Edina Charter Bus Rental FAQs
About Edinacharterbuscompany.com
Edinacharterbuscompany.com is an advertising and quote comparison website that lets you compare bus rental options and pricing from a network of transportation companies serving Edina through a national booking company. Instead of calling five local operators and waiting on callbacks, you fill out one quick form and see vehicles, amenities, and trip-specific pricing in seconds — all in one place. Edinacharterbuscompany.com is an advertising and referral website and does not own or operate vehicles. The transportation itself is carried out by independently owned companies serving the Edina area, and booking is completed through a national booking platform.
No — Edinacharterbuscompany.com is a comparison and referral website. You use it to compare vehicles and pricing from a network of independently owned transportation companies serving Edina and the Twin Cities metro. Once you submit your trip details, you are taken to a national booking platform where you can browse available vehicles, see pricing for your actual trip, and book the bus you want directly online.
The transportation itself is performed by independent motor carriers operating in your area.
When you search for a bus on your own, you are calling one company at a time, describing your trip over and over, and waiting on callbacks that may not come for hours. With Edinacharterbuscompany.com, you fill out one form or make one call to 612-800-8130 and immediately see more options and more price points than any single local operator can offer. Vehicles and rates from a network of providers come back at once, so you can compare and choose what fits your group and your budget — in the time it would take to leave one voicemail.
An independently owned transportation company serving Edina and the surrounding area. When you fill out the quote form, you are taken to a national booking platform where you choose the vehicle that suits your trip — the size, the amenities, and the price that work for your group. What you are selecting there is a vehicle and a price, not a company from a list.
The transportation company assigned to your booking is confirmed to you after the reservation is complete.
Booking a Charter Bus
Fill out the form on this page or call 612-800-8130 with your trip details. As soon as you submit, you are taken directly to a search results page on a national booking company's website. That booking company works with independently owned transportation companies serving Edina and the Twin Cities metro, and their results page shows you available vehicles and pricing for your specific trip.
What you are choosing there is a vehicle and a price — you browse the options, pick the one that fits, and book it directly on their website. The whole thing takes minutes.
Your pickup city, where you are going, how many people are in the group, and how many hours you need the bus. That is enough to get started. The more detail you give — your stops, your start and end times, how much luggage the group is bringing, and any amenities the trip needs — the more accurate your quote comes back and the better the options you will find.
A complete itinerary gets you a complete price.
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. You are not waiting for anyone to call you back or email you a PDF.
If you would rather talk through the trip with someone, call 612-800-8130 and a live agent will go through it with you on the spot.
The earlier the better, especially for a popular date or a specific vehicle — but do not let timing stop you from submitting a request. Because Edinacharterbuscompany.com puts your trip in front of a whole network of transportation providers serving the Edina 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 form or call 612-800-8130 even if your date is coming up fast — you may have more options than you expect.
All of those can be requested. Hourly or as-directed keeps the vehicle with your group for a set block of time and is the most flexible format for events where the schedule might shift. A one-way transfer moves your group from one place to another without a return.
A round trip brings them back to the starting point. A multi-stop itinerary runs a planned route with several stops along the way — a brewery crawl through Minneapolis or a wedding day that moves guests between the hotel, the ceremony, and the reception. A multi-day booking covers a trip that runs across more than one day.
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 it comes back priced correctly from the start.
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 planning ranges, not a fixed price — what your trip actually costs depends on the type and size of bus, the date, the distance, and the specifics of your itinerary. The range is a starting point, not your number.
To see pricing for your actual trip, fill out the form and you will have results in seconds. Or call 612-800-8130 — going through the trip with someone can surface packages and options you would not find on your own.
It depends on the trip, and all three are used. A short trip of a couple of hours — a shuttle from Edina to U.S. Bank Stadium (900 S 5th St, Minneapolis, MN 55415) for a Vikings game and back — is usually priced hourly. A trip that covers significant distance, roughly past the 100 to 200 mile mark or heading well out of the metro, may carry a per-mile charge instead.
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. Which structure applies to your trip is determined by the actual itinerary you submit — that is the only way to know for certain.
The type and size of bus, how long it is booked for, the date and the day of the week, the distance and the route, the number of stops, and how busy that date is locally all move the number. In Edina, prom weekends in April and May, Vikings home Sundays at U.S. Bank Stadium, and the Minnesota State Fair stretch in late August through Labor Day are the dates that tighten supply across the whole Twin Cities market and push prices up. On the other side, Sunday through Thursday prices lower than Friday and Saturday, and daytime trips on those same days cost less than evening ones.
Booking the bus size your group actually needs — rather than going larger just in case — and consolidating pickups to one or two points on France Avenue rather than five separate addresses cuts the hours on the clock and the price with them. The form takes 30 seconds and shows you exactly what your trip costs on your date.
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 schedule, rather than riding a fixed public route. It is built for moving a large group over a distance in one vehicle, and a standard full-size coach seats roughly 40 to 56 people. The group goes where it needs to go, on the timeline it sets, without sharing the vehicle with anyone else.
Outside, a charter bus is a full-size coach body with high windows running most of its length, a flat or slightly curved roofline, and a row of baggage bay doors along the lower skirt on both sides. 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 the same. Inside, you will find forward-facing seats arranged in pairs on either side of a center aisle — cloth or leather depending on the make and model — with overhead parcel racks running the length of the cabin and a restroom toward the rear.
Common models on the road include the MCI J4500, the Van Hool CX45, and the Prevost H3-45, all of which follow that same general layout. The interior is quiet and climate-controlled, and on a longer run like Edina to Duluth or Edina to the Wisconsin Dells, the difference between a charter bus and a caravan of cars is felt by the time you hit the highway.
Some of the amenities available on charter buses include reclining cloth or leather seats, individual climate controls, an onboard restroom, overhead parcel racks and undercarriage baggage bays, WiFi, power outlets and USB charging ports, a PA system, and flat-panel TV monitors. Availability may vary — features differ by make, model, and the specific vehicle assigned to a booking, and are confirmed during the booking process. If there are amenities the group needs, note them with the trip details when you submit the request, since that narrows which vehicles come back in the results.
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 can be configured for up to 60. The Van Hool CX45 is the same — 56 standard, up to 60.
The Prevost H3-45 also seats 56. Shorter 35-foot coaches seat closer to 44. The count on the same coach can change: extra legroom configurations or a wheelchair position each take seats out of the standard layout.
Because Edinacharterbuscompany.com works with a network of providers, the exact coach on any given trip depends on what is available for your date and route. Submit the trip or call 612-800-8130 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. The layout is forward-facing and paired all the way through — one aisle, two seats left, two seats right, repeated across 14 rows. The row count drops on coaches built with extra legroom or a wheelchair position, and some coaches tier the front rows slightly for improved sightlines.
The 14-row, 56-seat layout is the standard full-size build.
A full-size charter bus is 45 feet long and 8.5 feet wide. To give that a real frame of reference — because the reason most people ask is that they are working out whether one fits somewhere — that is roughly three cars parked end to end. Shorter coaches exist, most commonly around 35 feet, and they are used when a venue or a route makes the full-size length impractical.
The 45-foot coach is the standard full-size vehicle you will see most often.
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. If you are working out whether a bus clears a parking structure or a low bridge on a route — which is the reason most people ask — a useful comparison is that 12 feet is a little taller than a single story of a house. Confirm any low-clearance point on your specific route with the trip details when you submit the request.
WiFi is one of the amenities available on charter buses, and many coaches on the road are equipped with it. 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. One thing worth knowing before the trip: onboard WiFi runs off a cellular connection and is built for light use across a full coach — phones, messaging, and browsing — not for fifty or sixty people doing heavy data work at once.
If the group needs WiFi, note it with the trip details when you submit the request, since that narrows which vehicles come back in the results.
Yes — an onboard restroom is standard on full-size charter buses. It sits toward the rear of the coach. The honest expectation: it is there so a group does not have to stop for every passenger's need, and on a longer run like Edina to the Wisconsin Dells or up to Duluth, the trip is still usually planned with real rest stops along the way.
If an onboard restroom matters for the group, note it with the trip details when you submit the request.
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. Practically, it means a group can keep phones and laptops charged across a long run without anyone rationing battery.
If the group needs outlets at every seat, note it with the trip details when you submit the request.
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 on both sides 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 — which in practice is about one checked-size bag per person below, plus one small carry-on above. A few things change that math: a coach fitted with a wheelchair lift gives up some of the baggage bay in that section, and bulky gear like instruments, hockey bags, sports equipment, or event supplies takes the space of several standard bags. If the group is bringing oversized items — skis, musical instruments, medical equipment — state that with the trip details when you submit the request so the right coach is matched to the group from the start.
Charter Bus Service in Edina, Minnesota
Any group that needs to move together. The most common trips booked through Edinacharterbuscompany.com from Edina include airport transfers to and from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP), corporate travel and employee shuttles for companies along the France Avenue and I-494 corridors, wedding shuttles moving guests between hotel blocks and venues, concert and sporting event transportation to U.S. Bank Stadium and Target Center, school field trips and team travel for Edina Public Schools, church and religious group trips, brewery and winery tours through the Minneapolis craft beer scene, prom and homecoming for Edina High School, and long-distance travel to destinations across the Midwest. If a group needs to get somewhere together, there is a bus in the network for it.
Edinacharterbuscompany.com helps you find group transportation throughout Edina and the surrounding Twin Cities metro. Nearby cities served include Minneapolis, Bloomington, Eden Prairie, St. Louis Park, Richfield, Minnetonka, Burnsville, Eagan, Shakopee, and Plymouth, among others. That list is a sample, not a boundary.
Enter your full route or call 612-800-8130 to check a city that is not listed — if there are providers serving it, the results page will show them.
Prom season at Edina High School and surrounding district schools in April and May is the single tightest stretch of the year for party buses and smaller charter buses across the whole metro. Minnesota Vikings home Sundays at U.S. Bank Stadium from September through January pull demand every game week. The Minnesota State Fair (1265 Snelling Ave N, Falcon Heights, MN 55108) running late August through Labor Day is one of the largest in the country and spikes charter bus demand across every Twin Cities suburb.
The Edina Art Fair at 50th & France in early June draws 250,000 to 300,000 visitors over the weekend and tightens the local market. Graduation weekends in May and June, New Year's Eve, and any major event at U.S. Bank Stadium or Target Center (600 1st Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55403) do the same. Book those dates well ahead — and if yours is coming up fast, submit the request anyway, because a network of providers gives you more chances than a single company does.
Planning Your Edina, Minnesota Charter Bus Trip
The primary airport serving Edina is Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) (4300 Glumack Dr, Saint Paul, MN 55111), about 7 miles southeast of Edina via I-494 East, roughly 12 to 18 minutes off-peak. MSP is a major hub served by all major carriers across two terminals — Terminal 1 (Lindbergh) and Terminal 2 (Humphrey) — so confirming which terminal your flight uses before the trip matters. For group pickups, charter buses use designated bus zones set by the Metropolitan Airports Commission — the Silver Ramp at Terminal 1 and the Ground Transportation Center across from departures at Terminal 2.
State which terminal your group is arriving at or departing from when you submit the trip details so the pickup is staged correctly from the start.
The major venues in the Twin Cities metro are all reachable from Edina by charter bus. U.S. Bank Stadium, home of the Minnesota Vikings, is about 7 miles northeast via I-35W North; charter buses must use the City of Minneapolis Charter Bus Parking System, with designated zones on 7th Street South and 3rd Street South near the stadium and a parking permit required. Target Center, home of the Timberwolves and Lynx, is about 8 miles north; bus drop-off is coordinated through the arena's group sales team ahead of the event.
Target Field (1 Twins Way, Minneapolis, MN 55403), home of the Twins, is the same neighborhood; buses drop on 7th Street N. Xcel Energy Center (175 W Kellogg Blvd, Saint Paul, MN 55102), home of the Wild, is about 18 miles northeast. For any of these venues, build extra time into the schedule on game days — I-35W northbound and downtown Minneapolis surface streets back up significantly before and after major events.
The largest convention and event venues in the metro are all served from Edina. The Minneapolis Convention Center (1301 2nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55403) is about 7 miles north and is the region's primary convention venue, with charter bus drop-off on 2nd Avenue South and group bus staging arranged through the Marshaling Yard in advance. Mall of America (60 E Broadway, Bloomington, MN 55425) is about 4 miles south of Edina via I-494 and is one of the most common group destinations from the city; tour buses drop off at the North Entrance via American Boulevard, with coach parking in the North Lot near IKEA.
Saint Paul RiverCentre and Canterbury Park (1100 Canterbury Rd, Shakopee, MN 55379) round out the major event venues in the region. Large venues have designated bus loading areas separate from the main entrance, and a repeat shuttle between a hotel and a convention should have its full schedule — runs, times, headcounts — laid out with the request so it comes back timed and priced correctly.
Yes — any wedding venue in the area. Within Edina itself, Braemar Golf Course (6364 John Harris Dr, Edina, MN 55439) is a popular city-owned venue for receptions. The 50th & France neighborhood at Edina's northern border has a number of restaurants and event spaces that host rehearsal dinners and smaller celebrations.
For larger weddings, groups from Edina frequently travel to venues like Calhoun Beach Club (2925 Dean Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN 55408) on Bde Maka Ska about 4 miles north, Nicollet Island Inn (95 Merriam St, Minneapolis, MN 55401) on the Mississippi about 9 miles north, The Depot Minneapolis (225 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55401) in the historic train depot district, and Bavaria Downs (10244 Bavaria Rd, Chaska, MN 55318) about 18 miles southwest. The most common wedding bus setup is a shuttle loop between the hotel block and the venue — give the exact venue address and the hotel pickup location with the request and the right vehicle gets matched to the route from the start.
Field trips and team travel for Edina Public Schools (ISD 273), including Edina High School (6754 Valley View Rd, Edina, MN 55439), South View Middle School, and Valley View Middle School, are among the most common school trips booked from the city. Normandale Community College (9700 France Ave S, Bloomington, MN 55431) is about 3 miles south. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus is about 10 miles north and is a frequent destination for Edina school groups visiting the science museum, athletic events, and campus tours.
Augsburg University (2211 Riverside Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454) and Macalester College (1600 Grand Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55105) are also commonly served. Field trips and team travel typically pick up at the school itself; include the exact headcount, any chaperone count, and any accessibility needs with the request so the right vehicle is matched to the group.
Edina sits within easy reach of one of the best craft beer scenes in the Midwest. A popular Minneapolis brewery loop from Edina might run through Surly Brewing Co. (520 Malcolm Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414) about 10 miles north, Fulton Brewing (414 6th Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55405) about 8 miles north, and Indeed Brewing Company (711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413) about 10 miles north, with stops in the North Loop and Uptown nightlife districts along the way. For a longer day trip, Schram Vineyards (8785 Airport Rd, Waconia, MN 55387) is about 25 miles west and combines a winery and brewery in one stop.
Mystic Lake Casino Hotel (2400 Mystic Lake Blvd NW, Prior Lake, MN 55372) is about 20 miles southwest via I-494 West and US-169 South and has on-site coach parking for large groups. A multi-stop route is timed by how long the group stays at each stop — list the stops and an estimated time at each one with the request so the hours and the price come back right.
Yes. Groups from Edina regularly charter buses to destinations across the Midwest and beyond. Common long-distance runs include Duluth, Minnesota about 155 miles north via I-35, roughly 2.5 hours; Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin about 230 miles east via I-94, roughly 3.5 hours; Chicago, Illinois about 410 miles southeast via I-90, roughly 6 hours; Kansas City, Missouri about 440 miles south via I-35, roughly 6.5 hours; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota about 250 miles west via I-90, roughly 3.5 hours.
A long-distance trip is usually booked as a one-way transfer or a multi-day trip rather than by the hour. Overnight trips need the full itinerary — departure time, destination, return date and time — laid out with the request so it comes back with the right structure and the right price.