{"id":2196,"date":"2011-08-13T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T09:19:03","slug":"europcar-introduces-sunday-opening-at-60-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2196","title":{"rendered":"Europcar Introduces Sunday Opening At 60 Branches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europcar has announced that from September 2011, 60 of its UK branches will be open 7 days a week. The branches will be airport and city locations &#8211; 22 airports and 38 cities. Not all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/airportvanhire.php\">airport locations offer van hire<\/a> but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/onlinevanhirelocations\"> city locations<\/a> normally do, so Europcar&#8217;s new opening hours will make them in a minority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">UK van rental<\/a> companies that offer Sunday opening hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Europcar.evyy.net\/c\/30237\/32216\/1027?subId1=blog&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.europcar.co.uk%2FEBE%2Fmodule%2Frender%2Fuk-vans\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Europcar<\/a> Group UK Managing Director Ken McCall said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have been trialling extended opening hours at selected locations over the last few months, with considerable success&#8221; added Ken McCall. &#8220;It therefore made perfect sense to roll out this service to more locations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Europcar&#8217;s move is certainly one that will offer great value to van rental customers &#8211; at present, weekend rentals usually mean exactly that &#8211; a Friday night or Saturday morning pickup followed by a Monday morning return. Being able to collect and return vehicles on Sundays will be very useful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">Van hire<\/a> branches with extended opening hours include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/birmingham\">Birmingham<\/a> (Bristol Street), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/leeds\">Leeds<\/a> (Low Road), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/bristol\">Bristol North <\/a>(Berkley, Clifton) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/manchester\">Manchester<\/a> (Oldham Road).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europcar is set to introduce Sunday opening hours at 60 airport and city branches across the UK, including Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol and Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[63,18,34,1004],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196"}],"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=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}