Category Archives: Europcar 4 Vans

News and special offers from Europcar 4 Vans – Europcar’s specialist van hire division. One of the larger van rental companies in the UK.

116 New Van Hire Branches & 29 New Locations!

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It’s been a busy week here at vanrental.co.uk Towers – we’ve been adding new van hire branches and locations until they’ve come out of our ears…Europcar Van Hire UK

We’re very pleased to be able to announce that we have now added all of Europcar UK’s van hire locations to our database, complete with links directly to Europcar UK’s online booking engine.

This means that as well as 116 new branches – giving you more choice all over the UK – we now have van hire branches listed in 29 new locations – including lots of new airport van hire locations:

Aberystwyth
Belfast City Airport
Birmingham International Airport
Blackpool
Blackpool International Airport
Chorley
Colwyn Bay
Coventry Airport
Derry
Derry City Airport
Doncaster Robin Hood Airport
Droitwich
Durham Tees Valley Airport
East Midlands Airport
Falmouth
Fishguard
Guernsey Airport
Humberside Airport
Isle of Wight
Jersey Airport
London New Malden
London Woodford Green
Newquay Cornwall Airport
Norwich International Airport
Penzance
Southport
Stamford
Truro
Weymouth

Europcar are one of the best-known car and van hire brands in Europe and together with their partner company National Van Rental have a combined fleet of more than 6,000 vans in the UK.

Europcar offer four types of van for hire (click on the links for sizes and pictures):

Europcar offer an exceptionally flexible and competitive van hire service, allowing one-way hire throughout the UK at extremely competitive rates – their one-way surcharge for prepaid bookings is much lower than any other company we know of.

Europcar also offers hourly van hire and has regular special offers on van hire – such as discounted mid-week van hire.

Finally, for anyone needing a to hire a van for longer periods – over a month – Europcar offers Month+ Van Hire. It’s the perfect compromise between short-term rental and leasing a van, with the choice of 1 month or 3 month commitments – and the guarantee of a nearly new, hassle-free van.

To learn more about Europcar UK Van Hire or check out their current special offers, just click here.

Europcar & National Combine Van Fleets

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In a move that should result in much greater availability of rental vans for both Europcar and National Van Rental customers, Europcar UK and National Car Rental are pooling their rental fleets, allowing customers of either brand to hire vans from both fleets.

The changes mean that from early March, Europcar and National will offer a combined rental van fleet of more than 6,000 vans from over 250 locations across the UK. The rental car fleets of the two companies have also been combined, resulting in a combined UK fleet of over 60,000 vehicles.

Europcar UK Group’s Fleet Director Tim Bailey stressed that “The importance of vehicle availability should not be underestimated in the current marketplace.”

Both the Europcar and National brands are owned in the UK by Europcar UK Group, so the rationalisation appears to make good business sense and should also offer noticeable benefits for customers, giving a wider choice of vehicles at all locations.

Europcar Takes The Hassle Out of Airport Hire

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Airports are often busy, tiring places – especially at the end of a flight, when all you want to do is get on your way.

It looks like Europcar understand this and are doing their best to ease the pain. Europcar’s new Airside check-in system enables passengers travelling from Gatwick and Edinburgh into many of the UK’s major airports to have their rental car reservations processed automatically – before they arrive.

According to Europcar Operations Director David Alexander, “customers can check-in their car for rental before they board the plane, safe in the knowledge that the rental agreement will be pre-printed and the vehicle will be allocated before they even take off.”

All that remains to be done on arrival is to sign the rental agreement, pickup the keys and drive off. Sounds good to me.

Europcar Introduces Handy Location Finder

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Most rental websites (except this one!) require you to choose your dates, vehicle type and location at the beginning of the booking process – without allowing you to see the location’s exact address.

This can be a bit of a headache in larger towns and cities, as you can end up having to trek some distance across town to pick up your vehicle.

To help address this problem, we allow people to choose a location first and then see a list of van hire branches and their addresses before proceeding any further. We also provide popup maps for every hire branch in our database – so you can see exactly where it is.

Europcar has now also introduced a similar feature to their website – the location finder.

Simply choose a town name from the drop down list (rather like this site). You can then see full address details for the branch at that location and a map of its exact position (of course, with our system, you gain access to all this information for four rental companies – not just one!).

Take a look at the UK version of Europcar’s van rental location finder here.