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Renting a car in Portugal is the most frustrating travel experience
Renting a car in Portugal is the most difficult travel planning task I have encoutered in a long time The issue is figuring out how to thread the needle of when and where various car rental agencies would be open Plus the ever present surcharges and one-way drop fees Wow I wanted to rent and return a car at Porto Campanha train station Impossible Then I discovered by trial and error I had to turn it in at the airport As I was about to rent the car the ever-present ONE-WAY surcharge applied even though it s the same city and the other options are closed Frustrating The only way to know this information is by testing different rental plans