Denver Charter Bus Rental FAQs
About Denvercoachbuscompany.com
Denvercoachbuscompany.com is an advertising and quote comparison website that lets you compare bus rental options and pricing from a network of bus companies serving Denver through a national booking company. Fill out one quick form — or call 720-263-8120 — and you instantly see different vehicles, packages, and prices side by side, so you never have to call five companies and wait on callbacks. Denvercoachbuscompany.com is an advertising and referral website; it does not own or operate any vehicles. The transportation itself is carried out by independently owned companies serving the Denver area.
No — Denvercoachbuscompany.com is a comparison and referral website. What that means for you in practical terms: you come here, fill out a quick form, and see vehicles and pricing from a network of independently owned bus companies serving Denver, all in one place. You choose the vehicle that fits your trip, and the transportation itself is carried out by those independent operators.
Think of Denvercoachbuscompany.com as the fast lane to finding the right bus, not the bus company itself.
When you search on your own, you call one company, get one price, and either take it or start over. With Denvercoachbuscompany.com, you fill out one form — or make one call to 720-263-8120 — and you immediately see vehicles and pricing from a whole network of providers serving Denver, not just whoever picked up the phone. More options, different price points, and none of the back-and-forth.
That is the difference: your time stays yours, and you walk away with the bus that actually fits your group and your budget.
An independently owned transportation company serving Denver. Once you fill out a quote, you head to a national booking platform where you choose the vehicle that suits your trip — the size, the amenities, the price. What you are selecting there is a vehicle and a package, not a company off a list.
The specific transportation company assigned to your booking is confirmed to you after the booking is complete. The whole process takes minutes, and you can reach a live person at 720-263-8120 any time if you want to talk it through first.
Booking a Charter Bus
Fill out the quick form on this page — or call 720-263-8120 — with your pickup location, destination, date, and group size. As soon as you submit, you go straight to a search results page on a national booking company's website. That booking company partners with independent operators serving the Denver area, and right there on their site you see available vehicles and trip-specific pricing.
What you are choosing is a vehicle and a price, not a company. Pick the one that fits, book it directly on their website, and you are done — the whole thing takes minutes.
The basics: your pickup city, where you are going, how many people are riding, and how many hours you need the bus. That gets you a quote in seconds. The more detail you add — your specific stops, start and end times, any luggage or oversized gear, and the amenities your group needs — the more accurate the quote comes back and the better the options you will find.
If you are not sure about something, call 720-263-8120 and someone will walk through it with you.
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. No forms sitting in an inbox somewhere, no phone tag.
If you would rather go through it with someone live, call 720-263-8120 and you will have pricing in front of you in under a minute. Either way, you are not waiting.
The earlier the better for a popular date — and for a specific vehicle or a larger group, further ahead is always smarter. That said, because Denvercoachbuscompany.com puts your request in front of a whole network of providers serving Denver rather than one operator with one yard, short-notice trips are often still very workable. That is the real advantage of comparing a network: one company might be full, and the next one has exactly what you need.
Submit the request or call 720-263-8120 even on short notice — you may be surprised what comes back.
All of those can be requested, and each one fits a different kind of trip. An hourly or as-directed booking keeps the vehicle with your group for a set block of time — great when the schedule is flexible or the itinerary has multiple stops. A one-way transfer moves your group from point A to point B. A round trip brings everyone back.
A multi-stop itinerary runs a planned route with several stops along the way, like a brewery crawl through RiNo or a casino run to Black Hawk. A multi-day booking covers a trip that runs across more than one day, like a ski weekend in Breckenridge or a group run down to Colorado Springs. Which format fits comes down to the trip itself — and a multi-stop or overnight itinerary should be laid out in full when you submit the request so the quote comes back timed and 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 price — because the type of bus, the date, the distance, and the number of stops all move the number. The range tells you where to start; your actual quote tells you what your specific trip costs.
Fill out the form and you will see trip-specific pricing in seconds, or call 720-263-8120 and going through the details with someone can turn up better packages and pricing 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 — a game-day shuttle to Empower Field at Mile High or a transfer across downtown Denver — is usually priced hourly. A trip that runs long distance, roughly past the 100 to 200 mile mark or heading well out of the region toward Salt Lake City or Albuquerque, 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 most of the day. Submitting the actual trip details is what determines which structure applies to yours.
Six things move the price: the type and size of bus, how long it is booked for, the date and day of the week, the distance and route, the number of stops, and how busy that date is locally. Denver's calendar has real peaks — Red Rocks concert season from May through October, Broncos home Sundays at Empower Field, the Great American Beer Festival in October at Levitt Pavilion, and the National Western Stock Show in January all pull the whole metro market at once. Here is what you can actually do about it: 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 instead of five cuts the hours on the clock.
Short trips booked mid-week on a non-event date come in at the lower end of the range. Big Saturday nights during concert season come in at the higher end. Submit your trip details and see exactly where yours lands.
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 its own schedule — rather than riding a fixed public route. It is built for moving a large group over a distance in one vehicle, keeping everyone together from pickup to drop-off. A standard full-size charter bus seats roughly 40 to 56 people, and the group has the whole coach to themselves for the duration of the trip.
From the outside, a charter bus is a tall, wide, full-size coach body with high windows running the full length of the vehicle and luggage bay doors along the bottom. The exterior is usually finished in white, silver, black, or a solid color — 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, you will find forward-facing seats arranged in pairs on either side of a center aisle.
The seat fabric may be cloth or leather depending on the make and model — a Prevost H3-45 or Van Hool CX45 typically runs a premium interior, while a workhorse MCI J4500 may be cloth. Overhead parcel racks run the full length of the cabin, and a restroom sits toward the rear. The interior is climate-controlled, and the cabin height lets passengers stand and walk the aisle comfortably.
Some of the amenities available on charter buses include reclining cloth or leather seats, individual climate controls, onboard restrooms, overhead parcel racks, undercarriage baggage bays, WiFi, power outlets and USB charging ports, a PA system, and flat-panel TV monitors. Amenities vary by make, model, and operator — a specific vehicle may include some of these and not others, and the exact features are confirmed during booking. If your group needs WiFi, power at every seat, or any other specific feature, note it with your trip details when you submit the request.
That narrows which vehicles come back to the ones that actually fit.
Generally 40 to 56 passengers, depending on the make and model. 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 seats 56. Shorter 35-foot coaches seat closer to 44. What changes the count on the same coach: extra legroom configurations take seats out, and a wheelchair position removes one or two seats to accommodate the lift and securement space.
Because Denvercoachbuscompany.com works with a network of providers, the exact coach on any given trip depends on what is available for your date. Submit your trip or call 720-263-8120 if your group needs a specific capacity confirmed before booking.
A 56-passenger coach runs 14 rows, with two seats on each side of a center aisle — four seats across per row. The layout is forward-facing throughout, with one aisle running down the middle of the coach from front to rear. The row count drops on coaches built with extra legroom or a wheelchair securement position, and some coaches tier the front rows slightly for sightlines.
Those are the only figures that apply to a standard full-size coach.
A full-size charter bus is 45 feet long and 8.5 feet wide. To put that in perspective: roughly three cars parked end to end. That is the number that matters when a group is working out whether a coach fits a parking lane, a hotel porte-cochere, or a mountain road approach.
Shorter coaches exist — most commonly around 35 feet — and those are the right call when the route has tight turns or restricted access. 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 the first story of a house. That is the number a group needs when checking a parking structure, a tunnel, or a covered loading area along the route.
If your venue or route has a low-clearance structure, mention it when you submit the trip details.
WiFi is one of the amenities available on charter buses, and many coaches on the road today are equipped with it. One point worth knowing: onboard WiFi is a built-in equipment option rather than something every coach carries, so whether a given vehicle has it varies by make, model, and operator. It is also worth setting the right expectation before the trip — 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 video calls or large file transfers at once will overwhelm it. If your group needs WiFi, note it with your trip details when you submit the request, and that narrows the results to vehicles that are actually equipped.
Yes — an onboard restroom is standard on full-size charter buses. It sits toward the rear of the coach and is there so a group does not have to stop every hour on a long run. That said, on a long trip the itinerary is still usually planned with real rest stops, because the onboard restroom is a convenience for between stops, not a replacement for them.
Note it with your trip details if a restroom is important for your group, and that is confirmed during booking.
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. What that means in practice: a group can keep phones and laptops charged across a long run from Denver to Vail or down to Colorado Springs without anyone hunting for a wall outlet at a rest stop.
Note it with your trip details if the group needs power at every seat, and the results will reflect which vehicles are equipped for it.
Yes — in two places. Overhead parcel racks run the full length of the cabin inside the coach, and undercarriage baggage bays run along the bottom of the vehicle 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 — in practice, about one checked-size bag each below plus one small carry-on above. A few things change that math: a coach fitted with a wheelchair lift gives up some baggage bay space for the lift mechanism, and bulky gear like ski equipment, instruments, sports bags, or event supplies takes the space of several standard bags. If your group is traveling to Breckenridge or Vail with ski gear, or moving equipment for a team or production, state the luggage and any oversized items with the trip details when you submit the request.
That gets the right coach matched to the group from the start.
Charter Bus Service in Denver, Colorado
Any group that needs to move together — and the Denver area keeps buses busy year-round. Airport transfers to and from Denver International Airport (DEN) are one of the most common bookings, especially for large groups arriving together for conferences or events. Corporate travel and employee shuttles move teams between offices, hotels, and venues like the Colorado Convention Center.
Weddings and private events use charter buses to shuttle guests between hotel blocks and venues across the metro. Concerts and sporting events — Red Rocks, Ball Arena, Empower Field, Coors Field — are among the highest-demand bookings of the year. School and university field trips, church group travel, government and military moves, brewery and distillery tours through RiNo and LoDo, prom, and long-distance trips to ski resorts, Colorado Springs, and beyond are all bookable through this site.
Call 720-263-8120 or fill out the form and see what is available for your date.
The network of transportation companies available through Denvercoachbuscompany.com serves Denver and the entire surrounding metro — including Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Westminster, Thornton, Englewood, Littleton, Centennial, Parker, Castle Rock, Broomfield, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, and communities throughout Jefferson, Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties. Those are examples, not the complete list. If your pickup or destination is not named here, enter the full route in the form or call 720-263-8120 to check availability for that city.
Denver has a real demand calendar, and the whole local bus market gets taken early on these dates. Red Rocks concert season runs May through October — individual shows, especially headliners, book out weeks in advance. Broncos home Sundays at Empower Field run September through January.
The Great American Beer Festival at Levitt Pavilion in October is one of the single busiest weekends of the year. The National Western Stock Show in January runs roughly 16 days and fills the north Denver market. Prom season across Cherry Creek, Jeffco, Denver Public Schools, and Douglas County school districts clusters in April and May.
Graduation season at DU, CU Denver, Metro State, and CSU hits May and December. Denver PrideFest in June draws 500,000 people to Civic Center Park. New Year's Eve in LoDo is one of the tightest nights of the year.
For any of those dates, book as far ahead as possible — and for any other date, it is always worth submitting the request even on short notice, because the network covers more providers than any single company.
Planning Your Denver, Colorado Charter Bus Trip
Yes — and the primary airport for the Denver metro is Denver International Airport (DEN) (8500 Peña Blvd, Denver, CO 80249), roughly 26 miles northeast of downtown and about 35 to 50 minutes depending on traffic on I-70 east or the E-470 toll loop. DEN served 82.3 million passengers in 2024, making it the 3rd busiest airport in the United States — so ground transportation coordination matters. Charter buses pick up and drop off at the Ground Transportation Center on Level 5 of the Parking Structure adjacent to Jeppesen Terminal, following DEN's own guidelines for commercial vehicles.
The bus stages in the designated commercial holding area and pulls forward once your group is assembled and ready — collect everyone and all luggage before calling the bus forward, so the group boards in one clean move. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) (11755 Airport Way, Broomfield, CO 80021) is about 18 miles northwest and roughly 25 to 35 minutes from downtown, serving private and charter aviation for corporate groups. Call 720-263-8120 to arrange the right vehicle for your airport run.
Yes — and Denver is a full four-sport pro city with some of the highest-demand bus dates in the region. Empower Field at Mile High (1701 Bryant St, Denver, CO 80204) seats 76,125 for Denver Broncos NFL games; charter buses use the designated motorcoach zones on Bryant Street along the west side of the stadium, with advance arrangements for oversized vehicle parking in the Orange Lot area. Lots open four hours before kickoff, and Bryant Street and 17th Avenue corridors see game-day closures.
Ball Arena (1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, CO 80204) hosts the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche, with charter bus drop-off on Chopper Circle. Coors Field (2001 Blake St, Denver, CO 80205) hosts the Colorado Rockies from April through October, with bus access on Blake and 20th Streets in LoDo. Dick's Sporting Goods Park (6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, CO 80022) is home to the Colorado Rapids, about 20 minutes north.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre (18300 W Alameda Pkwy, Morrison, CO 80465) is one of the most famous outdoor venues in the world — buses park in the designated Blue Lot off Alameda Pkwy, and Red Rocks concert nights are among the highest-demand bus dates of the Denver year. Build extra time into any game-day or show-day itinerary; traffic patterns change significantly around all of these venues.
Yes — and the anchor is the Colorado Convention Center (700 14th St, Denver, CO 80202), one of the largest convention facilities in the United States with 2.2 million square feet of total space. Charter buses use designated loading zones on 14th Street and Champa Street; the convention center is walking distance from major downtown hotels including the Hyatt Regency and Sheraton Grand, making hotel-to-convention shuttle runs a common booking. Major events at the CCC — including the Great American Beer Festival in October and large trade shows — fill the entire metro bus market, so those dates need to be booked well ahead.
The National Western Complex (4655 Humboldt St, Denver, CO 80216) hosts the National Western Stock Show in January, one of the top demand events of the year; buses stage on Humboldt Street. The Mission Ballroom (4242 Wynkoop St, Denver, CO 80216) in RiNo and the Fillmore Auditorium (1510 Clarkson St, Denver, CO 80218) in Capitol Hill both host major touring concerts. For a repeat shuttle between a hotel and any venue, lay out the full schedule — number of runs, timing, and headcount — with the request so it comes back priced correctly.
Yes — any wedding venue in the Denver area, from downtown historic hotels to mountain estates. The Brown Palace Hotel (321 17th St, Denver, CO 80202) and The Curtis Hotel (1405 Curtis St, Denver, CO 80202) are classic downtown ceremony and reception sites. Denver Botanic Gardens (1007 York St, Denver, CO 80206) hosts outdoor celebrations through the warmer months.
Chatfield Farms (8500 W Deer Creek Canyon Rd, Littleton, CO 80128) and The Manor House (6900 S Colorado Blvd, Littleton, CO 80120) are popular south-metro estate venues. Spruce Mountain Ranch (1200 Spruce Mountain Rd, Larkspur, CO 80118) is about 45 miles south for a mountain ranch setting. For destination weddings further out, Devil's Thumb Ranch (3530 County Road 83, Tabernash, CO 80478) is roughly 90 miles northwest and Della Terra Mountain Chateau (3501 Fall River Rd, Estes Park, CO 80517) is about 75 miles northwest near Rocky Mountain National Park.
The most common wedding setup is shuttling guests between a hotel block and the venue — give the exact venue address with the request and the right vehicle gets matched to the route from the start.
Yes — and the Denver metro is home to some of the largest school districts and universities in the Rocky Mountain region. Denver Public Schools, Cherry Creek School District, Jefferson County Public Schools, and Douglas County School District are the major K-12 districts, with field trips and team travel among the most common bookings. On the university side: University of Denver (DU) (2199 S University Blvd, Denver, CO 80208), University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) (1201 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80204), Metropolitan State University of Denver (890 Auraria Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204), Regis University (3333 Regis Blvd, Denver, CO 80221), Colorado School of Mines (1500 Illinois St, Golden, CO 80401), CU Boulder (about 30 miles northwest), and Colorado State University in Fort Collins (about 65 miles north) are all served.
Field trips and team travel typically pick up at the school or campus itself; campuses have designated bus loading zones, and student trips should include the exact headcount plus any chaperone or accessibility needs with the request.
Yes — and Denver is one of the top craft beer cities in the country, which makes brewery crawls one of the most popular bus bookings of the year. In the RiNo Art District, popular stops include Great Divide Brewing Co. (2201 Arapahoe St, Denver, CO 80205), Ratio Beerworks (2920 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80205), Odell Brewing Denver (2945 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80205), and Bierstadt Lagerhaus (2875 Blake St, Denver, CO 80205). In LoDo, Wynkoop Brewing Co. (1634 18th St, Denver, CO 80202) — Colorado's first craft brewery — and Breckenridge Brewery (2220 Blake St, Denver, CO 80205) are right near Coors Field.
For spirits, Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey (200 S Kalamath St, Denver, CO 80223) and Laws Whiskey House (1420 S Acoma St, Denver, CO 80223) both offer distillery tours. Infinite Monkey Theorem Winery (3200 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80205) is an urban winery in RiNo. For casino runs, Black Hawk — home to Ameristar Casino (111 Richman St), Isle Casino Hotel (401 Main St), and Monarch Casino (488 Main St) — is about 40 miles west on I-70, roughly 55 to 70 minutes depending on mountain traffic and season.
A multi-stop brewery crawl is timed by how long the group stays at each stop, so list your stops and how long you plan at each one when you submit the request — that gets the hours and the price right from the start.
Yes — and long-distance trips out of Denver are some of the most popular bookings on the site. Within Colorado, groups regularly travel to Colorado Springs (~70 miles south, 1 to 1.5 hours on I-25), Breckenridge (~80 miles southwest, 1.5 to 2 hours on I-70 and CO-9), Vail (~100 miles west, 1.5 to 2.5 hours — mountain traffic and weather can extend this significantly on winter weekends), Aspen (~160 miles west, 3 to 4 hours), Steamboat Springs (~160 miles northwest, 2.5 to 3.5 hours), and Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park (~75 miles northwest, 1.5 to 2 hours on US-36). Out of state, common destinations include Salt Lake City, UT (~525 miles, roughly 7.5 to 8 hours), Albuquerque, NM (~450 miles, roughly 6.5 to 7 hours on I-25), Las Vegas, NV (~750 miles, roughly 10 to 11 hours), and Kansas City, MO (~600 miles, roughly 8.5 to 9 hours on I-70).
A long-distance trip is typically booked as a one-way transfer or a multi-day package rather than by the hour, and an overnight trip needs the full itinerary laid out with the request so it comes back priced correctly. Call 720-263-8120 or submit the details online and see what is available for your route.