One way car hire UK to Spain?

[niick66]

chad, not sure if you have moved yet but I am moving about 100km north of Alicante and have a booked a van from way2go based in a place called Javea. They have been really helpful and get you a discount on Brittany Ferries. I am also taking cats but this has not been a problem in the booking stages. As for the car, I am keeping my UK car and running it on Uk plates.
Hope this helps

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by niick66

chad, not sure if you have moved yet but I am moving about 100km north of Alicante and have a booked a van from way2go based in a place called Javea. They have been really helpful and get you a discount on Brittany Ferries. I am also taking cats but this has not been a problem in the booking stages. As for the car, I am keeping my UK car and running it on Uk plates.
Hope this helps

yes, Way2Go have a very good reputation

[thrax]

We used J Hire Ltd based in Southampton. In fact they rent many of their vans to Way2Go who only have a small fleet. Very helpful and we brought out 4 cats with no problems at all. Make sure you have the proper documentation for your animals - pet passports etc

[Stravinsky]

Way 2 go dont have too small a fleet at all. They also have a 7.5 tonner and a box trailer. The ferry discount can be quite useful, especially of course on the Santander ferry which is quite costly any way.

I know the owners, they have a good business ... you can check out their web site which is very helpful

[thrax]

I know them well Strav and they told me to go to the other company as they only had a small fleet available. They are a good company and they treated me well and were genuinely sorry they couldn't meet with my requirements. The other company works closely with them and seem to be all one happy family !!

[mustlovedogz]

Originally Posted by chad norman

Hi guys,

We are moving to Spain (Costa Blanca) next Feb and are trying to do some much needed advance planning!

One thing I'm trying to get more information/prices on is a 'One way car hire' from the UK to Spain! So far no luck, no one appears to be offering such a service.

Anyone able to shed some light on companies offering this service?


Thanks


Chad

Been following all your threads Chad as we are also trying to decide the best way to locate us and our small dog back to Spain. We already did the drive from the south of Spain back to UK a few years ago, and we could NOT hire a car all the way. We had to drive to Perpignan in France, collect another French Hire car, drive both back to Girona, leave the Spanish one there, drive the French Hire car back up the road to Dover, leave it there, get all our stuff on Ferry by hand (including the dog!! NOT easy (although the French guys were excellent and drove us on in a van) get to other side (NO HELP) and we had to collect UK car from Dover to Scotland. PHEW so we know you can not hire a car all the way.... but I AM liking the look of one way van hire.... it seems purchasing a LHD here first might turn out to be more difficult than we thought (especially as we are in Scotland) - like you, we don't want to be stuck down there with our RHD having been used to LHD while living in Europe.
Although LHDs are slightly cheaper here, it seems it might be balanced out by not having to re-register or do as many checks or take as many risks or breaking down half way there. Might turn out to cost more than buying down there.
Also loving the 15% ferry discount from "way 2 go" - Keep us posted with your progress.

[Magnum03]

Try calling Herz. I've bern through the same search just with a Van. No luck, but Hertz would rent us a normal car to drive to Spain one-way. That was from Denmark, don't know about the UK.

[mustlovedogz]

Originally Posted by Magnum03

Try calling Herz. I've bern through the same search just with a Van. No luck, but Hertz would rent us a normal car to drive to Spain one-way. That was from Denmark, don't know about the UK.

Actually, you are right... it was a One Way Hire we got when the Italian bureaucracy so beyond ROYALLY messed up our gorgeous German Ford Escort Import which we then had to scrap (for "scrap" read "paid to get it taken away by someone who was more than likely going to sell it, but said it was scrap yard") after it made it all the way from Germany, they didn't have a CLUE about how we could re-register it, I was telling the girls in the DVLA equivalent the laws which they didn't know. So we ended up car less and had to hire to Spain, so we did do a one way hire that way. But couldn't seem to do one back to UK through France. Weird.

[mustlovedogz]

Originally Posted by mustlovedogz

Actually, you are right... it was a One Way Hire we got when the Italian bureaucracy so beyond ROYALLY messed up our gorgeous German Ford Escort Import which we then had to scrap (for "scrap" read "paid to get it taken away by someone who was more than likely going to sell it, but said it was scrap yard") after it made it all the way from Germany, they didn't have a CLUE about how we could re-register it, I was telling the girls in the DVLA equivalent the laws which they didn't know. So we ended up car less and had to hire to Spain, so we did do a one way hire that way. But couldn't seem to do one back to UK through France. Weird.

Just checked.... Hertz DO do one way hire from Glasgow to Malaga!!!! Guess things must have changed. Or maybe it was less expense to do it the way we did it.... cause the one way hire is OVER 2 Grand, for a larger car its almost £3,000!!! crikey!

[kezza972]

Originally Posted by chad norman

Hi guys,

We are moving to Spain (Costa Blanca) next Feb and are trying to do some much needed advance planning!

One thing I'm trying to get more information/prices on is a 'One way car hire' from the UK to Spain! So far no luck, no one appears to be offering such a service.

Anyone able to shed some light on companies offering this service?


Thanks


Chad

Hi Chad, just wondering if you had sorted one way hire yet? We are also moving out to Javea in Feb! Looking at loads of quotes and waytogo seems cheapest i can find. didnt know they offered ferry discount, thats just swayed me to book now! We also have 2 cats who have jut got their passports!
message me if you havent already sorted van and maybe we could take some of your bits?

Enjoy Spain if you dont see this before!
Kerry