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VW Multivan at FCO Rome is a myth
I tried to find reviews that mentioned if the VW Multivan - that Sixt show as the 7 seat vehicle to rent at FCO - actually exists or if we were going to get fobbed off with an inferior vehicle. If you too are a family of 6 looking at the Multivan with Sixt as a real option for comfortable travel in Italy … don’t bother. They don’t ever have them. Ever. We were told this by two members of staff. You will however be given the considerably smaller and pointless Peugeot 5008 that you have been trying to avoid at all other rental companies. As it has 7 seats with room for one bag they consider it the same group of vehicle. They will also INSIST that the luggage bar has to remain in the car despite there being no place to put it, not even the manager had a clue where it could go without being a trip hazard for the person seated in the back. But stay in the car it must. The manager suggested it would be useful for covering luggage during our trip - presumably when the sixth passenger was laying in the boot with it?! We even emailed sixt after we had booked the rental and they noted in the reservation confirmation that a 5008 was considered the same vehicle to get confirmation of this is what they’d try to give us and we got zero response. Amazing customer service. Anyway, I know Sixt will not stop their very misleading practice of advertising a vehicle they never rent from FCO, but I just wanted another family to not face the same rubbish start to their holiday we’ve had. Simply put, a Sixt VW multivan is in fact a Peugeot 5008 that you’ll be able to rent for less elsewhere. Don’t bother with Sixt. Couple of pics to show just how much leg room you’ll have in that 5008.