Im helping friend move from Bilbao Spain and wondering if any company let you rent from spain and drop off UK?

Question

Hi Plan to rent a van in Bilbao (spain) and bring it to london via the ferry. Does anyone know if its possible to rent in spain and drop off in london and which companies do it - Ive tried hertz and avis but they say no.

Answer 1

Not likely. Probably cheaper to go there and back. You´ve no need to tell the hire car company that you´ve gone out of the country!

Answer 2

I think that you will have problems with this because the vehicle itself is not being returned by you to Spain. It will need to be collected at the hire co's time and expense. Also the van is not rentable in the UK for the return trip so say they could find someone who wanted to rent a van to go back to Spain, they are unable to rent this vehicle to them.

What about returning the van yourself and then catching an Easyjet flight, or similar, by yourself? Or even renting a van here, driving to Spain then coming back again? They might allow it then. After all, people hire vans to go on booze cruises to France from the UK every day.

Answer 3

try eurohire or eurocar something like that

Answer 4

there are company's in Spain and Britain who will take it for you as a part load,they would rather travel to capacity than to make a loss,contact English printed newspapers in Spain to see who is advertising,i.e Costa Blanca news

Answer 5

This is  because any vehicle rented in Europe is likely to be left hand drive so I cannot see any firm allowing you to do this also most firms are not happy about you taking their vehicles out of the country I had this problem when I moved back to England from Germany a couple of years ago even though my mate was doing the driving and returning to Germany after he dropped me off in England So my super bro in law came over to Calais  and met me so we unloaded the rented van into his van in a car park at a large super market  in Calais then my  mate               drove back to Germany and returned the van the following Monday  then we           came back thru the tunnel so I am sure you   will understand that any car hire firm would not want to foot the bill for returning a useless vehicle   back to its country of origin