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The primary pick-up/return depots for McRent vehicles
are located at Berlin, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and
Munich.
Other McRent Germany stations, which we will call "secondary" depots because
they are not located at primary entry/exits points for international tourists,
include Cologne, Mannheim, Regensburg, Stuttgart, and others, as presented below
and by our online reservation software.
McRent Germany does not allow one-way rentals.
The primary McRent Germany depot addresses and contact numbers are as follows (drop the leading zero if dialing from outside Germany):
The secondary McRent Germany depot addresses and contact numbers are as follows (drop the leading zero if dialing from outside Germany):
Aalen: c/o Autohaus Henschel, Knappenstrasse 11-13, 73433 Aalen, Germany, tel. +49 07361 92 99 0, fax 07361 92 99 29.
The depot is located approximately 0.5 km to the northeast of the Hofen (Aalen) train station and 2.7 km to the north of the
Wasseralfingen station.
See www.aalen.de for city info.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
Bremen: Carl-Benz-Straße 13, 28237 Bremen, Germany, tel. +49 0421 4787 77917.
Cologne / Bonn: Huettenstrasse 112, Kerpen, Germany, tel. +49 02273 954 090.
Dortmund: Massener Str. 149, 59423 Unna, Germany, tel. +49 02303 33 15 44, fax 02303 59 24 11.
The depot is located approximately 1.4 km to the southeast of the Dortmund Hbf train station.
See www.dortmund.de for city info.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
Hannover: Am Walde 2, 30916 Hannover/Isernhagen, Germany, tel.+49 0511 61 17 87, fax 0511 61 18 77.
The depot is located approximately 1.3 km to the southwest of the Hannover Hbf (Promenade) train station.
See www.hannover.de for city info.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
Isny: Rauchstrasse 4, 88316 Isny, Germany, tel. +49 07562 91 24 99, fax 07562 91 27 85.
The depot is located approximately 14.2 km to the northeast of the Röthenbach (Allgäu) train station, and 31 km to the west of the
Kempten (Allgäu) Hbf train station.
See www.isny.de for city info.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden: Daimlerstrasse 20 B, 76316 Malsch, Germany, tel. +49 07246 30 560 21, fax 07246 30 560 99.
The depot is located in the town of Malsch, approximately 2 km to the west of the Malsch train station,
1.5 km to the northeast of the Muggensturm train station, and 16.1 km to the southwest of the Karlsruhe Hbf station.
See www.malsch.de for city info.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
Leipzig / Naumburg: Kroppentalstrasse 1, 06618 Naumburg, Germany, tel. +49 034 45 70 30 55, fax 03445 70 32 59.
This depot is located in the town of Naumburg which lies approximately 63.3 km to the southwest of Leipzig.
The depot is located approximately 0.5 km to the south of the Naumburg (Saale) Ost train station,
and approximately 3.1 km to the southeast of the Naumburg (Saale) Hbf station.
See www.naumburg.de for city info.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
Mannheim: Steinzeugstrasse 21, 68229 Mannheim, Germany, tel. +49 0621 4825497 9, fax 0621 4825497 19.
The rate seasons of this depot (south of Frankfurt) are considerably different than those of Frankfurt, but otherwise
you can consider this depot virtually a Frankfurt depot. The train station within the Frankfurt International Airport (FRA)
connects that airport with Mannheim via trains that depart every 15 minutes or so and on average take about 40 minutes to
reach the MA-Friendrichsfeld Süd rail station, wherefrom you can hail a taxi to the rental depot. The high frequency of these departures means you don't really need to book the tickets in advance but rather can
buy them on the spot; it's essentially a metro rail connection. See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
The rental depot is located approximately 1 km to the north of the MA-Friendrichsfeld Süd train station.
See www.mannheim.de for city info.
McRent nevertheless offers a shuttle connecting this rental depot with Frankfurt International Airport and costing
EUR100 each way (45 km, about 35 minutes) per party of up to 6 people with typical amount of luggage,
i.e. per shuttle.
You can book the shuttle via IdeaMerge's online order system.
Regarding that shuttle, please inform IdeaMerge about any especially large luggage and about your
flight arrival and/or departure details: airline(s), arrival and/or departure flight number(s), time(s),
airport(s) where you will embark and/or disembark from.
The shuttle associate meets clients precisely at the one door where clients exit after clearing customs and retrieving
luggage. The associate will be carrying a placard bearing the vendor’s name, McRent.
Here is a link to a webpage bearing the
layout
of the Frankfurt International Airport.
From the Frankfurt International Airport (FRA) to the depot by taxi costs about EUR80, a good deal and you can
book these online with various taxi companies; just do a web search on the subject to find the best service for you.
Regensburg: Am Kreuzhof 3, 93055 Regensburg, Germany, tel. +49 0941 46 45 50, fax 0941 46 45 529.
The depot is located approximately 4.1 km to the northeast of the Regensburg-Burgweinting train station,
and 7.4 km to the east of the Regensburg Hbf station.
See www.regensburg.de for city info.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
Shuttle transfer from/to Munich airport can be booked via IdeaMerge for EUR29 per person one way,
EUR58 per person return.
You can book the shuttle via IdeaMerge's online order system. Regarding that shuttle,
please inform IdeaMerge about any especially large luggage and about your
flight arrival and/or departure details: airline(s), arrival and/or departure flight number(s), time(s),
airport(s) where you will embark and/or disembark from.
Rheinfelden: Ochsenmattstrasse 7–9, 79618 Rheinfelden, Germany, tel. +49 07623 796 3590.
From the Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg International Airport (MLH/BSL) to the depot by taxi costs about EUR42, the distance being about 22 km.
From the Zurich International Airport (ZRH) to the depot by taxi costs about EUR160, the distance being about 80 km.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains; the station is called
Rheinfelden (Baden) and is about 3 km from the rental depot.
Stuttgart / Dettingen/Teck: Kirchheimer Strasse 205, 73265 Dettingen/Teck, Germany, tel. 07021 / 95 08 550 fax 07021 / 95 08 555.
The depot is located in the town of Dettingen/Teck, which lies approximately 36 km to the southeast of Stuttgart.
The depot is located approximately 1.3 km to the south of the Kirchheim (Teck) Süd train station and approximately 1.6km to the north of the
Dettingen (Teck) station.
See www.stuttgart.de for city info.
See www.bahn.de for inter-city trains.
You can visit www.maps.google.com to generate your own
interactive maps of these locations.
The headquarters in Munich can be reached during weekday business hours at the following numbers:
tel. +49 07562 987 850 or 0800 0627 368, fax 07562 987 214.
(Drop the country code and the
leading zero if calling from within Germany.) That office is closed on weekends and holidays.
Pick-up (or return) at the McRent Germany locations noted above is not possible directly at airports, city centers (i.e., downtowns) or rail stations.
Except where noted above you must make your own way to the depot.
Any indications to the contrary are misleading.
These depots are open for standard pick-up Mon-Fri, 2 pm to 5 pm (i.e. weekday afternoons); and (for an EUR65 surcharge) on Saturdays, 12 noon to 1 pm, although the Berlin depot is closed on Saturdays.
They are open for standard return Mon-Fri, 9 am to 11 am (i.e. weekday mornings, but at Frankfurt the standard return is only from 9 am to 10 am); and (again, for an EUR65 surcharge) on Saturdays, 9 am to 10 am, although the Berlin depot is closed on Saturdays.
A non-standard pick-up time entails an extra night's worth of cost.
The same is true of a non-standard return time.
(The vendor accounts for cost according to standard pick-up and return times
so that most vehicles can be prepared during regular business hours and
delivered to a client on the same day that the vehicle is returned by the
previous client. Thus the vendor doesn't lose out on renting that vehicle
for that night.) Moreover, a Monday morning pick-up entails charge
not only for the preceding Sunday night but also for the preceding Saturday night,
this because the vehicle must be prepped on Saturday morning and therefore cannot be
rented out on the Saturday and Sunday night.
Clients should not plan to park their own vehicle at the rental depot. At some
rental depots such parking is possible, but only if upon the pick-up occasion there happens to be room
on the depot grounds. Typically rental depot personnel can direct clients to optimal parking
solutions nearby the depot.
If a client books a standard return time of 10:30 or 11:00 am, the vehicle should be returned
already cleaned thoroughly inside. It takes at least a half hour for clients to thoroughly clean the interior
of a vehicle, and the vendor needs to take over the vehicle by 11:00 am.
If return occurs after the reserved return time, a charge
of EUR27 (up to the daily rate) will be levied for each extra such hour; and the customer will assume
responsibility for claims made against the rental company by subsequent renters
due to delay. Again, any extension of the rental duration requires prior
authorization by the rental company; and no refunds are offered for early return of the rental vehicle.
A thorough explanation and demonstration of the rental vehicle will be provided
upon pick-up. This orientation, together with completion of the relevant
paperwork, requires approximately one hour.
You are welcome to transport your
rented vehicle by ferry and/or the Channel Tunnel.
Again, see our "Insurance, etc."
page for more details concerning the included insurance.
Motorhome and campervan rentals in Germany are considerably less expensive
than anywhere else in Europe.
Indeed, you should strongly consider
starting and ending your motorhome/campervan tour in Germany even if the bulk of your itinerary lies
elsewhere. Germany lends its outstanding vehicles, and its central
location and leading international airport at Frankfurt to tours of the more
extended parts of Europe, including Scandinavia (now much more accessible,
via a bridge between Denmark and Sweden), Eastern Europe and Greece (where, yes,
the included insurance is effective), neighboring France, the Alps and Italy.
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