Super car hire for a week
Discussion
Can anyone recommend a cheap hire company? Looking to go on holiday in April-ish and fancied hiring a supercar for the week; although with the prices I've seen it'll be an hour if im lucky!
I can understand the premium as they're expensive but €5000 plus a €10000 deposit!? For a week!
If not ill just hire a normal car and go test driving
Oh and doesn't matter wether its a Spanish island. We're even thinking of visiting all of Spain to maybe live. To many countries to choose from
I can understand the premium as they're expensive but €5000 plus a €10000 deposit!? For a week!
If not ill just hire a normal car and go test driving
Oh and doesn't matter wether its a Spanish island. We're even thinking of visiting all of Spain to maybe live. To many countries to choose from
Never used them, but you could check these out.
http://www.marbellaluxurycarhire.com/rent/supercar...
http://europeluxurycarhire.com/europe-car-rental-l...
Cheers
http://www.marbellaluxurycarhire.com/rent/supercar...
http://europeluxurycarhire.com/europe-car-rental-l...
Cheers
Yetski said:
Never used them, but you could check these out.
http://www.marbellaluxurycarhire.com/rent/supercar...
http://europeluxurycarhire.com/europe-car-rental-l...
Cheers
They are the ones I looked at aswell http://www.marbellaluxurycarhire.com/rent/supercar...
http://europeluxurycarhire.com/europe-car-rental-l...
Cheers
oh well might just hire one for the day thenWell if I had a choice between NZ, Canada, and Spain, I wouldn't be considering Spain.
Things are pretty grim here at the moment. Corruption is blatantly rife, and the powers that be are leaving no stone unturned to fleece the people.
If I could get back what I've put into property, I'd be out of here.
But as it is, I have to suck it up and see if I feel the same way when, or if things eventually pick up.
It's not easy living in Spain. Things are quite different when you live here than when you're over having a jolly nice holiday.
Strange thing is, when my wife and I, came back from a life on the ocean, I was all for going back to NZ, but she didn't want to be that far from family.
Now she says let's go to NZ!
My everyday hack in Mallorca is a Nissan Navara, and even that's suffering with the state of the roads, so you'd have no chance with exotica.
Things are pretty grim here at the moment. Corruption is blatantly rife, and the powers that be are leaving no stone unturned to fleece the people.
If I could get back what I've put into property, I'd be out of here.
But as it is, I have to suck it up and see if I feel the same way when, or if things eventually pick up.
It's not easy living in Spain. Things are quite different when you live here than when you're over having a jolly nice holiday.
Strange thing is, when my wife and I, came back from a life on the ocean, I was all for going back to NZ, but she didn't want to be that far from family.
Now she says let's go to NZ!
My everyday hack in Mallorca is a Nissan Navara, and even that's suffering with the state of the roads, so you'd have no chance with exotica.
mickrick said:
Well if I had a choice between NZ, Canada, and Spain, I wouldn't be considering Spain.
Things are pretty grim here at the moment. Corruption is blatantly rife, and the powers that be are leaving no stone unturned to fleece the people.
If I could get back what I've put into property, I'd be out of here.
But as it is, I have to suck it up and see if I feel the same way when, or if things eventually pick up.
It's not easy living in Spain. Things are quite different when you live here than when you're over having a jolly nice holiday.
Strange thing is, when my wife and I, came back from a life on the ocean, I was all for going back to NZ, but she didn't want to be that far from family.
Now she says let's go to NZ!
My everyday hack in Mallorca is a Nissan Navara, and even that's suffering with the state of the roads, so you'd have no chance with exotica.
Well the skies the limit! We can move anywhere just can't decide as you can tell. Spain is a €250 direct ferry to uk with a car or £20 ryan air flight (or something like that) Things are pretty grim here at the moment. Corruption is blatantly rife, and the powers that be are leaving no stone unturned to fleece the people.
If I could get back what I've put into property, I'd be out of here.
But as it is, I have to suck it up and see if I feel the same way when, or if things eventually pick up.
It's not easy living in Spain. Things are quite different when you live here than when you're over having a jolly nice holiday.
Strange thing is, when my wife and I, came back from a life on the ocean, I was all for going back to NZ, but she didn't want to be that far from family.
Now she says let's go to NZ!
My everyday hack in Mallorca is a Nissan Navara, and even that's suffering with the state of the roads, so you'd have no chance with exotica.
Friends could pop over for a week on the cheap etc.
Germany was an option, autobahn being the for option. Boring being the against. We actually have no idea where to pick!
Each to their own, I love my life down in Spain, yes there is corruption on a large scale, and certain things can be frustrating, but I still have a property in the UK, and when you compare it to things there, would I go back? Would I f
k.
On the car side, the main problem for me is having to send (or drive) it back to the UK each year to get it serviced, as there isn't anyone I'd trust down there, but on the up side, this usually means a tour of Europe to get it back down again
k.On the car side, the main problem for me is having to send (or drive) it back to the UK each year to get it serviced, as there isn't anyone I'd trust down there, but on the up side, this usually means a tour of Europe to get it back down again
I guess life he is O.K. if you can ignore being woken at 3 in the morning by the bin trucks, and the overflowing bottlebanks being emptied into a tipper, or woken on a Saturday and Sunday morning by strimmers, chainsaws, shotguns, or two stroke leaf blowers, followed behind by the sweeping machine with a hole in the back, blowing out the shyte it's just swept up back into the air.
Or if you don't mind the constant barking of the neighbours dogs and stepping over dogst on the footpaths.
Nieghbours shouting from thier 5th floor balcony to thier kids in the pool, or thier mates in the street.
The all inclusive scumbag hotels pumping out the crap entertainment at 1,000,000db untill midnight.
The pink fat drunken puking tourists, screaming abuse at each other at 3 in the morning in the street, outside your apartment.
Not being able to do anything to your property without paying for a licence which takes forever to get, if you can get one at all, and having to have a contactor quote a project to do it.
Supermarkets with a dozen tills and only one of them manned, so it takes 40 minutes to buy a loaf of bread.
People throwing shyte out of the car window at the traffic lights.
Zero customer service.
Worst of all, zero mods to your car or bike!
And as mentioned above, roads like a quarry.
I could go on, and on, and on!
Give me a quiet rural village in Britain. It's the best country in the world if the sun would shine!
What price we pay for a bit of sun?
Or if you don't mind the constant barking of the neighbours dogs and stepping over dogs
t on the footpaths.Nieghbours shouting from thier 5th floor balcony to thier kids in the pool, or thier mates in the street.
The all inclusive scumbag hotels pumping out the crap entertainment at 1,000,000db untill midnight.
The pink fat drunken puking tourists, screaming abuse at each other at 3 in the morning in the street, outside your apartment.
Not being able to do anything to your property without paying for a licence which takes forever to get, if you can get one at all, and having to have a contactor quote a project to do it.
Supermarkets with a dozen tills and only one of them manned, so it takes 40 minutes to buy a loaf of bread.
People throwing shyte out of the car window at the traffic lights.
Zero customer service.
Worst of all, zero mods to your car or bike!
And as mentioned above, roads like a quarry.
I could go on, and on, and on!
Give me a quiet rural village in Britain. It's the best country in the world if the sun would shine!
What price we pay for a bit of sun?
If exotic car hire companies in Spain operate in the same way as normal ones then you could be in for a shock when you get the final bill. It seems to be more like booking a Ryanair flight now, whereby the price you see is a long way off what you finally end up paying 
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I have used PH for years, but only the classified section. Always end up dreaming about the quality, price and choice of cars in the UK when compared to the garbage here in Spain. Cars here always seem to be "1 owner", have suspect mileage, no service history and be older than advertised. Saw an E39 M5 advertised as 2003, but it was a pre facelift model which puts it at year 2000 at the latest.
Been looking through lots of old Spain threads on here, and agree with many comments about life here these days - particularly from a motoring perspective.
Parking shunts, hazard light use and double or triple parking, unbelievable roundabout practices, tailgating, rubbish out windows, cutting into your space in front of you on a motorway and taking it personally when you overtake somebody
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Other classics are, when in tailbacks on the motorway, people pull off at a junction, race at full speed on the slip road and then barge their way back onto the motorway again. People seem to feel this is a legitimate practice. Failure to stop at red lights too is commonplace. I have seen me approach traffic lights and go through just as they are on amber and about to go to red, thinking "phew", just made it. When looking in the rear view mirror I observe that the 3 or 4 cars behind have also followed me through
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I too have fallen foul of the no modding law on the ITV test here. This has really done my head in over the years
. I attempted to upgrade my Vectra to GSI spec with standard parts from the UK. As the GSI was not sold in Spain they did not recognise it and failed me on suspension (too low), bumper, spoiler, exhaust backbox and many other things including air filter. Especially annoying when you see the tat that they let through plus all the boy racers with their extra BHP tuning boxes on their diesels pass the test without a hitch 
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Sorry for long rant
. Think I still just about prefer living here compared to the UK 
, but much closer than it was when we arrived 12 years ago. Could not move even if we wanted to due to house and children's education.
.I have used PH for years, but only the classified section. Always end up dreaming about the quality, price and choice of cars in the UK when compared to the garbage here in Spain. Cars here always seem to be "1 owner", have suspect mileage, no service history and be older than advertised. Saw an E39 M5 advertised as 2003, but it was a pre facelift model which puts it at year 2000 at the latest.
Been looking through lots of old Spain threads on here, and agree with many comments about life here these days - particularly from a motoring perspective
.Parking shunts, hazard light use and double or triple parking, unbelievable roundabout practices, tailgating, rubbish out windows, cutting into your space in front of you on a motorway and taking it personally when you overtake somebody
.Other classics are, when in tailbacks on the motorway, people pull off at a junction, race at full speed on the slip road and then barge their way back onto the motorway again. People seem to feel this is a legitimate practice. Failure to stop at red lights too is commonplace. I have seen me approach traffic lights and go through just as they are on amber and about to go to red, thinking "phew", just made it. When looking in the rear view mirror I observe that the 3 or 4 cars behind have also followed me through
.I too have fallen foul of the no modding law on the ITV test here. This has really done my head in over the years
. I attempted to upgrade my Vectra to GSI spec with standard parts from the UK. As the GSI was not sold in Spain they did not recognise it and failed me on suspension (too low), bumper, spoiler, exhaust backbox and many other things including air filter. Especially annoying when you see the tat that they let through plus all the boy racers with their extra BHP tuning boxes on their diesels pass the test without a hitch .Sorry for long rant
. Think I still just about prefer living here compared to the UK , but much closer than it was when we arrived 12 years ago. Could not move even if we wanted to due to house and children's education.Edited by el romeral on Saturday 15th December 12:26
There are lots of nice places in Spain. Including Mallorca.
Don't get me wrong, it's beautifull, and the climate is great, but there's a price!
As above, driving practices are shocking.
Only yesterday I had a driving school car try to cut in front of me to turn right, from the left hand lane on a roundabout. I wanted to go straight on from the right hand lane as is propper.
He wasn't even indicating, and he gave me the horn and waving arms! FFS! And that's supposed to be a driving instructor!
Property is expensive in Madrid, Mallorca and Barcelona to name a couple.
The quality of the construction is crap too. No damp courses or DPM in the floors. Single hollow block walls, or the terracotta blocks that burglers find easier to knock a hole in with a scoffold pole, rather than force a window.
I've travelled extensively, been around the world twice, up to Novascotia, Newfoundland, both coasts of the U.S and Canada, been up to Alaska, Down to the Keys, seen a fair bit of Australia (Cairns, Darwin, Syney, Lord Howe Island)
Spent 3 months in NZ, two 6 month stints in Hamburg, most of the Med, been to Galapagos twice, Coco Islands off Costa Rica, Brazil, Columbia, up and down the Caribbean Islands countless times, sailed accross the Pacific to Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Vanauatu, through Malaysia, Thailand, Sri lanka, Maldives, North Africa, Red Sea, 5 times through Panama, to name a few I can remember
I also lived on mainland Spain near Estepona for over 4 years.
I didn't leave U.K because I didn't like it, but because I wanted to see what was out there, and I sort of ended up in Mallorca.
Not sure if I'll end up back in the U.K yet, but I still think it's the best place in the world
I've invested in a lot here, so I want to enjoy what I've fought for over the last 10 years.
Spain's nice, but it's still busted arse and third world.
Admin here isn't here to help, but hinder and extract money.
I just have to put my dark glasses on, and look the other way.
So if you want my advice, don't settle anywhere untill you've travelled a bit and seen what it's all really about
As for hiring exotica, get yourself on a Jonothan palmer driving experience day http://www.palmersport.com/ you'll have the time of your life!
Don't get me wrong, it's beautifull, and the climate is great, but there's a price!
As above, driving practices are shocking.
Only yesterday I had a driving school car try to cut in front of me to turn right, from the left hand lane on a roundabout. I wanted to go straight on from the right hand lane as is propper.
He wasn't even indicating, and he gave me the horn and waving arms! FFS! And that's supposed to be a driving instructor!
Property is expensive in Madrid, Mallorca and Barcelona to name a couple.
The quality of the construction is crap too. No damp courses or DPM in the floors. Single hollow block walls, or the terracotta blocks that burglers find easier to knock a hole in with a scoffold pole, rather than force a window.
I've travelled extensively, been around the world twice, up to Novascotia, Newfoundland, both coasts of the U.S and Canada, been up to Alaska, Down to the Keys, seen a fair bit of Australia (Cairns, Darwin, Syney, Lord Howe Island)
Spent 3 months in NZ, two 6 month stints in Hamburg, most of the Med, been to Galapagos twice, Coco Islands off Costa Rica, Brazil, Columbia, up and down the Caribbean Islands countless times, sailed accross the Pacific to Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Vanauatu, through Malaysia, Thailand, Sri lanka, Maldives, North Africa, Red Sea, 5 times through Panama, to name a few I can remember
I also lived on mainland Spain near Estepona for over 4 years.
I didn't leave U.K because I didn't like it, but because I wanted to see what was out there, and I sort of ended up in Mallorca.
Not sure if I'll end up back in the U.K yet, but I still think it's the best place in the world
I've invested in a lot here, so I want to enjoy what I've fought for over the last 10 years.
Spain's nice, but it's still busted arse and third world.
Admin here isn't here to help, but hinder and extract money.
I just have to put my dark glasses on, and look the other way.
So if you want my advice, don't settle anywhere untill you've travelled a bit and seen what it's all really about
As for hiring exotica, get yourself on a Jonothan palmer driving experience day http://www.palmersport.com/ you'll have the time of your life!
mickrick said:
There are lots of nice places in Spain. Including Mallorca.
Don't get me wrong, it's beautifull, and the climate is great, but there's a price!
As above, driving practices are shocking.
Only yesterday I had a driving school car try to cut in front of me to turn right, from the left hand lane on a roundabout. I wanted to go straight on from the right hand lane as is propper.
He wasn't even indicating, and he gave me the horn and waving arms! FFS! And that's supposed to be a driving instructor!
Property is expensive in Madrid, Mallorca and Barcelona to name a couple.
The quality of the construction is crap too. No damp courses or DPM in the floors. Single hollow block walls, or the terracotta blocks that burglers find easier to knock a hole in with a scoffold pole, rather than force a window.
I've travelled extensively, been around the world twice, up to Novascotia, Newfoundland, both coasts of the U.S and Canada, been up to Alaska, Down to the Keys, seen a fair bit of Australia (Cairns, Darwin, Syney, Lord Howe Island)
Spent 3 months in NZ, two 6 month stints in Hamburg, most of the Med, been to Galapagos twice, Coco Islands off Costa Rica, Brazil, Columbia, up and down the Caribbean Islands countless times, sailed accross the Pacific to Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Vanauatu, through Malaysia, Thailand, Sri lanka, Maldives, North Africa, Red Sea, 5 times through Panama, to name a few I can remember
I also lived on mainland Spain near Estepona for over 4 years.
I didn't leave U.K because I didn't like it, but because I wanted to see what was out there, and I sort of ended up in Mallorca.
Not sure if I'll end up back in the U.K yet, but I still think it's the best place in the world
I've invested in a lot here, so I want to enjoy what I've fought for over the last 10 years.
Spain's nice, but it's still busted arse and third world.
Admin here isn't here to help, but hinder and extract money.
I just have to put my dark glasses on, and look the other way.
So if you want my advice, don't settle anywhere untill you've travelled a bit and seen what it's all really about
As for hiring exotica, get yourself on a Jonothan palmer driving experience day http://www.palmersport.com/ you'll have the time of your life!
Cheers. We're looking to buy out of the uk as its so expensive here. Everything is ridiculously overpriced. Might look at a place near nurburg ring. We both have lived in Germany before so nothing new to us there. It's just a bigger better version of the UK. Just a tad boring for meDon't get me wrong, it's beautifull, and the climate is great, but there's a price!
As above, driving practices are shocking.
Only yesterday I had a driving school car try to cut in front of me to turn right, from the left hand lane on a roundabout. I wanted to go straight on from the right hand lane as is propper.
He wasn't even indicating, and he gave me the horn and waving arms! FFS! And that's supposed to be a driving instructor!
Property is expensive in Madrid, Mallorca and Barcelona to name a couple.
The quality of the construction is crap too. No damp courses or DPM in the floors. Single hollow block walls, or the terracotta blocks that burglers find easier to knock a hole in with a scoffold pole, rather than force a window.
I've travelled extensively, been around the world twice, up to Novascotia, Newfoundland, both coasts of the U.S and Canada, been up to Alaska, Down to the Keys, seen a fair bit of Australia (Cairns, Darwin, Syney, Lord Howe Island)
Spent 3 months in NZ, two 6 month stints in Hamburg, most of the Med, been to Galapagos twice, Coco Islands off Costa Rica, Brazil, Columbia, up and down the Caribbean Islands countless times, sailed accross the Pacific to Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Vanauatu, through Malaysia, Thailand, Sri lanka, Maldives, North Africa, Red Sea, 5 times through Panama, to name a few I can remember
I also lived on mainland Spain near Estepona for over 4 years.
I didn't leave U.K because I didn't like it, but because I wanted to see what was out there, and I sort of ended up in Mallorca.
Not sure if I'll end up back in the U.K yet, but I still think it's the best place in the world
I've invested in a lot here, so I want to enjoy what I've fought for over the last 10 years.
Spain's nice, but it's still busted arse and third world.
Admin here isn't here to help, but hinder and extract money.
I just have to put my dark glasses on, and look the other way.
So if you want my advice, don't settle anywhere untill you've travelled a bit and seen what it's all really about
As for hiring exotica, get yourself on a Jonothan palmer driving experience day http://www.palmersport.com/ you'll have the time of your life!
I was in U.K two weeks ago, and I thought the property was cheap.
I have seen a lovelly 4/5 bedroom detached with a big double garage, loft over the top, beautifull country outlook 410,000.
I paid that for a 30 year old property here needing reform.
I stopped counting the cost of the reform at €200, and it's just about finished.
Since I bought the property 4 semi's have been built overlooking it, in an area where there where only single story villa's.
So that's 8 pools ajoining our property. The plots aren't supposed to be split. It was a single vacant plot.
They don't confirm to the normativa's, but when I enquired at the town hall about the hight, (they have roof terraces, and the drawings showed a pitched roof) I was told that plot is in a different zone so they're allowed to go two stories.
I believe they got around splitting the plot by saying it's a community. But they are clearly seperate dwellings.
Houses are also supposed to be built in keeping with the surrounding area, or so it says on the licence's I've had to get for everything, (including rebuilding a garden wall!) these are modern grey concrete block monstrosities
It just so happens one of the people involved in the construction, who took one of the houses as payment for his work, works for town hall planning....
The architect took another.
So I have to pretend that the people on the rooftops can't see my wife and I by our pool.
See what I mean about corruption?
I have seen a lovelly 4/5 bedroom detached with a big double garage, loft over the top, beautifull country outlook 410,000.
I paid that for a 30 year old property here needing reform.
I stopped counting the cost of the reform at €200, and it's just about finished.
Since I bought the property 4 semi's have been built overlooking it, in an area where there where only single story villa's.
So that's 8 pools ajoining our property. The plots aren't supposed to be split. It was a single vacant plot.
They don't confirm to the normativa's, but when I enquired at the town hall about the hight, (they have roof terraces, and the drawings showed a pitched roof) I was told that plot is in a different zone so they're allowed to go two stories.
I believe they got around splitting the plot by saying it's a community. But they are clearly seperate dwellings.
Houses are also supposed to be built in keeping with the surrounding area, or so it says on the licence's I've had to get for everything, (including rebuilding a garden wall!) these are modern grey concrete block monstrosities
It just so happens one of the people involved in the construction, who took one of the houses as payment for his work, works for town hall planning....
The architect took another.
So I have to pretend that the people on the rooftops can't see my wife and I by our pool.
See what I mean about corruption?
mickrick said:
I was in U.K two weeks ago, and I thought the property was cheap.
I have seen a lovelly 4/5 bedroom detached with a big double garage, loft over the top, beautifull country outlook 410,000.
I paid that for a 30 year old property here needing reform.
I stopped counting the cost of the reform at €200, and it's just about finished.
Since I bought the property 4 semi's have been built overlooking it, in an area where there where only single story villa's.
So that's 8 pools ajoining our property. The plots aren't supposed to be split. It was a single vacant plot.
They don't confirm to the normativa's, but when I enquired at the town hall about the hight, (they have roof terraces, and the drawings showed a pitched roof) I was told that plot is in a different zone so they're allowed to go two stories.
I believe they got around splitting the plot by saying it's a community. But they are clearly seperate dwellings.
Houses are also supposed to be built in keeping with the surrounding area, or so it says on the licence's I've had to get for everything, (including rebuilding a garden wall!) these are modern grey concrete block monstrosities
It just so happens one of the people involved in the construction, who took one of the houses as payment for his work, works for town hall planning....
The architect took another.
So I have to pretend that the people on the rooftops can't see my wife and I by our pool.
See what I mean about corruption?
Fair enough. Bad times then. Still gonna go ob holiday there though I have seen a lovelly 4/5 bedroom detached with a big double garage, loft over the top, beautifull country outlook 410,000.
I paid that for a 30 year old property here needing reform.
I stopped counting the cost of the reform at €200, and it's just about finished.
Since I bought the property 4 semi's have been built overlooking it, in an area where there where only single story villa's.
So that's 8 pools ajoining our property. The plots aren't supposed to be split. It was a single vacant plot.
They don't confirm to the normativa's, but when I enquired at the town hall about the hight, (they have roof terraces, and the drawings showed a pitched roof) I was told that plot is in a different zone so they're allowed to go two stories.
I believe they got around splitting the plot by saying it's a community. But they are clearly seperate dwellings.
Houses are also supposed to be built in keeping with the surrounding area, or so it says on the licence's I've had to get for everything, (including rebuilding a garden wall!) these are modern grey concrete block monstrosities
It just so happens one of the people involved in the construction, who took one of the houses as payment for his work, works for town hall planning....
The architect took another.
So I have to pretend that the people on the rooftops can't see my wife and I by our pool.
See what I mean about corruption?
. Spain has been corrupt ever since the word was invented and will be for evermore,especially at the rate the country is going, I fully endorse with everything that has been said by Mick and after living in various parts of Spain for 25yrs left one year ago and I am very happy that I did unfortunately.
OP as regards costs for getting backwards and forwards by ferry at around £250, if you wish to live in the Balearics then you need to factor in some serious money for getting vehicles back and forwards to these Islands plus the inconveinience of crap ships and careless operators, and lot more that £250.
Hows tricks in Mallorca Mick, not so hot by the looks of your post, not good m8, hope that something turns up for you.
I've found that Electricity is peanuts to pay here as opposed to Ibiza and that I still end up wih money in my account at the end of each month, how strange not to have an empty cupboard, and water is peanuts as well,Insurances loads cheaper, Income Tax about the same.
But after all these years really miss not having a selection of fish & mariscos like Spain.
OP as regards costs for getting backwards and forwards by ferry at around £250, if you wish to live in the Balearics then you need to factor in some serious money for getting vehicles back and forwards to these Islands plus the inconveinience of crap ships and careless operators, and lot more that £250.
Hows tricks in Mallorca Mick, not so hot by the looks of your post, not good m8, hope that something turns up for you.
I've found that Electricity is peanuts to pay here as opposed to Ibiza and that I still end up wih money in my account at the end of each month, how strange not to have an empty cupboard, and water is peanuts as well,Insurances loads cheaper, Income Tax about the same.
But after all these years really miss not having a selection of fish & mariscos like Spain.
Edited by Kneetrembler on Sunday 16th December 11:53
Not sure how we got from car hire to living standards but I fully endorse everything that is said about Spain. Myself a fluent Spanish speaker with half Latin blood have found it difficult to live there. I have recent,y come back from Madrid and I can say that getting on the ferry to come back to the UK was a feeling of relief.
More on the topic of cars, I had cause to hire a vehicle and I was to collect it from Atocha. I was advices that there was a company reasonably priced called Pepe cars I think it was. I made the booking and that was there. I arrived at the train station to find that Pepe cars did not have an office and that they were and intermediary. Furthermore they did not say anything about who was the supplying company "Avis, Eurocar, Hertz". I had to guess which and after passing by two of the offices it was Hertz.
Did the paperwork and asked about the excess waiver. Well I got stung bad. They said that as the vehicle was rented via Pepe cars, they could not arrange to have the excess waived even though I was willing to pay the 13 EUROS per day. This was considering that Pepe cars had advised that it was possible to have the excess waived.
I still have a few things to do there and going back is hard. I feel that when I am there that the environment is negative and oppressive. Everything that is agreed is double checked to make sure that we are talking of the same hymn sheet and get things on paper. It is a shame that the country is in such bad shape.
More on the topic of cars, I had cause to hire a vehicle and I was to collect it from Atocha. I was advices that there was a company reasonably priced called Pepe cars I think it was. I made the booking and that was there. I arrived at the train station to find that Pepe cars did not have an office and that they were and intermediary. Furthermore they did not say anything about who was the supplying company "Avis, Eurocar, Hertz". I had to guess which and after passing by two of the offices it was Hertz.
Did the paperwork and asked about the excess waiver. Well I got stung bad. They said that as the vehicle was rented via Pepe cars, they could not arrange to have the excess waived even though I was willing to pay the 13 EUROS per day. This was considering that Pepe cars had advised that it was possible to have the excess waived.
I still have a few things to do there and going back is hard. I feel that when I am there that the environment is negative and oppressive. Everything that is agreed is double checked to make sure that we are talking of the same hymn sheet and get things on paper. It is a shame that the country is in such bad shape.
mickrick said:
I guess life he is O.K. if you can ignore being woken at 3 in the morning by the bin trucks, and the overflowing bottlebanks being emptied into a tipper, or woken on a Saturday and Sunday morning by strimmers, chainsaws, shotguns, or two stroke leaf blowers, followed behind by the sweeping machine with a hole in the back, blowing out the shyte it's just swept up back into the air.
Or if you don't mind the constant barking of the neighbours dogs and stepping over dogst on the footpaths.
Nieghbours shouting from thier 5th floor balcony to thier kids in the pool, or thier mates in the street.
The all inclusive scumbag hotels pumping out the crap entertainment at 1,000,000db untill midnight.
The pink fat drunken puking tourists, screaming abuse at each other at 3 in the morning in the street, outside your apartment.
Not being able to do anything to your property without paying for a licence which takes forever to get, if you can get one at all, and having to have a contactor quote a project to do it.
Supermarkets with a dozen tills and only one of them manned, so it takes 40 minutes to buy a loaf of bread.
People throwing shyte out of the car window at the traffic lights.
Zero customer service.
Worst of all, zero mods to your car or bike!
And as mentioned above, roads like a quarry.
I could go on, and on, and on!
Give me a quiet rural village in Britain. It's the best country in the world if the sun would shine!
What price we pay for a bit of sun?
Nearly all of those listed problems are issues with the area of a country you've chosen, rather than the country itself. Surely most of the above would have been easy to avoid with a little forethought as to where you wanted to live?Or if you don't mind the constant barking of the neighbours dogs and stepping over dogs
t on the footpaths.Nieghbours shouting from thier 5th floor balcony to thier kids in the pool, or thier mates in the street.
The all inclusive scumbag hotels pumping out the crap entertainment at 1,000,000db untill midnight.
The pink fat drunken puking tourists, screaming abuse at each other at 3 in the morning in the street, outside your apartment.
Not being able to do anything to your property without paying for a licence which takes forever to get, if you can get one at all, and having to have a contactor quote a project to do it.
Supermarkets with a dozen tills and only one of them manned, so it takes 40 minutes to buy a loaf of bread.
People throwing shyte out of the car window at the traffic lights.
Zero customer service.
Worst of all, zero mods to your car or bike!
And as mentioned above, roads like a quarry.
I could go on, and on, and on!
Give me a quiet rural village in Britain. It's the best country in the world if the sun would shine!
What price we pay for a bit of sun?
icetea said:
Nearly all of those listed problems are issues with the area of a country you've chosen, rather than the country itself. Surely most of the above would have been easy to avoid with a little forethought as to where you wanted to live?
Can you answer me one question?Do you live in Spain?
Well there's the rub!
I can't comment on Portugal, but I've lived and worked around Gibraltar and Marbella for about 4 years, travelled quite a bit around Spain, I spend quite a lot of time in Barcelona, and my Wife is from Galicia, so we visit regularly.
Going up to visit the outlaws next month actually.
I can tell you, most of the issues I have with living here are pretty much widespread.
The Mayor of the town you own property in will have the final say on any building permissions, hence corruption is rife.
You aren't supposed to do your own building work, you have to have a project from a registered builder.
Build quality is crap, wherever you live.
If you have to park a brand new car in any town is Spain, it will last a week if your lucky, before you pick up a parking ding on either a bumper or a door.
Unless you have €3,000,000 to spend on a house, you will have someone near you with an incessantly barking dog.
I live in an apartment at the moment, so I have to take my car to the garage to clean it. If I wash it in the street, I get a fine.
The comunity rules for the apartment block in which I live don't allow me to wash my car in my private parking space.
(although after a 3 month wait, I finally got my "Obras menor" to build a new garden wall at my house, to allow me to get my vehicle into the property, so I can finally spend Sunday mornings cleaning my car. Yippeee!)
The Spanish people love to go out on a Sunday and shoot at anything that moves.
They can't have a quiet conversation.
The bin men work nights throughout Spain.
Customer service is crap throughout Spain.
You cannot make modifications to your vehicle without lots of paperwork, inspections, and being relieved of your hard earned. But anything that doesn't have eu4 stamped on it, and a certificate of compliance, forget it!
As I said in my earlier posts, the list is endless.
However I agree that the scunbag all inclusive tourist problem could be avoided by moving out of the port, (although I do work in the port, so the location was convenient) which I'm almost ready to do after spending 6 years renovating a house 12 km away.
I'll have got rid of that problem, and replaced it with the incessant barking dogs problem!
Now don't get me wrong, I can moan and moan about it, but I have to suck it up, and at the end of the day, I live in a breathtakingly beautifull place.
In fact I probably appreciate it more than the people who where born here.
That's what pisses me off so much when I see litter tossed out of a car window.
But my point is, living in a place, is not the same as coming on a holiday and sitting at a beachside cafe, and thinking wow! wouldn't it be a great place to live!
It's a great place to come on holiday to sit in the sun.
Working in 40 degrees sucks!
A previous poster has commented as to how a thread about renting a supercar has gotten onto lifestyle.
Well that was the thing, he wants to rent a nice car and spend some time driving around with the intention of maybe comeing here to settle.
He will probably end up loosing the deposit on the car, after someone has opened thier door against it or shunted it.
At the end of the day, my work brought me here, so I'm pretty limited to where I can live. Comparitively, it's not a rough place, one of the more expensive places in Spain behind Madrid, so your money doesn't buy you a lot.
My Wife says she doesn't want to get old here, so if I could get what I wanted for my property (which I wouldn't at the moment) I would definately consider moving back to U.K.
So untill then I'll wear earplugs and dark glasses!
Yesterday morning we took the dog for a run on the beach. It was lovelly and sunny! I bet many people wheren't doing that in U.K. yesterday.
Today it is raining, cold and windy.
Swings and roundabouts I suppose.
I can't comment on Portugal, but I've lived and worked around Gibraltar and Marbella for about 4 years, travelled quite a bit around Spain, I spend quite a lot of time in Barcelona, and my Wife is from Galicia, so we visit regularly.
Going up to visit the outlaws next month actually.
I can tell you, most of the issues I have with living here are pretty much widespread.
The Mayor of the town you own property in will have the final say on any building permissions, hence corruption is rife.
You aren't supposed to do your own building work, you have to have a project from a registered builder.
Build quality is crap, wherever you live.
If you have to park a brand new car in any town is Spain, it will last a week if your lucky, before you pick up a parking ding on either a bumper or a door.
Unless you have €3,000,000 to spend on a house, you will have someone near you with an incessantly barking dog.
I live in an apartment at the moment, so I have to take my car to the garage to clean it. If I wash it in the street, I get a fine.
The comunity rules for the apartment block in which I live don't allow me to wash my car in my private parking space.
(although after a 3 month wait, I finally got my "Obras menor" to build a new garden wall at my house, to allow me to get my vehicle into the property, so I can finally spend Sunday mornings cleaning my car. Yippeee!)
The Spanish people love to go out on a Sunday and shoot at anything that moves.
They can't have a quiet conversation.
The bin men work nights throughout Spain.
Customer service is crap throughout Spain.
You cannot make modifications to your vehicle without lots of paperwork, inspections, and being relieved of your hard earned. But anything that doesn't have eu4 stamped on it, and a certificate of compliance, forget it!
As I said in my earlier posts, the list is endless.
However I agree that the scunbag all inclusive tourist problem could be avoided by moving out of the port, (although I do work in the port, so the location was convenient) which I'm almost ready to do after spending 6 years renovating a house 12 km away.
I'll have got rid of that problem, and replaced it with the incessant barking dogs problem!
Now don't get me wrong, I can moan and moan about it, but I have to suck it up, and at the end of the day, I live in a breathtakingly beautifull place.
In fact I probably appreciate it more than the people who where born here.
That's what pisses me off so much when I see litter tossed out of a car window.
But my point is, living in a place, is not the same as coming on a holiday and sitting at a beachside cafe, and thinking wow! wouldn't it be a great place to live!
It's a great place to come on holiday to sit in the sun.
Working in 40 degrees sucks!
A previous poster has commented as to how a thread about renting a supercar has gotten onto lifestyle.
Well that was the thing, he wants to rent a nice car and spend some time driving around with the intention of maybe comeing here to settle.
He will probably end up loosing the deposit on the car, after someone has opened thier door against it or shunted it.
At the end of the day, my work brought me here, so I'm pretty limited to where I can live. Comparitively, it's not a rough place, one of the more expensive places in Spain behind Madrid, so your money doesn't buy you a lot.
My Wife says she doesn't want to get old here, so if I could get what I wanted for my property (which I wouldn't at the moment) I would definately consider moving back to U.K.
So untill then I'll wear earplugs and dark glasses!
Yesterday morning we took the dog for a run on the beach. It was lovelly and sunny! I bet many people wheren't doing that in U.K. yesterday.
Today it is raining, cold and windy.
Swings and roundabouts I suppose.
Yeah, my point was mainly around the locations - you can't really choose to live near tourist hotels then cry about drunken idiots singing in the streets at 3am I don't suffer that problem here (5 minutes drive away from the beach), but I would have had I chosen an apartment in the marina.
I don't think the other issues are big problems.... rent instead of buying and in a good location and 90%+ of your issues become obsolete overnight.
I don't suffer that problem here (5 minutes drive away from the beach), but I would have had I chosen an apartment in the marina. I don't think the other issues are big problems.... rent instead of buying and in a good location and 90%+ of your issues become obsolete overnight.
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