{"id":2930,"date":"2012-02-16T06:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T06:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2018-02-08T19:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T19:39:40","slug":"hourly-van-hire-zipvan-is-cheap-for-hours-expensive-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2930","title":{"rendered":"Hourly Van Hire: Zipvan Is Cheap For Hours, Expensive For Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/180\">I wrote about<\/a> the London launch of the Streetcar hourly car and van hire service.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today and things have changed slightly. Not only do both Hertz and Europcar now offer competing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/hourlyvanhire.php\">hourly van hire services<\/a> in many locations across the UK, but Streetcar has merged with Zipcar in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zipcar.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zipcar&#8217;s <\/a>van hire service (named Zipvan!) remains true to the original concept of 24\/7, on-demand short-term hire and offers Volkswagen Transporters in a number of key UK cities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london\">London<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/bristol\">Bristol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/oxford\">Oxford<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/cambridge\">Cambridge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The service is designed to encourage hourly hire, rather than multi-day hire &#8211; and rental rates reflect this. Hourly hire starts from a reasonable \u00a39 per hour but Zipcar&#8217;s daily van hire rates start from \u00a384 per day, which is very expensive for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/info.php?inforef=medium-van\">medium van<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Using our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">van hire price comparison system<\/a>, I was able to find equivalent daily rates for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london\">medium van in central London<\/a> from just \u00a331.98!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We revisit the London on-demand van hire market to find that Zipcar&#8217;s London van hire service offers great value for hourly hire but seems very expensive for daily hire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1005,89,245,658,31,376,18,34,594,1347,1348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930"}],"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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10817,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/10817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}