 Poster: A snowHead
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| Bones wrote: |
midgetbiker,
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Your booking is presumably in CAD and I've no idea what the shift on FX is for that
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Nope those prices were £, prior to this years prices, |
No, what I meant was that you booked in £, but the source currency is CAD, so how much of the increase is hire inflation and how much is FX movement would needs the maths running.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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FX movement is neglible really £0.02 approx. difference, between 2019 and 2022 so far
Supply and demand of vehicles is a much bigger deciding factor, which we'll all have to accept - hopefully it will return to a more realistic rate in the future.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Bones, wow, your right. I make the FX movement a bit more than 2p but still single figure %. So that hire inflation is pretty much all real. I wonder why the hike in Canada is so much more severe than US?
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| midgetbiker wrote: |
| @Bones, wow, your right. I make the FX movement a bit more than 2p but still single figure %. So that hire inflation is pretty much all real. I wonder why the hike in Canada is so much more severe than US? |
Not so sure it is, checking US rates a similar story from the price we paid in 2019 to now. Admittedly FX rate might be slightly different but not to that sort of degree.
Got a US mate who was telling me last year that hire rates were 3x what they were pre pandemic 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@anarchicsaltire, I though the main mode of transport in Kefalonia was moped. Very cheap and plentiful to hire I seem to recall. The island is not really large enough to justify a car.
I drove a moped from Lassi to Lixouri and back one day. Great experience in the sunshine, quiet windy roads. (I rarely ride motor bikes)
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£61 a day for small car from Marseille airport in August  I can do without a car, but might check back nearer the time to see if it's radically cheaper.
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I hired a small commercial van recently instead of a hire car as it was 40% cheaper than an economy class.
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| Bigtipper wrote: |
@anarchicsaltire, I though the main mode of transport in Kefalonia was moped. Very cheap and plentiful to hire I seem to recall. The island is not really large enough to justify a car.
I drove a moped from Lassi to Lixouri and back one day. Great experience in the sunshine, quiet windy roads. (I rarely ride motor bikes) |
Yes mopeds, and quads, are available however Linds wasn't keen on a sweaty used helmet.
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Yes, @Snowsartre, a van would be a good alternative. Might look at that.
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@anarchicsaltire, not sure that a helmet was a legal requirement when I hired a moped there. (oops looks like it was) Of course you could take the ferry from Argostoli to Lixouri but why do that when you have hired a moped?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| anarchicsaltire wrote: |
Yes mopeds, and quads, are available however Linds wasn't keen on a sweaty used helmet. |
There are slow pitches and then there is downright trolling....
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Another experience of big last-minute reductions:
I'm flying to Lyon tomorrow for 5 days, and car rental was looking to be around £300 at the very cheapest in total. Checking now for tomorrow pickup, Europcar is offering a VW Polo or Fiat 500X for only £60 for the whole 5 days.
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Useful @musehead, thanks. Will try that for my trip to Marseille next month.
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