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| - So let's talk for a moment about airport rental car agency configurations. There are basically 3 varieties:
1) Rental car companies whose facilities are located on the airport grounds. These are very convenient, because you simply walk out of the terminal to your rental car. However, they are generally only found at small airports, due to the demand for passenger parking and other land uses at large airports.
2) Rental car companies whose facilities are near the airport, with a shuttle run by the rental car company to and from the airport. These are common at large airports, but have the downside of generating a lot of additional traffic as dozens of rental-car buses circulate in the arrival and departure lanes to pick up and drop off customers.
3) Airports that create a centralized "Rental Car Center," with a single bus designed to serve all the rental car companies in a giant, unified rental car facility. This reduces traffic at the terminal, but it creates other problems. One of them is that the location of the Rental Car Center dramatically affects the speed and quality of the experience for customers using rental cars. Another is that, any new rental car companies that try to start up after this Stalinist, five-year-plan master structure is completed must find accommodations elsewhere and figure out a way of transporting their customers on and off site.
LAS Vegas McCarran airport is a Category 3 configuration. They built a central Rental Car Center. Inexplicably, they located this center about a 10-minute drive from the airport, when there are acres of open desert unused just north of the airport Can you say "payoff?" Now I'm not implying anything corrupt happened here; this was probably just garden-variety gross incompetence by whomever was in charge of choosing the location. But the upshot is anyone who rents a car at Las Vegas Airport has to ride the common shuttle to this absurd white elephant on Gilespie St. north of Warm Springs Rd.
It ALSO means that anyone renting from a firm that is unable or unwilling to rent space at this facility (E-Z, Sixt, Fox, etc.) must ride a SECOND shuttle to their facility. Confusing? Yes. Irritating? Yup. Slow? Roger that.
So this is how it goes. You have 3 choices: 1) rent from a firm at the main airport rental car center, and probably pay extra. 2) rent from a firm NOT at the main airport central car center, and probably pay less, BUT waste time taking the second shuttle. 3) rent from a non-airport location, and take a cab, bus, other to get to and from.
Wow. I can't believe I've written this far, and have yet to get to actually describing Fox. Ok, here we go.
My experience with Fox was fine. I wasn't upsold, overcharged, dinged for pre-existing damage to the car, or anything else. It didn't take TOO long for me to get in and out of there.
The car was clean and functional, and ran well. I was happy, and would use them again.
Why not 5 stars?
Fox's checkout process is way too slow. I have started to like Alamo (who I used to HATE) because they have automated kiosks that scan my license and credit card, and pump out the paperwork. Done in 90 seconds.
The double-shuttle thing is an embarrassing s***-show. Gotta tighten that up somehow.
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