{"id":133,"date":"2008-05-02T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2015-10-12T18:16:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:16:55","slug":"van-hire-deals-from-europcar-national-van-rental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/133","title":{"rendered":"Van Hire Deals From Europcar &#038; National Van Rental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the winter weather finally starts to show signs of receding, I wanted to take a few minutes to remind you about some of the special deals and offers our van hire partners National and Europcar are currently providing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Van Rental<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free Additional Driver on all van rentals <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"National Car &amp; Van Rental\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/national.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"45\" \/><\/li>\n<li>GPS units for hire at selected branches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>National&#8217;s &#8216;Free Additional Driver&#8217; special offer is currently in full swing. It&#8217;s a great deal, allowing you to have a second driver on every van rental for no additional charge.<\/p>\n<p>An additional driver usually costs \u00a37.27 per day when hiring a van from National, so this really is a money saver on top of their already competitive rates.<\/p>\n<p>National are also one of the first major car and van hire companies in the UK to introduce the option of hiring a GPS (satellite navigation) unit with your car or van. At present, GPS units are only available for hire from National&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london-heathrow-airport\">Heathrow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london-gatwick-airport\">Gatwick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/oxford\">Oxford<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london-kings-cross\">Kings Cross<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london-marble-arch\">Marble Arch<\/a> branches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Europcar<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great rates on one-way van hire <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Europcar Van Hire UK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/europcar4vans.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"45\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Discounted mid-week van hire<\/li>\n<li>Hourly van hire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Europcar is one of Europe&#8217;s largest car and van hire companies, with a fleet of 6,000 vans in the UK alone. It is also still the only major van hire company in the UK to offer <strong>van hire by the hour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hourly van hire can work out really well if you only need a van for an hour or two &#8211; to collect some furniture, for example &#8211; saving you the cost and hassle of having to do a daily rental.<\/p>\n<p>Europcar also currently have a fantastic <strong>mid-week van hire deal<\/strong> &#8211; with daily rates starting from just \u00a322.50 a day from selected locations<\/p>\n<p>(Currently available at Aberdeen City, Aberdeen Airport, Carlise, Dundee City, Edinburgh City, Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow Gity, Glasgow Airport, Inverness City, Inverness Airport, Teeside Airport, Newcastle Airport).<\/p>\n<p>To book hourly van hire or mid-week van hire, visit Europcar&#8217;s website now.<\/p>\n<p>Any mention of Europcar wouldn&#8217;t be complete without discussing their superb <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/onewayvanhire.php\" target=\"_self\">one-way van hire deal<\/a><\/strong>. The truth is that although one-way van hire is extremely useful for renters, it&#8217;s an expensive pain in the neck for van rental companies &#8211; who end up with their hire vans in all the wrong places!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why most companies charge a huge extra fee for one-way hire &#8211; often \u00a3200+.<\/p>\n<p>Europcar, on the other hand, have managed to put together a special deal that lets you have one-way van hire for an extra charge of just \u00a324.99.<\/p>\n<p>There are some conditions &#8211; the rental must be between 8am Monday and 4pm Thursday, it only applies to panel vans (not Lutons) and I&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;s available between all rental branches.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s still a great offer &#8211; if you need one-way van hire, it&#8217;s well worth getting a quote from Europcar to see whether you are eligible for this deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van hire deals and special offers from two of the UK&#8217;s largest van rental companies &#8211; National Van Rental and Europcar. National are currently offering a free additional driver on all van rentals, while Europcar have deals on one-way van hire, hourly van hire and discounted mid-week hire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[63,245,65,71,244,243,246,34,248,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"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=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}