. People who arrived after us were served before us, in fact, after waiting longer than others who arrived on our shuttle we finally walked up to desk without being “called” to ensure we were served. Perhaps a better and fairer system could be implemented.

Pros: close to the airport

Cons: I was strongly advised to take extra insurance. Renting a car for 2 weeks, I wasn't allowed to return car 1` hour later without incurring an extra day of rent

Pros: Frinmendly bus pickup

Cons: Insurance

Cons: I bought insurance when l booked the car , and when we got there the gentlemen behind the counter made us doubt the insurance and made us feel we had to buy the insurane from him , all the questions we asked was lm not sure about that with any questions . We all felt rail roaded into buying more insurance , not happy about that, next time we will hire from elsewhere

Pros: Friendly

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Friendly

Cons: Price is too high

Pros: The process was smooth

Cons: The wait for getting served was too long once you got off the bus. The total rip off of insurance between discovery and the renter was hard to swallow...

Pros: Very happy with the overall service, and shuttle from the air port. We appreciated the extra offers to cater to our needs however not necessary.

Cons: We returned the vehicle before the expected day however wasn't clear that we had already apid for it as the 24hr had lapsed. Poor communication on that part. We would've endeavored to return the vehicle prior as we didn't require the extra day.

Pros: I would give not even give even 1 if it was possible.

Cons: Absolutely Nothing. I was going to rent at another location from East Coast Rental and having this experience I cancelled this one.

Pros: efficient, polite, helpful

Cons: Slow process to get the car then slow process when returning car. We had to sit in the bus waiting for other clients before going to the airport.

Pros: Helpful staff & providing best options

Cons: Drop off during non office hours, since not in the airport.

Pros: Great service and advisor brilluant

Cons: Nothing

Pros: The cars are new. The representative was very helpful. He suggested few things which was helpful to us.

Pros: Friendly helpful staff, shared8 hints on what to see and how to get there. Overall good bunch.

Cons: The rain when dropping off the car 😉

Pros: Very friendly and efficient

Pros: Friendly, helpful

Cons: An slightly unorganised and lengthy pick up and drop off

Pros: Easy fast pick up And drop Off

Cons: Nothing we were very happy

Pros: Efficient and plain language

Cons: Nothing, all good

Pros: Car was good.

Cons: The sales person was pushy

Pros: Fast, friendly, efficient.

Cons: Nothing. All good.

Pros: Easy to deal with

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Very helpful and provided us with an upgrade when they didn’t have the ordered kids seats.

Cons: East coast were great. The 3rd party that we ordered through hadn’t relayed all the info.

Pros: Picked up quick driver was informing Drop was good Friendly staff

Cons: Didn’t get the car we payed for Add extra insurance to price Could do with better waiting area and bathroom facilities

Pros: They arranged for the car in a short time.

Cons: The payment was made for a GPS. As Tasmania has compromised mobile signal therefore the staff should not have advised to use personal phone as gps. The car supplied was expected to be equipped with it.

Pros: Good price & quality

Cons: Nothing really

Pros: Hash was the service provider and have amazing skills i like it 😊😊

Pros: Shuttle bus service to and from airport

Cons: Long wait to receive car .... delayed flights arriving at same time compounded the problem

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Waiting in a stinking shed for a car that should have been ready to go.

Pros: Fairly efficient. You have to call to find the location for the shuttle but it's really not that complicated - I don't know why they don't just add a little map to their website. Shuttle was quick, car was clean and worked fine

Cons: Tried a hard upsell on insurance ($200 extra for the week to reduce excess! Don't do this, it's less than $50 for full travel insurance that will cover the car excess plus all your luggage etc). Then asked if we would like an upgrade to a larger car for $10 a day - I declined, as I had specifically hired the smallest car because it is easier to maneuver and costs less in petrol. Then they revealed they were actually out of the small cars! So just trying to make a profit on my inconvenience!!

Pros: Helpful staff

Cons: Nothing really

Pros: Customer Service (Amir)

Cons: Condition of the car could be improved, but was still very good.

Pros: Good car. Friendly drop off and car wash service staff

Cons: Subtle, cynical pressure to buy very expensive - over $200 - extra insurance cover knowing it not to be required but taking advantage of my ignorance, vulnerability and stupidity for not re reading Discover Cars blurb. Huge unnecessary expense creating a feeler of being taken advantage of and conned.

Pros: Great people, explained the upsell well enough for me to make a decision.

Pros: Staff and friendly and the price is very competitive.

Cons: Decision to use MG vehicles in there inventory.

Pros: Friendly efficient service

Cons: Scare tactics and rude service

Pros: Very friendly chap in Hobart office . Very easy process . No issues

Pros: Easy to use and value for money, the team really made the process quick

Pros: Friendly staff

Pros: Hiring the car was easy but what we were told about going over our time and what we were charged was very different.

Cons: The returning rental agent didn’t accept that we called even after proving on call log and said we used the wrong number(even though we used the number on the email they provided) and wouldn’t accept we were slightly late.

Pros: Prompt friendly service

Cons: Rental location away from the airport added around 20minutes to the car collection process

Pros: Price/Quality was amazing

Cons: Busy customer service but it's all good. They did well.

Pros: Quick and efficient for both collection and drop off

Cons: nil

Pros: Close to airport

Cons: Having to wait because they took a long time getting all the paperwork done.

Pros: Helpful, friendly

Cons: Understaffed and slow

Pros: Great staff, car was in good condition, convenient location to airport, pick-up & drop off was super efficient & competitive rates

Cons: None

Pros: Their friendliness and customer service.

Cons: You can't collect from airport at night.

Cons: It was more that I was unable to get hold of anyone at Discover Cars when we arrived and had trouble finding the place - your number was incorrect. Once someone at the airport said the company you used I could contact them direct.

Cons: There was a TOTAL lack of communication between your company and them. They were not aware that I had paid a deposit (via your Web page) and so made me pay extra - including insurance that I believe I didn't need. Really bad effort on your companies side.

Pros: Original staff member did suggest bringing cat back an hour earlier to save money. However, dealing with that at end of trip was problematic see below.

Cons: Confusion over insurance though booking agency and car hire agency. When phoned for support had to talk to a head office staffer. Had to re explain through multiple staff. Delay in being reimbursed. Still waiting for the money in my account.

Pros: everything was good

Cons: everything was good

Pros: The staff were very friendly and helpful when we returned the car.

Cons: The staff were not so friendly and helpful when we collected the car. There may have been a language issue.

Pros: It was priced well

Cons: When we went to pick up car, felt we were treated a little different because we went through a third party. The insurance on the car was somewhat unpleasant. East coast cars basically said your insurance offered wasn’t good, we would have problems dealing with an overseas agent and you would not be approachable. It was not what we wanted to hear. You were not represented well OR what they said was correct! Luckily we didn’t have any troubles with the car, that is no accidents

Pros: We had to shorten our rental and the company offered us a refund for the days we did not use the car.

Cons: Everything was good

Pros: Friendly staff , great vehicle

Cons: The need to arrange transport from office to airport after hours

Pros: They were very personalbale and didnt rush any communications. The car was great and very good vavlueable. They were helpful and pleasant when i needed to change times and details.

Pros: Very good

Cons: That they are away from the airport

Pros: No issues. Good service.

Cons: N/A

Pros: Very efficient and seamless shuttle pickup from Hobart airport

Cons: Feeling judged for opting to not add insurance

Pros: Courteous, quick and efficient

Cons: The insurance lark, paid for full cover to be told it wasn’t with East Coast Car Rentals

Cons: shuttle bus meeting point directions on arrival at airport were ambiguous and the guy on the phone was no help

Pros: Ease of whole process

Cons: Nothing

Cons: I was over charged ( paid almost double the amount advertised on the web site) , the information about the deposit i have paid on line will be refunded as i was told by the representative on the desk were not true

Pros: Friendly and efficient staff - great tips on places to visit too.

Pros: Reliable car

Cons: Nil

Pros: Efficient friendly staff and well maintained cars.

Cons: Nothing.

Pros: Prompt, friendly and on time

Cons: N/A

Pros: Simple & easy.

Cons: Easy to find & friendly return to airport.

Pros: price

Cons: took too long to pick up the car. car was pretty beat up.

Pros: quick efficient simple

Cons: all good

Pros: Hassle free handover of car, good staff and clean and good condition car

Cons: Less number of representatives at front desk, took longer time to get my turn to speak with the representative

Pros: Friendly and professional

Cons: Nothing I can think of