Would anyone know of a van hire company that would do a one way hire from Kilkenny to Marbella?? Other options are hire in Marbella drive up and down but is a pain. The courier/removal co's are charging €2,500 for a couple of sofas and handful of other stuff and would rather make a road trip of it!

Id try this one in the business section of pistonheads - ask for a man with truck tho

Updated May 6, 2012 at 4:09 PM

They will charge you a fortune!

When I needed all my stuff moved to the UK I used www.loadup.co.uk where hauliers can list empty lorries going back and you can list what you need going where.

It only took a couple of weeks before I had a guy available to pick up my stuff in Copenhagen and deliver it to my door here. Cost was less than half of what I could do it for myself (and that was returning the van to the UK, not going one-way).

Updated May 6, 2012 at 4:09 PM

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More cost effective to sell the sofa and buy a new one there shirley?!

Barry is Jobbo on this one

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and from the beginning think what may be the end.

Yup, I'd love to ebay/gumtree the items in Eire and buy them back in Spain... unfortunately not an option.

I'll check out loadup thank you very much for that.

Was looking forward to a road trip!! Looking like boring cheap flights :-(

I was thinking the same, but when I realised that I would be paying more than double for driving a van with all my stuff down endless boring motorways I reconsidered. Having everything I own + a few family heirlooms in the back of a LWB diseasel Transit (or whatever it would have been) did not make me want to seek out something twisty and fun to drive.

With Loadup flexibility helps - I was definitely lucky. The guy I used had to deliver the contents of someone else's house just 10-15 miles from where all my stuff was stored at a time that was convenient for me.

The mover was very helpful with, communicating, loading and unloading - so if all else fails I have his details, you never know, he might be up for a trip for you.

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Thanks a million for this, we'll see how things play forward over the next couple of days. If there's anyway I can work out a run back via Rioja region and then the major auctions coming up in Monaco it'd be a great trip... better replen the aircon just incase!

Could also give this a try, it's a bit like ebay for the haulage undustry.Shipley