To get from A to B quickly use the M Motorways where you can sit on 70  miles per hour and also some A routes where you are restricted to 50 miles per hour,  however near large towns and cities you will be moving in dense traffic at peak hours. Check out our National Road Network page.

Hire Car size

Be prepared to pay a lot more for petrol than in Australasia, consider hiring a small sized car to get the economy and to cope easier with the narrow roads and squeezing into the difficult to get into parking spaces. Petrol will probably cost more than the car rental.

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You will find that many cities like Canterbury in Kent offer Park and Ride (you park and pay your parking fee on the outskirts of the City and catch a free bus into the city). You cannot count on the luxury of finding a parking space in the streets of the city, you may get into a parking building, but it can be frustrating and time consuming.

Drivers are much more forgiving than in Australasia and as long as you signal well in advance others will make way for you. It is advisable for one of you to hold a map and navigate whilst the other concentrates on the driving. One wrong turn particularly exiting a motorway can take you miles into the countryside before you can navigate your way back to the motorway.

Whilst in the main the road signs are excellent, from time to time you will loose the connection between the road signs and your map. When this happens just keep driving until you find a road sign that relates to the route you have chosen. You will probably have traffic in front and behind you, so your options to stop and pull over to the side of the road are usually limited.