Hyundai UK must be very proud of itself, because it dropped a press release about a Northampton cabbie, his son, and the Hyundai i800 van (or MPV) they drive to Barcelona in order to pick up some vacationers and their baggage. I guess this recent volcanic ash situation has been good for someone...
Garry Smith, the owner, explains, "We got the call at 9.30am on Tuesday and were on the road within an hour to collect four people. I took my son Ben so we could share the driving and booked the Eurotunnel crossing on route. When the passengers heard what car we were in they asked if we could take six people which because of the car, we were happy to do."
The 2,500 (UK) mile trip took two days and would have cost the stranded family £4,600.05 or US$7,050 (DAMN), except that both parties agreed on a fixed fee of £1,850 or US$2,830 (whew). That breaks down to around £300 per passenger. Why so much less?
Garry said it was because ""it wouldn't really be fair to charge them the meter rate". So decent people still do exist.
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In Portugal I saw I the news similar cases, most of them were Portugal to France,the cost was 2000/3000€.
A couple from Finland had another idea, bought a cheap (3000€) car in Algarve and went driving instead of renting a car or a taxi, in the end they can sell the car!
@Anon - funny you mention people buying a cheap car and driving back, I was considering doing the same thing had I not been able to get back!
That´s nothing compared to this (in german):
http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/chronik/vulkan/2337037/um-14-000-euro-dem-taxi-schweden-nach-italien.story
Short version: 4 Italian Ski-tourists have to get back home and take a cab from Tromsö/Sweden to Milano/Italy. Cost: 14,000 € = 18,738.30 USD
Tromsø not Tromsö is still not in Sweden :-)
We in Norway have still not heard about any Swedish invasion..............
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