First off all you should be aware that if you get a puncture the cost of the call out is down to you; $165 in our case, and 7 hours waiting at the side of the road.

I accept that punctures happen, but the Wilderness policy to charge the unlucky customer who, by chance, is driving the vehicle at the time is flawed in my opinion. It should be factored in to the price of the hire and therefore everyone pays a small amount to cover the unlucky ones. It is worth noting that we had taken out the VIP insurance cover also, but it seems that a puncture isn't covered. Had I have crashed the motorhome and wrote it off we'd have been fine with no charges; go figure.

Secondly, our motorhome cannot have been checked properly prior to pick up, and was old and in need of many repairs. We had to empty the grey water tank at our first stop because the smell was so bad on our initial journey. I would expect as well as the water to be full, the grey water tank to be empty on pick up. The water flap and the power flap were broken and taped down with velcro; this attempted fix didnt work and the flaps flapped around during driving which caused a very annoying noise. The camping table that we paid for had a hole in it, one of the camping chairs had bird mess all over it, And the windscreen wipers made a scraping noise when on for an extended period of time.

On returning the motorhome and pointing out the above issues, Timothy, a manager that we didnt get to speak to, authorised $165 compensation for the puncture. But, as pointed out above it is my opinion that we shouldn't have been liable for this cost in the first instance, which I would have challenged, even if we didn't have all the other issues to deal with.

Reviewed almost 5 years ago