The EQS SUV,
First Class at standing height.
The electric flagship on a taller body: the same three rear seats, the same three-bag First Class allowance and the same fixed €90 to Schiphol, with a seat you step across into.
Height, and a roomier boot.
Two things separate the EQS SUV from the saloon it shares a name with. The first is the way you get in: the seat meets you at standing height, so a guest in a long coat steps across rather than drops down, and steps out the same way at a hotel entrance on the Apollolaan with nobody offering a hand under the elbow. The second is a roomier boot, which makes the class’s three bags an easy fit rather than a careful one.
Everything else is the class as it always is. Three passengers on the rear seat, water and charging cables within reach of the armrest, a chauffeur in a suit who speaks English, and an electric drivetrain that keeps the cabin quiet from the Nassaukade to the A9. It suits a family of three landing with winter luggage, or a photographer, a violinist or a golfer whose case is bulkier than it is heavy — declare anything bulky when you book, and for a fourth case choose Van Class.
The pictures at the top of this page are the SUV itself, photographed on a spring morning outside the city: the black body from behind, and the rear seat in pale leather with three headrests across it. The gallery further down shows its siblings in First Class — the EQS saloon and the S-Class — on the same price list.
Three across the rear seat, with the step-in height that suits long coats, stiff knees and short skirts.
The First Class allowance of three bags, with room to spare in a taller boot; a fourth case needs Van Class.
Fixed from any Amsterdam address; €140 on the way back, with the chauffeur meeting you inside arrivals.
The SUV costs nothing extra. First Class is priced per car and taxes included, and the SUV shares the list with the S-Class, the EQS and the i7.
Three people and three pieces, even the awkward ones, in one car: €90 to Schiphol and €140 back, with the chauffeur carrying them from the hall to the garage.
A taller seat is a small courtesy that gets noticed — by an older guest, by someone travelling after surgery, by anyone stepping out in front of a hotel doorman on the Herengracht.
Hoge Veluwe, the bulb fields around Lisse, the dunes at Zuid-Kennemerland: a day of Dutch roads with luggage, coats and a picnic still fitting in the back, quoted as one fixed price.
Cruise luggage is the heavy kind. From the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam on the IJ, or out to the quay at IJmuiden, the high boot opening makes heavy cases easier to load.
One First Class list for four models. Per car, taxes included, fixed at booking.
Booking inside 12 hours of pickup adds 10%. Free cancellation up to an hour before; child and baby seats €5 each, fitted before the car leaves.
The everyday workhorse: sedans for one to three passengers.
Room for groups, families and luggage, with up to seven seats.
The pinnacle: Mercedes-Maybach, by request only.
The saloon version: same class, same price, a lower seat.
The electric SUV one class down, in Business Class at €80 to Schiphol.
The class page: what the four flagships share and where they differ.
The full electric line-up and what it means inside the city’s environmental zone.
Two things: a roomier boot and a seat you step across into rather than down into. The allowance is the same — three passengers and three bags — the class is the same, and so is every price. If nobody minds a low seat, the saloon does the same job.
No. First Class is priced per car, so the SUV goes to Schiphol for the same fixed €90 and comes back for €140 whatever it carries within the First Class limit of three passengers and three bags. The electric drivetrain adds nothing; the usual extras are the 10% for booking within twelve hours of pickup and €5 for a child or baby seat.
The photographs at the top show a real EQS SUV rather than a brochure render, and the gallery shows the saloon and the S-Class beside it. We confirm a class rather than a model, so any of the four First Class flagships may arrive — each caption says which car you are looking at, and a preference for the SUV in the booking notes goes straight to dispatch.
It works well: three seats, three bags with room to spare, and a door height that makes lifting a child in and out easier than a saloon does. Child and baby seats are €5 each and are fitted before the chauffeur leaves for you, so tell us the ages when you book rather than at the kerb.
Ask for it in the booking notes and dispatch will roster it if the day allows; we confirm a class rather than a model. Set the pickup at least three hours before departure, book more than twelve hours ahead to avoid the short-notice surcharge, and the price is fixed the moment you confirm.