Blaine Charter Bus Rental FAQs
About Busrentalblaine.com
Busrentalblaine.com is an advertising and quote comparison website that lets you compare bus rental options and pricing from a network of bus companies serving Blaine through a national booking company. Fill out one quick form — or call 612-453-1455 — and you'll see vehicles, amenities, and pricing for your specific trip in seconds, instead of spending an afternoon calling local companies one at a time. Busrentalblaine.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 Blaine area.
No — Busrentalblaine.com is a comparison and referral website. In practical terms, that means you come here to compare vehicles and pricing from a network of independently owned bus companies serving Blaine and the Twin Cities metro, and the transportation itself is carried out by those independently owned companies. You use Busrentalblaine.com to find and compare your options quickly, and then you book the vehicle that fits your trip directly on the national booking platform's website.
When you search on your own, you call one company at a time, describe your trip over and over, and wait on callbacks that may or may not come. With Busrentalblaine.com, you fill out one form — or make one call to 612-453-1455 — and you're looking at vehicles and pricing from a whole network of providers serving Blaine in seconds. More options, different price points, and your time back.
That's the whole idea.
An independently owned transportation company serving the Blaine area. Once you submit your trip details, you're taken to a national booking platform where you choose the vehicle that suits your group and your itinerary. What you're choosing there is a vehicle and a price — the independently owned transportation company assigned to your booking is confirmed to you after you book.
Booking a Charter Bus
Fill out the short form on this site — or call 612-453-1455 — with your trip details. You're taken straight to a search results page on a national booking company's website, which partners with independently owned transportation companies serving the Blaine area. Right there on that results page, you compare vehicles and pricing, choose the bus that fits your trip, and book it directly online.
What you're selecting is a vehicle and a price — the whole thing takes minutes.
At minimum: your pickup city, where you're going, how many people are riding, and how many hours you need the bus. The more detail you give — your stops, start and end times, how much luggage the group is bringing, and any amenities you need onboard — the more accurate your quote comes back and the better you can match the vehicle to the trip.
Right away — there's 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 can also call 612-453-1455 any time if you'd rather go through the trip with someone and talk through your options.
The earlier the better for a popular date, and the more specific your vehicle needs, the further ahead you'll want to go. That said, because Busrentalblaine.com puts your request in front of a whole network of providers serving the Blaine area rather than one operator with one yard, short-notice trips are often still workable — submitting the request or calling 612-453-1455 is always worth doing, even on short notice. The one real exception is Blaine's peak dates: the Target USA CUP at the National Sports Center in July, prom weekends in April and May, and Vikings and Twins home games draw from the same pool of vehicles across the entire metro, and those dates go early.
All of those can be requested. Hourly, or as-directed, keeps the vehicle with your group for a set block of time and works well when the schedule isn't fixed. A one-way transfer moves your group from one place to another — say, Blaine to MSP — and that's it.
A round trip brings everyone back. A multi-stop itinerary runs a set route with several stops along the way, which is how most brewery crawls and stadium shuttles are set up. A multi-day booking covers a trip that runs across more than one day, like a group heading down to Chicago or out to Wisconsin Dells.
Which format fits depends entirely on 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.
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 the starting ranges — pricing isn't one size fits all, and a number of things move a quote up or down from there. The range gives you a planning number, not your price.
To see pricing for your actual trip, fill out the form online and you'll have quotes in seconds. Or call 612-453-1455 — going through your itinerary with someone can turn up better pricing and packages than you'd find on your own.
It depends on the trip, and all three are used. A short trip of a couple of hours is usually priced hourly. A trip that runs long distance — roughly past the 100 to 200 mile mark, or heading well out of the Twin Cities area — 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 hourly charges, simply because the vehicle is booked for so much of the day. Submitting the actual trip details is what determines which structure applies to yours.
The type and size of bus, how long it's 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 move the number. Sunday through Thursday prices lower than Friday and Saturday — and daytime trips on those same days cost less than evening ones. 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 Blaine specifically, dates during the Target USA CUP in July, prom weekends in April and May, and home games at U.S. Bank Stadium and Target Field see the highest demand across the metro — if your date is flexible, moving even one day can make a meaningful difference.
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's built for moving a large group over a distance in one vehicle, and a standard full-size coach seats roughly 40 to 56 people.
From the outside, a full-size charter bus is a tall coach body with high windows running most of its length and a row of luggage bay doors along the bottom. The exterior is usually finished in white, silver, black, or a solid color — and some coaches are wrapped in an operator's own graphics, so the coach that shows up won't always look the same. Inside, you'll find forward-facing seats arranged in pairs on either side of a center aisle.
Seat fabric may be cloth or leather depending on the make and model — the MCI J4500 and Van Hool CX45, two of the most common full-size coaches on the road, both run either depending on how the coach was spec'd. Overhead parcel racks run the length of the cabin, and a restroom sits toward the rear.
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 may vary by make, model, and vehicle — which amenities a specific coach carries is confirmed during booking. If certain amenities matter for your group, note them with your trip details when you submit the request, since that narrows which vehicles come back in your 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 is built for up to 60; the Van Hool CX45 is the same, 56 standard and up to 60; the Prevost H3-45 also seats 56. Shorter 35-foot coaches seat closer to 44.
What changes the count on the same coach: extra legroom or a wheelchair position each take seats out of the total. Because Busrentalblaine.com works with a network of providers, the exact coach on any given trip depends on what's available for your date — submit the trip or call 612-453-1455 if the group needs a specific capacity.
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. The row count drops on coaches built with extra legroom or a wheelchair position, and some coaches tier the front rows slightly for the view.
A full-size charter bus is 45 feet long and 8.5 feet wide. To put that in terms of something you can picture: roughly three cars parked end to end. Shorter coaches exist — most commonly around 35 feet — but the 45-foot coach is the standard full-size vehicle you'll see on the road.
A full-size charter bus stands about 11 to 12 feet tall depending on the model, and traffic engineers design clearances for 12 feet. If you're working out whether one fits somewhere — a parking garage, an underpass, a venue entrance — the practical number to use is 12 feet, which is a little taller than a single story of a house.
WiFi is one of the amenities available on charter buses, and many coaches on the road are equipped with it. One thing worth knowing: 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. And when it comes to performance, onboard WiFi runs off a cellular connection and is built for light use across a full coach — phones, messaging, browsing — not for fifty or sixty people doing heavy work at once.
If the group needs WiFi, note it with your trip details when you submit the request, since that narrows which vehicles come back in your results.
Yes — an onboard restroom is standard on full-size charter buses. It sits toward the rear of the coach, and it's there so a group doesn't have to stop. On a longer run — say, Blaine to Duluth or Blaine to Chicago — the trip is still usually planned with real rest stops along the way.
If an onboard restroom matters for your group, note it with your 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. In practical terms, it means a group can keep phones and laptops charged across a long run.
Note it with your trip details if the group needs it, since that narrows which vehicles come back.
Yes — in two places. Inside the coach, overhead parcel racks run the length of the cabin. Underneath it, a full-size coach carries roughly 460 cubic feet of underfloor baggage space across the bays that run along the bottom of the coach.
Across a full 56-passenger load, that works out to roughly 8 cubic feet per person underneath — about one checked-size bag each — plus the overhead racks, which add under 2 cubic feet per person and are best suited for a small carry-on or a day bag. What changes it: a coach fitted with a wheelchair lift gives up some baggage bay space, and bulky gear like instruments, sports equipment, or event supplies takes the space of several bags. If your group is bringing anything oversized, or if luggage volume is a real concern for the trip, state it with your trip details when you submit the request so the right coach gets matched to the group.
Charter Bus Service in Blaine, Minnesota
Any group, any occasion. Airport transfers to and from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International (MSP) are one of the most common requests — one bus beats a convoy of cars on I-35W every time. Corporate travel and employee shuttles move teams between offices, conferences at the Minneapolis Convention Center, and client sites across the metro.
Weddings and private events use a shuttle to keep guests moving between a hotel block and the venue without anyone worrying about parking. Concerts and sporting events at U.S. Bank Stadium, Target Center, and Xcel Energy Center are a natural fit. School and church group trips, government and military moves, brewery and winery tours through Northeast Minneapolis, prom, and long-distance travel to Chicago, Wisconsin Dells, or Duluth are all on the table.
If you're moving a group, there's a bus for it.
The network serves Blaine and the entire Twin Cities metro — Anoka County, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, and well beyond. Nearby cities include Coon Rapids, Fridley, Spring Lake Park, Ham Lake, Lino Lakes, Anoka, Minneapolis, and Saint Paul. Those are examples, not the full list.
Enter your complete route when you submit the request, or call 612-453-1455 to check a city that isn't listed.
A few dates stand out in Blaine specifically. The Target USA CUP at the National Sports Center in July is one of the largest youth soccer tournaments in the world — it draws tens of thousands of participants and families and puts real pressure on the entire local bus market for that week. Prom weekends across the Anoka-Hennepin School District in April and May fill fast.
Graduation in May and June does the same. Minnesota State Fair dates in late August through Labor Day are consistently high-demand from Blaine. Vikings home games at U.S. Bank Stadium from September through January and Twins home games at Target Field from April through October both pull from the same metro-wide pool of vehicles.
New Year's Eve and summer wedding weekends round out the calendar. On those dates the whole market moves early — book well ahead. Short-notice requests are still worth submitting, because the network is larger than any one operator's yard, but the earlier you go on those dates, the better.
Planning Your Blaine, Minnesota Charter Bus Trip
Yes — the primary airport for Blaine groups is Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) (4300 Glumack Drive, Saint Paul, MN 55111), approximately 25 to 35 miles south of Blaine and about 30 to 45 minutes depending on traffic on I-35W and I-494. MSP has two terminals — Terminal 1-Lindbergh and Terminal 2-Humphrey — so confirm which terminal your flight uses before your trip. Anoka County–Blaine Airport (ANE) (8891 Airport Road, Blaine, MN 55449) is located right in Blaine but serves general aviation only.
For MSP pickups, the coach meets your group at the Ground Transportation Center on Level 1, following the airport's own guidelines for buses and larger vehicles. Have your group assembled with all luggage before calling the bus forward — that keeps the pickup clean and on time.
Yes — the biggest draw right in Blaine is the National Sports Center (1750 105th Ave NE, Blaine, MN 55449), home of MNUFC2 and the annual Target USA CUP in July. The NSC has large on-site parking and bus staging areas, but during the USA Cup the whole complex is at capacity, so build in extra time and have a clear staging plan. Across the metro, the network serves U.S. Bank Stadium (401 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55415) for Vikings games and major events, Target Field (1 Twins Way, Minneapolis, MN 55403) for Twins games, Target Center (600 1st Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55403) for Timberwolves and Lynx games, Xcel Energy Center (175 W Kellogg Blvd, Saint Paul, MN 55102) for Wild games, and Allianz Field (400 Snelling Ave N, Saint Paul, MN 55104) for Minnesota United.
Game days change traffic patterns around every one of those venues — build in extra time, and have a pre-arranged meet point for the return trip.
Yes — for large conventions, the Minneapolis Convention Center (1301 2nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55403) is approximately 20 miles south of Blaine and about 35 to 45 minutes on I-35W. The National Sports Center also hosts large tournaments and events right in Blaine. The Mall of America (60 E Broadway, Bloomington, MN 55425) and adjacent hotel and event spaces in Bloomington are approximately 30 miles south.
Large venues have designated bus loading areas separate from the main entrance — a repeat shuttle between a hotel block and a convention venue should have its full schedule laid out with the request so it comes back timed and priced correctly.
Yes — any wedding venue in the area. Popular choices near Blaine include Bunker Hills Event Center (12800 Bunker Prairie Rd, Coon Rapids, MN 55448), a full-service venue set within Bunker Hills Regional Park about 5 miles west of Blaine, and Rush Creek Golf Club (7801 County Rd 101, Maple Grove, MN 55311), approximately 20 miles west. Hotel ballrooms and event spaces throughout the Twin Cities metro serve Blaine-area weddings as well.
The most common wedding setup is a shuttle loop between a hotel block and the venue — give the exact venue address and hotel address with the request, and the right vehicle gets matched to the route. Wedding season peaks June through September, with May and October close behind, so those weekends book ahead.
Yes — Blaine High School (12555 University Ave NE, Blaine, MN 55434) is part of the Anoka-Hennepin School District, the largest school district in Minnesota, with multiple elementary, middle, and high schools across the district. Nearby colleges include Anoka-Ramsey Community College (11200 Mississippi Blvd NW, Coon Rapids, MN 55433), approximately 8 miles west, and Bethel University (3900 Bethel Dr, Arden Hills, MN 55112), approximately 10 miles south. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (100 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455) is approximately 20 miles south.
Field trips and team travel are typically pickups 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 — Forgotten Star Brewing (38 Northern Stacks Dr, Fridley, MN 55421) is about 8 miles southwest of Blaine and a natural first stop. The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District, approximately 17 miles south, clusters Indeed Brewing Company (711 15th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413), Bauhaus Brew Labs (1315 Tyler St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413), Dangerous Man Brewing (1300 2nd St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413), and Surly Brewing Co. (520 Malcolm Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414) within a short loop — a popular full-evening itinerary from Blaine. For casino nights, Running Aces Harness Park & Casino (15201 Zurich St NE, Columbus, MN 55025) is about 15 miles northeast, and Mystic Lake Casino (2400 Mystic Lake Blvd NW, Prior Lake, MN 55372) is approximately 50 miles southwest.
A multi-stop route is timed by how long the group stays at each stop — list the stops and how long you plan to spend at each one when you submit the request so the hours come back right.
Yes. Groups travel from Blaine to Duluth, MN (approximately 155 miles north, about 2.5 hours) for Lake Superior getaways, to Wisconsin Dells, WI (approximately 300 miles east, about 4.5 to 5 hours) for youth and group trips, to Green Bay, WI (approximately 290 miles east, about 4.5 hours) for Packers games, to Chicago, IL (approximately 410 miles southeast, about 6.5 to 7 hours) for city trips and concerts, and to Fargo, ND (approximately 240 miles northwest, about 3.5 hours). A long-distance trip is usually structured as a one-way transfer or a multi-day booking rather than hourly — and overnight trips need the full itinerary laid out with the request, including where the group is staying each night, so the trip comes back priced and planned correctly.