Rent Suzuki Ertiga 2023 in Dubai

The Suzuki Ertiga 2023 is a genuine seven-seater you can rent in Dubai for the price most desks charge for a five-seat sedan. We bring it to your door or to DXB in one to two hours, with no-deposit insurance available so you don't tie up your card. The reason to book it is the third row: a real pair of extra seats for the days you've got more people than a normal car holds, plus a frugal 1.5 automatic that keeps a week affordable. The honest catch is what happens to the boot when all seven seats are up. We'll be straight about that below, because it decides whether this is the right car for your trip.

The third row, and when to use it

The Ertiga's back two seats are the whole point. They're best treated as occasional rather than full-time adult seats: fine for kids on the school run or extra guests across town, tight for grown adults on a long highway haul. For most renters the real value is flexibility. Carry five in comfort most of the week, then fold the third row up for the airport pickup or the day the cousins are in town.

That flexibility is rare at this price. A standard sedan simply can't seat seven, and a proper large SUV that can will cost you a lot more per day. If you occasionally need the extra two seats but not the size or expense of a big three-row 4x4, the Ertiga is the sensible middle.

Luggage versus passengers: the real trade-off

Here's the number that decides your trip: with all seven seats up, the boot is just 209 litres. That holds a few soft bags and the daily shopping, not a stack of suitcases. Seven people plus a week of luggage do not fit at the same time, and any car this size has the same problem.

Fold the third row down and the boot opens to 550 litres, which is plenty for five people and proper holiday luggage. So the practical way to use the Ertiga is to pick one job per trip: seven people and light bags, or five people and a full boot. For an airport run with a big group and all their cases, you'd want two trips or a larger vehicle. For five with luggage, or seven travelling light, it works well.

How often you'll fill up

The 45-litre tank paired with the 1.5 petrol gives roughly 650 km of normal driving. Expect around 16 km per litre in mixed city use, less when it's fully loaded with seven aboard and the AC fighting the heat. A heavier car worked harder drinks more, so a packed-out Ertiga on a hot day won't match a light one. Even so, a week of city running and an airport trip or two usually means one fill, maybe a top-up. For a seven-seater, that's cheap to keep moving.

Heat and cooling a bigger cabin

This is the section that matters most for a people-carrier in summer. There's a lot more cabin air to cool here than in a hatch, so a sun-baked Ertiga at 45 degrees takes longer to come down than a small car would. The upside is that an MPV like this typically runs vents back through the cabin rather than leaving rear passengers on front airflow alone, which matters when you're carrying a full load of people. Start it, run the fan high with the windows cracked for the first minute to dump the trapped heat, then close up and let it settle. The third row is always the last to cool, so on a hot midday run keep that in mind for whoever sits back there.

Parking, ramps and the roads

At 4.4 metres long the Ertiga is bigger than a hatch but still easy to live with in the city. It's no wider than a normal car, so tight bays and U-turns stay manageable, though you'll want a touch more care reversing into a narrow multi-storey slot. The 180 mm of ground clearance is generous, so speed bumps and mall ramps don't trouble it and you're not crawling over every hump. On the highway the 105 hp is adequate unloaded and works harder with seven aboard, so plan your overtakes on the E11 rather than relying on a quick burst. Salik tolls and any RTA fines pass to you as the renter, and child seats are required for under-fours, which is worth noting given this is a family car. We can fit one on request.

Who should rent it, and who shouldn't

Rent the Ertiga 2023 if you genuinely need seven seats some of the time and want to keep the daily rate and fuel bill low, and you can live with packing light when the third row is in use. It suits a larger family, a group sharing a car for the week, or anyone who occasionally carries more people than a sedan holds. Look at a bigger three-row SUV if you need seven seats and full luggage together, or if your adults will be in that back row for long highway stretches. Treat the Ertiga as a flexible seven-or-five rather than a seven-with-everything, and it's the most practical economy car for the money.