Another riff on the transport from Stansted theme

[pensnest]

My brother communicated with me a couple of days ago, and, it turns out, is actually quite keen to do a bit of chauffeuring of ladies from Stansted to Ludlow and back again. It looks as though he's planning on hiring a car anyway, and will be going on to North Wales, and would find it very handy to have passengers to share the cost a bit, even if it does mean a bit of a detour.

So, would those of you who could drive a hire car actually prefer to go with this option? It'll still mean nopseud and archie_gremlin would be driving across to collect some of you, but it would save the right-hand-drivers from having to left-hand-drive. If you'd like to do this, can I suggest that as a starting point for costs, we figure out what the cost for a smallish hire car would have been, and use that as a basis for Mike's payment? I assume that gets added into the petrol costs for nopseud and her man, and divided equally among those getting a lift, yes?

Comments

[nopseud]

How big a car is he planning to hire? It would be really helpful if he could get a hatchback so we'll be able to fit all the luggage in.

Also, what day does he need to go back? It looks like we're going to need one car to go back Sunday, and two on Monday.

[pensnest]

He likes to drive quite a large car - being 6'2" and broad - but I'll check with him about luggage room, anyway.

Also, Monday return journey seems to work for him, he was talking about taking several days off.

[nopseud]

Excellent! That all sounds very promising :-)