sniffydog

Hi all,

Going to be moving back to the UK from Melbourne. Has anyone had any quotes for 40ft container? Who did you use? Also any recommendations for getting our cats back home?

Thanks.

S.Dog.

charleygirl

Hi sorry cant answer your questions, but didnt you just move over to Aus? I feel sorry for you if thats the case. Good luck!

quoll

Bumping this for you - sorry cant help as we havent had to do this (although I live in hopes!)

wim121

I dont know if it helps, but I recently looked at the price to get a container from the UK to AUS/NZ, it would cost thousands! We did find one company to do it though for under a grand (UK money)

We decided instead, it's more economical to sell what we have and then move.




PS: Why on earth would you want to move back to the UK? If you're interested, we're in the NW UK and wanting to get as far away as possible.

I state this as house swapping might be a viable alternative and far less costly for you. Would work out great for us!

Anyway comiserations for you having to come back to hell.

quoll

I think you might be in the wrong forum LOL - sometimes people know which side their bread is buttered and it aint Australia - the a*se end of the world (thank you Paul Keating!) - you're not here yet, I see.

Perhaps if you moved away from the North West you might find the environment less hellish (I wouldnt really choose Bradford either!)

wim121

Lol ....

No I just thought I'd lend some advice in to costs as we looked in to it and realised it was prohibitive to the extreme!


I have lived all over the UK before. I havnt had a trial trip to Australia yet ..

Margaret3

I can assure you i was thinking and posting like you before i came to oz, been here 4 years now and when i look back on my posts i was sooooooo naieve, its a very true saying 'you dont know what you've got until its gone'.

Goodluck

scrubbedexpat055

As someone who has done this (twice!!) our most recent costs were

20ft $6300

40ft $8300

These were based on self pack of boxes, they export wrapped furniture. We filled a 20ft to the brim. The price for 40ft was incase we brought the car, but in the end choose to sell it in Melbourne. I woul dguess that if it was 40ft of household goods, then the price may rise abit due to the time taken to wrpa and load all the additional bits.

We used Chess this time, and OSS last time. Preferred Chess, but I think it is all down to the crew you get.

Next time I will just dump all furniture and send a part load......none of our stuff fits the UK house

Peter

Kapri

Margaret3

Pete are you back in the u.k

Almo

Blimey. We're in the very early stages of pricing up moving back to the UK and one of the things on my list is to check shipping costs. It'll still be worth it, I think, rather than replacing all our stuff, but it certainly all adds up!

We're only moving ourselves and two cats and we're not planning on going for 18 months+ but already I have lists everywhere - I can't imagine what it's like for those who move a whole family!