Post #578786 by Hakalugi on Thu, Mar 3, 2011 11:11 PM

On 2011-03-03 12:44, christiki295 wrote:

On 2011-03-02 22:37, JOHN-O wrote:
Not to be a killjoy, but the biggest issue here has nothing to do with the itinerary. I've chartered buses before and in every instance, they required full payment several weeks in advance. So that means one of two things.

$225 per hour.
If 50 guests pay approx $50.00, that should cover it.

http://bigredbus.com/buildyourown.html

If you don't care what the bus looks like, you can save a lot.

According to:
http://www.busrates.com/results.php?bustype=1&state=CA&city=Los+Angeles

One could rent from Liberty Charter an 84 seat school bus (with tv and dvd player) for only $695 per day.
Even if you planned for only 50 passengers, for one day that would be only $13.90 per passenger. For three days that's only $41.70 per passenger.

Now when they say "day" I'm not sure what exactly that constitutes. Nevertheless, there do seem to be a lot of less expensive options when it comes to picking out the right bus.