{"id":5711,"date":"2014-01-06T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:30:37","slug":"moving-house-in-january-dont-forget-van-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5711","title":{"rendered":"Moving House In January? Don&#8217;t Forget Van Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1048\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1048\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1048\" alt=\"Let us show you how to move house with a hire van\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/trafic-loaded.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/trafic-loaded.jpg 337w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/trafic-loaded-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes need to be strong to be stacked safely &#8211; especially if they&#8217;re heavy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Christmas is over and pretty much everyone is now back to work, but the first full week in January is also significant for another reason &#8212; people start moving house again, after the Christmas lull.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re moving in the next few weeks, then I&#8217;d urge you to book your van hire now (or at least do it as soon as you have a fixed date for completion).<\/p>\n<p>Although availability is now considerably better than it was during the pre-Christmas rush (when courier companies hog a large proportion of hire vans), van rental companies are still busy, and your chosen combination of van size and date could soon become unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The simplest way to get started is to use our van hire comparison system, which allows you to save money by comparing prices from most of the UK&#8217;s major van hire companies on one website.<\/p>\n<p>Our system displays prices for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vansize.php\">all popular types of van<\/a> (e.g. Transit-size panel vans, extra-long vans and luton box vans) &#8212; so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vansize.php\">click here to give it a try<\/a>. <em>You don&#8217;t have to provide any personal data to compare prices, and your booking will be made by you, directly with your chosen hire supplier.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s a lot more to moving house than simply hiring a van. Here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a>, we&#8217;ve been there, done that, and got the t-shirt, so we&#8217;ve produced a simple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/diyremovals.php\">one-page DIY removals guide<\/a> to cover all of the main areas.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we know that driving a van for the first time can be daunting, so we offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/drivingahirevan.php\">free, printable guide to driving a van for the first time<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck if you&#8217;re moving in the next few weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving house in January? Don&#8217;t forget to save money on van hire using our unique price comparison system. We&#8217;ve also got an easy-to-print one-page DIY removals guide that should help you save time when packing and unloading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[463],"tags":[1820,1678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711"}],"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=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}