{"id":11004,"date":"2018-03-15T17:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2018-03-15T17:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:54:34","slug":"why-van-hire-price-comparison-could-save-you-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/11004","title":{"rendered":"Why van hire price comparison could save you money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/long-480x277.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit hire van\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/long-480x277.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/long-480x277-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/long-480x277-50x29.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to save money on van hire, then you need to know that van hire prices change <strong>a lot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the companies listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a> change their rates on a daily basis! There&#8217;s often a surprising difference between companies as well. Factors such as the time of year and the level of demand from big corporate customers can have a big effect on prices.<\/p>\n<p>To find the cheapest prices, you&#8217;ll need to compare prices across a range of suppliers. And you&#8217;d probably prefer to do this on a single website.\u00a0That&#8217;s what we aim to do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/vrtl-main-v4.png\" alt=\"vanrental.co.uk logo\" width=\"445\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/vrtl-main-v4.png 445w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/vrtl-main-v4-300x87.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>How we compare prices<\/h2>\n<p>To help you find the cheapest rates, <strong>we get live prices<\/strong> from as many companies as possible\u00a0<strong>every time you search<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Our price comparison system has been developed by our developers in house. We&#8217;re not owned by any van hire company and are 100% independent.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t add anything on to the prices you see, which should be the same as you&#8217;d get on the hire companies&#8217; own websites.<\/p>\n<p>All of our results are listed strictly in price order. <strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">No one can &#8216;buy&#8217; the top spot<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-results-150318.png\" alt=\"Van hire price comparison results on vanrental.co.uk\" width=\"650\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-results-150318.png 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-results-150318-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-results-150318-624x285.png 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-results-150318-50x23.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>How you make a booking<\/h2>\n<p>We are strictly a comparison website. We don&#8217;t rent vans ourselves and we&#8217;re not a broker.<\/p>\n<p>After you choose a van to hire, you&#8217;re transferred to the website of your chosen hire company. You&#8217;ll see a page like this when you leave our site:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-rent-150318.png\" alt=\"vanrental.co.uk exit page\" width=\"650\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-rent-150318.png 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-rent-150318-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-rent-150318-624x283.png 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vr-rent-150318-50x23.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your booking will be made <strong>directly<\/strong> with the hire company you choose. We don&#8217;t collect your personal details and we don&#8217;t handle any bookings or payments.<\/p>\n<h2>What if there&#8217;s a problem?<\/h2>\n<p>One <strong>advantage<\/strong> of booking direct is that if you have any questions or problems, you can contact the rental company as a direct customer. You don&#8217;t have to deal with a middleman who might try to fob you off.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are lots of other websites which compare car hire, there are hardly any in the UK which offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">genuine van hire comparison<\/a>\u00a0except us!<\/p>\n<h2>Thank you<\/h2>\n<p>We have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/about.php\">been in business for nearly 11 years<\/a>, thanks to the support of people like you. We believe our service is still the best and the most transparent you will find.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any comments, questions or concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a>, we&#8217;d love to hear from you. Please get in touch and we&#8217;ll do our best to help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanrentaluk\">@vanrental.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vanrentaluk\">Facebook @vanrentaluk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Email info@vanrental.co.uk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Finally &#8211; if you run a van hire company and you&#8217;d like to appear in our results (even if live pricing isn&#8217;t possible) then check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/info.php?inforef=advertising\">advertising options here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/mtomvh.php\">get in touch<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We explain how vanrental.co.uk works and why we think we&#8217;re the best UK van hire comparison service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2071],"tags":[1739,1678,1431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11021,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions\/11021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}