Rolls-Royce car rental in London

Rolls-Royce car rental with Rent-Trip means five luxury cars — Ghost, Wraith, Dawn, Cullinan and Phantom VIII — from £1,090 a day, delivered to any address in the city and to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend airports. Booking is agreed with a manager: the delivery address, date and time are fixed before the rental starts.

Rolls-Royce Car Rental in London and the Five Models You Can Book

Rolls-Royce car rental in London with Rent-Trip keeps five cars for hire, and each one answers a different kind of trip: a sedan for a formal evening, a coupe for two, a convertible for the warmer months, an SUV for luggage and family, and the flagship Phantom VIII when the occasion has to be unmistakable. All five are petrol, all five are automatic, and every booking is agreed with a manager before the car is fixed to a date.

Which Rolls-Royce models are available for rental

Our Rolls-Royce car rental covers 5 cars — Ghost, Wraith, Dawn, Cullinan and Phantom VIII. The Ghost is a five-seat sedan with a 6.7 L engine, 571 hp and all-wheel drive; the Wraith is a four-seat coupe with a 6.6 L unit and 624 hp sent to the rear wheels; the Dawn is the only convertible here, four seats and 563 hp; the Cullinan is the only SUV, five seats, 6.7 L, 563 hp, all-wheel drive; and the Phantom VIII closes the range as a rear-wheel-drive five-seat sedan. Body type decides the trip — the Cullinan is the only SUV and the Dawn the only convertible, so if the plan includes bulky luggage or an open roof, the choice narrows to one car.

Ghost, Wraith, Dawn, Cullinan and Phantom VIII side by side

Ghost or Phantom for a weekend in the city

The Ghost at £1,090 a day is the entry point to the range; the Phantom VIII at £2,000 a day is the flagship. Between them sit the Wraith at £1,110, the Dawn at £1,290 and the Cullinan at £1,400, so the range runs from the cheapest car to the most expensive one on a single ladder of daily rates — worth deciding on purpose rather than by habit. For a two-day weekend with a dinner and a theatre booking, the Ghost does the job with 571 hp and all-wheel drive, which is the pairing we would pick for a wet autumn weekend. The Wraith's 624 hp is the highest output on this page, and in our experience it is the car people ask for by name once they have seen it parked.

What Rolls-Royce Car Rental in London Costs by Model and Booking Length

Rolls-Royce hire runs from £1,090 to £2,000 a day across the five cars Rent-Trip keeps for this page. The model you pick sets the rate, and the length of the booking sets how that rate is applied — daily, weekly or monthly. Both are agreed with a manager before the reservation is fixed.

Daily rates across the Rolls-Royce range

The Ghost is the cheapest way into the range at £1,090 a day, and the Phantom VIII is the most expensive at £2,000. Between them sit the Wraith at £1,110, the Dawn at £1,290 and the Cullinan at £1,400 — five petrol cars, all automatic, with two body styles in the middle that cost noticeably more than the coupe below them. In our experience the Dawn and the Cullinan are the two that move first once the weather turns, so the gap between them and the Ghost is worth checking early rather than on the day.

Weekly and monthly rates for the range

Weekly bookings start from £6,540 and monthly from £22,890, both calculated from the daily rate of the car you choose — six days for a week, twenty-one for a month. On the Ghost that works out at the entry point of the range; on the Phantom VIII the same multipliers apply to £2,000. Longer bookings suit multi-stop trips better than daily swaps: one hand-over, one set of keys, one agreed return, instead of re-booking every morning. If your itinerary crosses several days of driving around London, price the week before you price the day — the arithmetic usually settles the question on its own.

What the rate covers and what is settled at booking

Every rate above is for the car itself, self-drive, with delivery to your address or airport agreed in the booking. The deposit, the insurance excess, any delivery fee outside the delivery area and any discount are set out in the rental agreement, not on this page — we do not publish them as figures because they depend on the car and the dates. The same applies to the Congestion Charge and ULEZ: who pays those is agreed when booking, not assumed. Ask for the full breakdown when you reserve, and the daily rate stops being an estimate and becomes a total.

Self-Drive Rolls-Royce Car Rental in London and the Documents You Need

Driving a Rolls-Royce yourself in London

The Rent-Trip self-drive offer covers all five models — the Ghost, Wraith, Dawn, Cullinan and Phantom VIII. That changes what you need to bring and what you should know before the keys change hands, so this section covers the licence rules, the driving conditions and the paperwork that has to be settled with a manager at reservation. Traffic in the United Kingdom keeps to the left, as set out in the Highway Code (rule 160), and every car in our fleet is right-hand drive, so the steering wheel sits on your right. At roundabouts you give way to traffic approaching from the right (rule 185) and travel clockwise around the island. Built-up areas default to 30 mph unless signs say otherwise, and many zones are signed at 20 mph — read the signs rather than assume the limit. On a first drive in a 6.7-litre Phantom, the width of the car matters more than the speed: the bonnet runs long and the near-side corner sits further left than you expect, so take the first mile slowly and let the car settle around you.

What to confirm before the keys change hands

A full, valid foreign licence lets you drive in England, Wales and Scotland for 12 months from your last entry to Great Britain — that is the gov.uk rule and it applies to our cars the same way it applies to any other. The documents are agreed in the booking conversation; if you hold an international driving permit as well, mention it when you speak to the manager. We do not publish a minimum age, a young-driver surcharge or a deposit figure on this page, because those depend on the driver, the model and the length of the booking. The deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement and confirmed before the booking is fixed.

• Licence: a full, valid foreign licence covers 12 months from your last entry to Great Britain.
• Insurance excess: set out in the rental agreement, never a fixed figure on this page.
• Age and deposit: agreed with a manager when booking, then written into the rental agreement.
• Delivery address, date and time: agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.
• Fuel: the car arrives clean with a full tank and must go back full — petrol is £1.75 a litre, so plan a refuel stop before return.

Two rules catch drivers out more than any other. Holding a phone at the wheel — even at a red light, even to check a route — carries a £200 fine and 6 penalty points, and hands-free use is only legal when the device does not block your view. Seat belts are compulsory where fitted, and children need a car seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first, with a fine up to £500 for getting it wrong. Both apply to a hired Rolls-Royce exactly as they apply to any other car on the road.

Delivery of Your Rolls-Royce Car Rental and to Airports

Delivery is arranged as part of the reservation, not chased afterwards. Rent-Trip brings the car to any address in London and to all six airports that serve the capital, and the exact address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. That conversation is also where you say whether you want the car at the terminal on landing or at the hotel an hour after check-in.

Where we deliver a Rolls-Royce

• Any address in the city: home, hotel, office or a private residence inside the delivery area — the postcode is confirmed with the manager when the booking is agreed.
• Heathrow Airport (LHR): the busiest of the six, 84,481,178 passengers a year, roughly 30.3 km by road from the centre and about 45 minutes without traffic.
• Gatwick Airport (LGW): 42,775,241 passengers a year, 48.6 km by road, around 70 minutes in clear conditions.
• Stansted Airport (STN): 29,758,490 passengers a year, 57.9 km by road and about 63 minutes.
• Luton Airport (LTN): 17,770,247 passengers a year, 56.9 km by road, around 63 minutes.
• City Airport (LCY): the closest to the centre at 14.5 km by road and about 33 minutes, with 3,737,888 passengers a year.
• Southend Airport (SEN): 67.4 km by road and roughly 74 minutes, 719,513 passengers a year.

In our experience the airport hand-over is the one people get wrong: a car delivered to the terminal on a landing day needs a realistic buffer for passport control and baggage, so we ask for the flight number and work backwards from it rather than from the scheduled arrival time.

Hand-over points beyond the airports

Places around the capital we have a page for sit inside the delivery area: St Pancras & King’s Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Canary Wharf, Wembley, ExCeL London and Mayfair. A train arrival at St Pancras or Paddington is often the simplest hand-over of all — you walk out with your luggage and the car is waiting, with no terminal shuttle in between. Delivery anywhere outside these places is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so raise it with the manager early rather than on the day.

Fuel and the hand-over itself

The car comes clean with a full tank and must go back full. That is the only fuel arrangement we offer — no pre-paid tank, no full-to-empty — and if the car returns short, the missing fuel plus a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement. Petrol was £1.75 a litre at the last check, and a 6.7-litre V12 makes that figure worth planning around: fill up close to the return address just before hand-back, allowing for the morning rush, and keep the receipt. The return address and time are agreed with the manager at booking, the same conversation that fixes delivery.

London Charges and Driving Rules for Rolls-Royce Car Rental in London

Driving a Rolls-Royce through the capital means two daily charges, one toll river crossing and a set of road rules that differ from most of Europe. Here is what applies to a hired car and what to check before you set off.

Congestion Charge and ULEZ with a hired Rolls-Royce

The Congestion Charge is £18 a day, 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, and it is not charged from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive. Pay on the day of travel or in advance at £18; pay by midnight on the third day after the trip and it is £21. The zone sits inside the Inner Ring Road — Pentonville Road, City Road, Old Street, Commercial Street, Mansell Street, Tower Bridge Road, New Kent Road, Elephant & Castle, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Park Lane, Edgware Road, Marylebone Road and Euston Road form its edge. The ULEZ is separate: £12.50 a day for non-compliant vehicles, 24 hours a day, seven days a week except 25 December, across all 32 boroughs. Every car in our Rolls-Royce fleet is petrol and automatic, and compliance is checked on the TfL vehicle checker by registration plate. Who pays road charges and penalty notices on a hired car is agreed when booking — settle it before delivery rather than after a PCN arrives.

Tolls, tunnels and the way traffic moves

• Dartford Crossing (Dart Charge), M25: £3.50 per crossing for cars, class B, or £2.80 when you pay in advance; pay by midnight the day after you cross.
• Blackwall Tunnel and Silvertown Tunnel: £4.20 at peak — northbound 06:00–10:00 and southbound 16:00–19:00 on weekdays — and £1.55 off-peak with Auto Pay, from 21 September 2026.
• Left-hand traffic: keep to the left unless signs or markings say otherwise (Highway Code, rule 160), and turn closer to the left kerb (rule 183).
• Roundabouts: traffic approaching from your right has priority, so you give way to it (rule 185).
• Speed limits: 30 mph in built-up areas, 60 mph on single carriageways, 70 mph on dual carriageways and motorways — but many zones are signed at 20 mph, and signs override the default.
• Phones: holding a phone, satnav or tablet is banned even at a red light — £200 and 6 penalty points, and hands-free is allowed only if the device does not block your view.
• Drink-drive limit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: 80 mg per 100 ml of blood, 35 µg per 100 ml of breath, 107 mg per 100 ml of urine.
• Seat belts and child seats: a belt is required where fitted, and children need a child seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first — up to £500.

A Rolls-Royce is a long car — the Phantom VIII and the Ghost both measure over five metres — so check bay length and height barriers before committing to an underground car park in Mayfair or the City.

Penalty charge notices for parking or traffic offences run through the local authority, and the PCN for the Congestion Charge is £180, reduced to £90 if paid within 14 days. On the Dartford Crossing a PCN is £70, £35 if paid within 14 days and £105 if it stays unpaid. Our advice from practice: settle each charge the same evening you drive, in the way agreed when booking, keep the receipts, and hand the car back with a full tank — refuelling is your stop before return, and petrol at £1.75 a litre is easier to budget for than a refuelling service fee.

Trips Beyond the City and Events with Rolls-Royce Car Rental in London

Weddings, milestone birthdays, a day at the races, a formal dinner in Mayfair or a weekend run to the Cotswolds — the car is the event as much as the destination. We plan the hand-over around that: the delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the reservation is fixed, so the car arrives when the day starts, not when it suits a depot.

Which model suits which occasion

• Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII: the flagship sedan for weddings and black-tie arrivals — 6.7 L, 563 hp, rear-wheel drive, five seats.
• Rolls-Royce Wraith: a four-seat coupe with 624 hp, the highest output on this page, best for two people and a short, sharp route.
• Rolls-Royce Cullinan: the only SUV on this page, all-wheel drive and five seats, the pick for a weekend out of town with luggage and uneven lanes.
• Rolls-Royce Dawn: the only convertible, four seats and 563 hp — a summer evening car rather than a motorway mile-eater.
• Rolls-Royce Ghost: five seats, all-wheel drive and 571 hp — the quiet all-rounder when the plan is not yet fixed.

Events in the capital and the charges that come with them

A wedding in Mayfair or a reception at ExCeL London usually means crossing the centre, and the centre has a price attached. The Congestion Charge is £18 a day, charged 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, and it is not charged from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive. ULEZ is £12.50 a day for non-compliant vehicles and covers all 32 boroughs, 24 hours a day, every day except 25 December. Who pays these charges is agreed when booking — we do not leave it to be discovered afterwards.

Out of town: the Cotswolds, Oxford, Bath and the coast

Oxford, Cambridge, Stonehenge, Bath, Brighton, Windsor, Canterbury and the Cotswolds are all realistic day trips, and Cardiff & Wales or Edinburgh need an overnight. Longer runs out of town are where the Cullinan's all-wheel drive and five seats come in. For those, weekly hire starts from £6,540 and monthly from £22,890 — daily × 6 and daily × 21 respectively, which is why a booking of seven days or more rarely makes sense to split into single days. Petrol is £1.75 a litre, and the car goes out full and comes back full; plan a refuel stop before return rather than at the hand-over. One practical note from our own bookings: a Rolls-Royce draws attention, so for a wedding or a public event, agree the drop-off point and time with the manager in advance — a side street behind the venue is often easier than the front steps.

The Rental Agreement for Rolls-Royce Car Rental in London

The rental agreement is the document that fixes what the insurance covers, what the excess is and how the car is handed back — and for Rolls-Royce car rental those terms are set out in the agreement itself rather than quoted on this page. We agree the details with you at the reservation stage, so nothing in the paperwork is a surprise on the day.

What the rental agreement covers

• Insurance and excess: the level of cover and the excess amount are set out in the rental agreement, and the manager confirms them when the booking is agreed.
• Deposit: the deposit is set out in the rental agreement rather than fixed on this page, because it follows the model and the length of the booking.
• Delivery and collection: the address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, and the same conversation settles the hand-over point.
• Additional drivers: the conditions for adding a driver are agreed when booking, not published as a fixed rule.
• Fuel: the car is supplied with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank; anything missing is charged with a refuelling service fee as set out in the rental agreement.

Driving rules that sit alongside the agreement

The agreement does not replace the law, and a few British rules catch visitors out. Traffic drives on the left and every car in our fleet is right-hand drive, so the wheel is on your right and roundabouts run clockwise with priority to traffic approaching from the right under Highway Code rule 185. Speed limits are 30 mph in built-up areas, 60 mph on single carriageway and 70 mph on dual carriageway and motorway, unless signs say otherwise — and in the capital many zones are signed at 20 mph, so read the signs rather than assume. Using a hand-held phone at the wheel costs £200 and 6 penalty points, even while stationary at lights; hands-free is allowed provided the device does not block your view. The Congestion Charge is £18 a day between 07:00 and 18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00 to 18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays, rising to £21 if paid by midnight on the third day after the trip; ULEZ is £12.50 a day for non-compliant vehicles across all 32 boroughs. Who pays road charges, tolls and any penalty notice on a hired car is agreed when booking — it is not a fixed rule on this page. In our practice, the cleanest approach with a Rolls-Royce car rental is to settle the charge question in the same conversation as the delivery address, because the answer depends on your route and your dates rather than on the car.

Returning the car

The car comes clean with a full tank, and it goes back with a full tank. Book the refuel stop into your last hour rather than your last ten minutes: petrol sits at £1.75 a litre, and a forecourt detour in central traffic eats the margin you thought you had. The return conditions are set out in the rental agreement, so keep it to hand until the booking is closed.