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Luxury & Exotic Car Rental at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport)

No counter. Either way.

The worst hour of any trip to Los Angeles is the one between landing and leaving. $75 each way deletes half of it. $150 deletes the rest.

Delivered to LAX, flight tracked · from $159/day

The counter is the part nobody remembers agreeing to.

LAX's #1 luxury and exotic car rental, and the three things behind that: the rate for every car is on this page, the calendar is live, and the standing is 5.0 on our Google Business Profile. You clear baggage claim, find the pickup island, wait for a bus, ride it to a lot, queue at a counter, and are upsold a coverage product while somebody looks for your reservation. That is an hour, and it happens at the end of a flight. There are two ways out of it here, both priced each way: $75 leaves the car in the airport parking structure, where you still take the free shuttle but queue at nothing when you get there, and $150 brings the car to the kerb outside your terminal.

Two ways out of the airport, and what each one costs

Standard delivery is $75 each way. The car is left in the airport parking structure, you are told exactly where it is standing, and you ride the free airport shuttle out to collect it. It is the cheaper answer and it is the slower one: allow about half an hour between the terminal door and the driver's seat, and allow more patience than that if you are travelling with four large cases, because the cases ride the bus with you.

VIP delivery is $150 each way, and it is the one to take on the way in. The car comes to the terminal. You collect your bags, walk out, and somebody is standing there with it; the handover runs about five minutes and the half hour never happens. No shuttle, no lot, no walk at the end of it — which is worth the extra $75 to most people off a long-haul, and worth nothing at all to somebody travelling light with an afternoon to spend.

Both figures are per direction, and that is the arithmetic to do before you book. Standard both ways is $150. VIP both ways is $300. VIP in and standard out is $225, which is what most people end up taking: the walk that matters is the one you make with the luggage after eleven hours in the air, and on the way home you are driving to the airport early anyway, so leaving the car in the structure and riding the bus to departures costs you half an hour you had already given away.

One thing a price list never says out loud: the standard option gets worse the smaller the boot. Four cases and a two-seater is a problem you would much rather find at the kerb, where a second car can still be sent, than in a parking structure at the far end of a shuttle ride. If the car you want is a convertible or a coupé, take the terminal delivery — or take the SUV to the airport and the convertible in town the next morning, which is what these weeks usually turn into anyway.

Nothing else moves. Delivery to our partner Beverly Hills hotels is complimentary, collection from the Robertson Boulevard showroom is free, and any other address in greater Los Angeles is quoted with the car. Tell us which of the two you want at LAX when you send the flight number, and the figure goes into the quote with everything else, before anything is committed.

What actually happens at the kerb

Send the flight number when you book. We watch the flight rather than the clock, so two hours lost out of Heathrow, or a diversion to Ontario, moves our timing and not your reservation — and that holds whichever delivery you have taken. On the $150 one the car is staged near the airport for your landing rather than dispatched when you ring; when you have your bags you send one text, and it is at the arrivals kerb of your terminal a few minutes later.

Then the part nobody mentions until they are standing on the pavement with it happening to them: Los Angeles International Airport limits how long any vehicle may stand at that kerb. Which is why the exact door is settled by text on the day rather than printed on a voucher — the car works the horseshoe rather than parks in it, and the handover itself takes about five minutes. Licence, signature, keys, cases in the boot.

There is no counter in the transaction on either tier, because there is no counter. We hold no desk at the airport and no bay of our own in the structures; when the car waits in one it is standing in an ordinary public space, and you are told where to find it before you board the shuttle. What we have is a car that comes to the terminal you are already standing outside — Terminals 1 through 8, or Tom Bradley if you came in from abroad — or, for $75 less, one waiting at the other end of a shuttle ride. Returning works the same way in reverse and is priced the same way in reverse: name the departure and we collect from the terminal, the hotel, or wherever the last night of the trip ends.

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Luggage decides this, not horsepower

The most common mistake on an arrival booking is to rent for the week you have planned and forget the first forty minutes of it. Four adults off a European long-haul land with four large cases and four cabin bags between them, and that is a full-size luxury SUV or a second vehicle — not a coupé, however good the week is going to be. A low car takes two soft bags and a coat, and it takes them beautifully.

Say how many people and how many bags when you enquire. It is one line, and it is the single thing that most often needs correcting after a booking has already been made. It decides the delivery as well as the car: the more bags there are, the more obviously the terminal option earns its $75. Where the party runs past five, the honest answer is usually one large vehicle rather than a convoy of small ones: everybody stays on the same timeline, and the cases go in the back instead of on someone's knees.

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One costs you half an hour.
The other costs $75 more.

Late flights, and very late ones

A car is delivered to LAX at any hour of the night. A 1am landing out of Sydney or Doha is an ordinary arrival here and so is a 4am one; what it needs is to be on the reservation, arranged before you fly rather than phoned in from the air.

The booking form offers pick-up every half hour between 7am and 9pm, and that grid is the self-serve window rather than the hours we work — most of the arrivals board fits inside it and the red-eyes do not, which is the whole of the difference. Ask for the hour when you book and it is set up then.

After midnight, take the terminal tier. Standard delivery at $75 each way leaves the car in the airport parking structure and you take the shuttle out to it, which is half an hour and a walk with your luggage; the VIP tier at $150 puts the car at the terminal with somebody standing beside it. In daylight the saving is worth having. At two in the morning, with cases, it is not.

The same is true of the arrival that moves. Because the flight number is what we are watching, a delay is our scheduling problem and not yours; nobody at this end is working from the time printed on your itinerary. You do not need to ring ahead from the air to tell us the aircraft is late. We already know.

Black, white, or the roof down

Colour comes up more on arrivals than on any other booking, usually because somebody is being met and somebody else has an opinion about it. A black car is the discreet answer; a white one holds up far better under a Los Angeles summer and is the one asked for by name in July. A good part of the fleet comes both ways — the Rolls-Royce Cullinan in black and in white, the Rolls-Royce Dawn in black and in matte white, and the Range Rover Sport, the BMW X5, the BMW 7 Series and the Mercedes GLC in either — so on those it is a choice rather than a compromise. Say which you want and we will tell you whether that car is free in that colour on your dates.

A convertible is its own question at an airport. It is one of the best cars in Los Angeles to spend a week in, and its boot takes a weekend rather than a wardrobe, so plenty of arrivals are booked as two cars: an SUV for the airport run and the cases, and a convertible collected in town the next morning, once the luggage is upstairs and CA-1 up the coast is the only thing left on the list.

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Or make an entrance

There is the other kind of arrival — the one where somebody is being met, or the trip starts the moment the doors open. A Rolls-Royce at the kerb is a different proposition from a car that merely works, and after the seven-seaters it is the most-requested thing on this page.

The rest of the exotic fleet meets flights too, and more often than the photographs suggest. A Lamborghini Urus or a Bentley Bentayga carries the luggage of an ordinary large SUV and none of the anonymity; a Mercedes-AMG G 63 does the same thing in a straighter line; a Maybach GLS 600 is the quiet one. Where the car you want is a Huracan or a Ferrari 488 — two seats, and a boot the size of a boot — the usual arrangement is four doors to meet the flight and the exotic delivered to the hotel the next morning, both quoted together before either is committed.

Take it with a driver if the flight was long enough that nobody wants the 405. It is the same booking, the same flight tracking and the same kerb; the only difference is which seat you get in, and whether the first hour in Los Angeles is spent on the phone or on the freeway. Both versions run through the same reservation, and both are quoted in full before anything is committed.

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Where we deliver from LAX

Pick-up and return are separate fields in the booking form, which matters more on an airport rental than anywhere else: take the car at LAX and give it back at your Beverly Hills hotel, or start in town and hand it over at the terminal on your way out. Cars are delivered across the Westside and the South Bay as a matter of course — Santa Monica, Venice, Marina del Rey, Manhattan Beach, Bel-Air — and out to Pasadena, Long Beach, Pomona and Orange County when the trip goes that way. Delivery is complimentary at our partner hotels there, published at the airport — $75 each way to the parking structure, $150 each way to the terminal — and quoted with the car for any other address.

The Westside is the short half of that list, and it is the half LAX is genuinely closest to. Venice and Marina del Rey are a quarter of an hour up Lincoln; Manhattan Beach and the South Bay about the same going the other way; Santa Monica twenty minutes on a civil afternoon. If the week is a Venice Beach week, or a beach-house week anywhere between Playa del Rey and Palos Verdes, the car is at the door before the aircraft has finished unloading. Beverly Hills and Bel-Air are the climb up the 405 — half an hour when that road is behaving and considerably longer when it is not, which is precisely why the delivery is timed to the aircraft and not to the hour.

Further out, the map still holds. Long Beach and the harbour, Pomona and Pasadena inland, and Orange County — Anaheim, Irvine and the coast below them — are delivered from the airport as routine rather than as a favour, and collected from the same address at the end of the trip. Say where you are actually staying when you enquire rather than after: it changes which car we suggest more often than the number of days does.

The same flight-tracked arrangement covers Hollywood Burbank (BUR) and Santa Monica (SMO), and private terminals at any of the three; the two tiers above are LAX's own, and delivery to the other two airports is quoted with the car. Burbank is worth considering if your itinerary allows it — it is a fifteen-minute airport at both ends and the drive into town is shorter than the LAX exit road on a bad evening. If you want the mechanics in more detail before you commit, the LAX delivery guide walks through the kerbside timing and the documents; otherwise browse the Nizo fleet and send the flight, and we will come back with a car and a time.

What LAX clients rent for

The bookings this page mostly takes arrive in four shapes. A visitor who lands and wants the week's car waiting rather than queued for, which is the ordinary one. A crew or a family landing together with cases, where one vehicle replaces three and keeps everybody on one schedule. An arrival where the car is the point — a birthday, an anniversary, a client being collected — and the terminal kerb is where it has to happen, which is what the $150 tier is for. And the outbound half of a trip that started in town: the car is handed back at the terminal on the way out rather than driven somewhere first.

What none of them is: a counter, a shuttle and a queue at the end of a flight. That hour is the thing being bought back, and both tiers delete some of it — $75 removes the counter, $150 removes the walk as well.

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Luxury car hire at LAX: what to take

What gets asked for most on arrival. The list is generated from the fleet rather than typed out: if a car is on it we hold it, and if it is not on it we do not have it. Where a card shows a date, that date is the live calendar and you can hold it now; the rest are prepared for the dates you name and confirmed the same day you ask.

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Flush With Everything $286/day

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Mercedes-AMG GLE 53

Roofline First $229/day

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Named for a Wind $229/day

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Maybach GLS 600

Chrome And Quiet $1,799/day

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Bentley Bentayga

Black on Black $1,299/day

LAX car rental questions

Do you deliver rental cars to LAX terminals?
Yes, and there are two ways to do it. VIP terminal delivery is $150 each way: the car comes to the arrivals level of whichever terminal you land at, Tom Bradley included, somebody is standing with it, and the cases go straight into the boot. Standard delivery is $75 each way: the car is left in the airport parking structure and you ride the free airport shuttle out to collect it, which adds about half an hour and is real work with a lot of luggage. Both are priced per direction, and both track the flight — give us the flight number when you book and we watch the flight rather than the timetable.
How long will I be waiting for the car at LAX?
On VIP delivery, minutes. The car is staged near the airport for your landing rather than sent from across town when you call, so the wait is the drive from where it is standing to the door you are standing at — and the handover itself is about five minutes: licence, signature, keys, bags in the boot. On the $75 standard delivery, budget about half an hour: the wait for the free airport shuttle, the ride out to the parking structure, the walk to the car. That half hour is the entire difference between the two prices, and you should know it before you book rather than after you land.
My flight lands after midnight. Will a car be waiting?
Yes, if the arrival is on the reservation. A car goes to LAX at any hour — a 1am landing and a 4am one are both ordinary here — and the only thing that has to happen in advance is the asking: the self-serve grid on the booking form stops at 9pm, so a red-eye is arranged when you book rather than phoned in from the air. Two things worth knowing for that hour. We watch the flight number rather than the printed time, so a 1am scheduled landing that becomes 3am moves with it and nobody needs to be told. And take the $150 terminal tier rather than the $75 one: standard delivery leaves the car in the airport parking structure and you take the shuttle out to it, which is half an hour and a walk with luggage that nobody wants at that hour.
What happens if my flight is delayed?
Nothing, as far as you are concerned. We track the flight number rather than the scheduled time, so a delay moves the handover and not the reservation, and a diversion is a phone call from us rather than a lost booking. Share the flight when you book and we watch it for you.
Is there a Nizo counter or desk at the airport?
No, on either tier, and there is not going to be one. We hold no counter at LAX, no kiosk inside a terminal and no bay of our own in the parking structures, so there is no queue to join and no coverage product to decline at a desk whichever delivery you take. What changes between the two is only where the car is standing when you reach it: outside the terminal you are already standing in, on VIP delivery at $150 each way, or in the airport parking structure at the end of a free shuttle ride, on standard delivery at $75. That shuttle is a bus the airport runs, not a rental company, and there is no counter at the end of it.
Can I collect the car at LAX and return it somewhere else?
Yes. Pick-up and return are separate choices in the booking form, so you can take the car at the airport and hand it back in the city, or start in town and give it up at the terminal on the way out. Named points cover both ends — our Robertson Boulevard address, our partner Beverly Hills hotels, and LAX itself — and a delivery address anywhere else in greater Los Angeles is quoted with the car. Because the LAX tiers are priced per direction, you pay only for the ends you use: a $150 terminal delivery on the way in, followed by collection from your Beverly Hills hotel at the end of the week, is $150 and nothing further, because delivery and collection at the partner hotels are complimentary.
Can I get a car with a driver at LAX?
Yes. The same cars go out chauffeured, which is what most people want after a long-haul: someone else takes the 405 while you make the calls you could not make at altitude. A chauffeured booking is made exactly like the self-drive one — flight number, terminal, destination — and the difference is only which seat you get in. The two delivery tiers are a self-drive question and do not arise here: a chauffeured car meets you at the terminal, because leaving one in a car park would defeat the point of it.
What areas around LAX do you cover?
From the airport we deliver across the Westside and beyond — Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, Santa Monica, Venice, Marina del Rey, Playa Vista, Manhattan Beach and the South Bay, Downtown, Hollywood and West Hollywood — and further out to Pasadena, Long Beach, Pomona and into Orange County. Hotel and private-residence handovers are routine. Tell us where you are headed and we confirm delivery and, at the end of the trip, collection.
Can I choose the colour — black or white?
On the cars we hold in both, yes, and it is worth asking early because the popular colour goes first. The Rolls-Royce Cullinan comes in black and in white, the Rolls-Royce Dawn in black and in matte white, and the Range Rover Sport, the BMW X5, the BMW 7 Series and the Mercedes GLC in either. Black is the discreet arrival; white wears a Los Angeles summer far better. Say which you want when you send the flight and we will confirm whether that car is free in that colour on your dates.
Do you deliver from LAX to Orange County or Long Beach?
Yes, and both are routine rather than a special arrangement. Southbound we cover the South Bay, Long Beach and the harbour, and Orange County down to Irvine and Anaheim; inland we run out to Pasadena and Pomona. Give us the address when you book and the delivery is quoted with the car, along with collection from wherever the trip ends.
How early should I book an exotic car for an LAX arrival?
For a specific car on a specific arrival, 48 to 72 hours is the comfortable window, and longer for peak dates — awards season, Super Bowl week, Grand Prix weekends and the summer stretch move the Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce and Bentley inventory quickly. Same-day is still worth asking: the fleet turns over constantly and we can often place a car within hours.
What sits outside the daily rate?
Delivery, where it applies. At LAX that is $75 each way to the airport parking structure or $150 each way to your terminal, so a standard round trip is $150, VIP both ways is $300, and VIP in with standard out — the usual choice — is $225. It is complimentary at our partner Beverly Hills hotels, free if you collect from Robertson Boulevard, and quoted with the car for any other address. Then damage-and-liability cover, which is part of the price rather than an upsell to decline; a refundable security deposit, back with you 5–7 business days after the car comes home; and a young-driver charge if the driver is under 25. The renter must be 21 or over. All of it is in the quote before anything is committed.