For New Years Eve, we didn't do much besides swim and hang out by the pool, so this seems a reasonable time to talk about our car drama.
When we were first booking this trip, I looked into renting a car for the first half of the trip, car rentals were crazy expensive. So, on the recommendation of a friend, I tried out Turo, it's like AirBNB, but for cars. People rent out their personal cars and it's way more affordable, and often you get a way better car than with Hertz or whomever (just not in our case).
The way Turo works is that you book ahead of time and then the owner leaves their car somewhere at the airport for you to pick up. We found our car, but when I tried to buckle Cecily into her car seat, we discovered that the rear passenger seat didn't have a seatbelt. We managed to cram the two kids into the middle & driver side seats, but with two booster seats, it was super inconvenient. Buckling in involved buckling Parker in, shoving him against the car door as hard a possible, then shoving Cecily's booster in and buckling her in. It was do-able, but still super annoying. I contacted the car owner, and got this response:
Silly me, apparently I should have requested that all 5 seats come with seatbelts. Thank goodness I thought ahead to request she includes the brakes and two headlights. Actually, about the headlights...
At this point, the car seemed unsafe and I was tempted to just return the car & get a total refund, but it didn't seem worth it to devote a whole day of our vacation to returning the car, plus then going through the hassle of finding a new one for our last few days. So, we kept the car, and on the return day, I asked for a discount, and received this almost incomprehensible response:
Whatever. By this point, we'd returned the car and were safely checked-in to our Disney resort, quite happy to be free of that piece of garbage car.
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