Bartlett Charter Bus Rental FAQs
About Busrentalbartlett.com
Busrentalbartlett.com is an advertising and quote comparison website that lets you compare bus rental options and pricing from a network of transportation companies serving Bartlett through a national booking company — so you fill out one form and see more vehicles and more price points than you would by calling a single company on your own. Busrentalbartlett.com is an advertising and referral website and does not own or operate vehicles. What that means for you is that you get access to a whole network of independently owned transportation companies serving the Bartlett area, instead of being limited to whatever one operator happens to have available on your date!
No — Busrentalbartlett.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 Bartlett area, and the transportation itself is carried out by those independent operators. Think of it as the fast way to see your options: you fill out one form or make one call, and instead of waiting on callbacks from a handful of different companies, you go straight to a results page with vehicles and pricing already lined up for your trip.
When you search on your own, you call one company, get one set of vehicles, and wait to hear back. With Busrentalbartlett.com, you fill out one form or call 901-307-4750 and you see more options and different price points than any single operator can offer — right away, not after a round of callbacks. Because your request goes out to a whole network of companies serving Bartlett rather than just one, you get real competition for your booking, which works in your favor on both price and availability.
That is the difference.
An independently owned transportation company serving the Bartlett area. Once you fill out a quote, you head over to a national booking platform where you choose the vehicle that suits your trip — the size, the amenities, the price point that works for your group. 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, and they handle everything from there.
Booking a Charter Bus
Fill out the form on this site with your trip details — or call 901-307-4750 if you would rather talk it through with someone. Either way, you are taken to a search results page on a national booking company's website, where that booking company partners with independent operators serving the Bartlett area. Right there on the results page, you see vehicles, photos, and pricing for your actual trip.
What you are choosing is a vehicle and a price — you book the bus you want directly on their website, and you are done in minutes.
Your pickup city, where you are going, how many people are in the group, and roughly how many hours you need the bus. That gets you a quote. The more detail you give — your stops, 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 options you will find.
A full itinerary submitted up front is always going to come back better-priced than a bare-bones request.
Right away — there is no waiting on a callback. As soon as you submit the form, you go straight to the search results page and see quotes on the booking company's website. You are looking at vehicles and pricing in under a minute, not the next business day.
If you would rather go through it with someone first, call 901-307-4750 and you can talk through the trip and see what is available on your date.
The earlier the better on a popular date — prom weekend in Bartlett, a University of Memphis home game, or a Saturday in peak wedding season will go fast across the whole local market. A larger group or a specific vehicle type is also worth booking further ahead. That said, because your request goes in front of a whole network of providers serving the 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 901-307-4750 even on short notice and see what comes back.
All of those can be requested. Hourly or as-directed keeps the vehicle with your group for a block of time and is great when the itinerary has flexibility or the group wants the bus to wait between stops. A one-way transfer moves the group from one place to another — airport to hotel, hotel to venue.
A round trip brings them back. A multi-stop itinerary runs a set route with several stops, like a brewery crawl through Memphis or a wedding shuttle looping between a hotel block and a venue. A multi-day booking covers a trip that runs across more than one day, like a group heading down to New Orleans or out to Pigeon Forge.
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. That is the honest starting point — pricing is not one size fits all, and a number of things move a quote up or down, so the range tells you where trips land rather than what your trip will cost. The fastest way to get a number for your specific date and itinerary is to fill out the form and see pricing on the results page in seconds.
You can also call 901-307-4750 and go through it with someone — talking through the full trip often turns up better pricing and packages than the form alone.
It depends on the trip, and all three are used. A short trip of a couple of hours is usually priced hourly — a game-day shuttle from Bartlett to FedExForum (191 Beale St, Memphis, TN 38103) and back is a good example of that. A trip that runs long distance — roughly past the 100 to 200 mile mark, or heading well out of the area toward Nashville, St. Louis, or New Orleans — 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 is what determines which structure applies — the results page prices it against your real itinerary rather than a generic formula.
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 — all of those move the number. 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 instead of five cuts the hours on the clock.
In Bartlett specifically, prom weekends in April and May, University of Memphis home football Saturdays, and peak wedding months from May through October all push demand up across the whole local market — if your date lands in one of those windows, earlier is better on both price and availability. The more detail you give with the request, the more accurately the results page can match a vehicle to what you actually need.
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, its own stops — rather than riding a fixed public route with other passengers. 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, and the itinerary is entirely theirs.
Outside, a charter bus is a full-size coach body — tall, with high windows running the length of both sides and large luggage bay doors along the bottom 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, you have forward-facing seats arranged in pairs on either side of a center aisle — cloth or leather depending on the make and model.
Overhead racks run the full length of the cabin above the windows, and an onboard restroom sits toward the rear. Common makes on the road include the MCI J4500, the Van Hool CX45, and the Prevost H3-45 — all full-size 45-foot coaches with the same general layout, though the interior finish and equipment vary by vehicle.
Some of the amenities available on charter buses include reclining cloth or leather seats, individual climate controls, onboard restrooms, overhead and undercarriage storage, WiFi and power outlets, a PA system, and TV monitors. Features vary by make, model, and operator, so any specific vehicle may include some of these and not others — the exact equipment is confirmed during booking. If a particular amenity matters to your group, note it with your trip details when you request the quote, since that narrows which vehicles come back on the results page.
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 seats 56. Shorter 35-foot coaches seat closer to 44. What changes the count on the same coach is the interior configuration — extra legroom or a wheelchair position each take seats out of the total.
Because this site works with a network of providers, the exact coach on any given trip depends on what is available for your date and headcount, so submit the trip or call 901-307-4750 if the 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 — forward-facing, paired seating, one aisle down the middle. That is the standard layout: 14 rows of four seats each, 56 total. The row count drops on coaches built with extra legroom or a wheelchair position, and some coaches tier the front rows slightly for a better view toward the front of the cabin.
The 14-row, 56-seat layout is what most full-size coaches on the road are built to.
A full-size charter bus is 45 feet long and 8.5 feet wide. To put that in terms that actually help — it is roughly three cars parked end to end, which is the measurement that matters when a group is working out whether one fits in a parking area or a venue driveway. Shorter coaches exist, most commonly around 35 feet, and those are useful when a venue or a route has clearance constraints.
The 45-foot coach is the standard full-size vehicle and the one most groups are booking when they need a full load.
A full-size charter bus stands about 11 to 12 feet tall depending on the model, and traffic engineers design overhead clearances for 12 feet. The practical comparison for anyone checking a clearance: a full-size coach is a little taller than a single story of a house. If a route passes under a low bridge or into a parking structure, that 12-foot figure is the one to check against the posted clearance before the trip.
WiFi is one of the amenities available on charter buses, and many coaches on the road are equipped with it. The accurate point here — because this is where groups get surprised — is that 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 by make and model. And onboard WiFi runs off a cellular connection built for light use across a full coach: phones, messaging, and browsing work well; fifty or sixty people doing heavy work or streaming video at once will strain it.
If the group needs WiFi, note it with the trip details when you request the quote — that narrows which vehicles come back on the results page to the ones actually equipped for it.
Yes — an onboard restroom is standard on full-size charter buses. It sits toward the rear of the coach, and it is there so the group does not have to stop every hour on a long run. That said, on a longer trip the itinerary is still usually planned with real rest stops, because the onboard restroom is built for the occasional need rather than continuous use by a full coach.
If a restroom onboard is important for your trip, note it with the details — it may be confirmed as standard on the vehicle that comes back, but stating it up front keeps things clear.
Yes — charter buses are built with 110-volt AC power outlets, and coaches are commonly fitted with them at or near 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. Practically speaking, a group can keep phones and laptops charged across a long run from Bartlett to Nashville or New Orleans without hunting for an outlet at a rest stop.
If the group needs power at every seat, note it with the trip details when you request the quote.
Yes — in two places. Inside the coach, overhead parcel racks run the full length of the cabin above the windows. Underneath the coach, large undercarriage baggage bay doors open to enclosed storage bays that run below the floor on both sides.
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 means about one checked-size bag each below plus one small carry-on above. What changes that math: a coach fitted with a wheelchair lift gives up some baggage bay space, and bulky gear like musical instruments, sports equipment, or event supplies takes the space of several bags and should be stated with the trip details so the right coach is matched to the group.
A trip from Bartlett to Pigeon Forge with a full group and a weekend's worth of luggage is a different load than a game-day shuttle to AutoZone Park (198 Union Ave, Memphis, TN 38103) with nothing but a jacket. State what the group is bringing and the results page can match accordingly.
Charter Bus Service in Bartlett, Tennessee
The network serving Bartlett handles just about any group trip you can put together! Airport transfers to and from Frederick W. Smith International Airport (MEM) are one of the most common requests — one bus keeps the whole group together instead of splitting into a caravan of cars on I-240. Corporate travel and employee shuttles cover everything from conference transportation to recurring commuter routes.
Weddings and private events use charter buses to shuttle guests between hotel blocks and venues across the Memphis area. Concerts and sporting events at FedExForum, AutoZone Park, and Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium are popular group trips from Bartlett. School and church group trips, government and military moves, brewery and distillery tours through Memphis, prom and homecoming, and long-distance travel to Nashville, New Orleans, or Pigeon Forge are all trips the network is ready for.
Whatever brings your group together, there is a bus for it!
The network covers Bartlett and the entire surrounding Memphis metro area — including Memphis, Germantown, Collierville, Cordova, Millington, Arlington, Lakeland, and communities across Shelby County and into Tipton County to the north and DeSoto County, Mississippi to the south. Those are examples, not the complete picture — the network reaches well beyond any list. If you have a pickup or drop-off point that is not named here, enter the full route into the form or call 901-307-4750 and check availability for your specific cities.
Prom season in April and May is the single busiest stretch of the year for bus rentals in Bartlett — Bartlett High School and every surrounding Shelby County high school schedule their dances in that same window, and the whole local market tightens at once. Graduation weekends in May follow right behind, with the University of Memphis, Christian Brothers University, and Southwest Tennessee Community College all holding commencement around the same time. Memphis in May — including the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and the Beale Street Music Festival — draws massive regional attendance in early May and takes buses fast.
University of Memphis football Saturdays from August through November, Grizzlies playoff runs, and the Liberty Bowl in late December all create high-demand days across the metro. Wedding season peaks from May through October, with June and September the heaviest months. New Year's Eve is consistently the most booked single night of the year.
Book those dates as far ahead as possible — and on any date, submit the request even on short notice, because the network covers more ground than any one operator.
Planning Your Bartlett, Tennessee Charter Bus Trip
Yes — the network serves all airports in the region. Frederick W. Smith International Airport (MEM) (2491 Winchester Rd., Memphis, TN 38116) is the primary hub for the area, approximately 18 to 22 miles southwest of Bartlett via I-240 or I-40, typically a 25 to 35 minute drive without traffic. That is where the vast majority of commercial flights into and out of the Memphis area land.
Millington Regional Jetport (NQA) (8182 Hornet Avenue, Millington, TN 38053) is approximately 15 miles north of Bartlett and handles general aviation and military traffic. For groups flying through Nashville or other regional airports for special itineraries, the network reaches those routes as well. At MEM, the coach meets the group outside the terminal at the spot the airport designates for buses and larger commercial vehicles, following the airport's own ground transportation guidelines — your group gathers curbside and the bus is there.
Enter the full airport and your arrival details with the request so the pickup is timed to your flight.
Yes — the network covers every major venue in the Memphis area. FedExForum is home to the Memphis Grizzlies (NBA) and Memphis Tigers basketball, approximately 20 miles from Bartlett. Charter bus drop-off is designated on Third Street at the north end of the arena, with buses staging on nearby surface lots.
AutoZone Park hosts the Memphis Redbirds (Triple-A baseball) with drop-off on Third Street or Union Avenue. Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (335 South Hollywood St, Memphis, TN 38104) is home to Memphis Tigers football and hosts the Liberty Bowl in late December — one of the highest-demand bus dates in the metro. Landers Center (4560 Venture Dr, Southaven, MS 39154) in DeSoto County handles concerts and events approximately 30 miles south.
Traffic patterns change significantly around all of these venues on event days, so build extra time into the itinerary and note the event with your request so the route is planned around it.
Yes — the network serves every major convention and event venue in the region. The Memphis Cook Convention Center / Renasant Convention Center (255 N Main St, Memphis, TN 38103) is the primary convention facility for the Memphis metro, approximately 20 miles from Bartlett, with charter bus loading areas accessed from North Main Street. Agricenter International (7777 Walnut Grove Rd, Memphis, TN 38120) is a large expo and fairgrounds venue used for trade shows, the Mid-South Fair, and major events, approximately 10 miles from Bartlett.
The Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center (3663 Appling Rd, Bartlett, TN 38133) handles local performances and community events right in Bartlett. Large venues have designated bus loading areas separate from the main passenger entrance — a repeat shuttle between a hotel and a convention venue should have its full schedule laid out with the request so it comes back timed and priced correctly for the whole run.
Yes — any wedding venue in the Bartlett area and across the Memphis metro. Bartlett Hills Golf Club (3687 Altruria Rd, Bartlett, TN 38135) is right in Bartlett with event space on site. The Columns at Pecan Grove (8455 Macon Rd, Cordova, TN 38018) is a popular estate-style venue just minutes from Bartlett.
Memphis Botanic Garden (750 Cherry Rd, Memphis, TN 38117) and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens (4339 Park Ave, Memphis, TN 38117) are both sought-after venues approximately 15 miles from Bartlett. Whitton Farms and The Venue at Oakley Farm in the Collierville area are popular barn and estate venues approximately 20 miles out. The most common setup is shuttling guests between a hotel block and the venue — and giving the exact venue address with the request gets the right vehicle matched to the route, especially for venues with long driveways or specific bus access points.
Wedding season in the Bartlett area peaks from May through October, so book those dates early.
Yes — the network serves Bartlett City Schools and every school and campus in the surrounding region. In Bartlett itself, that includes Bartlett High School (5688 Woodlawn Rd, Bartlett, TN 38134), Bartlett Middle School, and Appling Middle School (3700 Appling Rd, Bartlett, TN 38133), along with the district's elementary schools. For higher education, the network reaches the University of Memphis (3720 Alumni Ave, Memphis, TN 38152), Christian Brothers University (650 E Pkwy S, Memphis, TN 38104), Rhodes College (2000 N Pkwy, Memphis, TN 38112), and Southwest Tennessee Community College's Macon Cove Campus (5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, TN 38134) approximately five miles from Bartlett.
Field trips and team travel are usually pickups at the school itself, and campuses have designated bus loading zones. Student trips should include the exact headcount plus any chaperone or accessibility needs with the request so the right vehicle comes back.
Yes — and the Memphis area has a lot of ground to cover on a night out! Wiseacre Brewing Company (2783 Broad Ave, Memphis, TN 38112) on the Broad Avenue Arts District and High Cotton Brewing (598 Monroe Ave, Memphis, TN 38103) downtown are natural stops on a Memphis brewery loop, approximately 18 to 20 miles from Bartlett. Memphis Made Brewing (768 Cooper St, Memphis, TN 38104) and Ghost River Brewing (827 S Main St, Memphis, TN 38106) in the South Main Arts District round out the local craft scene.
Old Dominick Distillery (305 S Front St, Memphis, TN 38103) offers tours and tastings downtown. For nightlife, Beale Street in downtown Memphis is the anchor — approximately 20 miles from Bartlett — and Overton Square (Madison Ave, Memphis, TN 38104) adds a second district worth a stop. For casino nights, Tunica, Mississippi — home to Gold Strike, Horseshoe, and Hollywood Casino — is approximately 45 miles south, about 45 to 50 minutes from Bartlett.
A multi-stop route is timed by how long the group stays at each location, so listing the stops and how long at each one when you submit the request gets the hours and the price right.
Yes — long-distance trips are a regular part of what the network handles from Bartlett. Nashville is approximately 210 miles east via I-40, about a 3-hour drive — a popular destination for concerts, bachelorette weekends, and events. New Orleans is approximately 395 miles south via I-55, about 5.5 to 6 hours — one of the most popular long-distance group destinations from the Memphis area.
Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg in the Smoky Mountains are approximately 380 miles east, about 5.5 hours, and the Dollywood trip is a consistent favorite for groups from Bartlett. St. Louis is approximately 285 miles north via I-55, about 4 hours. Destin and Panama City Beach are approximately 550 to 600 miles southeast, about 8 to 9 hours — a full-day drive worth booking a motorcoach with an onboard restroom and undercarriage luggage space.
Tunica Casino Row is the shortest long-distance run at approximately 45 miles south, about 45 to 50 minutes. Long-distance trips are usually booked as a one-way transfer or a multi-day trip rather than by the hour — and overnight trips need the full itinerary laid out with the request, including any hotel stops, so the whole run comes back priced correctly.