One way car hire?

[newberry]

Going to Australia in holiday in march and would prefer to drive down the night before and stay over night. We are going for 4 weeks so don't really want to leave my car.
looking into renting a car from lowestoft area and then dropping it off at heathrow, then when we get back doing the opposite. Have had a quick look and price was around £140 each way, as I only want the car for about half a day this seemed expensive has anybody done similar or know of anywhere with reasonable prices?

Thanks in advance.

[newberry]

Yep much better off in here instead of the east Anglia forum.

I live in east anglia, I want to hire a car in east anglia and am looking for advice from people who have done that in east anglia. Thanks.

[rcspeirs]

Europcar have the "boomerang" service. An appropriate name for the trip you have in mind.
Their price starts at £89 return, though I suspect that is for the slowest smallest miserable car on their fleet.
You can't book it on-line - you need to ring them.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

I think most places charge by the day so you'll struggle to find cheaper. You could probably go by taxi for less than the car hire cost.

[Mr MXT]

National Express?

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Mr MXT said:

National Express?

Out of pure interest I've just checked that out. A minimum of 5 hours 45 minutes on a coach, no thanks. In fact, anything more than 2 minutes on a National Express is too much time.

[Mr MXT]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

Out of pure interest I've just checked that out. A minimum of 5 hours 45 minutes on a coach, no thanks. In fact, anything more than 2 minutes on a National Express is too much time.

I must admit, I dont know where Lowestoft is

[Ian1976]

Ian1976 said:

Couldnt find much on line as you say so I called Europcar number and they don't know anything about it.

I found this page through Google

http://www2.europcar.co.uk/services/airport-transf...

but it wont let you put dates in for 2011. Maybe its something they have now dropped? when did you use the service?

EDIT - called again and spoke to a different person, Boomerang isn't running until 2012 due to "demand over the festive period". Prices are from £89 return, 'from' being the key word. It'd be £190 return for me. Cheaper to book a taxi or suffer on the train in my case. Was worth a try though.