David B.
Yelp
Do not rent anything from Jerry's Jeeps, or you may be swindled.
I went there on a Tuesday evening in the hopes of renting a golf cart on which to scoot around the island for the roughly 36 hours that my wife and I would be there. The nice woman at the desk informed me that there was a Jeep available if we wanted it. I told her what day and time we'd be dropping it off and asked her how much it would cost. She said $84. Surprised at how cheap that rate sounded, I asked her explicitly, "That's a total charge for the entire time we have the vehicle?" She confirmed this. I asked yet again, and she confirmed. We rented the Jeep.
When we dropped the Jeep off at the agreed-upon date and time, Jerry himself charged us $160 for the rental, reasoning that we'd had the vehicle for two full days. When we informed him of what his employee, who was absent at the time, told us it would cost, he pointed out that the rate she quoted was per day and that, again, we'd had the Jeep for two full days. He didn't bother apologizing for her mistake.
He then very quickly showed me a crudely scribbled math equation that he'd put on our invoice to condescendingly prove that the charge was correct. He then suggested that he'd even given us a discount. I repeated that his employee had explicitly told us a different rate and that we wouldn't have rented the vehicle otherwise, to which he pointed out that English was her second language and that there must have been a communication breakdown. This might have been true, but his bringing it up was insulting to our intelligence at that moment, given that he was obviously jobbing us, not to mention that we'd enjoyed a perfectly fluent conversation with her in English two nights before. By this time, our flight was about to depart and we didn't have time to protest further.
The stealth and politeness with which Jerry bilked us out of $75 suggests to me that he'd done this before and will attempt to do so again. I don't believe our increased rate was due to a cultural misunderstanding, as he wanted us to believe. I believe it was a lightly-coordinated effort that wouldn't have been a big deal had we not been traveling on a budget.
If you're going to Culebra, hopefully you're on a looser budget than we were and can thus afford to part with more of your money than you expected to. Regardless of your budget, avoid Jerry's Jeeps. Don't let him make you feel stupid and don't run the risk of tainting an otherwise wonderful experience on a beautiful island full of otherwise nice and square-dealing people.