My boyfriend and I are traveling to Tuscany and Puglia this coming September. We are flying into Rome, spending a few nights and then taking the train to Florence. We plan to rent a car near the train station (Santa Maria Novella) and use the car for the week as we travel around Tuscany. We will be flying out of the Florence airport early on a Saturday morning (7AM flight) to Brindisi (Puglia). My hope is to hold onto the rental car until then and return in the early AM before our flight to the rental company's location at the Florence airport.
The problem is this: every company I've checked doesn't open until 8:30 AM and I'm nervous about being about to return the car and catch a shuttle to the terminal. We will have the same issue when we return, as we are taking a 7AM flight from Brindisi to Rome.
Has anyone had experience with this?
Thanks.