Honda car rental in London

For Honda car rental in London, one step above the smallest city runabout, the Honda Jazz is the only car on this page — a 5-seat hybrid hatchback with an automatic gearbox, from £32 a day.

Honda car rental in London with one car

Rent-Trip keeps one Honda on this page — the Jazz — and explains why one well-matched car beats a long list for city driving.

What the Honda Jazz is and who it suits

The Honda Jazz is an Economy-class hatchback with 5 seats, a hybrid powertrain and an automatic gearbox, and it is the only car we offer under the Honda badge here. Economy class is the whole of our Honda line-up on this page — one model, not a tier you climb into. The body is a five-door hatchback with a 1.5 L engine producing 109 hp, driving the front wheels.

A hatchback body and 5 seats cover four adults plus luggage for a weekend; the short body makes tight street parking and multi-storey car parks noticeably easier than an estate or SUV. If your group is five adults with full-size cases, plan the boot around soft bags instead — the cabin carries people better than it carries hard luggage.

Hybrid and automatic — what that means in traffic

Every Honda Jazz we rent has a hybrid engine and an automatic gearbox, so there is no manual option and no clutch work in stop-start traffic. The 1.5 L petrol-electric unit pairs with an automatic transmission and front-wheel drive; the car is right-hand drive. A hybrid recovers energy on the constant braking that central traffic forces on you, which is where a conventional petrol car is at its thirstiest; the automatic also removes the need to reach for a gear stick with your left hand. Petrol around the city was £1.75 a litre and diesel £1.99 at the last check — the Jazz takes petrol, so budget on the lower figure when you plan the full-to-full return.

What one car means for the price you see

• One class, one rate: Economy is the only class on this page, at £32 a day for the Honda Jazz — there is no cheaper or dearer Honda to compare against.
• Longer bookings: a week works out at £192 and a month at £672, because weekly is daily x 6 and monthly is daily x 21.
• No upgrade ladder: you are not choosing between trim levels or engine sizes, so the quote you get is the quote for the car you drive.
• What stays open: the deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement, not quoted here.

The Jazz is 5 seats and a hatchback boot; if that shape fits your trip, there is nothing else to weigh up. In our practice, the single-model approach removes the most common cause of a mismatched booking — a customer reserving "an economy car" and arriving to something larger than they can park. Ask about the boot with the rear seats folded if you are moving anything bulky, and confirm the child-seat requirement when the booking is agreed, since children must ride in a car seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first.

Driving it on London roads

The Jazz is an easy car to place in a lane: 109 hp is enough for the 30 mph urban limit and the 20 mph zones signed across many parts of the city, and the automatic keeps your attention on the left-hand rule — keep left unless signs or markings say otherwise, and give way to traffic from the right on roundabouts. Two charges sit alongside the fuel: the Congestion Charge at £18 a day, running 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, and the ULEZ at £12.50 a day for vehicles that do not meet the emission standards. Who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices on a hired car is agreed when booking, so raise it before the car is delivered rather than after.

What Honda car rental in London includes and how the booking is fixed

Honda car rental in London is arranged through a manager, not a checkout button. A booking with Rent-Trip is not a checkout button. A manager confirms the delivery address, the date and the time with you first, and the car arrives clean with a full tank.

Agreeing the address, date and time with a manager

For Honda car rental in London the delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. That conversation is where the practical detail lives: the exact postcode, the entrance the car can actually reach, and an arrival window you can plan a morning around. Hotel deliveries work best when you name the hotel and say the car is for a guest. Anything outside the places we publish is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so ask before you build a plan around it.

In our experience the bookings that go smoothly are the ones where the first message already contains the postcode and a realistic time, not a question about whether delivery is possible. A Mayfair hotel and a residential street in Zone 3 are the same job to us — the difference is only what you tell the manager up front.

What the Honda Jazz costs over a longer booking

The Honda Jazz is the only car on this page: an Economy-class hatchback with 5 seats, a hybrid engine and an automatic gearbox, and every rate above is the same car. Weekly and monthly bookings are the daily rate multiplied out, so the longer you keep it the less each day costs. The deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement rather than quoted here, and the manager confirms them with you when the booking is fixed. Ask for the monthly figure if your trip runs past three and a half weeks — that is where the arithmetic works hardest in your favour.

Fuel, condition and the rental agreement

The car comes clean with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank — full-to-full is the only fuel option we offer. No pre-paid tank and no full-to-empty alternative exists on this site, so budget for one refill before you hand the keys back. Petrol locally was around £1.75 a litre and diesel £1.99 at the last check, which makes a full tank on a 1.5 L hybrid a modest line in the trip budget rather than a surprise. Photograph the fuel gauge and the odometer yourself before you drive off; it takes ten seconds and settles any question about the missing fuel and refuelling service fee that the rental agreement sets out.

A full valid licence is what you drive on — a foreign licence is valid for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain, and the manager confirms the rest when you book.

Where Honda car rental in London can be delivered

Rent-Trip brings the car to you rather than asking you to find a counter — the address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. Here is what that delivery covers.

Airports we deliver to

• Heathrow Airport (LHR): the busiest of the six, 30.3 km by road from the centre and roughly 45 minutes without traffic, so build the hand-over into your landing time.
• Gatwick Airport (LGW): 48.6 km by road, about 70 minutes; the longest drive of the southern pair, which matters on an evening arrival.
• Stansted Airport (STN): 57.9 km by road and around 63 minutes; the airport sits north-north-east of the centre, so the car meets you on the far side of the city.
• Luton Airport (LTN): 56.9 km by road, about 63 minutes; useful if your flight lands there and your hotel is central.
• City Airport (LCY): 14.5 km by road and roughly 33 minutes — the closest of the six to the centre.
• Southend Airport (SEN): 67.4 km by road, about 74 minutes; the furthest out, so give the manager more notice.

Give the terminal and the flight number when you book — an arrival time is a guess, a flight number is a fact the manager can plan around. Heathrow alone handles tens of millions of passengers a year, so a named flight is the difference between a car waiting and a car circling.

Hotels, stations and districts

We deliver to any address here, including hotels and the districts around St Pancras & King's Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Canary Wharf, Wembley, ExCeL London and Mayfair. A hotel drop works best when you give the hotel name and say the car is for a guest — the exact hand-over point is then agreed with the manager. For the stations, name the entrance rather than just the station: St Pancras & King's Cross and Waterloo each have several sides, and the wrong one adds a lap of the block. Anything outside these places is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so ask before you build a plan around it.

Delivering to the city centre and the charges that come with it

Central delivery is where the Honda Jazz earns its place: a 1.5 L hybrid with 109 hp and an automatic gearbox, 5 seats and a hatchback body, it slots into multi-storey car parks and tight street bays that a larger car makes awkward. Two charges are worth knowing before the car arrives. The Congestion Charge is £18 per day if you pay on the day or in advance, and it runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, with no charge from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive. The ULEZ is £12.50 a day for non-compliant vehicles, 24 hours a day, seven days a week except 25 December, and covers all 32 boroughs. Who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices on a rental car is agreed when booking — raise it with the manager at the same time as the address.

In our experience the smoothest hand-overs are the ones where the client sends a postcode and a two-hour window in the first message, not a hotel name and «sometime after lunch».

Driving a Honda car rental in London through the charge zones

The capital charges drivers twice over: once for entering the centre and once for the emissions standard of the car. The Honda Jazz, a hybrid, sits comfortably inside the second rule and still pays the first.

Congestion Charge and the Honda Jazz

The Congestion Charge is £18 per day when you pay on the day of travel or in advance; paying late costs more, as set out by the operator. It runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 on Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays, and it is not charged from 25 December through to the New Year bank holiday inclusive. The zone sits inside the Inner Ring Road — Pentonville Rd, City Rd, Old St, Commercial St, Mansell St, Tower Bridge Rd, New Kent Rd, Elephant & Castle, Kennington Ln, Vauxhall Bridge Rd, Park Ln, Edgware Rd, Marylebone Rd and Euston Rd form the boundary and are themselves outside or on the edge. A PCN is £180, reduced to £90 if paid within 14 days and rising to £270 after a charge certificate, with 28 days to pay. The charge went £5 in 2003, £8 in 2005, £10 in 2011, £11.50 in 2014, £15 in 2020 and £18 on 2 January 2026. The 100% Cleaner Vehicle Discount for electric cars has ended. Our hybrid pays the standard rate — check the zone map against your hotel postcode before you commit to a route.

ULEZ, LEZ and what the hybrid avoids

The Ultra Low Emission Zone charges £12.50 a day for non-compliant vehicles, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except 25 December. It covers all 32 boroughs — more than 1,500 km² — since 29 August 2023, having started in the centre on 8 April 2019 and expanded to the North and South Circular on 25 October 2021; the M25 sits outside it. Petrol cars and vans must meet Euro 4 (roughly 2006 onwards) and diesels Euro 6 (September 2016); motorcycles Euro 3; vans and minibuses up to 3.5 t pay too if they fall short. The Jazz meets the petrol standard, so the £12.50 does not apply to it. A ULEZ PCN is £180, cut to £90 within 14 days, and TfL's vehicle checker confirms compliance from the number plate.

Tolls, tunnels and who settles the charges

• Dartford Crossing (Dart Charge), M25: £3.50 per crossing for cars (class B) on a one-off or pay-as-you-go basis, £2.80 if prepaid; usually 6:00–22:00 every day including weekends and holidays; pay by midnight the day after; a PCN is £70, £35 within 14 days, £105 if unpaid.
• Blackwall Tunnel and Silvertown Tunnel: peak £4.20 (up from £4.00) northbound 06:00–10:00 and southbound 16:00–19:00 on weekdays; off-peak £1.55 with Auto Pay from 6:00 to 22:00 on weekdays and all day at weekends, effective 21 September 2026; a PCN is £180, £90 within 14 days, one at most per day.
• Fuel: petrol is £1.75 a litre and diesel £1.99 (19.10.2026) — the hybrid's appetite in stop-start traffic is where the saving shows.

Who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices on a rental car is agreed when booking, so raise it with the manager before the car arrives.

Left-hand traffic and the 20 mph signs

Traffic drives on the left, and every car we rent is right-hand drive. The Highway Code puts you on the left unless signs or markings say otherwise (rule 160), keeps you near the left edge when turning (rule 183) and gives way to traffic approaching from the right at roundabouts (rule 185), which run clockwise. Built-up areas default to 30 mph (48 km/h) in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, single carriageways 60 mph (96 km/h), dual carriageways and motorways 70 mph (112 km/h), and lit roads are 30 mph unless signed otherwise. In our experience the signs win: many zones here are posted at 20 mph, and a hybrid automatic makes reading them easier than working a clutch at the same time.

Longer bookings of Honda car rental in London

A week or a month changes the arithmetic of Honda car rental in London. The Honda Jazz is £32 a day, £192 a week and £672 a month — the weekly rate is the daily rate times six, and the monthly rate is the daily rate times 21, so the longer you book, the less each day of driving costs.

What a week or a month actually costs

• Daily: £32 for one day of Honda Jazz hire, useful for a single airport run or a day of meetings across the city.
• Weekly: £192 for seven days — the daily rate multiplied by six, which is the only weekly calculation we quote.
• Monthly: £672 for a month — the daily rate multiplied by 21, with no other multiplier applied.

The hybrid powertrain keeps the running cost down over a long booking. Petrol was £1.75 a litre and diesel £1.99 a litre on 19.10.2026, and a hybrid recovers energy every time you brake in traffic instead of burning fuel — on a month of short city trips that difference compounds, while a conventional petrol hatchback drinks most in exactly the stop-start conditions you drive in daily.

Longer stays and the charge zones

A long booking makes the charge zones a planning question rather than a one-off. The Congestion Charge is £18 per day paid on the day or in advance, and it runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays. ULEZ is £12.50 per day for non-compliant vehicles, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, apart from 25 December, and it covers all 32 boroughs. A compliant hybrid avoids the ULEZ charge entirely, which over four weeks is the single biggest saving a long booking offers — check the vehicle against the TfL vehicle checker before you commit to a month.

Keeping a car for weeks without surprises

• Fuel: the car is supplied with a full tank and must come back full — full-to-full is the only fuel option we offer, and anything else is charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Delivery: the address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, so a month-long stay at one address is arranged once rather than renewed each week.
• Deposit and excess: both are set out in the rental agreement and agreed when booking, never quoted as a figure here.
• Documents: a full valid foreign licence is accepted for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland), which covers a long holiday or a posting.

In our experience the bookings that go wrong are the ones where the return date was left vague. Fix the collection day and time when you book the month, not on the last morning — a manager needs notice to move the car, and the delivery window you agreed at the start is the one that holds.

Honda car rental in London for a day out of the city

The Honda Jazz suits short city stays, airport-to-hotel runs and one-way errands across town better than it suits a family of five with hard-shell cases. Here is how the single car on this page maps onto the trips people actually book.

Honda car rental starts at the arrivals hall for most visitors, and the Jazz is built for that first drive. London City Airport is 14.5 km by road and roughly 33 minutes from the centre, which makes it the shortest hand-over of the six; Heathrow is 30.3 km and about 45 minutes without traffic. A 5-seat hybrid with an automatic gearbox and a hatchback boot takes two adults and a week of soft luggage without a struggle.

Give the manager the terminal and the flight number when the booking is agreed — a landing time is an estimate, a flight number is something the delivery can be planned around. If you land after dark on a Friday, say so at the start: the arrival window you agree is the one that holds.

Oxford, Cambridge and Bath in a day

The Jazz covers the out-of-town runs comfortably: 109 hp and a 1.5 L hybrid are enough for motorway speeds, and the automatic keeps the left-hand rule simple when you join a roundabout clockwise. Oxford, Cambridge, Windsor, Brighton and Bath all sit within a day's return, and the Dartford Crossing on the M25 costs £3.50 per crossing for cars (class B), or £2.80 if prepaid, usually 6:00–22:00 every day. Pay by midnight the day after the crossing. The hybrid's appetite in stop-start traffic is where the fuel saving shows — petrol was £1.75 a litre and diesel £1.99 on 19.10.2026, and the Jazz takes petrol.

For a two- or three-day meeting schedule, the hatchback body is the practical part: multi-storey car parks and tight street bays in Mayfair, Canary Wharf and the City take a small car far more easily than an estate. A single day is £32, and the Congestion Charge of £18 a day applies 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays if your route enters the zone inside the Inner Ring Road. In our experience the business bookings that run smoothly are the ones where the client names the hotel and the two-hour delivery window in the first message, not the day before arrival.

Honda car rental in London compared with a larger class

There is one Honda on this page and one class — Economy — so the real comparison is between the Jazz and whatever larger car you might otherwise have booked. Here is where the small hybrid wins and where it does not.

• Parking: a hatchback body slots into multi-storey bays and street spaces that an SUV or estate makes awkward, and the centre of the capital rewards that every single day.
• Running cost: a 1.5 L hybrid with 109 hp recovers energy under braking, which is exactly the driving pattern the Congestion Charge zone forces on you.
• Clutch-free driving: the automatic gearbox removes the habit of reaching for a gear stick with your left hand at every junction.
• Booking certainty: there is no upgrade ladder and no trim choice, so the car you reserve is the car that arrives.

Where a bigger car would serve you better

Travelling as five adults with full-size cases, you will find the boot the limiting factor — passengers sit more comfortably than their hard-sided suitcases travel. If the trip involves moving furniture, sports equipment or four large suitcases, plan around soft bags or ask the manager whether a different arrangement is possible before the reservation is fixed. The same applies to child seats: children must ride in a car seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first, so confirm the requirement at the time of booking rather than at hand-over.

What the price comparison actually shows

The arithmetic is simple because there is nothing to compare it with: the Jazz is both the cheapest and the most expensive car here, at £32 a day. Deposit, insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement rather than quoted on this page, so ask the manager to confirm them when the booking is fixed.

What to check in the rental agreement before you drive

The Rent-Trip rental agreement is where the numbers that are not on this page live — deposit, excess, delivery fees and any discount. Read it before the car arrives, not after.

Fuel, condition and the return

• Full-to-full: the car is supplied with a full tank and must come back full — no pre-paid tank and no full-to-empty option exists on this site.
• Missing fuel: anything short of full is charged as the missing fuel plus a refuelling service fee, both set out in the rental agreement.
• Condition: the car comes clean with a full tank.
• Charges: who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices is agreed when booking, so settle it before delivery.

The clauses worth asking about

A full valid foreign licence is accepted for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland), and that is the document the agreement is built around. The page does not set a minimum age, a young-driver surcharge or an IDP requirement — those are agreed when booking, so raise them in the first message if they matter to your group. The minimum rental age, the cards accepted and the territory limit are also agreed when booking rather than published here. Carry the licence you booked with, since it is the one you drive on.

Deposit, insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement and agreed when booking — never a figure on this page. Ask the manager to walk you through them at the same time as the delivery address, because that is the same conversation. In our experience a five-minute read of the agreement before the car arrives saves an argument at the kerb, and the manager would rather answer the question twice than once too late.