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Peterborough van hire: Rent Direct

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Rent Direct logoI’m very pleased to welcome our newest advertiser, Rent Direct, to vanrental.co.uk.

Rent Direct is an independent local car and van hire company with branches in Peterborough and Cambridge. Established for more than 10 years, the firm has a strong local customer base and prides itself on providing excellent customer service and competitive prices.

The firm’s rental rates are published clearly on their website and discounted rates are available for hire periods of 3 days or more, and for customers who choose to pay at the time of booking, rather than on collection.

Rent Direct’s experienced staff are always happy to help you choose the right-sized van for your requirements, and the firm also published an online guide to van sizes and payloads for visitors to its website. The company’s van rental fleet includes the following types of van:

  • Small van (e.g. Volkswagen Caddy)
  • Short wheelbase panel van (e.g. Ford Transit SWB)
  • Long wheelbase panel van (e.g. Ford Transit LWB)
  • Extra-long wheelbase panel van (e.g. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter XLWB)
  • Luton box van with tail lift (ideal for removals)

For more details or to make a booking or get a quotation, contact Rent Direct:

Carlisle Van Rental: Northern Vehicle Hire

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Northern Vehicle HireI’m very pleased to welcome our newest advertiser, Northern Vehicle Hire, to the vanrental.co.uk website.

Northern Vehicle Hire is based on the south side of Carlisle, just off the A6 London Road, and only a few minutes from junctions 42 and 43 of the M6.

This independent firm offers a good selection of modern vans, covering all popular sizes:

  • Compact van (e.g. Citroen Nemo)
  • Medium panel van (e.g. Citroen Relay SWB)
  • Long wheelbase panel van (e.g. Citroen Relay LWB)
  • Luton van (tail lift available, ideal for removals)
  • Tipper van (1.2t payload)

Northern Vehicle Hire’s day rates start from just £25 (correct at the time of writing).

To find the firm from the centre of Carlisle, head south on the A6 (Botchergate / London Road) then turn right onto Petterill Bank Road and follow the road across the railway line, when it becomes St Ninian’s Road. Northern Van Hire is in the Michael Thompson Building (postcode is CA2 4NE for sat nav users).

For more information, a quote, or to make a booking, contact Northern Vehicle Hire direct:

Advertiser Profile: Jolly Good Van Hire

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Jolly Good Van HireWrexham-based Jolly Good Van Hire has expanded steadily in since its foundation in 2009, and now boasts no fewer than six branches, in Chippenham (near Bath), Colwyn Bay, Deeside, Ely, Shrewsbury and Wrexham.

Jolly Good offers small vans, short and long wheelbase panel vans, and luton box vans with tail lifts for hire, covering all popular sizes. The firm’s branches are open seven days a week, at the following times:

  • Monday to Friday: 7am – 5pm
  • Saturday: 7am – 12pm
  • Sunday: 8am – 10am

Sunday opening is still relatively unusual in the van hire industry, but it provides a welcome level of flexibility, particularly for retail customers needing a van to go to the tip or move home — rather than being forced to return the van on your way to work on Monday, you can drop it off on Sunday morning, instead.

All Jolly Good vans are less than 12 months old and include RAC cover as standard. The firm also specialises in offering European van hire, and its all-inclusive European package includes everything needed to get you across the Channel and back again, including the essential VE103B document, European sat nav, European breakdown cover and insurance and unlimited mileage and drivers for the duration of your hire. (All six of Jolly Good’s branches are listed on our European van hire page.)

Finally, although Jolly Good started out as a van hire specialist, the firm now offers car hire and campervan hire, too, so you can travel in style and even go on holiday with Jolly Good!

For more information or to arrange a booking, contact Jolly Good Van Hire directly:

If you run a van or minibus hire business that you’d like to list on vanrental.co.uk, visit our advertising page to get started.

Advertiser Profile: Admiral Self Drive Van Hire, Walsall, West Midlands

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Admiral Self Drive Van HireAdmiral Self Drive Van Hire is family-owned van and minibus rental business in Walsall, near Birmingham in the West Midlands.

Founded in 2002 by twin brothers Maurice and Joe Doyle, Admiral offers a wide range of vans, minibuses and 7.5 tonne removal lorries for hire and also offers a popular European van hire service.

Admiral’s fleet has grown to more than 50 vehicles and ranges from small vans like the Ford Transit Connect, through a full range of 3.5t panel van, luton and dropside models, up to 7.5 tonne box vans and pantechnicon removal lorries — probably the largest vehicles you can drive on a car licence (if you passed your test before 01/01/1997).

If you need to carry people, as well as goods, then Admiral offers a range of 6,7 and 9-seater crew vans, also known as splitter vans for bands (check out Admiral’s listing on our band van hire page), which have a front passenger compartment and a separate rear load compartment, providing good load security and passenger comfort. Admiral also offers 9- and 17-seater minibuses, for when passengers are the load!

Admiral specialises in offering vans and minibuses for European use, which includes full RAC European breakdown cover and all necessary documents (such as the essential VE103B form). The company’s website includes a useful set of tips on driving rental vehicles abroad and taking them on the ferry, as well as general advice on driving vans and minibuses.

Where’s Admiral?

Admiral Self Drive Van Hire is located just north of Birmingham in Walsall:

  • Unit 8, Maple Leaf Industrial Estate, Bloxwich Lane, Walsall, West Midlands, WS2 8TF
  • Two minutes from junction 10 of the M6 (A654 Wolverhampton Road)
  • Sat Nav Coordinates: 52.59052, -2.01360

For more information or to arrange a quote or booking, you can contact Admiral direct:

Hinckley Van Hire: Welcome to hinckleyvanrental.co.uk

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I’m very pleased to welcome our newest advertiser, hinckleyvanrental.co.uk, to vanrental.co.uk.

hinckleyvanrental.co.uk is a family-run van hire business that’s based in Hinckley and is part of Malex Automotive, which operates logistics and hire businesses. hinckleyvanrental.co.uk offers a delivery and collection service to the surrounding area for van hire, including Nuneaton, Barwell and Burbage. The firm offers discounts for long-term hires, special weekend rates, and also tries to provide an option for a half-day hire where possible.

A wide range of vans are available to hire at hinckleyvanrental.co.uk:

  • Small van (e.g. Ford Transit Connect)
  • Short wheelbase panel van (e.g. Ford Transit SWB)
  • Long wheelbase and extra-long wheelbase panel vans (e.g. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter)
  • 3.5t luton vans (ideal for house moves)

hinckleyvanrental.co.uk is located on Barleyfield on the north side of Hinckley. The post code is LE10 1YE and the branch is located just off Normandy Way (A47), next to Richmond Park and close to Morrisons.

For an instant quote or to make a booking, contact hinckleyvanrental.co.uk directly:

If you’d like to promote your van hire business on vanrental.co.uk, please click here to visit our advertising page for full details and pricing.

Van Hire Price Comparison: How VanRental.co.uk Works (and why we’re different)

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Van hire price comparison results

Our van hire price comparison engine is unique to us and provides live, real-time quotes while you wait (click for a larger image)

Price comparison websites have spread like wildfire in recent years, but like so many things on the internet, they are not always what they appear to be.

Here’s what we do

Here at vanrental.co.uk, we believe price comparison should mean this:

  • We do not add a single penny to the prices we are quoted by the hire companies
  • We only provide live, real-time quotes, we don’t simply calculate a price from a database of standard tariffs
  • We get our prices directly from a number of different suppliers
  • We offer these prices to you in a clear and transparent way
  • We make it clear which company you will be dealing with
  • You make your booking directly with the hire company, not through us

At the time of writing (November 2013), the companies who provide van and minibus hire prices for vanrental.co.uk fall into two categories, rental companies, and brokers (who source hire vehicles from a number of different companies).

  • Europcar (rental company)
  • National (rental company)
  • Hertz (rental company)
  • Thrifty (rental company)
  • Sixt (rental company)
  • Easirent (rental company)
  • Argus Car Hire (broker)
  • Van Hire 3000 (broker – it’s the van hire arm of rentalcars.com)

Our van hire database also contains details of a number of other companies, for who we cannot provide prices but do provide links to their websites. These companies are always listed at the bottom of our price comparison results.

And here’s what we don’t do…

We don’t deal with a single broker and pass off their prices as our own comparison results, without revealing how many suppliers were price-checked, or which company you might actually be renting from.

We don’t promise a comparison but only deliver a list of branches or phone numbers that you have to contact yourself for quotes.

We don’t make you wait — our price comparison results are instant and are obtained from our partner companies while you wait. The price we offer is normally exactly the same as the price you would get if you went directly to the company’s website.

More about vanrental.co.uk

We have close relationships with a number of suppliers and we have developed our own, in-house, price comparison engine, which searches more than 1,200 branches in over 400 UK locations.

We own the vanrental.co.uk name and business and are completely independent. We have no financial ties or special relationships with any of the companies we deal with — they are all equal and no one can ‘buy’ the top spot.

We have been operating a van hire website since 2007, when the site was founded by Roland Head, who had spotted a need for an independent van hire website that provided information as well as hire company details.

From 2007 – 2011 we traded as MyLocalVanHire.co.uk, and in 2011 we moved to the vanrental.co.uk address to mark the launch of our own, unique price comparison system — which we believe is the most comprehensive van and minibus hire price comparison engine in the UK. vanrental.co.uk is still owned and run by its original founder.

Naturally, all of this does cost money — reliable web hosting and skilled web development don’t come cheap.

vanrental.co.uk makes money in two ways: commission payments on sales we generate for our hire partners, and yearly advertising fees from some of the companies who list their branches on our location pages. All advertisers and partners are treated equally — there is no way that any company can buy its way to the top of the results.

What’s more, any website that claims not to charge anything for its services is either: a) dishonest; b) going out of business soon. 

If you have any questions at all about vanrental.co.uk or van hire generally, we’d love to hear from you. You can get in touch by email, tweet us @vanrentaluk or contact us through our Facebook page, facebook.com/vanrentaluk

Stratford-upon-Avon Van Hire: ESD Self Drive Hire

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ESD Self Drive Van HireI’m very pleased to welcome our newest advertiser, ESD Self Drive Hire of Stratford-upon-Avon and Evesham, to vanrental.co.uk.

ESD offers a range of vans, minibuses and cars for hire, including:

  • SWB medium panel vans
  • Large panel vans
  • Luton vans
  • 15 and 17-seater minibuses
  • A range of cars and MPVs

The firm has two branches, in Evesham and Stratford upon Avon:

  • ESD Evesham: Blackminster Business Park, Birmingham Road, WR11 7TD
  • ESD Stratford upon Avon (newly opened September 2013): Western Road, Stratford upon Avon, CV37 0AH

ESD’s standard rates include 24-hour hire from 8am-8am, insurance, RAC breakdown cover, unlimited UK mileage and free additional drivers (unlike many competitors). Out-of-hours drop off is available and there is free car parking next door to ESD’s premises. The firm can also offer delivery and collection services, if visiting the branch isn’t convenient.

ESD offers a range of additional services at extra cost, including overseas/European hire, child seat and sat nav hire and sack truck hire, and can also offer discounted rates for long-term hire deals.

For full details of ESD’s branch locations, visit our Evesham and Stratford upon Avon pages.

If you’d like to advertise your van or minibus hire business on vanrental.co.uk, click here to take a look at our advertising page, for full details of what we can offer.

Larkfield Van Rental: Seymour Self Drive Hire & Storage

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Seymour Hire of LarkfieldI’m very pleased to welcome our newest advertiser, Seymour Hire of Larkfield (near Maidstone, Kent) to vanrental.co.uk.

Seymour Hire offers a range of cars and vans for hire and also provides car transporter trailers  and dropside vans with towbars. Here’s a rundown of Seymour Hire’s rental fleet:

  • Car-derived vans
  • Small vans
  • Medium vans (e.g. Vauxhall Vivaro SWB)
  • Large vans (e.g. Fiat Ducato LWB)
  • Luton vans with tail lifts
  • 3.5t dropside / beavertail vans with towbar
  • 7.5 tonne box trucks with tail lifts

Seymour Hire also provides a range of small and medium-sized cars and also has both split floor and solid floor car transporter trailers. Finally, Seymour can rent you a Land Rover Freelander and car transporter trailer together, providing a complete solution for anyone needing to move a car or other small vehicle.

Seymour Hire is located on New Hythe Lane in Larkfield, which is around six miles from Maidstone and situated midway between the M20 and M2, providing excellent transport links to the rest of the UK.

For more details or to arrange a quote or hire, contact Seymour Hire direct:

If you’d like to advertise your van or minibus hire business on vanrental.co.uk, click here to take a look at our advertising page for full details of what we offer.

Save On Van Hire With Our Exclusive 10% SIXT Discount Code

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Sixt 10pc discount bannerNeed to hire a van? Save up to 10% on SIXT van hire with this exclusive discount code.

No one wants to spend more on van hire than they really have to, and to help you save cash on your next hire, we’ve arranged an exclusive 10% Sixt discount voucher code for vanrental.co.uk users only.

 

Sixt 10pc discount code

 

The code is valid for UK van hire bookings made before the 15th May 2013 for rental periods up to the 31st May 2013. The discount is 10% off the standard rate, other discounts and optional extras such as baby seat and sat nav hire are excluded.

 

Terms & Conditions

This code is available for bookings made between 01/04/2013 and 15/05/2013 for rental periods between 01/04/2013 until 31/05/2013. Availability is restricted to participating UK branches only and is subject to availability. For full terms and conditions visit the Sixt website.