SUV car rental in Costa Brava

From €50 per day, SUV car rental in Costa Brava gives you nine self-drive SUVs — Renault Kadjar, Hyundai Tucson, Kia Sportage, Nissan Qashqai, Skoda Karoq, Ford Kuga, Peugeot 3008, Renault Austral and Toyota RAV4 — all five-seaters, hybrid or petrol, automatic or manual.

Which SUV to book for Costa Brava roads

Nine SUVs sit on this page, every one of them with five seats and front-wheel drive, so the real decision is not capability but size, engine and gearbox. Below is what each model costs, where a compact beats a full-size car, and whether the coast roads ask for an SUV at all.

The nine SUVs on this page and what each costs

Compact or full-size SUV for the coast roads

Boot space matters most if you are carrying beach gear and luggage for five. The Cap de Creus road is restricted in season — daily 9:30–21:30 from July to 13 September — so a smaller car is not what gets you through, the timing is.

Do you actually need an SUV in Costa Brava

If your trip is airport, hotel, beach and back, a smaller class would do the same job for less money.

SUV car rental in Costa Brava prices and longer bookings

The page range for SUV hire on this coast is €50–€65 per day. Longer bookings follow two fixed multipliers: a week costs the daily rate times six, a month costs the daily rate times twenty-one.

Daily, weekly and monthly rates

The multipliers are fixed at daily x 6 and daily x 21, so the cost per day falls the longer you book — run your own dates through the table before you confirm anything with a manager.

What a week of fuel costs in an SUV

Petrol 95 E5 averaged €1.94 per litre in the province of Girona on 24.09.2026, with 250 filling stations across the province and 58 along the coast, so a week of mixed coastal driving stays a modest line in the budget rather than a second booking.

Our cars are supplied with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank — full-to-full, lleno-lleno in Spanish. Return it short and the missing fuel plus a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement; no pre-paid tank or full-to-empty option exists on this page. In practice the sensible move is to refuel the evening before your last morning rather than hunting for a station on the way to the drop-off.

Booking an SUV after landing at Girona Airport

We deliver to Girona-Costa Brava Airport (GRO) and to Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN) for this stretch of coast, and the delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

Every SUV on this page seats five, with Hybrid or Petrol engines and a choice of Automatic or Manual transmission.

Delivery, pick-up and booking with a manager

Every SUV on this page is self-drive — nobody sits behind the wheel but you. What changes the usual routine is the hand-over: the car is brought to the address you give us, and the address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. Nothing is left to guesswork on the morning of arrival.

How the hand-over works

• The address: any address in the Costa Brava towns we cover, or Girona-Costa Brava Airport (GRO) and Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN).
• The timing: the date and the time are confirmed with a manager before the booking is fixed, so the car is waiting when you land or check in.
• The paperwork: the figures that apply to your booking are set out in the rental agreement, and anything not fixed there is agreed when booking.
• The fuel: the car is supplied with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank — full-to-full, or lleno-lleno in Spain.
• The condition: the car comes clean with a full tank, and you drive it yourself for the whole booking.

Delivery outside the towns we cover is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so if your stay sits further along the coast, raise it with the manager when you book rather than assuming it.

Why the manager, not a booking form

A manager confirms the details because the answers depend on your trip: which airport you fly into, how many days you need the car, and whether you want a compact SUV or something larger for the boot. GRO to Lloret de Mar is 34.6 km and about 37 minutes; BCN to the same town is 89.6 km and around 75 minutes without traffic.

Driving Costa Brava in an SUV — roads, tolls and parking

This section covers what you actually meet behind the wheel.

Toll roads on the way in — and what is left to pay

• AP-7 Vila-seca — La Jonquera: the whole corridor down to the border, free since 01.09.2021.
• C-32 Maresme (Montgat — Palafolls): the route towards Blanes and Lloret de Mar, free — the barriers came down on the night of 31 August to 1 September 2021.
• C-33 — Montmeló: free since 01.09.2021.
• Generalitat tolls still running: only C-16 (Cadí, Vallvidrera, Sant Cugat–Terrassa–Manresa) and C-32 to the south (Castelldefels–Sitges–El Vendrell, barrier Vallcarca €8.42, Cubelles €5.03, category 2). None of them sit on the coast routes.

Distances from the airport and between resorts

The SUV class on this page runs from €50 to €65 per day, with weekly rates from €300 and monthly from €1,050, and every model here carries five seats.

Parking: zona blava, zona verda and resort car parks

• Girona, zona blava: Monday–Saturday on working days, 9:30–13:00 and 16:00–20:00 (Sant Narcís differs), €1.20 per hour, maximum 2 hours (€2.40).
• Girona, zona verda (non-residents): €1.20 per hour, maximum 2 hours; Pedreres–Vista Alegre runs Monday–Friday 9:30–13:00 and 17:00–20:00, Saturday 9:30–13:00; Güell–Devesa Monday–Saturday 8:00–20:00.
• Lloret de Mar, Can Lloranes: 160 spaces, around €15 per day from 23 June to 11 September, free outside that window.
• Lloret de Mar, zona blava: zone A — Tarradellas and Francesc Macià — all year with seasonal hours; zone C — Fenals, Canyelles, Boadella, Can Lloranes — 23 June–11 September.

The Girona low-emission zone and the Cap de Creus access window

The Zona de baixes emissions (ZBE) de Girona applies from 15.09.2025, covering the area from la Devesa park to c. d'Emili Grahit and from c. del Riu Güell to c. del Carme and Barri Vell, 7:00–20:00, Monday–Friday on working days. Cars without a DGT environmental badge that are not registered in Girona are restricted; there is an allowance of 24 days a year inside the restricted hours without a permit, cameras read plates and no sticker needs to be shown, and foreign plates can get a temporary authorisation if the car meets the technical and environmental requirements. Spanish rental fleets carry the DGT badge, so a hired car is not affected.

Hybrid or petrol, automatic or manual

The nine SUVs on this page split into two fuel types and two gearboxes: four run on petrol with a manual or automatic, five are hybrids, four of them automatic.

Which of the nine SUVs is automatic

• Renault Kadjar: 1.3 L, 140 hp, petrol, manual, €50 per day — the cheapest car on the page.
• Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage: both 1.6 L, 150 hp, petrol, manual, €55 per day.
• Nissan Qashqai: 1.3 L, 140 hp, hybrid, manual, €55 per day — the only hybrid here with a clutch pedal.
• Skoda Karoq: 1.5 L, 150 hp, petrol, automatic, €55 per day.
• Ford Kuga: 2.5 L, 183 hp, hybrid, automatic, €58 per day.
• Peugeot 3008: 1.2 L, 136 hp, hybrid, automatic, €58 per day.
• Renault Austral: 1.3 L, 160 hp, hybrid, automatic, €58 per day.
• Toyota RAV4: 2.5 L, 218 hp, hybrid, automatic, €65 per day — the most powerful and the dearest.

Five of the nine are automatic: four hybrids and the Karoq, the single petrol car with a self-shifting box. If an automatic is a hard requirement, the shortlist is five cars — Karoq, Kuga, 3008, Austral, RAV4 — and the Kadjar, Tucson, Sportage and Qashqai drop out.

Manual or automatic on Costa Brava roads

A manual is fine on the open road.

Petrol or hybrid is the smaller decision. Petrol 95 E5 averaged €1.94/L in the province of Girona on 24.09.2026, with 250 filling stations across the province.

Whichever you choose, the gearbox and fuel type are fixed per model, so match the car to the driving you have planned rather than to the badge.

What is included and how the car is handed over

Every SUV car rental in Costa Brava on this page is quoted with the essentials already inside the price: the mandatory third-party cover that Spanish law attaches to any legally roadworthy car, and a vehicle supplied clean with a full tank.

What comes with the car

• Third-party liability cover: compulsory under Spanish law and present on every car we hand over, covering injury and property damage caused to others — not the vehicle itself and not the driver.
• Fuel: the tank is full at hand-over and full at return — the lleno-lleno policy, with no pre-paid or full-to-empty alternative on this page.
• Child seats: required by Spanish rules for children under 135 cm, arranged with the manager rather than assumed.

Fuel, cleanliness and the state of the car

The full-to-full rule is the one you will notice most. We hand the SUV over with a full tank and expect it back the same way; if it comes back short, the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement. Petrol 95 E5 averaged €1.94/L across the province of Girona on 24.09.2026, with the coastal stretch at €1.956/L, so filling up before you return is a small, predictable cost — and far easier than hunting for a station on the morning of your flight.

Before you drive away, walk the car with the person delivering it and have every scratch and dent written into the hand-over document. Spanish consumer rules put the burden on you once the vehicle leaves without those marks recorded, and a copy of that document stays with you. It takes five minutes and it is the single most useful thing you can do at hand-over.

Booking, documents and what is agreed first

The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, so nothing about the hand-over is a surprise on the day. The same conversation settles the remaining conditions of the rental — none of these are fixed by Spanish law, so we set them out in the rental agreement rather than publish a figure here.

If the model you booked is unavailable, you may ask for another car without paying extra — even one class above — and if the replacement is a class below, the price should come down to match.

Rent an SUV in Costa Brava for day trips and longer routes

The coast is short on distance and long on stops: a 34.6 km run from Girona-Costa Brava Airport to Lloret de Mar takes 37 minutes, while Cadaqués sits 89.4 km and 80 minutes away. An SUV earns its keep here not on one long transfer but across four or five hops in a single week.

Routes worth building a week around

• Northern loop: Roses, L'Escala, Cadaqués and Cap de Creus reward an early start — the Cap de Creus road is restricted in season, daily 9:30–21:30 from July to 13 September, so timing matters more than the car.

What a longer booking changes

A week from €300 and a month from €1,050 against €50–€65 per day means the cost per day falls the longer you keep the car — worth checking against your own dates before confirming. Fuel is the variable to watch: Petrol 95 E5 averaged €1.94/L across the province of Girona, with 250 filling stations, and the coast runs slightly higher at €1.956/L across 58 stations. Our SUVs come with a full tank and go back full (lleno-lleno), so plan the last refuel before the airport rather than on the morning of your flight.

Matching the car to the trip

Five seats and front-wheel drive across all nine models mean the choice comes down to gearbox and engine. Book the class you need rather than the biggest one available — the delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.