{"id":816,"date":"2011-09-22T08:33:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T08:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anythingforhire.com\/news\/?p=816"},"modified":"2017-07-20T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T11:45:52","slug":"brits-more-likely-to-hire-a-car-than-catch-public-transport-while-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/brits-more-likely-to-hire-a-car-than-catch-public-transport-while-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits more likely to hire a car than catch public transport while abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-383\" title=\"car-hire-300x195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/car-hire-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Car Hire\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>According to a recent survey, 58% of Brits would rather take out car hire than venture onto a foreign public transport system. The most common reason for shunning the bus or train in favour of car rentals is that 21% say they find foreign public transport systems confusing, while 22% said they avoided it because of problems they might encounter because of the language barrier.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a divide in opinion between older and younger travellers with Brits aged 55 years and over proving to be more adventurous on their travels compared to their younger counterparts. Only 12% of the over 55\u2019s said they had concerns over using public transport while abroad compared to 22% of 18-24 year olds, and the results were very similar when it came to fears over getting lost on foreign public transport systems with only 16% of over 55\u2019s being worried about this issue, in contrast to 27% of younger travellers.<\/p>\n<p>The research was carried out by carhiremarket.com to investigate the feelings of British holidays makers to car hire versus public transport. For 58% of those who took part in the poll, car hire was a more desirable option, especially for families, as there are no restrictions with keeping to set times as there is with public transport. Car hire abroad is also becoming a more affordable option with <a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/hire\/car-hire\">car rental<\/a> starting as little as \u00a38 a day in selected countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent survey, 58% of Brits would rather take out car hire than venture onto a foreign public transport system. The most common reason for shunning the bus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,5,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-car-hire","category-hire-rental-news","category-transport-hire"],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}