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Luxury Car Rental at Santa Monica Airport
Santa Monica Airport's #1 luxury & exotic car rental. Live rates and availability on this page, free delivery to our Beverly Hills partner hotels, and 5.0 from 67 Google reviews you can open and read. Step off the jet at SMO and into a Rolls-Royce, a chauffeured Maybach, or a luxury SUV — staged at the FBO for your arrival. Self-drive or with a driver, ready before your wheels touch down.
- 5.0 from 67 Google reviews
- Delivery to the FBO at SMO
- Self-drive or chauffeured transfer
- Staged before your wheels touch down
- Minutes from Century City, Beverly Hills & Brentwood
Delivery to a private field
Santa Monica Airport is a general-aviation field — no terminals, no counters, just FBOs and private aircraft. That makes the handoff simple: we stage your car at the FBO so it is ready the moment you step off the plane. Share your tail number or FBO and arrival time and we position the vehicle to match it.
For a fully hands-off arrival, add a chauffeur and go straight from the cabin to the back seat of a Maybach or Rolls-Royce. Prefer to drive? The keys are yours.
Minutes from everywhere on the Westside
SMO's advantage is location: you land already on the Westside, minutes from the beach, Century City, Beverly Hills and Brentwood, with an easy run up to Malibu or across to Downtown. A luxury SUV for the family and luggage, or an open-top car if the coast is the plan.
Staying in town rather than passing through? Start with luxury car rental in Santa Monica, which covers the beach side of the same week.
Delivery is complimentary at our Robertson Boulevard lot and at our four Beverly Hills partner hotels. LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction. Delivery to the FBO here, or to a Century City or Brentwood address, is quoted with the car. The daily rate — or a driver from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum — is confirmed before you commit, together with the car and the hours.
Good to know
Booking an SMO arrival
Give us your arrival window as early as you can so we can stage the exact car at the FBO. Car rentals here are handled the same way whichever car you pick, and every rental is confirmed in full before you commit — the car, the hours and any driver. See the full Nizo fleet or browse by brand, and we will match the car to the arrival. A driver rather than the keys — the name at the FBO door, then the hotel and the first stop in the same car — is the airport chauffeur page; the commercial airports are LAX and Hollywood Burbank.
Delivery
Where we deliver around Santa Monica Airport
the SMO ramp and the FBO gate, and the Westside around it — Ocean Park, Venice, Mar Vista and Brentwood — and anywhere else on the Westside you name.
The cars are held on South Robertson Boulevard, fifteen minutes inland, and are hand-detailed before they leave. Nothing about a private arrival should involve a lot: the car is at the ramp or the gate before the aircraft, not after it, and it is collected the same way when you fly out.
Bookings
What SMO arrivals rent for
A private arrival where the car should be on the ramp rather than in a lot. A day trip where the aircraft leaves and the car stays. A visitor who lands at SMO and is staying on the Westside for a week.
What you need
To rent at Santa Monica Airport
- 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.
Off the jet, past the FBO desk, straight into the car.
Off the Jet, Into the Car
Waiting at the FBO.
The cars private-aviation guests ask for at SMO — a statement arrival, a discreet chauffeured transfer, a roomy SUV for the group. Browse the full lineup on our fleet page.
Good to Know
Santa Monica Airport Rental Questions
Do you deliver to Santa Monica Airport (SMO)?
Nizo Luxury does — +1 (424) 303-6496. SMO is a general-aviation and private-jet field, and we deliver right to the FBO for your arrival — the car staged and ready as you step off the aircraft. Share your tail number or FBO and arrival time when you book and we position the vehicle to match it, then collect it at trip end. Delivery is complimentary at our Robertson Boulevard lot and at our four Beverly Hills partner hotels. LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction. Delivery to the FBO at SMO is quoted with the car.
Can the car meet me at the FBO?
That is the standard flow at a private field. We coordinate with your FBO so the car is waiting on arrival and the handoff takes minutes — no counter, no shuttle, no lot. For a fully hands-off transfer, add a chauffeur and step straight from the cabin into the back seat.
How does the FBO handover work?
Share your tail number or FBO and we stage the car for your arrival — it is waiting as you step off the aircraft, with the handover taking a couple of minutes rather than a trip to any counter. Departing the same way works too: leave it at the FBO and we collect it.
Where can you take me from SMO?
SMO sits right on the Westside, so you are minutes from the beach, Century City, Beverly Hills and Brentwood, and an easy run to Malibu or Downtown. Tell us where you are headed and we confirm delivery and, at trip end, collection anywhere across greater Los Angeles.
Ready to Land and Drive?
Delivered to the FBO · Self-drive or chauffeured · Share your tail number