(edit title) Move furniture from UK to Sweden Van Hire Company Options

[Tatarena]

Does anyone know a can/van hire company who allows you to pick up the car in UK and drop it in Sweden?
Me and my boyfriend are moving to Sweden and would like to take our furniture among other things with us to Sweden, does anyone know a cheap way to do this or has any experience in this? Very thankful for help - Annelie

[skogsbo]

you need to think about this, why would a car hire company want a vehicle that drives on the wrong side in another country. The simple answer is there isnt any

[dalkennywhufc]

Hi
best way is to contact removal companies and get a part load service mine was £560 took 1 week to arrive was collected from my house and delivered inside my apartment i n malmo.
with car hire have costs,insurance,road tolls,ferrycosts,fuel works out cheaper

[Snood]

I looked at this when i moved to Sweden this summer. As has already been pointed out, nobody does one way hire to Sweden. The furtherst SOME specialty companies will do is France, Germany, Spain. In the end I hired a van, the cheapest i could find and drove to sweden and back again to return the van. It cost me approx £1200 for everything (hire, diesel, ferrys, bridges, overnight stays, flight back, etc...) For my move it was the cheapest option I had, I combined it with a mini break with the friend I took with me to split the driving. This was from Reading to Göteborg.

[skogsbo]

I did a similar things, but sailed by ferry from Hull to Rotterdam, drove the rest of the way up into Sweden and back. But I hired a truck, as I have the licences and we were moving around 25-30m3 of stuff, wasn't cheap once you add in fuel/ferry etc.. but certainly cheaper than paying a removal company.

Which ever route you take, it's a fun/nice road trip and all part of the fun of moving somewhere else. Just give yourselves plenty of time for packing, unloading and driving, then you won't have to drive beyond reasonable hours to make your ferry booking etc.

[bobalong]

We ended up buying an old van and bringing it here with our furniture. It was cheaper than getting a removal company to do it. We sailed from Immingham to Gothengburg on the freight ship with DFDS.

Where are you sailing from and moving to?

We have in the past arranged with various people to drive their hire vans back for them once they have unloaded their stuff due to them not having the time to do it themselves.

Do you not have anyone that could do that for you if time is an issue?

[Tatarena]

Thank you all for taking you time to help me out,
We are moving just before christmas, say around 17-21 of December or so.
We live in London so I have been looking at ferries from Harwick to Esbjerg in Denmark, then Grena to Varberg, My final destination is a city called Varnamo but Gothenburg or Malmo would do. My mum who has a minibus offered to come over but the ferry prices has gone up and to pay for ferries way and return would now be too much an estimate of £1000 without the gasoline.
How much did the secondhand van cost you? I don't have anyone that could drive a car hire back for me...
Many thanks!

[bobalong]

The first ford transit van I bought only cost me £750 which was actually cheaper than hiring a van for 2 weeks! The price to hire a van was more than £880.

I brought it over with furniture and then did another trip a few months later before selling again in UK and getting £650 for it 10 months later.

I bought another van for £1000 about 2 years ago which was much bigger and have done a few trips in it since.

If you can pick up a cheapie van which you can bring one way, you might find it much cheaper to do. Just use it until the MOT etc runs out then look at getting rid of it as scrap afterwards.

You can pick vans up with short MOT lifespan/ tax etc quite cheaply in UK if your only aim to to bring stuff one way. You will not have to think about getting back asap to save on hire charges.

[skogsbo]

Thank you all for taking you time to help me out,We are moving just before christmas, say around 17-21 of December or so.We live in London so I have been looking at ferries fr ... (show full quote)

Thank you all for taking you time to help me out,
We are moving just before christmas, say around 17-21 of December or so.
We live in London so I have been looking at ferries from Harwick to Esbjerg in Denmark, then Grena to Varberg, My final destination is a city called Varnamo but Gothenburg or Malmo would do. Many thanks! ... (hide full quote)

I would bother with the ferries once you dock at Denmark just drive it. Check out the price of the ferries compared to the two bridges, it may have changed. It's 3 hours ish from Malmo to Varnamo, so you don't gain much, by the time you have waited at the harbour, boarded, you could have been 1/2 way to Varnamo!

Uk auctions are good places to pick up vans with only 1 -2 months tax and mot left on them. Minimum insurance just so you don't get a fine and off you go. You will pay more on the bridges, the bigger you are though, so try and work out just what you need.

Ask on here if you have spare space, as folk might be willing to add something and pay towards fuel.

[Snood]

I spent months costing up different options and calculated that the single cheapest way to do it with van hire was the dover-calais crossing and drive the rest. the crossing is cheap and the fuel price for the rest of the journey was far cheaper than longer distance ferries. It was a fun yet tiring road trip. we made it door to door, Reading - Gothenburg in a touch under 24 hours including a meal in calais and a 1 hour nap in germany somewhere.

[skogsbo]

I spent months costing up different options and calculated that the single cheapest way to do it with van hire was the dover-calais crossing and drive the rest. the crossing i ... (show full quote)

I spent months costing up different options and calculated that the single cheapest way to do it with van hire was the dover-calais crossing and drive the rest. the crossing is cheap and the fuel price for the rest of the journey was far cheaper than longer distance ferries. ... (hide full quote)

That was part of the reason I did the hull to rotterdam ferry, left a 1300km drive at the other end, each way, but continental fuel is cheaper than UK. So don't fill up in the UK. At the time, it was cheaper in every country, even Denmark, but that may have changed.

[BritVik]

An alternative not so far mentioned, and one I used when moving back to the UK, and then when I returned to Sweden 7 years later, was to hire a container. Packing into boxes in advance meant that the loading/unloading took only a short time, and when the container was delivered to my address here in Sweden, it was left on a stand for me (and my young daughter) to unload. UK Customs supervised the unloading there, and were puzzled by one box of 'gallows'. It was the Swedes who had listed galger - clothes hangers - as gallows on the shipping documents. Back in Sweden, there was no supervision at all, and the only problem was of plants that had frozen on the crossing. Other than that, as a method of moving I found it pretty reasonable. Unfortunately, as this was back in 1974 I cannot remember what it cost, but I would not have done it had it been expensive.
There are removal companies in the UK who undertake trips to Sweden, and I have seen where you can work with them on combined loads, since they usually manage to arrange return loads, thus reducing the cost to you. Now, with the Internet, it should be pretty easy to make such arrangements.