Car size?

[phabric]

I am in the planning stage.  No sure if we will be renting a car from Heathrow to Southampton or just for the day from Southampton.

 

If from Heathrow, there will be 6 adults and 6 large and 6 carry on.

If from Southampton, 6 adults for a day trip out of Southampton.

 

Enterprise offers Full Size MPV or similar 

Europcar offers VW Sharan or similar 

Both holds 7 passengers with 3 or 4 luggage

 

I think both would hold us all if we rent for the day.  I don’t know if either would hold us plus the luggage if we rent from Heathrow??

 

Enterprise 

Southampton Central Docks

Western Esplanade 

Southampton

S015 1QJ

 

Is Enterprise across the Southampton train station?

 

Europcar

unit J

Southampton

S015 2GZ

 

Is Europcar across from West Quay Shopping Mall?

 

 

 

 

 

[John Bull]

1 hour ago, phabric said:

I am in the planning stage.  No sure if we will be renting a car from Heathrow to Southampton or just for the day from Southampton.

 

If from Heathrow, there will be 6 adults and 6 large and 6 carry on.

If from Southampton, 6 adults for a day trip out of Southampton.

 

Enterprise offers Full Size MPV or similar 

Europcar offers VW Sharan or similar 

Both holds 7 passengers with 3 or 4 luggage

 

I think both would hold us all if we rent for the day.  I don’t know if either would hold us plus the luggage if we rent from Heathrow??

 

Enterprise 

Southampton Central Docks

Western Esplanade 

Southampton

S015 1QJ

 

Is Enterprise across the Southampton train station?

 

YES.

 

Europcar

unit J

Southampton

S015 2GZ postcode is SO15 1GZ (makes a big difference)

 

Is Europcar across from West Quay Shopping Mall?

 

On the opposite side of  West Quay Road from the big ugly blue IKEA multi-storey car-park and the big ugly blue & yellow IKEA store, is a little blind service road between the Honda dealerships.

Europcar is a few yards down that blind service road, which just to confuse visitors is also called West Quay Road.

Hertz is on the same blind service road.

https://goo.gl/maps/Rz42g9hgw6M17VzN6

On this streetview you can see the green Europcar sign (shared with National & Alamo) on the left. Spin the camera and you can see that garish blue multi-storey car-park.

https://goo.gl/maps/jp6S5NAj5ytfQkha6

 

 

With that much luggage I think you'll be seriously cramped in either Europcar's Sharan or Enterprise's Alhambra. One of you might even have to sit on the roof 

If you rent from LHR you really need something like Enterprise's 9-seater Transit Torneo minibus/people-carrier/call-it-what-you-will.

Very little extra cost on Enterprise's website.

9 seats (incl driver) can be driven on a regular driving licence.

 

JB 

 

[phabric]

Might be easier to take National Express from Heathrow to Southampton with all the luggage.  Rent a vehicle for a day trip out of Southampton to Salisbury/Stonehenge.

 

Will one of the above cars mentioned fit 6 adults with one person is 6ft 8in?

 

We are going in 2021.  I am looking at the prices for 2020 to get an idea of the costs.

MPV car for the day.    £100
Stonehenge for 6.         £103
gas

 

or 

train for 6.     £72
Stonehenge/bus/cathedral £248

[John Bull]

10 hours ago, phabric said:

Might be easier to take National Express from Heathrow to Southampton with all the luggage.  Rent a vehicle for a day trip out of Southampton to Salisbury/Stonehenge.

 

Will one of the above cars mentioned fit 6 adults with one person is 6ft 8in?

 

We are going in 2021.  I am looking at the prices for 2020 to get an idea of the costs.

MPV car for the day.    £100
Stonehenge for 6.         £103
gas

 

or 

train for 6.     £72
Stonehenge/bus/cathedral £248

 

LHR to Southampton - I agree.

Coach fares will probably cost a little less than van rental plus probable one-way fee & the other add-ons & expenses.

More importantly, it's simpler and easier.

Especially after an overnight flight.

 

Sorry, I don't know about the tall guy in either of those vehicles.

Check them out on the web - they're probably in the US as well, but with a different name.

He'd have no trouble in my MX-5   Which might mean nothing to you unless I told you that in the US it's marketed as the Miata.

 

On your figures, Stonehenge by train & ho-ho works out at somewhere around £100 extra.

Which sounds like quite a lot more. 

But that's about £17 extra per person.

Which doesn't sound like much more at all. 

Added to that, there are other exes like parking, zero-excess CDW, perhaps GPS, etc. And the grief, like figuring a booking time to arrive at Stonehenge.

 

We drive quite a lot - both in the UK and road-trips abroad.

That's to enjoy a scenic journey as much as the destination.

But just to get from A to B, if public transport is good we'll use it. 

So I'd probably plump for train + ho-ho.

But I'm not you. 

 

JB 

[phabric]

Thanks for your helpful information.