Hattiesburg Charter Bus Rental FAQs
About Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.com
Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.com is an advertising and quote comparison website that lets you compare bus rental options and pricing from a network of bus companies serving Hattiesburg through a national booking company. Fill out one quick form and you are taken straight to a results page where you can see different vehicles, packages, and prices in seconds — no account required, and a free quote is always available online or by phone at 769-280-2340. Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.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 your area.
No — Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.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 the Hattiesburg area, all in one place rather than calling around. You submit your trip details, head over to a national booking platform, choose the vehicle that fits your group, and book right there online.
The transportation itself is carried out by independent companies serving your area.
When you search on your own, you call one company, get one price, and find out whether they have anything available. With Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.com, you fill out one form or make one call and immediately see more options and more price points than any single operator can offer. Vehicles and rates come back in seconds, and because multiple providers are competing for the booking, you are in a much better position than if you reached out to a local company yourself.
That is your time, saved.
An independently owned transportation company serving the Hattiesburg area. When you fill out the quote form, you are taken to a national booking platform where you choose the vehicle that suits the trip — what you are selecting there is a vehicle and a price, not a company off a list. The transportation company assigned to carry out the booking is confirmed to you after the reservation is made.
The platform partners with different operators serving the area so there is always more than one option to consider.
Booking a Charter Bus
Fill out the form on this website — it takes about a minute — or call 769-280-2340, and you are taken straight to a search results page on a national booking company's website. That booking company partners with different operators serving the Hattiesburg area, and right there on their site you can see the vehicles available for your trip along with pricing. What you are choosing is a vehicle and a price, and you can book the one you want directly online in just minutes.
Your pickup city, where you are going, how many people are in the group, 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 that matter to you — the more accurate the quote comes back and the better the options you can find. A fully detailed request gets matched to the right vehicle the first time.
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 national booking company's website in seconds. If you would rather talk it through with someone, call 769-280-2340 and a live agent can walk you through your options and put together a package for your trip.
The earlier the better for a popular date, and a larger group or a specific vehicle type is worth booking further ahead. That said, because Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.com puts your request in front of a whole network of providers serving the Hattiesburg 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 769-280-2340 even on short notice and see what comes back.
You may be surprised.
All of those can be requested. Hourly or as-directed keeps the vehicle with your group for a set block of time, moving wherever you need to go. A one-way transfer moves the group from one place to another without a return leg.
A round trip brings everyone back to the starting point. A multi-stop itinerary runs a set route with several stops along the way — a pub crawl through Midtown Hattiesburg, for example, or a casino run with a few pickup points. A multi-day booking covers a trip that runs across more than one day, like a weekend trip to New Orleans or the Gulf Coast.
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. Pricing is not one size fits all — the type of bus, the date, the distance, and the number of stops all move the number, so those ranges are a starting point rather than your price. The fastest way to see what your specific trip costs is to fill out the form online and get pricing for your actual route in seconds.
Or call 769-280-2340, where going through the trip with someone can turn up better pricing and packages than you would find on your own.
It depends on the trip, and all three are used. A short outing of a couple of hours — shuttling guests between a hotel block and a wedding venue in Hattiesburg, for instance — is usually priced hourly. A trip that runs long distance, roughly past the 100 to 200 mile mark or heading well out of the area toward Atlanta or Nashville, 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, because the vehicle is booked for so much of the day. Submitting the actual trip is what determines which structure applies.
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 move the price. Sunday through Thursday prices lower than Friday and Saturday, and daytime trips price 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 rather than five cuts the hours on the clock.
In Hattiesburg specifically, Southern Miss home football Saturdays and USM graduation weekends in May and December are among the busiest dates in the local market — those dates price higher and go faster. Avoiding peak dates when you can, and booking early when you cannot, puts you in the best position.
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, going where the group needs to go rather than following 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.
Outside, it is a full-size coach body with high tinted windows running nearly the length of the vehicle and baggage bay doors along the lower skirt on both sides. 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 will not always look the same from the outside. Inside, you have forward-facing seats arranged in pairs on either side of a center aisle, with seat fabric in cloth or leather depending on the make and model.
Overhead parcel racks run the full length of the cabin. A restroom sits toward the rear. Popular makes include the MCI J4500, the Van Hool CX45, and the Prevost H3-45 — all full-size coaches built along the same general layout, differing in finish, legroom, and onboard features.
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 may include any of these depending on the make, model, and specific vehicle — not every coach carries every option, and what a given bus has is confirmed during booking. If particular amenities matter to your group, note them with your trip details so the vehicles that come back are the ones actually equipped for the trip.
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 also seats 56. Shorter 35-foot coaches seat closer to 44. What changes the count on the same coach is configuration — extra legroom takes seats out, and a wheelchair position does the same.
Because Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.com works with a network of providers, the exact coach on any given trip depends on what is available for your date. Submit the trip or call 769-280-2340 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 configured with extra legroom or a wheelchair position, and some coaches tier the front rows slightly for sightlines. Those are the figures for a standard full-size build.
A full-size charter bus is 45 feet long and 8.5 feet wide. To put that in terms most people can picture: roughly three cars parked end to end. That is the figure that matters when you are working out whether one fits somewhere — a venue driveway, a hotel loop, a campus loading zone.
Shorter coaches exist, most commonly around 35 feet, and those are worth considering when the route involves tighter urban streets. The 45-foot coach is the standard full-size vehicle.
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. A real-world comparison: a little taller than a single story of a house. That is the number to check against any parking structure, covered driveway, or low-clearance approach on the route before the trip runs.
Those figures are for a standard full-size coach.
WiFi is one of the amenities available on charter buses, and many coaches on the road today are equipped with it. One thing worth knowing: onboard WiFi is built into the coach as an equipment option rather than something every vehicle carries, so whether a given coach has it varies. And when it is available, onboard WiFi runs off a cellular connection designed for light use across a full coach — phones, messaging, browsing — not for 50 or 60 people doing heavy work at once.
If the group needs WiFi for the trip, note it with your trip details so the vehicles that come back are the ones actually equipped with it.
Yes — an onboard restroom is standard on full-size charter buses. It sits toward the rear of the coach and is there so the group does not have to stop, though on a long run the trip is still usually planned with real rest stops along the way. Because features may vary by vehicle, note it with your trip details if an onboard restroom is important for the group.
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. In practical terms, a group can keep phones and laptops charged across a long run from Hattiesburg to Atlanta or Nashville without hunting for a plug.
Note it with your trip details if the group needs it so the right vehicles come back.
Yes — in two places. Inside the coach, overhead parcel racks run the full length of the cabin. Underneath, undercarriage baggage bays run along the lower skirt on both sides of the vehicle.
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 — in practice, about one checked-size bag each in the bays below plus one small carry-on above. What changes that is configuration: a coach fitted with a wheelchair lift gives up some of the baggage bay, and bulky gear like instruments, sports equipment, or event supplies takes the space of several bags.
If the group is traveling with anything oversized — a band heading to a performance, a sports team with equipment, a wedding party with décor — state the luggage and any oversized items with the trip details so the right coach gets matched to the group.
Charter Bus Service in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Just about any group that needs to move together. Airport transfers to and from Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN) or Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) are a common run. Corporate travel and employee shuttles keep teams moving between offices, conference hotels, and event venues without the carpool scramble.
Weddings and private events run guest shuttles between hotel blocks and venues across Forrest and Lamar County. Concerts and live events at the Saenger Theater or Reed Green Coliseum are easier with one bus than a dozen separate cars. School and church group trips, sporting events at M.M. Roberts Stadium, prom, and brewery and nightlife tours through the Hub City Arts District all work the same way — fill out one form, compare vehicles and pricing in seconds, and book the bus that fits.
Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.com helps you find transportation starting from or heading to Hattiesburg and all the surrounding communities — including Petal, Purvis, Laurel, Columbia, Picayune, Meridian, Biloxi, Gulfport, and Jackson, as well as Forrest County, Lamar County, and Perry County throughout the Pine Belt region. Those are examples, not the full list. If your pickup or drop-off is somewhere not named here, enter the full route in the quote form or call 769-280-2340 and a live agent can check coverage for you.
A few dates pull the whole local market early. USM graduation in May and December is the single busiest transportation weekend in Hattiesburg — hotel rooms and buses both go months out. Southern Miss home football Saturdays at M.M. Roberts Stadium from September through November, especially Homecoming in October, fill buses fast.
Prom season for Hattiesburg High, Oak Grove High, Petal High, and Sumrall High — all stacked across April and May — is one of the busiest stretches of the year for party buses and minibuses. New Year's Eve and peak wedding season (April–June and September–October) round out the calendar. Book those dates well ahead.
Short-notice requests on any date are still worth submitting, because Hattiesburgcharterbuscompany.com puts the request in front of a whole network rather than one company's yard.
Planning Your Hattiesburg, Mississippi Charter Bus Trip
Buses run to and from every airport serving the Hattiesburg area. Hattiesburg-Laurel Regional Airport (PIB) is the closest at about 25 miles north in Moselle (~30–35 minutes via US-49 N), though it handles general aviation rather than commercial flights. For commercial service, most travelers use Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (JAN) (~95 miles north, ~1 hour 20 minutes via US-49 N) or Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) (~105 miles south, ~1 hour 30–40 minutes via I-59 S to I-10 E), both of which carry American, Delta, United, and Southwest.
Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport (GPT) is about 65 miles south (~1 hour via US-49 S). For any airport run, the coach meets the group outside the terminal at the spot that airport designates for buses and larger vehicles, following that airport's own ground transportation guidelines.
Buses run to all the major venues in and around Hattiesburg. M.M. Roberts Stadium (118 College Dr, Hattiesburg, MS 39406) is home to the Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team and holds 36,000 fans — on home Saturdays, Hardy Street (US-98) and College Drive back up significantly, so groups should build in 45–60 minutes before kickoff and plan the drop-off point on College Drive near the main entrance. Reed Green Coliseum, also on the USM campus, hosts Golden Eagles basketball, concerts, and convocations with buses staging in designated campus lots.
Hattiesburg Speedway (5209 US-49, Hattiesburg, MS 39401) hosts NASCAR Whelen All-American Series events with ample surface lot space. For all these venues, traffic patterns shift around events — building in extra time is always the right call.
Buses serve all the major event venues in Hattiesburg. The Hattiesburg Convention Center (1 Convention Center Plaza, Hattiesburg, MS 39401) is the city's primary large-event facility, with a 1,000-person ballroom and roughly 20,000 square feet of meeting space; the designated bus and coach loading area is on the Pine Street side of the building. The adjacent Lake Terrace Convention Center at the same address handles weddings, galas, and corporate dinners.
The Saenger Theater (201 Forrest St, Hattiesburg, MS 39401) hosts Broadway touring productions and concerts; buses drop on Forrest Street and stage on nearby streets or in the parking garage on Main Street. If you are running a repeat shuttle between a hotel and any of these venues, lay out the full schedule — number of runs, timing, passenger count per run — with the request so it comes back timed and priced correctly.
Yes — any wedding venue in the Hattiesburg area. Popular venues include The Venue at Cypress Lake (22 Cypress Lake Dr, Hattiesburg, MS 39402), a lakeside property with an outdoor ceremony pavilion and indoor reception hall; Tatum Ridge Events, a rustic barn venue in the Petal and Forrest County area; Hotel Indigo Hattiesburg (401 Hardy St, Hattiesburg, MS 39401), which handles both weddings and out-of-town hotel room blocks; and the Hattiesburg Convention Center / Lake Terrace for large receptions. The most common wedding setup is a shuttle loop between the hotel block and the venue — guests board at the hotel, ride to the ceremony and reception, and get brought back at the end of the night.
Giving the exact venue address with the request gets the right vehicle matched to the route.
Buses serve all the schools, colleges, and universities in and around Hattiesburg. The University of Southern Mississippi has designated bus loading zones on College Drive and near the Student Union; large events coordinate with USM Parking & Transportation. William Carey University (498 Tuscan Ave, Hattiesburg, MS 39401) has its main bus loading at the campus entrance off Tuscan Avenue.
Pearl River Community College's Hattiesburg Campus (5448 US-49, Hattiesburg, MS 39401) serves the southern metro. For K–12, the Hattiesburg Public School District (including Hattiesburg High School at 1 Tiger Dr) and Lamar County School District (serving Oak Grove, Purvis, and Sumrall) are both active for field trips and team travel. Student trips should include the exact headcount plus any chaperone or accessibility needs with the request.
The network serves all of them. In Hattiesburg itself, Southern Prohibition Brewing (301 Mobile St, Hattiesburg, MS 39401) is one of Mississippi's largest craft breweries, with a taproom open Wednesday through Sunday and frequent live music — it sits in the Hub City Arts District on Mobile Street, the city's main nightlife corridor, where Keg & Barrel, Thirsty Hippo, and Mahogany Bar are all within walking distance of each other. For casinos, the nearest cluster is the Biloxi Gulf Coast about 70 miles south (~1 hour via US-49 S to I-10 E) — Beau Rivage (875 Beach Blvd, Biloxi, MS 39530), Golden Nugget Biloxi (151 Beach Blvd, Biloxi, MS 39530), Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi (777 Beach Blvd, Biloxi, MS 39530), and IP Casino Resort Spa (850 Bayview Ave, Biloxi, MS 39530) are all within a few miles of each other on the coast.
A multi-stop route is timed by how long the group stays at each stop — listing the stops and how long at each one gets the hours right when you submit the request.
Yes — long-distance trips are a regular run. From Hattiesburg, popular destinations include New Orleans, LA (~105 miles south, ~1 hour 30–40 minutes via I-59 S to I-10 E) for events, concerts, and group getaways; the Biloxi and Gulf Coast (~70 miles south, ~1 hour via US-49 S) for casino trips and beach weekends; Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, AL (~175 miles east, ~2 hours 30 minutes via I-59 S); Atlanta, GA (~370 miles northeast, ~5 hours 30 minutes via I-59 N); Nashville, TN (~380 miles north, ~5 hours 30 minutes via US-49 N to I-65 N); and Orlando, FL (~640 miles southeast, ~9 hours via I-59 S to I-10 E to I-75 S) for theme park trips. 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 — all stops, overnight locations, and return timing — laid out with the request so it comes back priced correctly.