Weekly
Weekly van rental in Dubai
From about the sixth day, a weekly rate costs less than paying daily — and you stop counting days. For jobs, projects and the fortnight between two flats.
From AED 900 per week
1,000 km included
Cheaper than 6 daily hires
Driver available
The maths
Where the weekly rate starts winning
No sales pitch needed — the numbers do it. Every vehicle crosses over at about six days.
| Vehicle | Per day | 7 days at the daily rate | Per week | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Ton Pickup | AED 150 | AED 1,050 | AED 900 | AED 150 |
| Toyota Hiace | AED 180 | AED 1,260 | AED 1,050 | AED 210 |
| Nissan Urvan | AED 200 | AED 1,400 | AED 1,150 | AED 250 |
| Ford Transit | AED 250 | AED 1,750 | AED 1,450 | AED 300 |
| 3-Ton Chiller Van | AED 380 | AED 2,660 | AED 2,200 | AED 460 |
| 5-Tonne Truck | AED 500 | AED 3,500 | AED 3,000 | AED 500 |
| 10-Tonne Truck | AED 800 | AED 5,600 | AED 4,800 | AED 800 |
Cost of one day’s hire, by how long you take it
1-Ton Pickup
Toyota Hiace
Nissan Urvan
Ford Transit
3-Ton Chiller Van
5-Tonne Truck
10-Tonne Truck
A week takes roughly 15% off the day. If the job runs past three weeks, look at the monthly bar instead — that is where the real drop is.
One honest note on mileage: a weekly hire includes 1,000 km, while seven daily hires would give you 1,050. If your week is unusually long on distance, say so and we will price the route instead.
Who takes them
What a week is usually for
A job with a start and an end
Fit-outs, installations, a delivery contract with a fixed run. You know it is not one day and not a month.
Between two homes
The handover gap. Take the van for the week, move in stages, hand it back when the last box lands.
Covering a breakdown
Your own vehicle is off the road. A week buys the workshop time without a monthly commitment.
Trying before committing
Not sure whether a Transit or a 5-tonne suits your round? Take a week of each before you sign anything longer.
Seasonal peaks
Ramadan, a wedding season, an exhibition month. Scale up for the weeks you need and hand it back.
Longer than a fortnight?
At about seventeen days the monthly rate takes over. See monthly rental.
Included
What the weekly rate covers
- Comprehensive insurance on the vehicle for the named driver.
- Registration, maintenance and servicing — including the refrigeration unit on chiller vehicles.
- 1,000 km for the week. Extra kilometres are AED 0.50 to 0.60 for the vans and pickup, AED 0.80 for the chiller van.
- Free delivery across Dubai. Other emirates are quoted by route before you commit.
- A deposit of AED 1,000 to 3,000 depending on the vehicle, refunded in full.
Fuel, Salik, fines and 5% VAT are charged separately, at cost. Full breakdown in what van rental actually costs.
Odd numbers
How to buy nine days, or twelve, or sixteen
Jobs rarely land on a clean seven. The table above answers a week; this answers everything between one and a month.
The rule underneath all of it is simple. A week costs about what six days of daily hire costs, so a week is worth buying the moment you need six days or more, and beyond that you buy whole weeks plus daily top-ups until a further week becomes cheaper than the days.
Take a Hiace at AED 180 a day and AED 1,050 a week. Nine days is a week plus two days, AED 1,410, against AED 1,620 if you paid daily for all nine. Twelve days is a week plus five, AED 1,950, and still cheaper than two full weeks at AED 2,100. Thirteen days is where that flips: a week plus six comes to AED 2,130, so the second full week is the better buy from thirteen days onward.
The same shape holds down the whole fleet, because every vehicle is priced on the same relationship between the day and the week. Six days or more, take a week. Thirteen days or more, take two. Around seventeen, stop buying weeks and look at the monthly rate instead.
One caveat worth knowing: buying a week plus days is only cheaper if the days really are days. A job that quietly runs an extra afternoon turns a nine-day booking into a ten-day one at the daily rate, and two or three of those in a row will cost more than the week you did not take. If the end date is genuinely uncertain, the whole week is usually the safer purchase.
If you tell us the number of days you actually need, we will do this arithmetic for you and quote the lower of the two. That includes the cases where the answer is that you should not take a week at all.
Distance
What 1,000 kilometres has to cover
A week includes 1,000 km. Whether that is generous or tight depends entirely on where the van is going.
Spread across seven days that is about 143 km a day. For a van working within Dubai it is comfortable: a full day of deliveries across Deira, Al Quoz and Business Bay rarely passes 120 km, and a fit-out van shuttling between one site and one supplier will often use half of it.
It gets tight the moment the week includes the Abu Dhabi road. Dubai to Abu Dhabi and back is roughly 280 km, so two return runs in a week is most of the allowance and three is past it. The Northern Emirates are kinder: Sharjah and Ajman sit close enough that daily crossings rarely trouble the figure, while Ras Al Khaimah at around 100 km each way behaves much more like Abu Dhabi.
There is one quirk worth knowing. Seven separate daily hires would give you 1,050 km, while a week gives you 1,000, so on pure mileage the week is very slightly the smaller allowance even though it is much the cheaper rate. It only matters if your week is unusually long on distance, and if it is, say so and we will price the route rather than the calendar.
Anything beyond the allowance is charged per kilometre: AED 0.50 to 0.60 on the vans and the pickup, AED 0.80 on the chiller van. Those are small numbers that stay small if you see them coming and become irritating if you do not.
The practical advice is to add up the long legs before you book, not the short ones. Local running is almost never what breaks a weekly allowance; two or three inter-emirate returns almost always is.
Between homes
The fortnight between two flats
This is the single most common weekly hire we do in Dubai, and it is worth planning as a fortnight rather than as two moving days.
Tenancies rarely line up. You get the keys to the new place before the old one ends, or the other way round, and the gap is usually somewhere between a few days and a couple of weeks. A van held across that gap turns one exhausting Saturday into several manageable evenings.
Moving in stages also changes what you need to carry. Clothes, kitchen boxes and everything you can live without go first, in small loads after work, while the beds, the sofa and the fridge wait for the day you have help. That sequence means the big items travel in a van that is otherwise empty, which is exactly when awkward furniture is easiest to load.
It usually removes the storage question entirely. A week or two of self-storage plus two separate van hires is both more expensive and more work than one weekly hire that carries everything directly from one flat to the other, and nothing gets handled twice.
Check the moving hours at both buildings before you fix the week rather than after. Towers commonly restrict moves to set hours and often bar them on a Friday morning, and the service lift usually needs booking days in advance at each end. A fortnight gives you room to work around that; a single booked day does not.
If the handover date moves, as they often do, tell us before the week runs out. Extending into a second week or converting to the monthly rate is straightforward with notice and awkward on the morning it expires.
Choosing
Picking a vehicle for a week is not the same as for a day
Over one day you notice the load space. Over a week you notice everything else, and some of it changes which van you should have taken.
Parking is the first thing. A van you park once at a loading bay is very different from a van you have to leave somewhere every night for seven nights, and a vehicle that does not fit your building’s parking becomes a daily problem rather than a one-off inconvenience. Check the height barrier where you live, not only where you are working.
Fuel is the second. It is charged separately from the rate, so a bigger vehicle taken “just in case” is paying for itself twice over a week: once in the higher rate and once at the pump. On a single day that difference is noise; across seven days of real driving it is not.
Gearbox and size matter more than people expect once the novelty wears off. A manual in daily stop-start traffic and a long body reversed into a tight bay every evening are both perfectly manageable for a day and genuinely tiring by Thursday. If the week involves a lot of driving rather than a lot of loading, that should weigh on the choice.
And the load usually varies across a week. Most weekly hires are not seven identical days: there is one big day and six ordinary ones. Size the van for the big day if the big day cannot be split, and for the ordinary days if it can, because a vehicle chosen for a single peak is oversized for the rest of the week.
If you are genuinely unsure between two vehicles, a week of each is a reasonable way to decide before committing to anything longer. Tell us what the week involves and we will say which one we would send.
Weekly rental questions
Is a week exactly seven days?
Yes, seven days from the time you collect. Return it at the same time on day seven and there is nothing extra to pay.
What if I only need five days?
Then take the daily rate — it works out cheaper below about six days. We will tell you which way round it falls rather than quietly selling you the bigger one.
Can I extend a week into a second week?
Yes, and if it runs on you can move to the monthly rate. Tell us before the week ends so we can hold the vehicle for you.
What happens if I go over 1,000 km?
Extra kilometres are charged at AED 0.50 to 0.80 depending on the vehicle. If you know a route runs long — Abu Dhabi does — tell us and we will quote it up front.
Do I need a special licence?
A normal car licence covers the panel vans and the pickup. Trucks need a heavy licence — see the licence guide.
Can I have a driver for the week?
Yes, AED 250 a day for up to nine hours. See van with driver.
Book by the week
Tell us the vehicle and the dates. If a daily hire would cost you less, we will say so.