"VANSURFING" on 9b ? A new way to share (or rent) "drive & sleep" VANS is already possible

[9b]

When You fly to climb in foreigner countries, it's easy to rent a car.

It's more difficult to find a VAN to rent, such as a Renault Trafic, for example.

(photo by Florence Pinet )

 

 

 

And it's almost impossible to rent a van where You can sleep and cook inside, with a mattress, a "kitchen" and other stuff.

There are the "wicked cars", but their pickup locations are not so many:

for example, in Spain, just Barcellona and Malaga.

On 9b, is already possible (and easy) to extend the "couchsurfing" idea to VANS:
to share for free (o rent) a van with foreigner climbers.

A van owner who wants to share with (or rent to) other climbers his/her van, can edit his/her 9b profile, writing the following informations ("yes share", "yes van"), that are advanced search parameters:

At the same time, a van owner who wants to share (or rent) climbing material to other climbers, can write in his/her 9b profile the following informations ("yes share" and "yes crashpad"), that are advanced search parameters too:

(photo by Bernardo Gimenez)

If an owner of the van wants to legally rent it, he/she needs to:

- buy a specific insurance

- become an individual van renting company to issue invoices

- to matriculate the van for renting use too

Maybe not so convenient if You rent Your own van less than 10 days in a month ?

(Photo by Kevin Jorgeson)

A climber who wants to rent a van can:

- contact the owner of the van founded here in 9b site, sending him/her a private message here on 9b

- exchange with the owner documents such as the contract, identity documents, driving license, credit card photo, ... (email reservation)

- as usual, pay in advance the owner via credit card

- after having paid, receive a document confirming the payment and rights to use the van for the paid period

- give a caution to the owner of the van



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