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Good morning all, I would like to pick your collective brains this morning on options for moving the entire contents of a house in the UK to Hungary. Any suggestions or experiences of companies would be most welcome.

We are viewing in June so trying to get all bases covered in advance.

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Out of interest, what area / type of property are you looking at?

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Currently south of Balaton, but have certain criteria, but the essential one we cant compromise on it has to be 3 bedrooms. maybe am being to picky for our proposed budget but will see. Had to pass some lovely ones last year which were perfect.

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I would not recommend Pickfords they used in our instance third party transport i.e no pickfords vehicle was ever used and pricey,was delivered by a white Hunagrian truck.

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If you haven't already done so try contacting Balaton Britons.hu They have members who are mostly south and west of the Balaton. (I am on the north side)

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How much have you got?
Now is a good time to get rid of all the clutter that you thought you needed but have never used!
I and quite a few others here took the DIY route and hired vans, trailers, small trucks etc.
Hungary is not a popular destination for removal companies, so can be expensive and/or may involve long wait.

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In high insight we would have sold much of our furniture etc, information was nearly non existent some years ago . We ended up eventually when extensive renovations were comleted buying all new furniture and white goods anyway.

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Something to consider is size and weight - As a very rough guide to work out prices for a small food box load, I normally calculate 1 GBP to 1Kg plus a little for the service charge. I.e. a 25Kg box for 30 GBP. Obviously this depends not just on the weight but also the size. The food box might be 30 GBP but a much lighter double bed frame might be more expensive because of its bulk space.

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Have you thought about just selling/getting rid of furniture and just buying new in Hungary? Then just hire a van from one of the bigger companies for your personal possessions and clothes and drop the van off with the same company when in Hungary. Thats what I plan to do myself when I make the move.

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See previous 3 posts :))))

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Abel's - absolutely brilliant, did the packing & everything. Ours was only a part load so came groupage but they treated us like major customers.

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Thank you all for the good information & suggestions. Leaving stuff & buying new for some stuff is a good option & already started selling off stuff. A WW2 vehicle may have to go as well sadly due to the apparent complications of re registering .

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Have you spoken to the Magyar Autóklub (Hungarian car club) as being the NGO dealing with such matters. Here vehicles of that age are called 'oldtimer' and I think that there are special regs for that class e.g. there is a museum rating for old vehicles and the club can advise on what this entails.
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