Seattle Group Transportation: Stadium District, Seattle Center, Colman Dock & SEA

Quotes we have sent in Seattle start around $405–$445 an hour, which puts a typical four-hour night at $1,775–$2,025. Your price depends on the date, the city, how many hours you need, the bus and your group size.

Seattle Center publishes a bus-zone map marking 15-minute charter-bus parking and 3-hour bus parking around the campus. The two public garages have height limits of 8 feet 6 inches at the 5th Avenue North garage and 7 feet 7 inches at the Mercer Street garage, so a coach cannot use either. Ask the company to work from the current campus map, and to pin down the accessible drop-off on Mercer Street for anyone who needs it.

No. The city says events held solely in stadiums and other venues managed by Transportation Management Plans, including Lumen Field, Husky Stadium, Climate Pledge Arena and T-Mobile Park, do not need a standard Special Event Permit. Each venue’s plan controls loading instead. Lumen Field’s passenger drop-off is on Railroad Way South across from the Pro Shop, reached from 1st Avenue South. Get the venue instructions for your specific event date.

Colman Dock is at 801 Alaskan Way on Pier 52, between Marion and Columbia Streets, and serves Bainbridge Island and Bremerton. Passenger pickup and drop-off happens in front of the terminal on Alaskan Way, and Washington State Ferries posts schedule changes and lane closures on its alerts page. Build the vehicle schedule around your specific sailing rather than a rough arrival time, and give the driver a fallback if that sailing slips.

It depends on the vehicle. The Port of Seattle sends charter buses to the Northeast Charter Bus Lot at the north end of the parking garage and asks the group to call 206-787-5906 once bags are collected. Pre-arranged limousines must be chauffeur-driven, unmetered, unmarked luxury vehicles, check in at the third-floor Ground Transportation Booth, and pick up on the lower Arrivals Drive, with no staging on airport property. Ask which category your assigned vehicle falls under.

Around Seattle, birthdays drive the most requests we see — about 36% of them — followed by prom at about 18%, going by our own inquiry history. That's what other Seattle planners asked for — your own headcount is what decides it. Count everyone who is actually getting on, then add room for luggage, coolers, instruments or formalwear. Ask each company for the legal seated capacity of the exact vehicle they're offering. Most Seattle requests are for weddings, bachelor parties, and bachelorette parties, and those nights want different amounts of floor space for the same headcount. A bus rated for twenty seats is not twenty comfortable seats in formalwear.

Not necessarily. The images here are representative renderings of a vehicle class, not photos of a bus parked in Seattle. The company covering your route names the assigned vehicle in writing when you book. Before you pay, make sure that writing gives the specific vehicle, its legal seated capacity, the features you're counting on, and what happens if it's unavailable on the day — including whether a replacement could be a different size or class.

Ask in your first message, before you have a quote. Accessible vehicles are a small slice of any local fleet and they need more lead time. Tell them how many passengers use a wheelchair or mobility device, the type and weight, whether anyone can transfer to a seat, and whether you need a lift or a ramp. Ask in writing how the device is secured, what the usable door and interior height are, and how much notice they need. Then check the accessible entrance and loading spot with each venue — Lumen Field and the stadium district and Seattle Center campus, including Climate Pledge Arena and McCaw Hall set their own access rules, and the right bus is no help at a door it can't reach.