Car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava

From €22 per day, Rent-Trip rents out 125 cars in Roses and Empuriabrava on the Costa Brava — from Economy hatchbacks to Convertibles, SUVs and Passenger vans. We deliver the car to any address in the Costa Brava towns we have a page for, and to Girona-Costa Brava Airport (GRO) and Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN).

Do you need a car on the Costa Brava, and how car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava works

Why car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava beats relying on resort-to-resort transport

Plan the car around the day trips you actually want — Cap de Creus, Pals and Peratallada, the Garrotxa volcanic zone — and treat the beach as the base, not the destination.

How car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava works when the car comes to you

We deliver the car to any address in the Costa Brava towns we have a page for and to Girona-Costa Brava Airport (GRO) and Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN).

• Address delivery: give the hotel, apartment or villa address, and we bring the car there instead of asking you to collect it.
• Manager-agreed slot: the delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.
• Airport hand-over: pick the car up at GRO or BCN if you would rather drive straight from arrivals.
• One agreed place: the same address and time rules apply whether you start at an airport or at your accommodation.

The practical consequence: book the delivery slot, not just the car. In August the province of Girona logs 2,451,279 hotel nights against 242,712 in January, so book the slot early.

Where car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava starts from on arrival

We hand the car over at Girona-Costa Brava Airport (GRO) or Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN), or at your address. If you land late, take the airport hand-over rather than an address delivery — the drive from GRO to Roses is about an hour and avoids a second trip out to meet the car the next morning.

Fleet for car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava, 125 cars in 13 classes

Our Costa Brava fleet holds 125 cars in 13 classes, from €22 to €1,100 per day. The table below is the fastest way to pick: find the class, then the model inside it.

Car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava classes and daily prices

Economy is the entry class at €22 per day and Exotic is the top at €500; Luxury sits just under it at €200. The count of cars in a class matters more than the model name on the photo — pick the class first, then the model within it. Weekly rates follow daily x 6 and monthly rates daily x 21, so a €22 car comes to €132 a week and €462 a month.

Cheapest car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava and the models behind it

• Citroen C1: Economy hatchback, 4 seats, petrol, manual, front-wheel drive, 1.0 L, 72 hp, €22 per day.
• Ford Ka+: Economy hatchback, 4 seats, petrol, manual, front-wheel drive, 1.2 L, 85 hp, €22 per day.
• Kia Picanto: Economy hatchback, 4 seats, petrol, manual, front-wheel drive, 1.0 L, 67 hp, €22 per day.
• Peugeot 108: Economy hatchback, 4 seats, petrol, manual, front-wheel drive, 1.0 L, 72 hp, €22 per day.
• Smart Forfour: Economy hatchback, 4 seats, petrol, manual, rear-wheel drive, 1.0 L, 71 hp, €23 per day.
• Toyota Aygo X: Economy hatchback, 4 seats, petrol, manual, front-wheel drive, 1.0 L, 72 hp, €23 per day.
• Dacia Sandero: Economy hatchback, 5 seats, petrol, manual, front-wheel drive, 1.0 L, 90 hp, €24 per day.

Car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava for a family of four

A 5-seat Economy or Crossover covers four people, and 7-seat minivans start at €60 per day.

Prices for car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava, weekly and monthly rates

Daily rates on this page run from €22 to €1,100, and the longer you keep the car, the less each day costs: a week is charged at daily rate x 6, and a month at daily rate x 21. That is the whole pricing model — the class you pick sets the daily figure, the length of the booking sets the multiplier.

Weekly and monthly rates for car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava

• Weekly rate: daily price x 6 — a €22 Economy car comes to €132 for the week.
• Monthly rate: daily price x 21 — the same €22 car comes to €462 for the month.
• Comfort class: from €35/day, so €210 weekly and €735 monthly.
• Crossover class: from €38/day, so €228 weekly and €798 monthly.
• Premium and SUV: both from €50/day, so €300 weekly and €1,050 monthly.
• Passenger vans: from €90/day, so €540 weekly and €1,890 monthly.
• Convertibles: from €70/day, so €420 weekly and €1,470 monthly.

The multiplier applies to whatever class you book, so the arithmetic never changes — only the starting figure does.

What sets the daily price in each class

• Economy: 20 cars from €22/day — the cheapest group, and with Crossover the largest.
• Comfort: 15 cars from €35/day, including estates such as the Ford Focus Wagon.
• Crossover: 20 cars from €38/day, as many as Economy.
• Premium: 12 cars from €50/day.
• SUV: 9 cars from €50/day, including the Renault Kadjar.
• Electric: 5 cars from €40/day, such as the Fiat 500e.
• Luxury and Exotic: 5 cars each, from €200 and from €500/day.

Pick the class first, then the model inside it.

Longer bookings and how the price is agreed

If your dates straddle a weekly block, it is worth asking the manager to structure the booking around whole weeks.

Car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava, choosing seats, fuel and transmission

The class table tells you the price; the choice still comes down to three things — how many seats you need, what the car burns, and whether you want to shift gears yourself. Here is how those three line up across the 125 cars on this page.

How many seats you actually need

• Five to seven: minivans start at €55/day across 7 cars, and passenger vans from €90/day across 9 cars, with 7, 8 and 9 seats available.

Petrol, diesel, hybrid or electric

Petrol dominates the fleet, hybrid appears in Economy on the Fiat 500, Fiat Panda and Toyota Yaris Hybrid and further up in the Comfort, Crossover, SUV and Premium classes, and five electric cars start at €40/day with the Fiat 500e at €40/day. Diesel and petrol are the two you will see at the pump: Gasolina 95 E5 averages €1.94 a litre across the province of Girona and €1.956 along the coast, while Gasóleo A averages €1.922 and €1.932 in the same two areas, with 250 filling stations in the province and 58 on the coast.

Automatic or manual

• Manual: the default across Economy and Comfort — 1.0 to 1.5 L engines, 67 to 150 hp, front-wheel drive (the Smart Forfour is rear-wheel drive).
• Automatic: available in Economy on the Hyundai i10 at €25/day and the Skoda Fabia at €28/day, in the Toyota Yaris Hybrid at €30/day, and in Comfort on the Mini One 5-door and Peugeot 308 at €40/day and the Toyota Corolla at €42/day; 58 of the 125 cars on the page are automatic.
• Rear-wheel drive: only the Smart Forfour in Economy, at €23/day.

Book the transmission you want with the class — swapping on the day depends on what is free, and the Costa Brava fills up in July and August.

Picking up your car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava on arrival

On this page the car can be delivered to Girona-Costa Brava Airport (GRO) or Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN), or to any address in the Costa Brava towns we have a page for. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

Which airport you fly into changes the first drive more than it changes the price. GRO sits at Vilobí d'Onyar, 12.5 km south-west of Girona and 74 km from the centre of Barcelona; BCN handles 57,483,036 passengers and 360,786 operations. From GRO the run to Roses is 75.2 km and 63 minutes, mostly on the AP-7; from BCN to Lloret de Mar it is 89.6 km and 75 minutes on the C-32, C-31 and B-10.

What you need to have with you at hand-over:

• Driving licence: an EU/EEA licence is valid in Spain until it expires, with nothing further required; for a licence from outside the EU/EEA, DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip and carrying it together with your passport and your national licence.
• The booking details: the delivery address, date and time you fixed with the manager — this is what the hand-over is built around.

Fuel is simple: the car is supplied with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank — in Spain, lleno-lleno. Anything else is charged as the missing fuel plus a refuelling service fee, as set out in the rental agreement.

Driving a rental car around the Costa Brava, tolls and low-emission zones

Low-emission zone and the DGT sticker

• Zona de baixes emissions (ZBE) de Girona: runs from park la Devesa to c. d'Emili Grahit and from c. del Riu Güell to c. del Carme and Barri Vell, active since 15.09.2025.
• Hours: 7–20, Monday to Friday, working days.
• Who is restricted: cars without a DGT environmental sticker that are not registered in Girona. Cameras read number plates, so there is no sticker to display.
• Visitor allowance: 24 days a year inside the restricted hours without a permit.
• Foreign plates: a temporary authorisation applies if the car meets the technical and environmental requirements.
• Our cars: the Spanish fleet carries the DGT sticker, so a car from our fleet has no restriction in the zone.

Tolls on the way north

The AP-7 corridor covers the whole run from Barcelona through Girona to the French border, and it is the road you will use most.

Fuel prices and where to fill up

Petrol 95 E5 averages 1.94 EUR/l across the province of Girona and 1.956 on the coast, with 250 stations in the province and 58 on the coast. Diesel averages 1.922 in the province and 1.932 on the coast. Petrol 98 E5 sits at 2.106 in the province and 2.131 on the coast.

The spread between the cheapest and dearest station in the province is wide — 1.718 to 2.122 for petrol 95 E5. Filling up inland before you reach the resort strip is usually cheaper, and the car is supplied with a full tank and returned full, so a top-up near the end of the trip is enough.

Documents, insurance and hand-over for car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava

Spanish law sets the terms that govern hiring a car in Roses and Empuriabrava: your licence, the compulsory insurance that comes with every vehicle, and the moment when damage becomes your responsibility. Below is what you need in hand, what is included, and what is agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

Documents for car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava

• EU/EEA licence: valid in Spain until its expiry date, with nothing extra required.
• Non-EU licence: valid for driving as a tourist; the DGT recommends an International Driving Permit before the trip, carried with your passport and national licence.
• Non-Latin script: a licence in Cyrillic, Arabic or character-based script is valid only with an official translation into Spanish, or if issued on the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention.
• International Driving Permit: a supporting document only — shown together with your passport and national licence; valid for 1 year.
• Bank card: which card is accepted for the deposit is agreed when booking; debit cards are not accepted everywhere.

The minimum rental age, the young-driver surcharge and the cards accepted are agreed when booking.

Insurance included with car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava

Every car legally on the road in Spain carries Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil, and it is included in any booking. It covers injury to third parties up to 70,000,000 EUR per incident and property damage up to 15,000,000 EUR per incident, under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2, as amended by Ley 5/2025, with the sums in force since 26.07.2025. It does not cover you or the car. It also works even if the person at the wheel was not named in the agreement.

Hand-over and the condition report

All scratches and dents must be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you drive away, the document is signed by both sides, and you keep a copy — otherwise the damage is charged to you. This is a requirement of the Spanish consumer authority, not a courtesy. Check the car in daylight, photograph anything you find, and note the fuel gauge reading against the full tank the car comes with.

If the model you booked is not available, you may ask for another car of the same class or higher at no extra cost; if you are given a lower class, the price must come down. Should the car not match the agreed conditions — an automatic, four doors — you may cancel the booking and recover the prepayment.

And ask the manager to confirm the excess figure in writing when the booking is agreed, so the number in the agreement matches what you were told.

What to settle before you book car rental in Roses and Empuriabrava

• Delivery address: any address in the towns we have a page for, Girona-Costa Brava Airport (GRO) or Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN) — the exact point is agreed with a manager.
• Date and time: the slot is fixed with the manager before the booking, so give the arrival time you expect, not the one on the ticket.
• Fuel policy: the car is supplied with a full tank and returned with a full tank (full-to-full; in Spain, lleno-lleno) — no other fuel option is offered.
• Deposit and excess: the amount and the conditions of the refund are set out in the rental agreement, never quoted over the phone as a figure.

What we ask you to confirm in the message

Tell us the delivery address, the date and the time, the class you want and how many seats you need — the fleet on this page runs from 2 to 9 seats, so a family of four and a group of eight need different answers. If you are arriving at Girona-Costa Brava Airport (GRO), the drive to Roses is 75.2 km and about 63 minutes, and the hand-over there is the shortest first leg of the trip. If you land at Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN), the car can meet you there instead, and the run up the coast is longer — worth planning around the time you actually want to be at the accommodation.

What stays in the agreement, not on the page

The same goes for the minimum rental age, the young-driver surcharge, the cards accepted and whether the car may cross the border: these are agreed when booking. Fuel is the one thing fixed in advance: full-to-full, so the tank is full when you take the car and full when you bring it back, and anything short of that is charged as set out in the agreement. Send the address and the arrival time in the first message.