Friday, December 7, 2012

Traveling to Spain, July 3-17, How is Public Transportation or should I rent a car?

Q. Could rent auto if need to but if public transportation is good by train/bus. Would like to experience as a native and not a tourist.My plans are to do it as cheap as possible.Looking for housing,sites to see,eating places,transportation,etc. My plan is to follow coast line after sightseeing in Madrid go to Santander, Gijon,La Coruna,Vigo, Sevilla back to Madrid,has anyone done this? Have 15 days to travel. Is this too much. Thanks

A. I wanted to say that Madrid - Galicia - Sevilla - Madrid would be a lot of driving, I think for the average person it would be cheaper to fly or to get a train or coach than the cost of fuel.

It is driving to the other end's of the country. Think of train prices are 50� for each stop, sometimes there more sometimes there less. and fuel is (has gone up) to around 95cent a litre now (At the Hypermarkets) the branded fuels are as much as 1�+ (Still cheaper than last Summer!)

So if you did want to work out the prices you can now. Also some rental car companies wouldn't allow you to drive this amount of kilometers.

15 days, could even be not enough.

www.spainair.es
www.iberia.es -- cheap airlines that fly inside Spain, prices are from FREE (you pay 40� for the tax) to 300� !

www.hertz.es - a car rential company, there are others but this is one I know.

www.renfe.es - the train company

coaches... there are MANY diffrent companies, so you'd need to look at them from travel sites etc.

Have a nice time, you could stay in Hostels and Motels - a brand of motels is www.ac.hotelsearch.com there are others also - there are some others.

You'd be here for San Ferms (Running of the Bulls) if you wanted to see it for a day, you can sleep in your rental car. take a shower at the free shower points across the city. It is in Navarra - North East Spain, near France.

and rember you don't have to rent a car for the entire trip, if the train from Madrid to Santander was maybe over 100� per-person but it only cost 50� a day to rent the car and around 100� for fuel, then you could rent a car for this part of the trip. & most companies you can take the car back to a diffrent place you rented it from


& Travel light - Have a nice time


Minimum age to rent a house,apt,villa, etc. and minimum drinking age?
Q. Im 17 and planning on either going to cancun mexico or somewhere in Italy this summer with a couple of friends. Also is it really expensive to rent in Italy?

A. it depends where and when, and of course which kind of apartment you're looking for; usually an apartment for three or four person in a city like Florence or Rome cost near like a cheap three stars hotel (or a good two stars) in the same city per day.
the real issue is dollar and pund (I don't know where you're from :) are today weak currencies, while euro is strong, so the exchange rate is not good for tourists from the US or the UK.
Drinking age: informations about Italy (along with Spain) are usually the most controversial and often incorrectly reported on the internet: in Italy there isn't a minimum drinking age stated by law, and not even a purchasing age (although the biggest chain of supermarkets in Italy self-applied an 18 limit); the only limit by law: is not possible to serve alcoholic drinks to minor of 16 in public places (during the last couple of years warning signs reporting this limit has been enforced in most provinces; anyway remember the law is the same all around te Country).


what happens if i dont pay my rent and just leave my apartment?
Q. im a college student, i live in a shitty house with bare maintenance, landlord sucks like the rest of them who try to take advantage of college student. but heres the situation, im a F1 international student, without a ssn so if i just pack all my stuff and leave and not pay any more rent, what will happen to me? will it go on record if i do get a ssn one day? he also made us signed a lease gurantee from our parents.

A. this sounds terrible but, i ditched a month of rent in spain and just left. nothing ever happened to me. i don't think you have to worry about the ssn, how on earth would they know?! it depends on the lease guarantee though, maybe your parents put down some kind of financial information? like a credit card or bank number? an international lawsuit for your rent would probably be costly and very time consuming for your landlord. but, if your landlord habitually rents to international students, he probably has some experience in this area and may have a backup plan. anyways, if you believe in karma, then i would say just pay the rent. i don't and i skipped out and nothing ever happened to me.


is their any rent support in spain for older people below pension age with a disibility?
Q. im going to spain to look for work my wife has uk disibility benefits is their help with your rent

is their social housing in spain ?
or low cost long term lets ?

A. If your wife is claiming UK disability allowance, she can still receive that when you mover to Spain, and any other EU country. However, you must notify the benefits people before you go. Check out the following website for the information you require.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/BritonsLivingAbroad/Moneyabroad/DG_4000102

You won't receive any support in Spain other than what you get from the UK. It may be that you will lose your NHS entitlement, but that being the case, the social services may give you an E121 so you can get medical treatment whilst you are here in Spain.





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