Good Day.
We are interested in any recommendations for a car rental company to rent a car in Birmingham and drop it off in the Truro or Penzance area or a location convenient to rail service to London.
We prefer a local company. All we are finding is large providers.
Thank you in advance for your sage advice.
Ray
Ray
I doubt you will find a local provider who would do a one way rental from Birmingham to Cornwall. It wouldn’t be profitable for them. I think you are likely to have to go with one of the big players.
You could take the train from Birmingham to Cornwall and rent there.
Thank you both for your responses.
We will contact the big providers as we can’t take the train. Our plans include visiting the Cotswolds.
Thank you.
Ray
Are your plans to just visit the Cotswolds en route to Cornwall or do you have other plans for the journey?
If the former you could consider taking the train to somewhere like Cheltenham, hire a car there to tour the Cotswolds and then return the car and continue on the train. That would allow you to use a local firm (if there is one) and avoid a one-way fee on the hire car.
I think by location the OP means British. In reality there isn't such a company, Arnold Clark is always recommended by they are only really Scotland and Northern England. Otherwise local means one town or county where one-way rentals would be pointless. Everything else is the usual internationals and franchises thereof - and some of these are only in the airports or very large towns.
Enterprise have fairly good coverage of locations, in Cornwall they have one at St. Austell less than one mile from the railway station. But this idea is a bit odd, why pay to rent the car that day then leave it and pay train fares all the way to London? It would make more sense to find a drop off location in a west London suburb, near the M4 and a station, like Brentford where Enterprise is less than half a mile to the station.
Or does London in the question really mean a London airport?
