Zeus Prestige brings luxury car rental in Nice to the address you choose: a hotel on the Promenade des Anglais, a villa in the hills, the port, or Nice Côte d'Azur Airport. You can rent or hire an exotic, a sports car, a supercar or a luxury SUV and head for the mountains behind the coast. Nice sits where the Alps meet the Mediterranean, so exotic car rental and supercar hire here suit the high passes of the Mercantour, while a convertible suits the valley roads that climb from the sea.
Greek colonists are thought to have settled here around 350 BC and named the town Nikaia, in honour of Nike, the goddess of victory. Nice returned to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia after 1814, and the Treaty of Turin passed it to France in 1860 after a plebiscite that April. English winter visitors helped shape the seafront, and the Promenade des Anglais took its name in 1823.
Mornings belong to the Cours Saleya, where the daily market sells flowers, art and antiques, and Nice has its own street food: socca, a chickpea pancake, and pissaladière, an onion and anchovy tart. At midday a cannon fires from Castle Hill, as it has since 1860. Beyond the suburbs the land rises quickly into the Mercantour, and that is where the best driving begins.
A convertible makes the most of this one. Take the road up the Vésubie valley to Utelle, a village above the Vésubie Gorge and one of sixteen on the Route des Villages Perchés. Olive trees once covered its slopes, and a chapel nearby, the Madone d'Utelle, draws pilgrims every year. With the roof folded away, the air cools at every hairpin and the gorge drops away beside the wheel. Walk the lanes, lunch in the village and drive down in the afternoon light. The car spends the day under open sky.
Sports cars and supercars own this road. Climb the Tinée valley through Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée and carry on along the D64 to the Col de la Bonette, at 2,715 metres inside the Mercantour National Park. The loop around the Cime de la Bonette lifts you to 2,802 metres, the highest point the Tour de France has reached. The hairpins stack up, the drop beside the road grows, and your palms dampen on the wheel. Back at sea level the car idles in the heat and you are still grinning.
Bring a luxury SUV or a grand tourer for this long day. Follow the Var upstream from Nice and the valley offers two stops. Entrevaux is a fortified medieval town beneath a mountaintop citadel; Vauban drew up plans to strengthen it in 1690, and the bridge into town, with its towers and portcullis, dates from 1658. Elsewhere in the valley, the Gorges de Daluis run for six kilometres through red sandstone coloured by iron oxide and some 260 million years old. Inside, the afternoon sun warms the leather, road noise fades to a murmur and the red walls slide past the glass.
Yes. We bring the car to your hotel, villa or the port, wherever you are in Nice. Give us the address and the date, and the handover is arranged around you.
Yes. Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE) is one of our delivery points, including its private aviation terminal (ICAO LFMN). The airport lies about 7 kilometres west of the city centre.
Pick the car to suit the road. A convertible makes the most of the Vésubie valley, a sports car or supercar takes on the climb to the Col de la Bonette, and a luxury SUV or grand tourer is the comfortable choice for the day out to Entrevaux and the Gorges de Daluis.
The pass stands at 2,715 metres and the loop road around the Cime de la Bonette reaches 2,802 metres. Snow can close roads this high, so check conditions before you set out.
Yes. Monaco is about half an hour east along the coast, and Cannes, Antibes and Saint-Tropez follow to the west.
Choose from our exotics, supercars, sports cars, cabriolets and SUVs, tell us where you are staying in Nice, and the keys will be ready for your luxury car hire.