Rent Rolls Royce Ghost 2023 in Dubai

A parked Rolls-Royce Ghost 2023 gives almost nothing away. No exhaust burble, no theatrical start-up, just a twin-turbo V12 settling into an idle you can barely hear from the kerb. That restraint is the whole argument for renting the Ghost in Dubai over the rest of the range: it carries the same 6.75-litre engine as the Cullinan without the SUV height, and it gets you the quiet without switching to the fully electric Spectre parked a few bays over. We hand this one over in grey, five seats, usually within one to two hours of booking, wherever you're staying. The question this page answers is whether a V12 flagship sedan is the right kind of quiet for your week, or whether you actually want the presence of the SUV or the novelty of the EV instead.

The V12, and how it drives

Under the bonnet sits a 6.75-litre twin-turbo V12 making 563 hp and 850 Nm, sent through an eight-speed automatic to all four wheels. None of that reads as urgent on paper, and it isn't meant to. The torque arrives from 1,600 rpm and stays flat well past any speed you'd use in the city, so the Ghost gets to 100 km/h in 4.8 seconds without ever sounding like it tried. What you notice more than the number is the way four-wheel steering turns the rear wheels against the fronts at low speed, so a car over 5.5 metres long makes a U-turn or drops into a tight bay with far less drama than its length threatens. On Sheikh Zayed Road the same system settles the car through a fast lane change, and the cabin stays this hushed at 140 km/h as it does queued at a signal. Next to the Cullinan you sit lower and the car feels more like a private sedan than a monument on wheels. Next to the Spectre, the silence here comes from twelve cylinders doing their job quietly rather than from removing the engine altogether, and that's a genuinely different kind of impressive.

Space, boot and the daily use

Five seats, not four, though the middle rear position is really there for a short hop rather than a full day. Two in the back travel properly, on wide, deeply cushioned seats with their own climate zone and enough legroom that a tall adult isn't folding themselves in. The rear-hinged coach doors do more work than they look like they should: you step out into the kerb and rise facing forward, which matters at a hotel entrance or a wedding far more than it sounds on a spec sheet. The boot holds 507 litres, enough for two large cases and the soft bags that come off a DXB or DWC flight without anyone rearranging the load. Push it to four adults with a full week of luggage each, and the boot runs out of room before the back seat does, so plan for that if you're collecting a family rather than a couple.

Running cost, heat and the cabin

The 82-litre tank takes premium, and the V12 uses close to 16.7 litres of it per 100 km, which in practice means more stops across a week than you'd budget for in an ordinary sedan. Heat is the honest part of driving anything this size in a Dubai summer. A cabin under this much glass absorbs a July afternoon fast, so the first few minutes after it's sat parked in 45-degree sun ask real work of the climate system. It gets there, and the rear vents deliver properly cold air rather than a trickle off the dash, but for a wedding pickup or an airport welcome, have someone start it and let the cabin settle before anyone climbs in. Size is the other adjustment. At close to two metres wide across the body and wider again with the mirrors out, the Ghost fills a standard bay, and it's the four-wheel steering, not luck, that gets it through a Marina tower's parking levels or a packed mall structure without a scrape. Take speed bumps and steep ramps slowly since the car sits low, and treat every kerb with more care than you would in something less expensive to put right, which is also why a refundable deposit applies rather than a no-deposit option on this one. Salik tolls and any RTA fines during the rental are the renter's responsibility, seat belts are mandatory in every seat, and children under four need a proper child seat regardless of what's carrying them around.

Who should rent it, and who this is for

Take the Ghost 2023 if you want the full V12 Rolls-Royce experience without the SUV's height or the Spectre's silence-by-necessity, and you're planning to drive it yourself as often as you're driven in it. It suits business trips where you're behind the wheel most days, a wedding week split between arrivals and errands, or simply the appeal of owning the coast road in something this composed. The daily allowance on this car is 250 km, with AED 0.5 for every kilometre past it, and you'll need to be 25 to take the keys.

Look elsewhere in two situations. If the back seat and the longest, most formal cabin are the whole point, the Cullinan's extra height and presence suit an arrival better than the Ghost's low, restrained shape. And if the pitch that interests you is the sound of nothing at all rather than a V12 kept deliberately quiet, the Spectre delivers that in a way this car, by design, doesn't try to. The Ghost sits between the two: a real Rolls-Royce sedan for someone who wants the badge, the ride and the option to drive it themselves, without needing the extra size or the electric novelty to justify the booking.