Scranton Charter Bus Rental FAQs
About Scrantoncharterbuscompany.com
Scrantoncharterbuscompany.com is an advertising and quote comparison website that lets you compare bus rental options and pricing from a network of transportation companies serving Scranton through a national booking company. Fill out one quick form—or call 272-309-2220—and you instantly see vehicles, amenities, and prices for your specific trip instead of spending an afternoon calling around. Scrantoncharterbuscompany.com is an advertising and referral website; it does not own or operate vehicles. The transportation itself is carried out by independently owned companies serving the Scranton area.
No—Scrantoncharterbuscompany.com is a comparison and referral website. In practical terms, that means you use it to compare vehicles and pricing from a network of independently owned transportation companies serving the Scranton area. You submit your trip details here, you head over to a national booking platform, and the actual transportation is carried out by the operator assigned to your booking.
Think of it as the fastest way to see what is out there for your date without making six phone calls.
When you search on your own, you call one company, get one price, and hope they have your date open. With Scrantoncharterbuscompany.com, you fill out one form or make one call and immediately see vehicles and pricing from a whole network of providers serving Scranton—more options and different price points than any single operator can offer. Your time stays yours.
Instead of chasing callbacks, you are comparing quotes in seconds and choosing the bus that actually fits your trip.
An independently owned transportation company serving the Scranton area. Once you fill out a quote, you move over to a national booking platform where you choose the vehicle that suits the trip—the size, the amenities, the price. What you are choosing there is a vehicle and a price, not picking a company off a list.
The transportation company assigned to your booking is confirmed to you after you book. The whole process, from quote to confirmed ride, happens in minutes.
Booking a charter bus
Fill out the form on this page—or call 272-309-2220—and you are taken straight to a search results page on a national booking company's website. That booking company works with a network of independently owned operators serving the Scranton area, and right there on their site you see available vehicles with pricing for your actual trip. What you are choosing is a vehicle and a price.
Book the one that fits, and you are done—No waiting for callbacks to get pricing, no waiting, no back-and-forth.
Start with the basics: your pickup city, where you are going, how many people are riding, and how many hours you need the bus. The more detail you add—your stops in order, your start and end times, how much luggage the group is bringing, and any amenities that matter to you—the more accurate the quote comes back and the better the match you will find. A complete itinerary upfront gets you a price that holds.
Right away—there is no waiting on a callback. The moment you submit the form you go straight to the search results page and see quotes on the national booking company's website. Pricing is there immediately for your specific trip.
If you would rather talk it through with someone, call 272-309-2220 and a live agent can walk you through the options and help you put together the right package.
The earlier the better on a popular date, and the more specific your needs—a particular vehicle size, a specific amenity, a large group—the further ahead you want to go. That said, because Scrantoncharterbuscompany.com puts your request in front of a whole network of providers serving Scranton rather than one operator with one yard, short-notice trips are often still workable. Comparing a network instead of calling a single company and being told no is exactly the advantage here.
Submit the request or call 272-309-2220 even on short notice—it is always worth checking what is available.
All of those can be requested. Hourly or as-directed keeps the vehicle with your group for a set block of time and is great when the itinerary is flexible or the group wants the bus to wait. A one-way transfer moves a group from one point to another.
A round trip brings them back. A multi-stop itinerary runs a set route with several stops in between—a brewery crawl through the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre corridor, for example, or a wedding day that runs from the hotel to the ceremony to the reception and back. A multi-day booking covers a trip that runs across more than one day.
Which format fits comes down to your trip, and a multi-stop or overnight itinerary should be laid out in full with your 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 starting points, not a single flat price—what your trip actually costs moves based on the vehicle, the date, the distance, and the itinerary. The range is where planning starts, not where it ends.
To see pricing for your actual trip in seconds, fill out the form online. Or call 272-309-2220—going through the details with someone can turn up better pricing and packages than you would find on your own.
It depends on the trip, and all three are used. A short booking 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 New York City, Philadelphia, or Washington, D.C.—may carry a per-mile charge instead.
And 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 details is what determines which structure applies to yours.
The type and size of bus, how long it is booked, the date and day of the week, the distance and route, the number of stops, and how busy that date is locally all move the number. Sunday through Thursday prices lower than Friday and Saturday. 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—rather than five separate stops across Scranton—cuts the hours on the clock and the cost that comes with them. On the Scranton calendar, dates like the St. Patrick's Day Parade weekend, prom season in May, and La Festa Italiana over Labor Day weekend drive up demand across the whole local market, so those dates book early and price accordingly.
Everywhere else, the levers above are yours to use.
About charter buses
A charter bus is a full-size passenger coach that a group hires for its own trip—its own route, its own 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. The group has the whole bus to themselves from pickup to drop-off.
From the outside, a full-size charter bus is a tall coach body with high windows running the length of both sides and a row of luggage bay doors along the lower skirt. The exterior is usually finished in white, silver, black, or a solid color, though some coaches are wrapped in an operator's own graphics—so the coach that shows up will not always look identical to a photo. Inside, seats run in pairs on either side of a center aisle, all facing forward.
The fabric may be cloth or leather depending on the make and model—a Prevost H3-45 or an MCI J4500, for example, often comes with leather or upgraded cloth seating. Overhead parcel racks run the length of the cabin, and a restroom sits toward the rear. The overall feel is closer to a commercial aircraft cabin than anything else—taller, wider, and with more legroom than most people expect.
Some of the amenities available on charter buses include reclining cloth or leather seats, individual climate controls, onboard restrooms, overhead parcel racks and undercarriage luggage bays, WiFi, 110-volt power outlets and USB charging ports, a PA system with microphone, and flat-screen TV monitors. Features may vary by make, model, and vehicle—what a specific coach carries is confirmed during booking. If there are amenities your group needs, note them with your trip details when you request a quote.
That narrows which vehicles come back to the ones that actually fit.
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 and up to 60; the Prevost H3-45 seats 56. Shorter 35-foot coaches seat closer to 44.
The count on the same coach can change—extra legroom or a wheelchair position each take seats out of the total. Because Scrantoncharterbuscompany.com works with a network of providers, the exact coach on any given trip depends on what is available for your date. Submit the trip or call 272-309-2220 if the group needs a specific capacity confirmed.
A 56-passenger coach runs 14 rows, with two seats on each side of a center aisle—forward-facing, paired seating, one aisle down the middle. The row count drops on coaches built with extra legroom or a wheelchair position. Some coaches also tier the front rows slightly so passengers toward the front have a better sightline down the road.
The layout is straightforward: 14 rows, four seats across, one aisle.
A full-size charter bus is 45 feet long and 8.5 feet wide. To put that in terms most people can picture: roughly three cars parked end to end. That is the reason people ask—they are working out whether one fits somewhere.
Shorter coaches exist, most commonly around 35 feet, and those are the right call when a venue or a route has tighter clearances. 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 for 12 feet. That is the number to use when you are checking a parking structure or a covered drop-off lane—a little taller than the first story of a house, and taller than most people assume when they see one from the side. If a venue or route has a low clearance, that is worth flagging when you submit the trip.
WiFi is one of the amenities available on charter buses, and many coaches on the road today are equipped with it. One thing worth knowing: onboard WiFi is an equipment option built into the coach rather than something every vehicle carries, so whether a given bus has it varies. The other thing to set the right expectation on is performance—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 more than the connection is designed for. If WiFi matters to your group, note it with your trip details and that narrows the results to coaches that have it.
Yes—an onboard restroom is standard on full-size charter buses. It sits toward the rear of the coach and is there so the group does not have to stop. On a long run—say, Scranton to New York City or down to Philadelphia—the trip may still be planned with a real rest stop along the way, because an onboard restroom is a convenience, not a replacement for a full break on a multi-hour trip.
If an onboard restroom matters to your group, note it with your trip details.
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 practice, a group can keep phones and laptops charged across a long run without anyone hunting for a wall outlet at a rest stop.
If your group needs outlets confirmed, note it with your trip details when you request a quote.
Yes—in two places. Overhead parcel racks run the length of the cabin inside the coach, and undercarriage baggage bays run along the lower skirt underneath it. 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—which in practice is about one checked-size bag each below plus one small carry-on above. A few things change everything: 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 bringing anything oversized—ski equipment for a Pocono Mountains trip, instruments for a performance, equipment for a sporting event—state it with your trip details so the right coach gets matched to the group.
Charter bus service in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Any group that needs to move together. Airport transfers to and from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre International Airport (AVP), Philadelphia International, or Newark Liberty are one of the most common requests. Corporate travel and employee shuttles move teams between offices, conferences, and off-sites without splitting the group across a dozen cars.
Weddings and private events use charter buses to shuttle guests between hotel blocks and venues across Lackawanna County. Concerts at Montage Mountain and sporting events at PNC Field and Mohegan Arena are a natural fit. School field trips and team travel, church group trips, brewery and winery tours through the region, prom, and long-distance travel to New York City, Philadelphia, the Poconos, and beyond are all bookable through this site.
If a group needs to travel together, there is a bus for it.
The network serves Scranton and the surrounding region, including Wilkes-Barre, Dunmore, Dickson City, Moosic, Clarks Summit, Avoca, Pittston, Carbondale, Olyphant, and communities throughout Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties. The Pocono Mountains—Stroudsburg, Mount Pocono, and the resort corridor along I-380—are also well within reach. Those are examples rather than the full coverage area.
Enter your full route in the quote form or call 272-309-2220 to check a city that is not listed here.
Scranton's St. Patrick's Day Parade—one of the largest in the United States, held the Saturday before March 17—is the single busiest transportation date of the year in this market. Buses for that weekend book out months in advance. Prom season across Scranton, Scranton Prep, West Scranton, Valley View, Abington Heights, and other area schools runs through May and fills quickly.
University of Scranton and Marywood University commencement in mid-May adds to that crunch. La Festa Italiana over Labor Day weekend, summer concerts at Montage Mountain, the Scranton Fringe Festival in fall, and New Year's Eve are all high-demand stretches. On those dates the whole local market gets taken early—book well ahead.
For everything else, short-notice requests are still worth submitting, because this site is putting the request in front of a whole network rather than one operator.
Planning your Scranton, Pennsylvania charter bus trip
The network serves all of the airports Scranton groups actually use. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre International Airport (AVP) at 100 Terminal Dr, Avoca, PA 18641 is the closest, roughly 15 miles and 20 to 30 minutes southwest of downtown via I-81 South. For larger groups or more flight options, Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is about 120 miles south—roughly 2 to 2.5 hours via I-81 South or the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension—and Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) is about 120 miles east, roughly 2 to 2.5 hours via I-84 East.
For airport pickups, the coach meets the group outside the terminal at the spot that 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 your flight arrival time when you request the quote.
The network serves the real venues where Scranton-area groups actually go. PNC Field (235 Montage Mountain Rd, Moosic, PA 18507) is home to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the Yankees' Triple-A affiliate, with a season running April through September. Buses access via Montage Mountain Road, with large vehicle staging along the outer perimeter of the parking complex.
Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza (255 Highland Park Blvd, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702), about 25 minutes south via I-81, is home to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL) and hosts major concerts and touring events year-round; bus drop-off runs on Highland Park Blvd with oversized vehicle parking in the outer lots. On event nights at either venue, traffic on I-81 and the local arterials backs up significantly—build extra time into the departure and have the group's post-event meet point decided before the game ends.
The network serves the large event venues the Scranton region actually uses. The Pavilion at Montage Mountain (1000 Montage Mountain Rd, Moosic, PA 18507) hosts one of the region's biggest outdoor concert series, with capacity over 7,000; buses access via Montage Mountain Road, with large vehicle staging in the upper lots. Mohegan Pennsylvania (1280 PA-315, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702), about 25 minutes south via I-81, is a resort casino with convention and event space that hosts trade shows, conferences, and large group events throughout the year; buses use the main entrance loop off PA-315.
For a repeat shuttle between a downtown Scranton hotel and a venue—a multi-run conference shuttle, for example—lay out the full schedule with your request so it comes back timed and priced correctly.
Yes—any wedding venue in the area. Some of the real venues Scranton-area couples use include the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel (700 Lackawanna Ave, Scranton, PA 18503), the historic former train station in downtown Scranton and one of the region's premier event spaces; Glenmaura National Golf Club (100 Glenmaura National Blvd, Moosic, PA 18507), a popular banquet and wedding venue near Montage Mountain; and The Scranton Club (404 N Washington Ave, Scranton, PA 18503) in the heart of downtown. Pocono Mountains properties like Skytop Lodge and Split Rock Resort, 30 to 60 minutes southeast via I-380, draw a large Scranton wedding market as well.
The most common setup is shuttling guests between a hotel block and the venue—back and forth through the evening so nobody has to drive. Give the exact venue address with your request and the right vehicle gets matched to the route.
The network serves the schools and campuses where Scranton-area groups actually travel from. University of Scranton (800 Linden St, Scranton, PA 18510) and Marywood University (2300 Adams Ave, Scranton, PA 18509) are the two primary four-year institutions in the city; both have designated bus loading zones on the campus perimeter. Lackawanna College (501 Vine St, Scranton, PA 18509) and Penn State Scranton (120 Ridge View Dr, Dunmore, PA 18512) are also served.
For K–12 field trips and team travel, the network serves the Scranton School District, Scranton Preparatory School (1000 Wyoming Ave), West Scranton, Valley View, Abington Heights, and other area districts. Field trip and team pickups are typically at the school itself; include the exact headcount, any chaperone count, and any accessibility needs with the request so the right vehicle comes back.
The Scranton region has a genuinely good loop to build. Susquehanna Brewing Company (635 S Main St, Pittston, PA 18640) is about 15 miles south of Scranton, roughly 20 minutes via I-81 South. Nimble Hill Winery & Brewery (3971 SR 6 East, Tunkhannock, PA 18657) is about 35 miles north, roughly 40 minutes via US-6.
For casino nights, Mohegan Pennsylvania is 25 minutes south via I-81, and Mount Airy Casino Resort (312 Woodland Rd, Mount Pocono, PA 18344) is about 35 miles southeast via I-380, roughly 40 minutes. Downtown Scranton's Lackawanna Avenue corridor is the city's own nightlife hub. A multi-stop route is timed by how long the group stays at each stop—list your stops in order and how long you plan to spend at each one, and the hours come back priced correctly.
Yes—long-distance trips from Scranton are booked regularly. New York City is about 120 to 130 miles east via I-84 East, roughly 2.5 to 3 hours depending on traffic. Philadelphia is about 120 miles south via I-81 South or the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension (I-476), roughly 2 to 2.5 hours.
The Pocono Mountains—Camelback, Jack Frost, Shawnee, and the resort corridor—are 30 to 60 miles southeast via I-380. Hersheypark is about 120 miles southwest, roughly 2 to 2.5 hours. Washington, D.C. is about 220 miles south, roughly 4 to 4.5 hours.
Atlantic City is about 130 miles southeast, roughly 2.5 to 3 hours. 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—outbound and return, with overnight stops—laid out with the request so it comes back priced correctly.