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Thread Author: maltrap	Replies: 11

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Sun 8 May 16 12:40

Family car hire - maltrap

Taking the family to Tenerife next year, which consists of 4 adults, 1 four year old & 1 one year old + baggage buggies etc. As i've never done this before i wondered what vehicle to look for. It's got to be 1 vehicle as only me wants to drive over there.
Thanks for any suggestions.

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Sun 8 May 16 12:44

Family car hire - WillDeBeest

Ask Neil about his brace of Alhambras. One will do for you - although with six seats in use you may need to pack light.

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Sun 8 May 16 14:07

Family car hire - CGNorwich

If you go to the CICAR website they show what types of vehicles they have and their capacities
I strongly recommend you use a local CO like CICAR and not the likes of Hertz

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Mon 9 May 16 15:49

Family car hire - neiltoo

We hired the SEAT from:
www.doyouspain.com/

we've also used these:
www.pluscar-tenerife.com/booking.php?lang=en
on Lanzarote.

On reflection, the Alhambra probably won't do.
The child and baby seats will have to be on the second row seats, which means one adult would have to be on the back row. Not comfortable I think, and then there won't be room for the luggage and baby stuff.
You will need something bigger.

HTH

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Mon 9 May 16 16:12

Family car hire - Falkirk Bairn

Looks like 2 cars & 2 drivers or 1 driver & 2 trips for each journey!

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Mon 9 May 16 17:33

Family car hire - WillDeBeest

...something bigger

Does MB still offer the R350 CDI? That would be a beast of a holiday wagon. Might take some parking, though.

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Mon 9 May 16 17:55

Family car hire - Alastairw

VW Transporter/Caravellle would surely be the answer here

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Mon 9 May 16 17:57

Family car hire - WillDeBeest

Or two more wieldy cars and someone else to person up and drive one of them.

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Mon 9 May 16 18:00

Family car hire - sooty123

Expensive i would have thought but cheaper than two cars ?

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Mon 9 May 16 22:02

Family car hire - stan10

One of my near neighbours has one of these ( i think - not really my scene ), and i don't really know them beyond nodding terms, so i'm guessing a bit, but -

VW Transporter van, with short windows towards the rear (Transporter Combi ?.) Come the weekends they load up with 2 adults, 3 kids, 5 mountain bikes, stacks of "picnic / camping stuff" and disappear until late Sunday night.

Seems a good bet to me, if you can hire one ?

(reply to Alistair)

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Mon 9 May 16 18:19

Family car hire - John Boy

>> Does MB still offer the R350 CDI? That would be a beast of a holiday wagon. Might take some parking, though.

I saw a GLS for the first time yesterday in Sainsburys car park. The owner hadn't even tried to park it. It was set diagonally across 2 bays with some rear end left in the aisle behind.

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Mon 9 May 16 20:23

Family car hire - Bobby

Tenerife isn't that big, not going to be sitting in the car for hours at a time I would guess? And will only have luggage in it to and fro airport?
Alhambra should do surely?

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