7 Seater and Family Car Hire in Gran Canaria
Seven seats, the boot behind them, child seats and hotel parking: the four things that decide a family booking here.
- 29 family cars
- 14 minivans
- Child seats on request
- Up to 50% cheaper than portals
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Forty-three cars for a family, in two very different shapes
The listing for Gran Canaria files 29 of its 85 cars as family cars, from estates to seven-seat MPVs such as the Peugeot 5008, Opel Zafira and Dacia Jogger, and 14 as minivans, mostly Caravelles and Travellers with eight or nine seats.
The boot disappears when the seventh seat goes up
With all seven seats up, an MPV holds a couple of squashy bags and nothing upright, so six people with six cases will not fit. Decide before you pay: a van with a bay behind the last row, one seat folded and a taxi, or fewer cases.
Child seats are an extra you ask for
No car on the listing comes with one fitted. Add them at booking with each age and height; the supplier fits them at the handover and charges per day. Spain requires an approved restraint under 135 cm.
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automatics, few of them large
Only 28 of the 85 cars are automatic, and the seven-seat end of the list is where manuals hold on longest. Set both filters and book the day you see one.
Where the price lands
Most seven-seaters sit in the upper quartile of the island day rates, 45 to 73 EUR on the dates we sampled; a Dacia Jogger can land near the median of 25 to 39. Fuel is cheaper here than on the mainland.
Collection day, in the order it happens
Five things, two of them done from home before you fly.
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Add the child seats when you book
Tick them as extras with the ages. A supplier who knows on Tuesday that Saturday needs a baby seat and a booster has them in the car.
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Count the bags against the boot
Match the luggage to the car you chose. If it will not fit with seven seats up, change the booking now, while the vans are free.
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Meet the supplier at Gando
The local supplier brings the car to the airport. Have the licence, the booking card and the voucher; see each child seat fitted, and photograph the car all round.
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Take the GC-1 south
Motorway all the way: 30 km to Maspalomas, further to Puerto Rico and Mogan. The limit is 120, a loaded van is happier under it, and the back rows sleep by San Agustin.
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Park before you unload
Meloneras hotels have their own parking, the older complexes in Playa del Ingles often do not, and those in Puerto Rico sit up ramps. Where the car sleeps decides the week.
Match the car to the party, not to the head count
Four, plus a baby
You do not need seven seats. One of the 29 family-class cars, an estate or a large hatchback, takes two adults, two children, a pushchair and the cases, and climbs the GC-60 without drama.
Six, with luggage for a week
The seven-seat MPV job: Peugeot 5008, Opel Zafira, Dacia Jogger. Six fit with a seat spare, the boot is shallow with the third row up, and the car still fits a hotel garage. If cases outnumber people, look at the vans.
Eight or nine, three generations
The Caravelles and Travellers carry eight or nine with a real luggage bay behind the last row. Excellent on the GC-1; hard work on the ramps in Puerto Rico and the bends above Fataga.
A week in Puerto Rico or Amadores
The resort climbs a steep hillside and most complexes sit up a ramp, a hairpin, or both. Book the smallest car that seats everyone, ask about garage height as well as space, and keep a nine-seater for the airport run.
Three days out from the south, and what the car does on each
The car does almost nothing
The Maspalomas dunes are crossed on foot, from the lighthouse on the Meloneras side or from the Playa del Ingles end. Go early before the sand heats up, carry more water than seems sensible, and expect to carry the smallest walker back.
A valley road that narrows as it climbs
Palmitos Park sits at the head of a valley inland from Maspalomas. The road in is ordinary in a 5008 and the first place a nine-seat van feels its length, with traffic on the bends.
The GC-60, and why the MPV beats the van
From Maspalomas the GC-60 climbs through Fataga to Tejeda, with Roque Nublo at 1,813 m beyond it and Pico de las Nieves, the summit, at 1,949 m. Steep, winding and slow, with 90 the limit and far less the reality. A seven-seat MPV takes it like a car, a nine-seat van like a bus.
29
family-class cars on the listing
14
minivans with eight or nine seats
30 km
from Gando to Maspalomas on the GC-1
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cars offer hotel delivery
The biggest car on the list is not the safe choice
Booking for six or seven, the nine-seater is tempting because it removes every doubt about space. On the GC-1 that logic holds; it stops holding when you turn off. Puerto Rico climbs the sides of a steep valley, Amadores is the same, and the older streets of Playa del Ingles were not laid out for a Caravelle.
The resorts are where the car spends most of the week, parked, so what decides the booking is where it will sleep. Meloneras hotels have their own parking and a van fits. An apartment in Playa del Ingles may offer a street and nothing else. A complex above Puerto Rico may have a garage with a height bar.
Ask the accommodation first, then book the car that fits the answer. In Gran Canaria that is usually the seven-seat MPV: the family, the GC-60 and a hotel garage, for less than the van.
Where each shape copes
- GC-1 from Gando
- both, easily
- Ramps in Puerto Rico
- MPV yes, van slowly
- GC-60 up to Tejeda
- MPV yes, van tiring
- Hotel garage
- MPV yes, van ask first
See which seven-seaters are free on your dates
Put the dates in and the grid narrows to the cars a supplier in Gran Canaria will actually hand over, with seats, gearbox and card rule on each.
What parents ask before they book for six
Not with the third row up; a 5008 or Jogger then has a shallow boot for a few small bags. Six cases need a Caravelle or Traveller, or one seat folded and a taxi.
Yes, and yes. None comes fitted. Add them at booking with each age and height, since Spain requires an approved restraint under 135 cm; the supplier fits them when you collect and charges per day.
Mostly not. Only 28 of the 85 cars are automatic, and the MPVs and vans are where manuals persist. Set both filters and book what you like the day you see it.
Slowly, with a driver who has handled a van before. The GC-60 above Fataga is steep and winding, Puerto Rico is ramps and hairpins, and a seven-seat MPV does both like a car.
On the resort more than the car. Meloneras hotels have their own parking, Playa del Ingles complexes may offer the street only, and garages above Puerto Rico can have height bars. Ask before you choose.