If having an automatic is important to you, I would follow kerouac s advice and call the local renta

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I am on my soon and booked a car. If a friend hadn't mentioned greek island tours this it never would have occurred to me. Most cars online are manual transmission which I can't drive. It took a little effort to find an automatic in Avignon so I suggest book early!!!
You know that an automatic is just a request? Your odd of getting an automatic in Avignon should be pretty good. Avignon is a popular place for automatic only Americans to rent a car. This is not the case at smaller pick up locations.
Having a reservation for an automatic, for which you paid more, is not a guarantee that one will be available when you arrive. There is also special taxes, called an environmental tax , that is not included in Autoeurope quotes and is paid at drop off.
If having an automatic is important to you, I would follow kerouac s advice and call the local rental office on the day before pickup to confirm availability. You may need the time to make alternate arrangements. greek island tours (And not all Americans like to drive automatics.)
It really isn't difficult to find one if you just use a booking site like Kemwel or Autoeurope, I've never had any trouble in Provence finding a quote for one on those websites, nor getting greek island tours one (but I rented in Marseille and Montpellier). I'm sure Avignon would be fine, also, being a big city. I've never called the offices ahead, maybe I was lucky -- I did call Autoeurope though and asked them if they had ever had complaints about someone greek island tours not getting one at the stations I selected, greek island tours and they said they never had, that I would have no trouble. And I didn't.
My advice comes from having worked greek island tours for Avis -- in Paris at Gare de Lyon -- and not always greek island tours having the promised automatic car available. This was never "our" fault of course, but because of other customers. Naturally, we always knew which day and at what time certain cars were due to be returned, and we really counted on it. When the car did not show up as expected, we were up the creek. Fleet management does not mean having 10 of every sort of car in the brochure "just in case" -- it means having as few cars as possible and moving them around according to demand.
greek island tours At an office like Avignon, they have the TGV station office (by far the largest one) and the downtown office. But less than an hour away are also Nimes, Orange, Aix and a number of other cities. greek island tours For an "important" rental (more than 4 days), the companies will not hesitate to bring in a car from another agency to meet the request if there is any sort of problem.
2) We usually rent a larger greek island tours car - for which they usually have more automatics. If you want a small car that is automatic that can be more difficult -since that fleet tends to be heavier on standard transmissions.
greek island tours My longest trips in a Smart have been Paris-Deauville and Paris-Calais, which is not really the length of the country, but they are quite stable greek island tours on the autoroutes -- far more than a Fiat 500, a Peugeot 107 or a Toyota Aygo, to name a few. I was driving the new Volkswagen Up yesterday, and that one seemed pretty stable passing the huge trucks on the Autoroute du Nord.