{"id":3076,"date":"2012-03-19T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2012-03-19T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:10:17","slug":"average-van-rental-booking-just-1-8-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3076","title":{"rendered":"Average Van Rental Booking Just 1.8 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a>, we get thousands of bookings requests every week &#8211; meaning that we get a pretty good idea of what people need from van hire services.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few tasters of what we&#8217;ve learned since we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/press.php?pressrelease=12\">launched<\/a> our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">van hire price comparison service<\/a> at the beginning of this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average van hire duration is just<strong> 1.8 days<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>90%<\/strong> of van hire bookings are for<strong> less than five days<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On average, customers <strong>book van hire 12.4 days before<\/strong> they need the van<\/li>\n<li>But&#8230; <strong>33%<\/strong> of bookings are made<strong> less than 4 days in advance<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london\">London<\/a><\/strong> gets twice as many bookings as the second-most popular location, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/birmingham\">Birmingham<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get this data (and much more&#8230;), we&#8217;ve crunched the numbers on<em> 31,000 comparison requests<\/em> made on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a> since we launched our price comparison service.<\/p>\n<p>These figures did include a \u00a0few surprises, but the short-term nature of the daily van hire business is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carhireplace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">car hire<\/a>, people don&#8217;t hire a van for fun &#8211; when they need one, there is no alternative, and they need it now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Interested in learning more? You can see the full story in our latest press release &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/press.php?pressrelease=15\">click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average van hire booking is just 1.8 days long and is made 12.4 days in advance &#8211; that&#8217;s what VanRental.co.uk users are telling us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[401],"tags":[18,1395,34,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076"}],"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=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}