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Why choose Avis for your Qatar car hire?
Our Qatar car rental services are based around Doha and the country’s main gateway, Hamad International Airport, with additional locations across the capital and its newer districts. Qatar is small enough that almost everything sits within ninety minutes of the city — which makes a car the most efficient way to see it.
Barely an hour’s flight from Dubai, Qatar has become one of the easiest long-weekend destinations in the Gulf. The road network was largely rebuilt in the past decade: wide, new and well signposted, with parking widely available at malls, museums and the corniche.
Heading beyond the city? Flexible return options let you plan a route rather than a series of round trips from the same hotel.
YOUR TOP RENTAL LOCATIONS IN QATAR
Hamad International Airport · Doha · West Bay · Lusail · Msheireb · Al Rayyan · Al Wakrah · Al Khor · Umm Salal · Mesaieed · Dukhan
WHERE TO IN QATAR?
Qatar spent decades known chiefly as a stopover and has spent the last few building reasons to stay. The result is a country with an unusually high concentration of world-class architecture and museums in a very small space, ringed by desert and sea that remain almost entirely undeveloped.
Doha is where most of it sits. The Museum of Islamic Art, designed by I. M. Pei on its own island, holds one of the finest collections of Islamic art anywhere; the National Museum of Qatar, Jean Nouvel’s interlocking desert-rose discs, curls around the old Emiri Palace at the other end of the corniche. Between them, Souq Waqif is the city’s old heart — spice stalls, falcon souq, shisha cafes — and Msheireb Downtown is its architectural answer to what a Gulf city centre could be.
North of the centre, Katara Cultural Village and the artificial archipelago of the Pearl give way to Lusail, a city built from nothing in fifteen years, with a marina, a boulevard and a stadium that hosted a World Cup final. Keep driving north and the development thins to nothing: Al Zubarah, a UNESCO-listed pearling and trading town abandoned in the early twentieth century, sits alone near the coast, and the rock carvings at Al Jassasiya are older still. The mangroves at Al Thakira, near Al Khor, are best explored by kayak at dawn.
The south is where Qatar becomes desert. Beyond Mesaieed the dunes run to Khor Al Adaid, the Inland Sea, where the Gulf reaches inland to meet the Saudi border — a UNESCO-recognised nature reserve and one of the few places on earth where the sea meets the desert directly. Reaching it requires a proper four-wheel drive, and most visitors go with a guide.
On the west coast, Zekreet offers eroded limestone formations, an abandoned film set and Richard Serra’s East-West/West-East — four steel plates standing alone in the desert, more than a kilometre apart.
October to April brings the most comfortable weather for exploring. Speed limits are strictly enforced by camera across the country, and a standard saloon is fine for everything except the dunes.