# Southampton, Hampshire

URL: https://performanceandprestige.co.uk/car-hire/southampton

Performance & Prestige has no depot, branch or rental counter in Southampton and holds no premises there. Every hire is delivered to an address you choose and collected from it afterwards.

Southampton hires cluster around the water and the New Forest: a car for boat show week, a weekend at a marina on the Hamble, a wedding out towards Lymington. We deliver into the city, to Chilworth, Bassett and Chandler's Ford, along the Solent shore, and out to Beaulieu and Brockenhurst, then collect at the end. The port side of the city runs on controlled access and the forest side runs on cattle grids, and those are two entirely different handovers. We hold no premises in Southampton, so there is no key to queue for and nothing to bring back to anyone.

Typical delivery: The port is what makes this place unusual. Cruise turnaround days put coaches and taxis onto the dock approaches in numbers, and the terminals are controlled-access sites where a handover has to be arranged at a named gate rather than improvised on arrival. Away from the water, Chilworth and Chandler's Ford are ordinary driveway handovers with far fewer moving parts. Someone confirms the timing with you directly, and it is settled between us before the booking stands.

Marina and terminal addresses have gates, passes and defined drop-off points, so we agree the exact entrance beforehand and take a name to give at the barrier - arriving at the wrong gate on a working dock is a very long way round. On the forest side the problem is different: cattle grids mark the boundary, the roads inside are unfenced, and animals stand in them at any hour. Chilworth, Bassett and Chandler's Ford are simple driveway handovers. If your address sits inside the forest, tell us what the last stretch is like before the day.

Postcode areas covered: SO.

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*Pre-launch note: the rates, driver criteria, deposits, excesses and mileage allowances quoted here are read from Performance & Prestige's own catalogue data, which is still being confirmed with the owner and the insurer. Read them as the shape of the figures rather than as a quotation. What binds is your written quote and your hire agreement.*