One-way car hire from France to England
Oct 22nd 2006, 3:35 pm
#16
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Re: One-way car hire from France to England
Even if you can find a company willing to do it, you are going to find
it cheaper to drive the vehicle back yourself and train/fly the repeat
leg of journey.
The rental company will incur (and charge to you) these expenses PLUS
the cost of someone's wages to do it.
it cheaper to drive the vehicle back yourself and train/fly the repeat
leg of journey.
The rental company will incur (and charge to you) these expenses PLUS
the cost of someone's wages to do it.
Oct 22nd 2006, 5:59 pm
#17
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Re: One-way car hire from France to England
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:07:56 +0200, "Ewan " <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I'm moving from Paris back to London and want to move my stuff.
>What a great response...
I have my uses!
>...but unfortunately I still haven't found a way to do it. I've just
>scanned campervan sites without any reference to one way trips so, unless
>I can find out more by telephone I'm stuck there.
>Friends here in Paris advised hiring through a London office rather than a
>French one. One large agency told me that this would indeed be the
>cheapest - to pick up and return to a Paris rental office but booked
>through London. They said they didn't do one-ways and neither did Hertz or
>Avis. It is difficult to find any reference to one-way hire on the
>internet. Most hire company websites ask you to specify a country and then
>there's no option to drop off in another country.
>At this point I'm thinking the internet is at an end and the only way to
>find more information is to call them all or walk down the desks at an
>airport asking each in turn.
The net is pretty limited in this regard. There isn't a great system
set up for drive-backs usually, as the demand is haphazard. Better to
call the central agency and ask if they do it. I moved all my stuff
from Adelaide to Melbourne (around 1000km) for not much more than the
cost of the petrol.
>I think it's going to turn out to be impossible and it'll be a matter of
>either hiring in Paris and driving to London then back to Paris or from
>London and doing the reverse.
Call them anyway to see if the necessity arises from time to time. If
it does, keep calling the agencies everyday. You would be amazed how
much stuff you can fit in a campervan!
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DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
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wrote:
>I'm moving from Paris back to London and want to move my stuff.
>What a great response...
I have my uses!
>...but unfortunately I still haven't found a way to do it. I've just
>scanned campervan sites without any reference to one way trips so, unless
>I can find out more by telephone I'm stuck there.
>Friends here in Paris advised hiring through a London office rather than a
>French one. One large agency told me that this would indeed be the
>cheapest - to pick up and return to a Paris rental office but booked
>through London. They said they didn't do one-ways and neither did Hertz or
>Avis. It is difficult to find any reference to one-way hire on the
>internet. Most hire company websites ask you to specify a country and then
>there's no option to drop off in another country.
>At this point I'm thinking the internet is at an end and the only way to
>find more information is to call them all or walk down the desks at an
>airport asking each in turn.
The net is pretty limited in this regard. There isn't a great system
set up for drive-backs usually, as the demand is haphazard. Better to
call the central agency and ask if they do it. I moved all my stuff
from Adelaide to Melbourne (around 1000km) for not much more than the
cost of the petrol.
>I think it's going to turn out to be impossible and it'll be a matter of
>either hiring in Paris and driving to London then back to Paris or from
>London and doing the reverse.
Call them anyway to see if the necessity arises from time to time. If
it does, keep calling the agencies everyday. You would be amazed how
much stuff you can fit in a campervan!
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DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
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Oct 23rd 2006, 10:00 pm
#18
Joined: May 2006
Location: Galicia
Posts: 3,141
Re: One-way car hire from France to England
Originally Posted by Ewan
I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the van
up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
Thanks for any help - Ewan
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Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed by a
hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
Thanks for any help - Ewan
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Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed by a
hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
Of course you can't rent a vehicle one way. Don’t you realise that any vehicle registered in a particular country has to be returned to that country. Either that or at some time the hire company would have to register the vehicle in that country. Then they would have to pay taxes and fees etc. You can't rehire a left hand drive vehicle in a right hand drive country either. At some time you will have to pay a return fee based upon some one collect the vehicle and driving it back to the depot of the same country. End of story!
