Luxury Car Rental — Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport

Collection at Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport is built for people who refuse to waste a single hour of their holiday. An LSM host waits for you in the arrivals area with the paperwork already prepared: you sign, walk around the car together for the technical briefing — controls, drive modes, roof — and you are away, all in the time it takes to drink a coffee at the terminal bar. The car is parked steps from the exit: cleaned, fuelled and already cooled down.

The same mechanism runs in reverse on departure day: you return the car at the terminal shortly before check-in, our host takes charge of the keys, and the last drive of your holiday ends quite literally at the aircraft steps. Requirements and conditions are provided at the quotation stage; for a step-by-step look at the arrivals handover, we have described the whole procedure in our guide to airport delivery in Olbia.

Geography is on your side: the airport is the most central point in the Gallura. Porto Rotondo and its piazzetta are 19 km away, barely half an hour's drive; the heart of the Costa Smeralda is 27 km, around 40 minutes; Porto Cervo 30 km, three quarters of an hour along the SP73 — a road that climbs through granite and juniper before plunging towards the sea of the great villas. From there, the Spiaggia del Principe is a handful of corners away: your first swim can come before your first sunset.

Heading south, the SS125 Orientale Sarda runs straight towards the Isola di Tavolara, which fills the windscreen for kilometres on end: 35 minutes and 28 km later you are in San Teodoro, the long sandbar of La Cinta laid out in front of you. Golfo Aranci sits 23 km and roughly 35 minutes away on the far side of the gulf. Pointing north, the numbers are just as honest: Palau in 55 minutes, Santa Teresa Gallura in 75. Whichever direction you choose, the transfer is never dead time — it is the first chapter of the journey.

Because it removes every intermediate step: no taxi, no shuttle, no waiting at an agency desk. You land, you meet your host, you drive. Olbia Airport is the natural gateway to the Costa Smeralda, with seasonal connections from Europe's major cities concentrated between June and September — and for many of our guests, a supercar at the terminal is the most direct way to turn a scheduled flight into a cinematic arrival.

There is a network advantage too: from here LSM serves 27 destinations and 3 airports across Sardinia, so you can collect the car in Olbia and return it elsewhere — at your hotel on the Costa Smeralda, at the port, even in Cagliari ahead of a different departure flight. May, June and September strike the finest balance: warm sea, a free-flowing terminal and roads untroubled by August traffic.

If the goal is the SP73 to Porto Cervo, the short answer is a Ferrari 296 GTB: hybrid, ferocious on demand, surprisingly docile in summer coastal traffic. If your loyalties lie with the raging bull, our page on Lamborghini rental in Olbia gathers Huracán and Urus ready at the terminal.

For the long hauls — Santa Teresa, the Orientale Sarda, evening returns with luggage aboard — a Bentley Continental GT turns kilometres into a drawing room, while the Audi RS6 Avant Performance is the choice of those landing four-up with three weeks' worth of suitcases and no intention of compromising. The fleet counts more than 100 models and 150+ versions: describe your party and your itinerary to the concierge, and the right car will be at the terminal when you land.