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GlowQueen140 t1_jdi27fq wrote

Reply to comment by ShadowDV in TIFU by booking my flight and having an adventure by Crylysis

Not to mention the United States is ONE country as opposed to renting a car and crossing different country borders with different laws and regulations involving rental vehicles. Also, London is right hand drive and Spain is left hand drive, not to mention the countries in between both, so that might be an issue as well. Lastly, which rental company would allow you to rent a car from country A and leave it in country B without having to pay a fortune for retrieval or something?

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ShadowDV t1_jdi4mo0 wrote

That’s why I called it the American solution.

I assumed the EU would have some mechanism in place to make it viable, but damn, just checked the one way rental prices from Calais to Spain (didn’t even think about the left/right driving), and the rental fee is 65USD/day, but a one-way fee of $978 and $208 in sales tax. For a Fiat 500 manual….

I see now.

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InvincibleJellyfish t1_jdijdvl wrote

UK is not in the EU

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ShadowDV t1_jdijhuy wrote

Last I checked Calais is though.

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InvincibleJellyfish t1_jdijsfx wrote

My point is that it's probably almost impossible to do with a rental car from UK.

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ShadowDV t1_jdijwoo wrote

Read my post you replied to, I realized that.

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MonsiuerGeneral t1_jdifwiy wrote

> Also, London is right hand drive and Spain is left hand drive, not to mention the countries in between both, so that might be an issue as well.

The idea of driving on the other (wrong) side of the road is already weird enough... I can't imagine swapping between left lane/right lane driving during the same trip. Sounds pretty awful tbh.

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ferozliciosa t1_jdpsj9i wrote

'Muricans simply do not worry about these trivial details /s

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dysphoric_amalgam t1_jdims3h wrote

How does the switchover happen? Is there like a junction point where the road just splits and reforms?

This is confusing as hell to me.

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MattGeddon t1_jdjc1xf wrote

The UK is an island, so there is no switchover. But in other places where it changes, yeah there’s a big junction where the roads switch sides.

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ShadowDV t1_jdl8p74 wrote

It’s an island with a Chunnel to the mainland… the switchover absolutely happens.

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keslol t1_jdlv61f wrote

best example you can see is probs the lotus bridge in macau

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