{"id":5034,"date":"2013-08-05T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2018-02-08T19:33:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T19:33:46","slug":"sat-nav-hire-with-van-rental-how-much-does-it-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5034","title":{"rendered":"Sat Nav Hire With Van Rental: How Much Does It Cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5036\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5036\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/navigon-70-premium-sm-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Sat nav screen while driving\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/navigon-70-premium-sm-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/navigon-70-premium-sm.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sat nav can be very useful if driving alone to an unfamiliar destination &#8212; especially if you&#8217;re driving a large van.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In today&#8217;s article, I&#8217;m going to continue my &#8216;How Much Does It Cost?&#8217; series with a look at sat nav hire, a widely available optional extra on car and van hire.<\/p>\n<p>Sat nav hire has become one of the most popular car and van hire options over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t normally need a sat nav, you may find one useful when you are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/drivingahirevan.php\">driving a large, unfamiliar hire van<\/a> that&#8217;s harder to turn round than a car, and are unfamiliar with your route.<\/p>\n<p>Most big van hire companies now offer sat nav hire as an optional extra on van rental, but I&#8217;ve found that you can spend a surprising amount on hiring a sat nav &#8212; so much so that if you do it often, you may want to consider buying a sat nav instead.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a run-down of the prices being charged by the main companies featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Europcar<\/strong>: \u00a313.99 per day, \u00a3300 penalty if the sat nav unit is lost, damaged or stolen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National<\/strong>: \u00a313.99 per day, maximum charge of \u00a3139.99 per rental. Replacement fee of \u00a3300 if lost, damaged or stolen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thrifty<\/strong>: \u00a310 per day for 1-6 days, \u00a36 per day for hires of 7 or more days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hertz<\/strong>: A maximum cost of \u00a319.80 per rental where available (Hertz offers sat nav hire as its &#8216;NeverLost&#8217; service)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sixt<\/strong>: Minimum \u00a311.99 per day, cost per day decreases for longer hires &#8212; I was quoted \u00a39.20 per day for a five-day hire.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Van Hire 3000<\/strong>: As Van Hire 3000 is a broker, the cost of sat nav hire varies depending on the supplying hire company.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Argus Car Hire<\/strong>:\u00a0As Argus Car Hire is a broker, the cost of sat nav hire varies depending on the supplying hire company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, the cost of sat nav hire can vary considerably when you rent a van. Hertz and Thrifty look like they are the cheapest two, and Hertz&#8217;s flat-rate maximum of \u00a319.80 looks very good value for longer hires, assuming there are no extra costs that I missed.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, National&#8217;s maximum of \u00a3139.99 per rental (10 days) would be likely to make you think about buying a sat nav for yourself &#8212; since you can buy quite a decent sat nav for around \u00a3150.<\/p>\n<p>As always, however, the underlying cost of the rental can also affect which van hire company is cheapest, so you do need to compare prices and rental quotes quite carefully &#8212; the best starting point is with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">van hire price comparison search engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more about the true cost of van hire, check out the following articles:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4968\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">How much does an additional driver cost?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5020\">How much does it cost to take a van abroad to Europe?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4999\">How much does it cost for hire van delivery and collection services?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4995\">How much does UK one-way hire cost?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much does sat nav hire cost when you rent a van? It turns out that every company has a different charging policy, so we outline the costs with Europcar, National, Thrifty, Hertz, Sixt, Van Hire 3000 and Argus Car 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":[1753,1678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034"}],"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=5034"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}