CAR RENTAL AT BEAUVAIS AIRPORT

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Day 4: VAL DE REUIL - BEAUVAIS AIRPORT - GIRONA

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Today the alarm rings at 7.30 in the morning in Rouen Val de Reuil, in which it has been our accommodation, the Hotel Balladins Rouen, the last night of this trip to Normandy that so many things have offered us. It is our last day and we have to return the rental car in Normandy at Beauvais airport.
We will not deny that we came with many expectations in this getaway, but now, that there are only a few hours left before it ends, we can say that they have been surpassed in every way.
We are very clear that we will return, since to places like the town of Honfleur we have only had time to spend a few hours and we liked it so much that we came back and be here for a few days.
Before going down to breakfast, we finished closing our hand luggage and a few minutes before 9 in the morning we reconnected the GPS that will take us back to the Beauvais airport.

We have a couple of hours on our way there and our flight leaves at 1:25 p.m., so we expect to get there around 11 p.m. or 12 a.m.

Way to return the rental car at Beauvais airport

Today it has dawned with a very gray day and it does not stop drizzling throughout the first part of the journey until the Beauvais airport.

Gray day on the way to return the rental car at Beauvais airport

And still raining! In the rental car at Beauvais airport

We had always thought that this time of year, in a matter of time, is the best to know this part of France and we realize again that you can never ensure that the weather will be perfect, whatever the time of the month.

Contrast of colors. Car rental at Beauvais airport

The truth is that we are on a roll, after the luck we had on the trip to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, we traveled in the middle of the monsoon and it only rained two evenings, arriving at Normandy knowing that the weather was quite unstable these days and that it has endured until the day we return home ... it is to be more than happy !!
When the GPS marks about 70 minutes left to reach our destination with the rental car at Beauvais airport we find a fence that closes our way to cross a bridge.
After several attempts to find a place to go through, we see that the bridge is closed and consulting the GPS map, we have to continue about 20 kilometers, until we reach the next bridge, to go back and take the road that takes us to the Beauvais airport.
So we get back on track, looking at the GPS that has added us 45 minutes to the ride for this modification.
Luckily we are predictors and we have left with time!
It is still raining and the sky is getting blacker as the morning progresses, while we cannot stop thinking about the luck we have had these days ...
When we reach the next bridge, through which we have to cross to reach the road that leads to the airport, we find the access road that marks the GPS in construction and is closed. We can not believe it ourselves!!
Lucky that it is only this street and we can make a detour through the same block and finally reach the road that will give us access to "our return home."
When we have about 20 kilometers to reach the Beauvais airport, we stopped at a gas station to fill the tank, because the reservation of rental car at Beauvais airport This is indicated and we start again.

Touch to load the deposit arriving at Beauvais airport

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The rain begins to be more intense as we approach the Beauvais airport

In the end we arrive at Beauvais airport at 12 in the morning and we go straight to Hertz's ticket office to return the car.

About to return the rental car at Beauvais airport

Office. About to return the rental car at Beauvais airport

After doing the review, they tell us that the car is perfect, but that some gasoline is missing, so they will have to charge us the deposit.
If the sky was gray ... you can imagine how it stays when they tell us.
Luckily we already have experience with a similar situation in Bavaria, where in the end they ended up charging us 100 euros for a deposit, when we delivered it full, but of course we were at home when we received the payment and as much as we claimed, it was impossible for us to prove that we had filled the tank, since we had paid in cash.
With this experience, when we filled the tank a few minutes ago, of course we took the ticket, which indicated the date and time and at the same time we took pictures of the gas station and the odometer and fuel tank.
By teaching all this to the girl of Hertz and after several minutes of doubts on his part and we arguing that we have loaded the deposit only 18 kilometers, in the end the girl signs the documentation as everything is correct.
Luckily ... bufff ... in the end you have to go with a thousand eyes, not only in the agencies of rental car at Beauvais airport, if not in all of them ...
And with this already fixed, we unload our handbags, have a coffee and go back to “no man's land”.
Here Ryanair makes us put the handbag in the suitcase, take out all the liquids outside ... "security" is stronger than that of Girona.
Once past the security checks and seeing what time it is, we stop at one of the cafeterias to have a couple of sandwiches and a water and apart from the exorbitant price, we get a lot of attention that they charge to charge the phones !!

Filling your stomach a little at Beauvais airport

They have some sockets to charge many models, but they are not free as in other airports, here it costs 2 euros.
So we spend the remaining time until they call us to board and in a few minutes we are already sitting on the plane that will take us back home.

About to take off from Beauvais airport

As we fly we remember the days we have spent in Normandy and we can do nothing but smile ... it has certainly been another of our dream travelers fulfilled ...