1.1 This Agreement does not constitute a contract for the supply of vehicle rental services. The Rental Services (the “Rental Services”) will be supplied under a separate rental agreement to be entered into with the member of the Avis Rent A Car System who provides the vehicle (“the Local Supplier”) and you will be required to enter into this unless you are already an Avis Preferred customer when you pick up your vehicle. You will also be subject to standard Avis conditions as to capacity to drive. You will also be subject to standard Avis conditions as to eligibility to rent including (but not limited to) the possession of a valid driver’s license, the satisfaction of minimum age requirements and arrangements regarding payment of rental charges (including pre-authorised charges and credit checks where applicable) that Avis or the Local Supplier requires. You must fulfil all rental qualifications and requirements at the time of pick-up; it will not be sufficient for you to meet them at the time of reservation. For full details, call the Avis Call Centre or go to our website.
1.2 For Pay Now bookings you are entering into this Agreement with Avis Finance Company Ltd (“AFC”) (see Terms & Conditions for Pay Now set out below).
1.3 For Pay Later bookings you are entering into this Agreement with the Local Supplier.
2. Pay Later Bookings
2.1 By ticking the accept button within this booking process you are entering into, and are bound by the terms and conditions of, only this Agreement with the Local Supplier. The Rental Services will be the subject of a separate rental agreement to be entered into with the Local Supplier.
2.2 If you do not cancel your booking before the reservation date and time shown on your booking and fail to pick up your vehicle within 24 hours from that time, a non- cancellation fee will apply. Depending on your country of rental, this will be £60, €65, 76 CHF or the equivalent amount in your local currency. This will be inclusive of VAT where applicable.
2.3 Your booking constitutes a guaranteed booking by the Local Supplier as appropriate. In the event that the Local Supplier fails to honour your booking for any reason, the Local Supplier will pay compensation to you.
2.4 In the event that you are charged a non-cancellation fee due to an event of force majeure, including but not limited to, any act of God, terrorism, act of government or state, war, civil commotion, insurrection, embargo, or labour dispute, you shall be entitled to a refund on provision of appropriate evidence to the Local Supplier.
3. Changing Pay Later Bookings
3.1 Subject to availability, you can change your booking at any time up until the time of the rental via this site or by calling the Avis Call Centre on 08445 818181.
4. Charges
4.1 “Premium Location Fee” Where the Local Supplier operates from locations for which the Local Supplier is charged a fee or surcharge by a third party to provide services to customers at such locations (“Premium Locations”), You acknowledge that You will be charged a “Premium Location Fee” of 16% of the stated booking price.
4.2 “EZ Fuel Fee” Where you have driven 75 miles or less there will be a flat fuel fee of £10 (regardless of whether the fuel gauge shows the fuel tank as full)
unless you can prove the vehicle has been refuelled by providing a refuelling receipt from a petrol station within 2 miles of the rental station to which you are returning the vehicle.
5. General
5.1 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions reduces your statutory rights relating to a refund.
5.2 AFC or the Local Supplier as appropriate will be responsible for losses suffered by you as a result of AFC or the Local Supplier breaching this Agreement where such losses are a foreseeable consequence of the breach in the circumstances of the case. Losses will be foreseeable where they are in AFC or the Local Supplier’s and your contemplation at the time the booking is made. AFC or the Local Supplier is not responsible for indirect losses which happen as a side effect of the main loss or damage and which are not foreseeable by AFC or the Local Supplier and you (such as loss of profits or loss of opportunity).