{"id":1451,"date":"2010-07-08T14:24:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2010-06-17T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:27:36","slug":"minibus-hire-for-theme-park-visits-race-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1451","title":{"rendered":"Minibus Hire For Theme Park Visits &#038; Race Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again &#8211; &#8220;Mum, please can we go to Alton Towers\/Drayton Manor\/A N Other Theme Park?&#8221; Perhaps you and your friends are planning a day at the races?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever kind of day out you are having, you&#8217;ll need to consider transport arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Public transport often doesn&#8217;t work out very well and although using several cars is often an option, it&#8217;s not very cost efficient and means several people have to drive and you can&#8217;t travel together &#8211; not ideal.<\/p>\n<p>One option that often works out better is minibus hire, which comes in two flavours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/minibus.php\" target=\"_blank\">Self-drive minibus hire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/minibushirewithdriver.php\" target=\"_blank\">Minibus with driver hire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both of these options have pros and cons &#8211; the right choice depends partly on whether you have someone in your group who is licenced and happy to do all of the driving (<em>many hire companies require drivers of minibuses with more than 9 seats to have category D1 on their driving licence<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>If you are not sure about driving or simply would like to have someone else do the hard work, then a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/minibushirewithdriver.php\" target=\"_blank\">minibus with driver hire<\/a> is probably the best option. This is basically like hiring a minibus taxi for the day &#8211; to take you there and then bring you back again. It will cost a little more, but give you a much more relaxing and simple day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minibus hire is the ideal way to take a group of kids (or adults!) to a theme park for the day. Self drive if you like, or hire a driver too and take away the stress and hassle of driving yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[831,832,1957,455,833,830],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}