How do I rent a group bus?

You go on a road trip and want to rent a bus or a minibus for several? Here is our group car rental guide!

Renting a car or minibus when you take the group road offers the double advantage of being driven by a driver without leaving several cars. By booking on a group car rental platform, you get a wide range of carriers, adapted to your request, so that you can pack your bags without worrying about car rental abroad with sometimes unscrupulous renters. In the area of tourism 2.0, a reservation tool is becoming more and more widespread: the linking platform between travellers and carrier providers. Do not hesitate to send an online request to such a platform for one or more group trips from Metropolitan France, we will find a carrier in your place, which will send you a quote in return.

Do you want to rent a bus or minibus in a group? They tell you how to do it!

Rent a bus for a group: how does it work?

Looking for a group minibus? Instead of comparing all private companies offering such a service, a relationship platform finds you the ideal carrier.

All you have to do is file a request for free online quote , which will be sent to carrier providers. Depending on your needs, you can compare up to 5 detailed quotes, issued by partner carriers on the website.

Depending on your choice criteria – availability dates, prices, type and equipment of the vehicle, business conditions of the company - you discriminate between one of the five offers received from a panel of 800 partner carriers , available in all cities and villages of Metropolitan France. It is important to mention the duration of the trip, the mileage to be carried out, and the rental period to get the best offer.

Soon your minibus rental offer in selected group, you go to the reservation online , then payment to the carrier. Attention, each provider has its own commercial conditions.

What opportunity do you hire a coach?

Why go through a service car rental for group ? Well, to make it easier! The reasons for renting a group bus, bus or minibus can be multiple: a sports club, school trip , business seminar, group of tourists, airport or station transfer, shuttle for wedding or nightclub, young girl’s life burial, road-trip between friends France, etc.

A minibus for a group can also be rented in order to go to a concert, a theatre performance, a theme park. An experienced driver will take you anywhere in France and Europe, whether it’s a trip-simple, a return trip, or a tourist circuit for several days. In 2018, we left in Extremadura with a driver in a minibus for a four-day circuit: this experience allowed us to discover this region of Spain without worrying about flying at any time.

It is also, during a tourist tour, the opportunity to be led by a driver who knows the routes and the tourist routes of the region concerned: Route des vins de Provence, beaches du Débarquement, séjour en Italie, voyage de noces, etc.

What bus/car/minibus model for your group?

But then what vehicle model choose? Should we ask for a coach for 10 people or a minibus be enough? The partner carriers allow travel for all groups, from the 5 or 8-seater van, from the 9 to 25-seater minibus to the 35 to 70-seat large tourism. The rental platforms allow you to find a vehicle suitable for your requests, depending on the number and the travel you need. Everything therefore logically depends on the number of people included in your group.

Van or mini-bus

For a group of 5 people, for example, a van or minibus will be preferred. Renting a minibus suitable for staff 15 to 20 people , on short distances. Compact, it passes through narrow passages. Note: For a whole class on a school trip, it will be better to rent a group bus with driver and more than 30 places available.

Bus

For larger groups – 40, 50, 60 people - it will be better to rent a group bus because the vehicle is more spacious, equipped with tiltable seats and sometimes bunks, ideal for long distance and night travel.

What are the advantages of car rental for a group?

• Ecological

First, renting a group coach or minibus is environmentally friendly because public transport reduces the carbon footprint by landing a single group instead of driving several cars for the same route.

• Flexible

The group coach hire offers flexibility and flexibility since we don’t care about the schedules: in the case of a match scheduled in Paris from Lyon – for example – the driver will wait for all the players and none of them will miss his bus like this could be the case by travelling to a national bus company such as Ouibus, Flixbus, Isibus or Eurolines.

• Economic

Ended the queues and the high costs of public transport: renting a privatized bus also makes it possible to optimize the cost of renting, to travel with its group without stopping at the stations to recover unknown passengers.

What budget should a bus be rented for a group?

How much does it cost to rent a vehicle for a group? Everything depends on the number and type of vehicle. The price for renting a van for a group of 5 people is logically different than that of renting a group bus.

First, the relationship is free . Indicate a price range is very difficult as the rate depends on several parameters: the type of vehicle and the number of passengers, the number of drivers requested for the trip, the duration of the stay, the mileage to be realized, and the rental period.

It must be understood that the daily package is not enough to establish the rental price of a group bus, as the rate may vary depending on the vehicle capacity and desired benefits (wi-fi, refrigerator, bunks, TV screen, toilet, electric sockets, etc.). For example, the case of a long journey involves the recruitment of two drivers (a driver cannot drive more than 9 hours a day on 4h30 in a row), the booking of meals and hotel rooms. All these factors influence the price, which you will only have when developing online quote .

You now know how to rent a coach for a group!