Hi there, we are going to travel through Europe for 3 months in Aug/Sep/Oct 2010 and would be interested in anyone's suggestions/comments/improvements on our itinerary. Are we missing any must-see cities? Should we spend more/less time in each location?
Two brief comments:
- Do you have any mountain experience? Assuming you're not going to make a major detour through the Atlantic (E70) or Mediterranean (E15) coast to get to Valencia, the Pyrenees are not easy to drive in, especially not with a big bulky campervan. Depending on length and weight of the contraption, bear in mind that you might need a special driver's license. The rental agency will be able to tell you that, but do ask in advance!
- I don't know of any agency where you can pick up a campervan in one country and drop it off in the next. Even for normal cars, this is highly unusual in Europe, and rather extreme surcharges apply in the few agencies that allow this. Mind you, I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but if you find such a rental company, please post back here. That would be valuable information to many of us
[ 23-Jul-2009, at 04:47 by bentivogli ]
Drop Campervan (hopefully! is it possible to do a one way campervan trip from france and drop the van in italy?)
No, you have to return the Campervan to the company where you rented it in the first place.
Most companies offering Campervan rental are small local mom&pop companies with only one outfit. If you rent from them it is understood that you'll bring the campervan back to them.
With what you are planning you'd be better off with renting a normal car and taking a tent and camping gear.
Renting a campervan is expensive in Europe, renting it for full 3 months is almost cost-prohibitive. But for normal cars there are special offers, just enter "long term car rental Europe" into a search engine.
Since you won't be able to fly with the car (and there are only a selected drop-off places for the car when you go for long-term car rental) you better cut out a few places off your initiary and add some others that are somewhat enroute.
For example: I would not go to Spain and drive down to Valencia without making the detour to Granada.
http://looklex.com/spain/index.htm
And Sicily in 3 days without your own vehicle? Impossible.
Not to mention flying to Greece from Italy. There aren't many budget airlines going this route, so you are left with Alitalia and Olympic. Do you have any idea what that costs? Most people are more sensible, they take the ferry to Greece. I would thus take the car to Greece too then drive up to Croatia and then back to Italy with another ferry to drop the car off in Rome.
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