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| Subject: Re: Car rental return location with easy London, St Pancras transfer?
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Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:34:48 +0000 (UTC)
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On 26 Mar, 23:02, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:
> "Rupert Candy" wrote:
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> On Mar 26, 6:55 pm, Mizter T wrote:
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> > On 26 Mar, 18:28, "L=FCko Willms" wrote:
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> > > Am Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:32:48 UTC, schrieb "Graham Harrison"
> > > auf uk.railway :
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> > > > Unless you can find a rental office actually at St Pancras
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> > > how about at Ebbsfleet...
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> > You know, I don't actually think there are any car rental facilities
> > at Ebbsfleet, not yet at least. Perhaps there's somewhere in
> > Northfleet, the adjacent town. I'm sure they'll be somewhere in
> > Gravesend.
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> Ah, I knew my visit would be useful! There's an Avis office just
> inside the door at Ebbsfleet.
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> For the information of the OP in California, Ebbsfleet is on the South Eas=
t
> fringe of London. It is a new station that has been built to be served b=
y
> Eurostar trains and to allow people not to have to go into the centre of
> London. To get there from Cookham you would go through Maidenhead to the=
> M4 and head in the direction of London until you got to the M25. You wou=
ld
> follow the M25 anti-clockwise (it runs around London) as far as the A2 and=
> then follow that away from London - on a Sunday morning a bit more than on=
e
> hour. http://www.eurostar.com/UK/uk/leisure/travel_information/at_the_stat=
i...
Two things.
(1) If I was making a journey from Cookham to Ebbsfleet I certainly
wouldn't automatically default to going round the M25, it really is
the long way round. On a sunday morning in particular the traffic
through London is going to be lighter.
(2) I don't really think I'd recommend this option to the OP. If he
wanted to drop his hire car off before getting the Eurostar I'd
suggest doing it somewhere in central London, or at Heathrow if he was
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