Centennial Charter Bus Rental FAQs
About Centennialcharterbuscompany.com
Centennialcharterbuscompany.com is an advertising and quote comparison website that lets you compare bus rental options and pricing from a network of transportation companies serving Centennial through a national booking platform. Fill out one quick form and you'll see vehicles, photos, and pricing in seconds — no account required, and no calling five different companies just to get a number. Centennialcharterbuscompany.com is an advertising and referral website; it does not own or operate vehicles. It connects you to a national booking platform where independent transportation companies compete for your trip so you find the right bus at the right price!
No — Centennialcharterbuscompany.com is a comparison and referral website. In practical terms, that means you use it to compare vehicles and pricing from a network of independently owned transportation companies serving Centennial and the surrounding area, and the transportation itself is carried out by those independent operators. Think of it as the fastest way to see what's available for your trip: one form, one call, and a full results page of options instead of a long afternoon of callbacks.
The site makes the comparison easy; the independent companies make the trip happen!
When you search for bus rentals on your own, you call one company, get one quote, and hope they have something open on your date. With Centennialcharterbuscompany.com, you fill out one form or make one call to 720-597-7100 and immediately see more options and different price points than any single operator could offer. Vehicles and rates come back in seconds, and because your request goes to a network of providers rather than one yard, you're comparing — not settling.
That's the whole advantage, and it takes less time than a single phone call!
An independently owned transportation company serving Centennial. Once you fill out a quote, you're taken 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're choosing there is a vehicle and a price, not a company off a list.
The transportation company assigned to the booking is confirmed to you after you book, and they handle everything from that point forward. Simple, clear, and no surprises!
Booking a Charter Bus
Fill out the form on this page — your pickup location, destination, date, group size, and how long you need the bus — or call 720-597-7100 any time. As soon as you submit, you're taken to a search results page on a national booking company's website. That booking company partners with transportation providers serving Centennial, and right there on their site you can browse available vehicles, see photos, compare pricing, and book the bus you want directly online.
What you're choosing is a vehicle and a price — and the whole thing takes minutes, not an afternoon!
The basics: your pickup city, where you're going, how many people are in the group, and roughly how many hours you need the bus. That's enough to get pricing back in seconds. The more detail you add — your specific stops, start and end times, how much luggage the group is bringing, and any amenities that matter to you, like WiFi or an onboard restroom — the more accurate the quote comes back and the better the deal you can find.
More detail in means a better match out!
Right away — there's no waiting on a callback. The moment you submit the form, you're taken directly to the search results page on the booking company's website and you see available vehicles and pricing immediately. There's no email to wait for, no "we'll get back to you by end of day."
If you'd rather talk it through with someone, call 720-597-7100 any time and a live person will walk you through the options for your specific trip!
The earlier the better for a popular date — and if you need a specific vehicle type or you're moving a large group, earlier is always the smarter call. That said, because Centennialcharterbuscompany.com puts your request in front of a whole network of providers serving the Centennial area rather than one operator with one yard, short-notice trips are often still very workable. That's the real advantage of comparing a network instead of calling a single company and being told no.
Whatever your timeline looks like, submit the request or call 720-597-7100 and see what's available — even on short notice, it's always worth checking!
All of those can be requested, and which format fits just depends on the trip. An hourly or as-directed booking keeps the vehicle with your group for a set block of time — great when the itinerary is flexible or you want the bus standing by all evening. A one-way transfer moves your group from point A to point B. A round trip brings everyone back to where they started. A multi-stop itinerary runs a set route with several stops along the way, such as a brewery loop through Aurora and Lone Tree or a game-day run with a pregame stop.
A multi-day booking covers a trip that runs across more than one day, like a ski weekend to Breckenridge or a group trip to Las Vegas. For a multi-stop or overnight itinerary, lay out the full route and timing with your request so the quote comes back priced correctly for everything you've planned!
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 real planning ranges — but pricing isn't one-size-fits-all, and a number of things move a quote up or down from there. The vehicle type, the date, how long you need the bus, and how busy that weekend is locally all factor in, so the range is a starting point rather than your price.
The fastest way to see a number for your specific trip is to fill out the form and get pricing in seconds — or call 720-597-7100, where going through the trip with someone can surface better packages and pricing than you'd find on your own!
It depends on the trip, and all three are used. A shorter trip — a few hours getting a group from Centennial to a Broncos game at Empower Field 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 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 hours, simply because the vehicle is booked for so much of the day. A ski weekend run to Breckenridge or a multi-day trip to Las Vegas, for example, would be scoped as a day or multi-day package rather than an hourly booking. Submit the actual trip and the quote comes back in the format that fits it!
Six things move a charter bus quote: the type and size of bus, how long it's booked for, the date and day of the week, the distance and the route, the number of stops, and how busy that date is locally. Sunday through Thursday prices lower than Friday and Saturday. Daytime prices lower than those same nights.
Booking the size your group actually needs — rather than over-booking capacity — keeps the rate right-sized. And grouping your riders into one or two pickup points instead of five or six cuts the hours on the clock, which cuts the price. In Centennial, the busiest booking windows are prom and graduation season in April through June, Broncos home Sundays, Red Rocks and Fiddler's Green concert nights in summer, and ski-season holiday weekends when everyone is heading up I-70.
Flexibility on date or timing on those weekends makes the biggest difference!
About Charter Buses
A charter bus is a full-size passenger coach that a group hires for its own trip, running its own route on its own schedule, rather than riding a fixed public route. It's built for moving a large group over a distance in one vehicle — comfortably, together, on your timeline. A standard full-size charter bus seats roughly 40 to 56 passengers.
That's the whole definition: your group, your route, your schedule, one vehicle.
On the outside, a full-size charter bus is a tall, long coach body with high windows running the full length of both sides 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 on the outside. Inside, you'll find forward-facing seats arranged in pairs on either side of a center aisle, upholstered in cloth or leather depending on the make and model.
Overhead parcel racks run the length of the cabin above the seats. Toward the rear sits an onboard restroom. Popular makes include the MCI J4500, the Van Hool CX45, and the Prevost H3-45 — all full-size coaches built to the same general layout, with differences in seat configuration, window height, and interior finish.
Some of the amenities available on charter buses include reclining cloth or leather seats, individual climate controls, onboard restrooms, overhead parcel racks and undercarriage baggage bays, WiFi, power outlets and USB charging ports, a PA system, and TV monitors. Features vary by make, model, and operator, so the specific vehicle's amenity list is confirmed during booking — and "may include" is the honest framing, because not every coach carries every feature. If there are amenities your group needs — WiFi for a corporate run up to a Denver conference, or an onboard restroom for a long ski-day trip to Breckenridge — note them with your trip details and the results will narrow to vehicles that carry them!
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: extra legroom configurations take seats out, and a wheelchair position takes a seat out as well.
Because Centennialcharterbuscompany.com works with a network of providers, the exact coach on any given trip depends on what's available for your date — so submit the trip or call 720-597-7100 if the group needs a specific capacity confirmed!
A standard 56-passenger charter bus runs 14 rows, with two seats on each side of a center aisle — forward-facing, paired seating, one aisle straight down the middle. That's the layout on a full-size coach: 14 rows, 4 seats across, 56 total. The row count drops on coaches built with extra legroom or a wheelchair position, since those configurations take rows out of the count.
Some coaches also tier the front rows slightly for sightlines, which doesn't change the seat count but changes how the front of the cabin feels.
A full-size charter bus is 45 feet long and 8.5 feet wide. The reason most people ask is that they're working out whether one fits somewhere — a parking lot, a venue entrance, a hotel drop-off lane. A useful way to picture it: roughly three cars parked end to end.
Shorter coaches exist, most commonly around 35 feet, and those are the right call when a venue or route has tighter clearance. The 45-foot coach is the standard full-size vehicle and the one you'll 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. Again, the reason people ask is clearance — a parking garage, an underpass, a hotel porte-cochère. A useful comparison: a full-size charter bus is a little taller than a single story of a house.
If your venue or route has a low clearance anywhere on the approach, that's worth noting with the trip details so the right vehicle is matched to the route.
WiFi is one of the amenities available on charter buses, and many coaches on the road are equipped with it. One thing worth knowing before the trip: 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 the honest expectation on performance — because this is where groups sometimes get surprised — is that onboard WiFi runs off a cellular connection and is built for light use across a full coach.
Phones, messaging, and browsing work well. Fifty-six people doing heavy video calls or large file transfers at once is a different ask. If WiFi matters to your group — a corporate run downtown, a team trip to Fort Collins — note it with the trip details and the results narrow to coaches equipped with it!
Yes — an onboard restroom is standard on full-size charter buses, located toward the rear of the coach. It's there so a group doesn't have to stop, and on a longer run — say, a ski-day trip to Breckenridge or a group heading down to Colorado Springs — the trip is still usually planned with real rest stops built in. Features vary by vehicle, so note it with your trip details if the onboard restroom matters to your group, and the vehicles that come back will have one confirmed!
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 practice, for a group that needs to stay charged — a corporate team heading to the Colorado Convention Center, a student group on a long field trip — a coach with per-seat outlets keeps phones and laptops charged across the whole run.
Note it with your trip details if the group needs it!
Yes — in two places. Inside the coach, overhead parcel racks run the length of the cabin above the seats. Underneath the coach, undercarriage baggage bays run along the bottom 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. What that translates to across a full 56-passenger load: roughly 8 cubic feet per person underneath and under 2 cubic feet per person overhead. In practice, that's about one checked-size bag per person in the bays below and one small carry-on above — workable for most group trips.
A few things change it: a coach fitted with a wheelchair lift gives up some baggage bay space, and bulky gear — instruments, ski equipment, sports bags, event supplies — takes the space of several standard bags. If your group is traveling with oversized items or a lot of gear, state that with the trip details. A ski-weekend run to Breckenridge with 40 people each carrying skis and a duffel is a different luggage load than a corporate group heading downtown, and the right coach gets matched to the right load when the details are in!
Charter Bus Service in Centennial, Colorado
Any group, any occasion — and the network serving Centennial covers the full range! Airport transfers to and from Denver International Airport (DEN) and Centennial Airport (APA) are one of the most common requests, whether it's a corporate delegation arriving for a Denver Tech Center meeting or a family group heading out on a trip. Corporate travel and employee shuttles keep teams moving between the Tech Center, downtown Denver, and conference venues.
Weddings and private events use shuttle buses to move guests between hotel blocks and venues across the south metro. Concert and sporting event groups head to Red Rocks, Fiddler's Green, Empower Field, and Ball Arena. School and church groups run field trips and retreats.
Government and military groups coordinate personnel moves and training travel. Brewery and winery tours loop through the Centennial area's craft beer scene and out to Colorado wine country. Prom and homecoming groups from Cherry Creek and Littleton school districts fill the spring calendar.
And long-distance trips head to ski resorts, Colorado Springs, Las Vegas, and beyond. Whatever brings your group together, there's a bus in the network ready for it!
The network serving Centennial covers the entire south Denver metro and well beyond. Nearby cities include Englewood, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, Parker, Aurora, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, and Denver — those are examples, not the full coverage area. The network reaches across Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties and handles long-distance runs to Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Boulder, and out of state.
Enter the full route or call 720-597-7100 to check a specific city or destination that isn't listed here!
A few dates fill the Centennial market fast every year. Prom and graduation season — April through early June across Cherry Creek, Littleton, and surrounding school districts — is the single tightest window of the year for party buses and minibuses; book four to six months out. Red Rocks and Fiddler's Green concert season (May through October) drives heavy demand on Friday and Saturday nights all summer.
Broncos home Sundays at Empower Field run September through January and pull the whole south metro market. Ski-season holiday weekends — Thanksgiving, Christmas through New Year's, MLK Weekend, and Presidents Day Weekend — are booked early by groups heading up I-70 to Breckenridge, Vail, and Summit County. The Arapahoe County Fair in August and New Year's Eve casino runs to Black Hawk round out the busiest stretch.
On any of those dates, the whole local network gets taken early — book well ahead. For everything else, submit the request or call 720-597-7100 even on short notice, because the network is larger than any one operator's calendar!
Planning Your Centennial, Colorado Charter Bus Trip
The network serves all airports near Centennial. Denver International Airport (DEN) (8500 Peña Blvd., Denver, CO 80249) is the primary hub, roughly 26 miles northeast of Centennial via I-225 N and Peña Blvd., with a drive time of 35 to 55 minutes off-peak — longer during the morning rush on I-25 through the Tech Center. Centennial Airport (APA) (7800 S. Peoria St., Englewood, CO 80112) is a general aviation airport just minutes from the city center, frequently used by corporate and private aviation groups.
Colorado Springs Airport (COS) (7770 Milton E. Proby Pkwy., Colorado Springs, CO 80916) is about 65 miles south via I-25, roughly 60 to 75 minutes. For airport pickups, the coach meets your group outside the terminal at the spot that airport designates for buses and larger commercial vehicles, following that airport's own ground transportation guidelines. Have the group assembled with all luggage before calling the bus forward — that's what makes the pickup fast and clean!
The network handles game-day transportation to every major venue in the region. Empower Field at Mile High (1701 Bryant St., Denver, CO 80204) is home to the Denver Broncos, about 18 miles northwest of Centennial via I-25 N. Ball Arena (1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, CO 80204) hosts the Denver Nuggets (NBA) and Colorado Avalanche (NHL). Coors Field (2001 Blake St., Denver, CO 80205) is home to the Colorado Rockies (MLB).
Dick's Sporting Goods Park (6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, CO 80022) hosts the Colorado Rapids (MLS). Folsom Field in Boulder hosts CU Buffaloes football, and Canvas Stadium in Fort Collins hosts CSU Rams football. Game-day traffic on I-25 heading into Denver can add 20 to 45 minutes to any of these runs, so build extra time into the pickup window.
Buses drop groups at the designated commercial vehicle zone at each venue and stage nearby until the group is ready to return!
The network serves convention centers and large event venues across the region. The Colorado Convention Center (700 14th St., Denver, CO 80202) is the largest in the state and about 16 miles northwest of Centennial, a 25- to 35-minute run via I-25 N. The Arapahoe County Fairgrounds (25690 E. Quincy Ave., Aurora, CO 80016) is about 8 miles east and hosts the Arapahoe County Fair each August along with rodeos and community events. The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center (200 Inverness Drive West, Englewood, CO 80112) and the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center (7800 E. Tufts Ave., Denver, CO 80237) both handle large conferences and corporate events within minutes of Centennial.
Large convention venues have designated bus loading areas separate from the main entrance — and if you're running a repeat shuttle between a hotel and a venue across multiple days of a conference, lay out the full schedule with the request so the quote comes back timed and priced for the whole run!
Yes — any wedding venue in the area. The south Denver metro has a strong collection of wedding properties, and the network serves all of them. The Manor House (1 Manor House Rd., Littleton, CO 80127) is a historic estate in the Ken-Caryl foothills west of Centennial and one of the most popular wedding venues in the south metro.
Sanctuary Golf Course (7549 Daniels Park Rd., Sedalia, CO 80135) is a scenic mountain-view course south of the city. Chatfield Farms (8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Rd., Littleton, CO 80128) at Denver Botanic Gardens is a beloved botanical setting about 15 miles west. Spruce Mountain Ranch (14771 Spruce Mountain Rd., Larkspur, CO 80118) is a large barn-and-estate venue about 30 miles south via I-25.
The most common wedding setup is a shuttle loop between the hotel room block and the venue — keeping guests off the road and on your timeline all evening. Give the exact venue address with the request and the right vehicle gets matched to it!
The network serves school districts, colleges, and universities across the area. Most of Centennial falls within the Cherry Creek School District, home to Grandview High School, Eaglecrest High School, and Cherry Creek High School in nearby Greenwood Village. Littleton Public Schools serves the western side of Centennial, including Arapahoe High School.
Arapahoe Community College (5900 S. Santa Fe Dr., Littleton, CO 80120) is about 7 miles west. For university travel, the University of Denver (2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80210) is roughly 12 miles north, and CU Boulder and CSU Fort Collins are popular group travel destinations for campus visits and game days. 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!
The network handles brewery crawls, winery tours, casino nights, and nightlife runs across the region. Breckenridge Brewery's Littleton Farmhouse (2990 Brewery Ln., Littleton, CO 80120) is about 8 miles west and one of the most popular taproom destinations in the south metro. Dry Dock Pub (1101 S. Pearl St., Denver, CO 80210) in the Washington Park neighborhood is Dry Dock Brewing's newest location, north of Centennial.
Lone Tree Brewing Company (8200 Park Meadows Dr., Lone Tree, CO 80124) is about 3 miles south. Denver's RiNo Arts District — packed with craft breweries, distilleries, and bars — is about 18 miles north and a favorite nightlife destination from Centennial. For casino nights, the Black Hawk and Central City casino corridor (Ameristar, Isle, Monarch, Golden Gates) is roughly 45 miles west via I-70 W and Hwy 6, about 55 to 70 minutes.
For a day trip to Colorado wine country, Palisade is about 240 miles west via I-70. A multi-stop brewery or nightlife route is timed by how long the group stays at each stop — list the stops and the time at each one with the request and the hours come back right!
Yes — absolutely. Long-distance trips from Centennial are some of the most popular bookings in the network. Colorado Springs is about 65 miles south via I-25, roughly 60 to 75 minutes.
Boulder is about 35 miles northwest via US-36, 40 to 55 minutes. Breckenridge and Summit County ski resorts are roughly 90 miles west via I-70, 90 to 120 minutes — longer on busy ski weekends when I-70 westbound backs up significantly. Vail is about 110 miles west, 100 to 130 minutes.
Out of state, Las Vegas is roughly 750 miles via I-70 W, about 10 to 11 hours, and a popular multi-day group destination. Salt Lake City is about 525 miles via I-70 W and I-15 N, around 7.5 hours. A long-distance trip is usually booked as a one-way transfer or a multi-day package rather than by the hour, and overnight trips need the full itinerary — stops, overnight locations, return timing — laid out with the request so the quote comes back scoped correctly for the whole journey!