{"id":4892,"date":"2013-07-10T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:00:44","slug":"how-does-vanrental-co-uk-van-hire-price-comparison-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4892","title":{"rendered":"How Does VanRental.co.uk Van Hire Price Comparison Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we launched our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">van hire price comparison<\/a> system around 18 months ago, we&#8217;ve had plenty of positive feedback on the system.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we also get the occasional email from customers who believe they&#8217;ve booked a van with us &#8212; something which is impossible, as we don&#8217;t handle bookings or take payment. We&#8217;d hate to think that anyone was confused or misled by our website, which we&#8217;ve worked hard to make clear and simple.<\/p>\n<p>So, to help clear up any confusion, I thought I would explain in a little more detail how vanrental.co.uk works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Van hire price comparison in 4 easy steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Enter your location and hire dates into the search box:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4893\" alt=\"Van hire comparison search box\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-1.jpg\" width=\"588\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-1.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-1-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will be shown a list of results for each size of van. Where possible, we provide a &#8216;live&#8217; quote that we have fetched from the company&#8217;s booking system. If not, we provide a link, or if we have no branches in your location, we&#8217;ll show you a map with the nearest van hire locations so you can choose an alternative.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is our main results screen:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4894\" alt=\"Van hire price comparison results\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-2.jpg\" width=\"588\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-2.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-2-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Once you have chosen your selection, click on the pink &#8216;Go&#8217; button and you will be redirected to the hire company&#8217;s website, where you can refine your quote or make a booking <\/strong><\/em><strong>directly<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><em><strong>with them:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4895\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4895\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4895\" alt=\"vanrental.co.uk exit page\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-3.jpg\" width=\"588\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-3.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/van-hire-comparison-3-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You will see this screen before you are transferred to our rental partners&#8217; websites to inform you that you are leaving vanrental.co.uk.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it! <strong>We do not add anything to the prices we receive from our rental partners<\/strong>, and you can compare prices from most of the UK&#8217;s major van hire companies and brokers in just a few seconds on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that&#8217;s been useful &#8211; if you have any questions at all, please don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/mtomvh.php\">drop us an email<\/a>, leave a comment below, or send us a tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanrentaluk\" target=\"_blank\">@vanrentaluk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We provide an illustrated guide to our van hire price comparison system, answering common questions we get from customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1739,1678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892"}],"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=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}