The amount of dimension to your trip that a vehicle can add can only be experienced and not said about.
There are lot of apprehensions one has when it comes to doing a road trip. It is obvious but not at all difficult, in fact its much easier than you think. We are here to guide you through the entire process.
Its important to get few things sorted out to ensure continuity and ease in planning. These are:
1. Deciding the Car:
* Total complement of the trip.
– Infant
– Luggage and boot space required
* Budget for Vehicle
– Cost of car
– Cost of Insurance, additional equipment, fuel, tolls and additional drivers if any
*. Automatic or Manual
2. Number of destinations/ Pitstops
* To keep a tap on driving effort, in your preplanning phase decide onto as to whats the maximum kms/ hours you want to travel in day . This can further be adjusted to suit the requirement of place, but will give you a guiding factor and is of importance when you have infant along with you.
Planning:
Once you have the above details, straight away head towards the route planning. One of the easiest and quick way to do this is to plan on Google Maps.
There are other planning websites in market viz
1. Driving Route Planner:
The website does the basic work, but the interface could have been better
https://www.drivingrouteplanner.com
2. My Route Online The best thing about this website is that you can upload your route from Ms Excel and after planning you can export the same to google maps.
https://www.myrouteonline.com/
3. ViaMichelin. A wholly owned subsidiary of the Michelin Group and our personal favourite, ViaMichelin designs, develops and markets digital travel assistance products and services for road user in Europe. Best part of this website is the interface, which is as smooth as google maps at the same time providing quite accurate fuel and toll costs.
Now once you are done with all the calculations and have the rough route plan of the trip, its time to head for booking the Car of your choice.
PROTIP: When travelling in your europe and your planned trip exceeds 21 days, instead of renting one can go with leasing the car, it costs much cheaper than the regular cars, continue to follow us for further details.
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