Scranton Charter Bus Rental FAQs
About Busrentalscranton.com
Busrentalscranton.com is an advertising and quote comparison website that lets you compare bus rental options and pricing from a network of bus companies serving Scranton through a national booking company. Fill out one quick form and you are looking at vehicles, amenities, and prices in seconds — no account needed, no waiting on callbacks. Busrentalscranton.com is an advertising and referral website and does not own or operate vehicles. It exists to make finding the right bus faster and easier than calling around on your own.
No — Busrentalscranton.com is a comparison and referral website. You use it to compare vehicles and pricing from a network of independently owned transportation companies serving the Scranton area, and the transportation itself is carried out by those independent operators. Think of it as the fastest way to see what is available for your specific trip and date without making five phone calls to find out.
When you search on your own, you call one company, get one price, and start over if they are booked. With Busrentalscranton.com, you fill out one form or make one call to 272-228-2150 and immediately see vehicles and rates from a whole network of providers serving Scranton — more options, different price points, and no waiting. Your time stays on planning the trip instead of chasing down quotes.
An independently owned transportation company serving the Scranton area. Once you fill out the quote form, you head to a national booking platform where you choose the vehicle that suits the trip — the size, the amenities, the price. What you are selecting there is a vehicle and a price, not a company off a list.
The transportation company confirmed to your booking is communicated to you after the booking is complete.
Booking a Charter Bus
Fill out the form on this page or call 272-228-2150 and you are taken straight to a search results page on a national booking company's website. That booking company partners with independently owned operators serving the Scranton area, and right there on their site you see the available vehicles with pricing for your specific trip. What you are choosing is a vehicle and a price — and you can book it directly on their website in just minutes.
Your pickup city, where you are going, how many people are riding, and how many hours you need the bus. The more detail you give — your stops, start and end times, any luggage, and the amenities that matter to your group — the more accurate the quote comes back and the better you can match a vehicle to what you actually need.
Right away — there is no waiting on a callback. The moment you submit the form you go directly to the search results page and see quotes on the booking company's website. If you would rather go through it with someone, call 272-228-2150 and a live agent will walk you through the options.
The earlier the better on a popular date, and a specific vehicle or a larger group benefits from booking further ahead. That said, because Busrentalscranton.com puts your request in front of a whole network of providers serving the Scranton area rather than one operator with one yard, short-notice trips are often still workable — that is the real advantage of comparing a network instead of calling a single company and being told no. Submit the request or call 272-228-2150 even on short notice and see what is available for your date.
All of those can be requested. Hourly or as-directed keeps the vehicle with your group for a set block of time and works well when the itinerary is flexible or the group is making several stops. A one-way transfer moves the group from one place to another.
A round trip brings them back. A multi-stop itinerary runs a set route with several planned stops — popular for pub crawls, winery loops, and wedding day shuttles. A multi-day booking covers a trip that runs across more than one day, like a New York City run or a Pocono weekend.
Which format fits comes down to the trip itself, and a multi-stop or overnight itinerary should be laid out in full with the request so it comes back priced correctly.
Charter Bus Pricing
A charter bus costs $205–$385+ per hour on weekdays, $225–$410+ per hour on weekends, and $1,650–$2,950+ per day. Those are real planning ranges, not a single flat number — because pricing is not one size fits all. The type of bus, the date, the distance, and a handful of other factors all move the quote, so the range is where you start, not where you land.
Fill out the form online and see pricing for your actual trip in seconds, or call 272-228-2150 — going through the trip with someone can turn up better packages than you would find on your own.
It depends on the trip, and all three are used. A short run of a couple of hours is usually priced hourly. A trip that runs long distance — roughly past the 100 to 200 mile mark, or heading well out of the Scranton area toward Philadelphia, New York City, or Washington, D.C. — may carry a per-mile charge instead.
A long day, generally around eight hours or more, often comes back as a day rate rather than stacked hours, simply because the vehicle is booked for so much of the day. Submitting the actual trip is what determines which structure applies.
The type and size of bus, how long it is booked for, the date and the day of the week, the distance and the route, the number of stops, and how busy that date is locally all move the price. Sunday through Thursday prices lower than Friday and Saturday, and daytime prices lower than those same nights. Booking the size the group actually needs beats over-booking capacity.
And grouping riders into one or two pickup points — say, one hotel near downtown Scranton rather than five separate addresses across Lackawanna County — cuts the hours on the clock and the cost that comes with them. Scranton's St. Patrick's Day parade weekend, prom season across the local school districts, and the summer concert run at Montage Mountain are the dates when the whole local market moves at once, so those dates carry premium pricing almost every year.
About Charter Buses
A charter bus is a full-size passenger coach that a group hires for its own trip, with its own route and schedule, rather than riding a fixed public route. It is built for moving a large group over a distance in one vehicle, and a full-size coach seats roughly 40 to 56 people.
Outside, a full-size charter bus is a tall coach body with high windows running the full length of the vehicle and luggage bay doors along the lower panels beneath the passenger floor. The exterior is usually finished in white, silver, black, or a solid color — and some coaches are wrapped in an operator's own graphics, so the coach that shows up may not always look the same. Inside, you will find forward-facing seats in pairs on either side of a center aisle.
Seat fabric is cloth or leather depending on the make and model — the MCI J4500 and the Van Hool CX45 are two of the most common full-size coaches on the road, and both run cloth or leather seating depending on how the coach was configured. Overhead parcel racks run the full length of the cabin, and a restroom sits toward the rear of the coach.
Some of the amenities available on charter buses include reclining cloth or leather seats, individual climate controls, onboard restrooms, overhead and undercarriage storage, WiFi, power outlets, a PA system, and TV monitors. Availability may vary by make, model, and the specific vehicle assigned to the booking — features are confirmed during the booking process, not guaranteed across every coach. If a particular amenity matters to your group, note it with your trip details so the right vehicles come back.
Generally 40 to 56 passengers, depending on the make and model, with 56 the most common build on a full-size coach. The MCI J4500 seats 56 as standard and is built for up to 60. The Van Hool CX45 is the same — 56 standard, up to 60.
The Prevost H3-45 also seats 56. Shorter 35-foot coaches seat closer to 44. What changes the count on the same coach is how it was configured: extra legroom or a wheelchair position each take seats out.
Because Busrentalscranton.com works with a network of providers, the exact coach on any given trip depends on what is available for your date, so submit the trip or call 272-228-2150 if the group needs a specific capacity.
A 56-passenger coach runs 14 rows, with two seats on each side of a center aisle. The layout is forward-facing paired seating, one aisle down the middle — the same orientation throughout. The row count drops on coaches built with extra legroom or a wheelchair position, and some coaches tier the front rows slightly for the view.
A full-size charter bus is 45 feet long and 8.5 feet wide. To put that in terms of something you can picture — roughly three cars parked end to end — which is the reason people ask: they are working out whether one fits somewhere. Shorter coaches exist, most commonly around 35 feet, and the 45-foot coach is the standard full-size vehicle.
A full-size charter bus stands about 11 to 12 feet tall depending on the model, and traffic engineers design clearances for 12 feet. A useful comparison: a little taller than a single story of a house. The same reason people ask — they are checking clearance somewhere — so that is the number to work with when you are confirming a venue, a parking structure, or a covered drop-off area.
WiFi is one of the amenities available on charter buses, and many coaches on the road are equipped with it. One thing worth knowing: onboard WiFi is an equipment option a coach is built with rather than something every coach carries, so whether a given vehicle has it varies. And the honest expectation on how it performs — onboard WiFi runs off a cellular connection and is built for light use across a full coach.
Phones, messaging, and browsing work well. Fifty or sixty people doing heavy work at once is a different story. If the group needs WiFi, note it with the trip details so vehicles equipped with it come back in the results.
Yes — an onboard restroom is standard on full-size charter buses, located toward the rear of the coach. It is there so the group does not have to stop, though on a longer run the trip is still usually planned with real rest stops along the way. If an onboard restroom matters for your trip, note it with the details when you request the quote.
Yes — charter buses are built with 110-volt AC power outlets, and coaches are commonly fitted with them at every seat, some with a USB port built into the same outlet. This is an equipment option rather than something every coach carries, so it varies by vehicle. In practical terms, a group can keep phones and laptops charged across a long run from Scranton to New York City or Philadelphia without hunting for a plug.
Note it with the trip details if the group needs it.
Yes — in two places. Overhead parcel racks run the length of the cabin inside the coach, and undercarriage baggage bays sit underneath the passenger floor along both sides of the vehicle. A full-size coach carries roughly 460 cubic feet of underfloor baggage space and around 100 cubic feet in the overhead racks.
Across a full 56-passenger load, that works out to roughly 8 cubic feet per person underneath and under 2 cubic feet overhead — in practice, about one checked-size bag per person below plus one small carry-on above. What changes it: a coach fitted with a wheelchair lift gives up some baggage bay space, and bulky gear like instruments, sports equipment, or event supplies takes the space of several standard bags. If the group is carrying anything oversized — a baseball team's equipment bags heading to a tournament, or décor for a Scranton-area wedding — state it with the trip details so the right coach is matched to the load.
Charter Bus Service in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Any group that needs to move together! Through Busrentalscranton.com, you can find buses for airport transfers to and from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre International, Philadelphia, Newark, and the New York-area airports; corporate travel and employee shuttles between offices and conference venues; weddings and private events at Scranton's historic venues; concerts and festivals at Montage Mountain and Mohegan Arena; sporting events at PNC Field and beyond; school field trips and team travel; church and religious group trips; winery and brewery tours; prom and homecoming; and long-distance travel to New York City, Philadelphia, Hersheypark, and beyond. Whatever brings your group together, there is a bus in the network ready for it.
Busrentalscranton.com helps you find bus rentals in Scranton and across the surrounding region — including Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Hazleton, Stroudsburg, Carbondale, Dunmore, Clarks Summit, and communities throughout Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, and Wayne counties. Those are examples, not the full list. If your pickup or drop-off is somewhere not named here, enter the full route or call 272-228-2150 to check availability for your specific city.
Scranton's St. Patrick's Day parade — one of the largest in the country, held the Saturday before March 17 along the downtown Mulberry Street corridor — is the single busiest day of the year for local bus rentals, and the whole market gets taken weeks out. Prom season across Scranton, Abington Heights, Valley View, Lakeland, North Pocono, and the surrounding districts runs late April through May and fills party buses fast. University of Scranton and Marywood University commencement in mid-May, the summer concert run at Montage Mountain, NASCAR race weekend in June, and PNC Field RailRiders playoff runs all drive heavy demand.
New Year's Eve in downtown Scranton books out early every year. On those dates, book well ahead — but short-notice requests are still worth submitting, because Busrentalscranton.com is putting the request in front of a whole network rather than one operator.
Planning Your Scranton, Pennsylvania Charter Bus Trip
Yes — Busrentalscranton.com helps you find airport transportation to and from all of the airports your group actually uses. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre International Airport (AVP) (100 Terminal Drive, Avoca, PA 18641) is the closest at roughly 12 miles and 20–25 minutes southwest of downtown via I-81 S. For major hub connections, Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is about 120 miles south and approximately 2 hours via I-81 S, Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) is about 120 miles east and approximately 2 hours via I-84 E, and JFK and LaGuardia are roughly 2 to 2.5 hours east. The coach meets your group outside the terminal at the spot each airport designates for buses and larger vehicles, following that airport's own ground transportation guidelines.
State the airport, the terminal if you know it, and the arrival time when you submit the trip details.
Yes — Busrentalscranton.com can get your group to any of them. PNC Field (235 Montage Mountain Rd, Moosic, PA 18507), home of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees), is about 5 miles and 10–12 minutes south of downtown; buses drop at the main entrance on Montage Mountain Rd with large surface lots surrounding the facility. Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza (255 Highland Park Blvd, Wilkes-Barre Township, PA 18702) is about 15 miles south and hosts the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL) along with major concerts and touring shows; bus drop-off runs curbside on Highland Park Blvd. Traffic patterns around both venues shift significantly on event nights, so building extra time into the departure plan is the smart move.
Yes — all of them. The Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel (700 Lackawanna Ave, Scranton, PA 18503) — Scranton's landmark 1908 renovated train station — hosts conventions, galas, and corporate events; buses drop curbside on Lackawanna Ave. The Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple (420 N Washington Ave, Scranton, PA 18503) hosts concerts and corporate events, with bus drop-off on N Washington Ave. Montage Mountain Resorts (1000 Montage Mountain Rd, Scranton, PA 18507) runs a full outdoor amphitheater season and large private events; the main entrance off Montage Mountain Rd is the drop point, approached from the I-81 Montage Mountain exit. Large venues have designated bus loading areas separate from the main guest entrance — a repeat hotel-to-venue shuttle should have its full schedule laid out with the request so it comes back timed and priced correctly.
Yes — any wedding venue in the area. The Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel is one of the most iconic Scranton wedding venues, inside that stunning 1908 train station. The Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple hosts elegant receptions in a historic setting.
Couples in the area also celebrate at venues like Bella Sera Event Center in Dickson City, Fiorelli's Catering in Peckville, and destination properties like The Settlers Inn (4 Main Ave, Hawley, PA 18428) about 35 miles northeast and Kalahari Resorts (250 Kalahari Blvd, Pocono Manor, PA 18349) about 45 miles south. The most common wedding shuttle setup is a loop between a downtown Scranton hotel block and the venue — give the exact venue address with the request and the right vehicle gets matched to the route.
Yes — all of them. The University of Scranton (800 Linden St, Scranton, PA 18510), Marywood University (2300 Adams Ave, Scranton, PA 18509), Lackawanna College (501 Vine St, Scranton, PA 18509), Johnson College (3427 N Main Ave, Scranton, PA 18508), Keystone College (One College Green, La Plume, PA 18440), and the Commonwealth University Scranton campus (120 Ridge View Dr, Dunmore, PA 18512) are all served, along with the Scranton School District, Abington Heights, Valley View, Lakeland, North Pocono, and the other surrounding districts. Field trips and team travel are usually pickups at the school or campus itself, campuses have their own designated bus loading zones, and student trips should include the exact headcount plus any accessibility needs with the request.
Yes — all of them, and a multi-stop loop is one of the most popular setups. Susquehanna Brewing Company (635 S Main St, Pittston, PA 18640) is about 15 miles south. Mohegan Sun Pocono (1280 PA-315, Plains Township, PA 18702) is roughly 20 miles south via I-81 and is one of the most common casino day-trip destinations in the region.
Wind Creek Bethlehem (77 Wind Creek Blvd, Bethlehem, PA 18015) is about 75 miles south for a longer run. Wineries in the Pocono foothills — including Blue Ridge Winery (321 Stanton Rd, Saylorsburg, PA 18353) about 55 miles south — make a natural pairing with a Camelback Mountain stop. Downtown Scranton's nightlife corridor runs along Spruce Street and Adams Avenue.
A multi-stop route is timed by how long the group stays at each stop, so listing the stops and how long at each one when you submit the trip gets the hours and the price right.
Yes — and long-distance runs from Scranton are common. New York City is about 120 miles east, roughly 2 to 2.5 hours via I-84 E or I-380 S to I-80 E, and is one of the most frequently booked destinations. Philadelphia is about 120 miles south and 2 hours via I-81 S. Hersheypark is about 100 miles and 1 hour 45 minutes south.
Atlantic City runs about 140 miles and 2.5 hours. Washington, D.C. is roughly 200 miles and 3.5 hours via I-81 S. Pittsburgh is about 305 miles and 4.5 hours west on I-80. A long-distance trip is usually booked as a one-way transfer or a multi-day package rather than by the hour, and an overnight trip needs the full itinerary — stops, hotel, return timing — laid out with the request so it comes back priced correctly.