We have a magical grand gathering planned and want to carpool in a large van; most likely a 12 passenger. Does anyone know of a car rental place that rents them? We have 6 in our family and 4 in other family.
I have called a few places locally here and if they have a 12 passenger van it is outrageous! We live in rural upstate NY and the minimum of about 150 a day! We did find one for about 700 total, it is small company ( my mom actually use to work there) my only problem is they are higher mileage vans. Not sure I want to make a 2000 mile round trip in high mileage van! And because they are small not sure what they could do if we broke down in route? Anybody got ideas or opinions?
Your are most likely going to have to get a 15 passenger ford or chevy van.
These vans are usually not in the normal rental fleet but the commercial rental fleet and are priced accordingly. We needed to rent some and got them from Enterprise.
When you first posted I thought you just wanted one for local WDW travel. Now that you post that its for a 2000 mile trip I think you are going to have to look into alternative travel like Air or maybe train (including the Autotrain).
These vans are generally used for short shuttle work and don't have many creature comforts like arm rests or bucket seats. Remember these vans are based on full size pickup trucks not cars and drive that way, 2 days down and two days back are going to take a toll.
We cannot fly this trip; we usually do but we are taking all 4 kids (including my DH's children) between airfare, baggage fees, a rental car in WDW is must and parking it is outrageous). We have also taken the autotrain before but that alone is 6 hr drive for us. Plus our minivan is on its lasts legs, and my car is to small, so we would have to rent a car anyways.
We thought that all going with all the adults we could take turns and drive straight through and all the kids are older 10 & up so they can enterain each other. I never thought it would be this hard to find a place that rents them.
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