Los Angeles · The 101 north
Exotic & Luxury Car Rental for Santa Barbara
Luxury rental cars for Santa Barbara start in Los Angeles: delivered to your Los Angeles address, or handed over at our lot, a Beverly Hills partner hotel or LAX, and the coast road north does the rest. Roofs down for the drive, room in the back for two nights away. Convertibles from $137 a day, three-row SUVs from $114; delivery is quoted with the car.
- Collected in Los Angeles, driven north
- Convertibles for the coast road
- The generous mileage band on sedans & SUVs
- Hand-detailed before every delivery
The road is the reason
Santa Barbara is close enough to Los Angeles that the drive is a pleasure rather than a chore, which is precisely why it is worth doing in something good. A convertible — a BMW 430i or a Rolls-Royce Dawn — turns the coast road north into the reason for the trip rather than the price of it.
Two nights and luggage change the answer. A luxury SUV such as a Range Rover Sport or a Bentley Bentayga swallows the cases and stays quiet the whole way, and a luxury sedan makes the run in the same calm.
Santa Barbara and the coast, stop by stop
Montecito is the reason most of these bookings exist: the hotels, the houses behind the hedges, the upper village, and a car that looks right at the valet. State Street and the Funk Zone are the evening, a walk rather than a drive, and Stearns Wharf is the morning coffee with the car parked where it can be seen. The drive that justifies an open roof is Highway 154 over San Marcos Pass into the Santa Ynez Valley and on to Solvang and the wineries — forty minutes of climb, view and descent — and every convertible we rent is on one page for it. Carpinteria is the quiet beach ten minutes south; Ojai, inland over the 150, is the detour worth a whole afternoon. For a house full of people and a week of cases, the luxury SUVs to rent in Los Angeles carry everyone up the 101 in one car. Luxury car rental in Santa Barbara, from a Los Angeles fleet, is how the right car meets each of those days.
Delivered to your Los Angeles address, or up the coast to Santa Barbara
The keys change hands at either end. Give us a Los Angeles address — a house, an office, a Beverly Hills partner hotel, LAX — and the car is there at the hour you name, or collect it at our Robertson Boulevard lot, and take the 101 yourself. Or have the car brought to your hotel or house in Santa Barbara or Montecito, or to SBA against your flight. Delivery is complimentary to the partner hotels and priced by distance everywhere else, quoted with the car before you pay, and we collect it from you when you are back. There is no desk to find at either end of the weekend.
Every rental carries a daily allowance, set per car. Say how far you intend to go and the allowance is set in the quote, alongside the car, the days and any driver.
Wine country is the run booked with a driver more than any other up here: a day in the Santa Ynez Valley for six in one Sprinter, a Montecito wedding driven both ways, nobody at the wheel on the way back. The same cars go out that way from the Santa Barbara chauffeur service page — a driver from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum, the car at its own daily rate as a second line, and the overnight arranged on request.
Good to know
Planning a weekend up the coast
Open-top cars go first in summer and on long weekends, so name the dates early if you want a particular car rather than the one still free. If the trip runs past a couple of nights, say so — the rate improves with the length of the booking and the mileage allowance can be arranged around it. See the full Nizo fleet, browse by brand, or ask about a driver if nobody wants to take the wheel. The road itself, stop by stop from the Westside to Big Sur, is in up the coast from Los Angeles; which open car to take, in which convertible to rent; the run north beside every other drive out of the city in drives and routes around Los Angeles.
What you need
To rent for Santa Barbara
- 21 or over as standard. Drivers from 18 are considered case by case, on their own full-coverage insurance and a larger deposit, confirmed in writing before the day; under 25 there is a young-driver fee per day. How the age rule works.
- A licence held for at least two years, in the driver’s own name, presented at the handover. A foreign licence with a passport is fine; no International Driving Permit is asked for. Renting on a foreign licence.
- A credit card in the renter’s name for the refundable security deposit — $350 to $2,000, set by the car — held rather than charged, and released 5–7 business days after a clean return (about two weeks if there is minor damage to price; up to a month for anything serious). The deposit, explained.
- The Protection plan, $50 to $225 a day by the car’s deposit band, is part of every rental unless your own policy passes the four tests; it sits in the quote before you pay. Your policy or ours.
Not passing one of these? The same car goes out with our driver instead. On a chauffeured booking there is no named driver, so the age rule and the deposit do not arise — only the hours. With the keys, all four lines above stand. What a driver costs.
The 101 opens out past Ventura, and the only decision left is where to stop for lunch.
North on the 101
A Car for the Long Way Up.
The open-top cars and composed SUVs people take up the coast for a night or three. Browse the full lineup on our fleet page.
Good to Know
Santa Barbara Rental Questions
Where can I rent an exotic car in Santa Barbara?
Nizo Luxury brings one up the 101 — +1 (424) 303-6496. The car starts in Los Angeles and arrives at your hotel or house in Santa Barbara or Montecito. The Corvette Convertible is $349 a day, and a driver can come with it.
Can you send a chauffeur-driven car up to Santa Barbara?
Yes. It is about 95 miles and roughly two hours up the 101, and the car and the driver both start in Los Angeles — at your address, at one of our Beverly Hills partner hotels, or staged at LAX against a flight number. It is quoted either as a point-to-point run or as a car and driver held for the days you are there, which is the usual shape for a wedding. The driver's hours are their own line beside the car's daily rate.
Where do I collect a car for Santa Barbara?
Either end works. Collect in Los Angeles — our Robertson Boulevard lot, one of our Beverly Hills partner hotels, LAX if you are flying in, or a Los Angeles address — and take the 101 yourself; or have the car delivered to your hotel or house in Santa Barbara or Montecito, or to SBA against your flight. Delivery to the partner hotels is complimentary; the run up the coast is priced by distance and quoted with the car before you pay. We collect it from you at trip end, so neither end of the journey involves a rental desk.
Is the mileage allowance enough for Santa Barbara and back?
On a sedan or an SUV, comfortably — the run up and back sits inside the allowance. Whatever the car, the figure is named in the quote before you book, anything beyond it is settled per mile at a rate written into the agreement, and a longer booking can carry a different allowance. Tell us the plan and we will match the car to it.
Which cars suit the run up the coast?
The 101 rewards two things: an open roof and a quiet cabin. For the first, a BMW 430i convertible, a Porsche Boxster, a Corvette Convertible, or a Rolls-Royce Dawn if the trip is the occasion. For the second — a couple of nights, luggage, and somebody who would rather arrive unruffled — a Range Rover Sport, a Range Rover Velar, a Bentley Bentayga or a BMW 7 Series.
Can I book luxury rental cars for a few days rather than one?
Yes, and multi-day is how most of these run. The rate is worked out as the cheapest combination of the car's daily, five-day and twenty-one-day figures, so two or three nights up the coast cost less per day than a string of single days and nobody has to ask for a discount. Give us the dates and we hold the car across them, self-drive or with a driver.
Reserve for Santa Barbara
Delivered up the coast or collected in LA · Convertibles & SUVs · Tell us the dates