One-way car hire from France to England

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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Ewan schrieb:
> 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
>
> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed
> by a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk

No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website! Usually the one-way
rental costs are so prohibitive it's cheaper to drive the thing back
where you got it from.
Tomorrow I'm driving a van empty from Germany via Dover to northern
England and bringing it back loaded. Pity you didn't post a few days
back, maybe we could have shared the costs.

T.

"Tom Peel" <nottandp@freenet.de> wrote in message
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> Ewan schrieb:
>> 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
>>
>> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed by
>> a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
>
> No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website!

You are right. I needed to share one when I came back from
Sweden.
But a one way hire or return trip cost more than the items were
worth. I ended up packing the important (but not valuable) things
in 2 by 20 Kilo boxes and left the rest behind.

So, any suggestions for a name for this site?

tim

tim(yet another new home) schrieb:
> "Tom Peel" <nottandp@freenet.de> wrote in message
> news:4puj44Fkk47jU1@...
>> Ewan schrieb:
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed by
>>> a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
>> No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website!
>
> You are right. I needed to share one when I came back from
> Sweden.
> But a one way hire or return trip cost more than the items were
> worth. I ended up packing the important (but not valuable) things
> in 2 by 20 Kilo boxes and left the rest behind.
>
> So, any suggestions for a name for this site?
>
> tim
>
>
>
I'll tell you after I've registereed it <G>

T.

I see some other posters suggested looking for someone to take the van
back for you. The problem is, you have to get them registered as a
driver otherwise you are violating the rental contract.

"Tom Peel" <nottandp@freenet.de> wrote in message
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> tim(yet another new home) schrieb:
>> "Tom Peel" <nottandp@freenet.de> wrote in message
>> news:4puj44Fkk47jU1@...
>>> Ewan schrieb:
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed
>>>> by a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
>>> No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website!
>>
>> You are right. I needed to share one when I came back from
>> Sweden.
>> But a one way hire or return trip cost more than the items were
>> worth. I ended up packing the important (but not valuable) things
>> in 2 by 20 Kilo boxes and left the rest behind.
>>
>> So, any suggestions for a name for this site?
>>
>> tim
>>
>>
>>
> I'll tell you after I've registereed it <G>
>

However nice an idea, I don't think there's any money in it.

> T.
>
> I see some other posters suggested looking for someone to take the van
> back for you. The problem is, you have to get them registered as a driver
> otherwise you are violating the rental contract.

I think the deal has to be one where both people travel both
ways, or one person does all the driving, or.....

I don't think, "I drive the van out, you drive it back, works."

tim
..

I'm moving from Paris back to London and want to move my stuff.

What a great response...

....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.

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.

I'll keep you posted!

Ewan

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:33:04 +0200, Dave Frightens Me
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:31:37 +0200, "Ewan " <noreply@noreply.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Why do you want the van?
>
> If you are planning on moving a bunch of stuff, consider the campervan
> agencies, as you can often get an excellent deal for doing a
> driveback. That is, someone wanted to drive a campervan from London to
> Paris, and now they want it back in London.
>
> I don't know if it's doable in Europe (esp. between countries), but it
> was a fantastic solution for me in Oz a few years back.



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"Ewan " <noreply@noreply.com> wrote in message
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> I'm moving from Paris back to London and want to move my stuff.
>
> What a great response...
>
> ...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.

There is limited availability for one way hire to/from the UK because
when the car is at the other end they can't hire it out to anybody. They
have to pay someone to bring it back, which is expensive.

tim

Check with Hertz to see if they still offer the Le Swap program.

The rental would include the trip through the tunnel and swap the car
at Coquelles for a LHD vehicle. You used to be able to pick up in one
country and drop it in another for just the Le Swap fee.

Tim