UK – Malaga Removalists (bike transport)
Thanks to a tip-off ABR I got Roy Trevor (aka: Moving Matters) to transport my bike to their depot near Malaga. The cost for collection from my place in South London to pick up two weeks later was 520 euro + an optional 60 euro insurance (did not use).
I think they do the run every 10 days or so between their UK hub on Merseyside.
I specified the earliest collection date, a phone number and identified an accessible spot in the nearby park where the lorry could stop, to save jamming itself in our street.
Unfortunately, the bus-sized Roy Trevor lorry turned up there anyway without warning 2 days early with my bike still in its pyjamas. They’d been given none of my information, just my address.
I led them to the park, packed my bike in a hurry and a couple of weeks later collected it from their depot on the edge of Fuengirola, about 30km down the coast from Malaga towards Algeciras.
The bike was under some blankets and in the same condition I'd left it.
They’d offered a hotel delivery for another 50 euros, but I figured better go to the bike than possibly wait hours for a van to turn up.
So - all's well that ends well.
Next time, arriving on a late Easyjet, instead of overnighting in the crumby hinterland near Malaga airport, I’d train straight from the airport station to Fuengirola (30 mins, end of the line; 3 euro), and overnight there. A taxi from FG train station to the Roy T depot (3.4km) was 9 euro.
I dare say there are other UK-Malaga removalists who could do the same job.
Hope it’s of use to someone.
Last edited by Chris Scott; 10 Feb 2020 at 11:23.
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