About the 38 Passenger Shuttle Bus
A 38 passenger shuttle bus with forward-facing seating, overhead racks, climate control, a PA system, and a rear luggage area. Corporate loops, wedding hotel-block shuttles, church and school outings, and airport groups in Austin fill its calendar.
This shuttle runs the same days as the forty: a conference loop between a downtown hotel and the convention center, a wedding shuttle out Loop 360 to a Lake Travis venue, a church group heading to a service project in Bastrop. Riders face forward, bags go overhead or in the rear area, and the driver calls stops on the PA. Nobody on board notices the two-seat difference from the forty, because the layout is the same from the first row to the last.
About 55% of Austin inquiries with a known event date ask for a Saturday in our records, and Friday adds another 22%, so the thirty-eight is frequently booked as the next-best when the forty is taken on one of those nights. An airport group of thirty-eight with checked bags fills the rear luggage area, and that is the one case where a coach with under-floor bays is the better ride even if the seat count fits on paper.
No restroom, no reclining seats, and no Wi-Fi promise on this size. For loops and day trips that is the right trade for a lower rate. A Dallas round trip in one day, six hours of I-35, is a lot to ask of thirty-eight people without either, and the 48 to 56 passenger coaches are what we would put on the quote for that. Routes over about two hours get a planned stop somewhere sensible.
This size or the next one
The 38 Passenger Shuttle Bus is the size to choose over the 36 Passenger Shuttle Bus when your hotel block is 100 guests or more and you want three waves instead of four, since each extra run on a Hill Country loop costs close to an hour. Choose the 40 Passenger Shuttle Bus instead when the block is closer to 120 and the venue is more than 40 minutes out, because fewer, fuller runs protect the ceremony start. The 38 Passenger Party Bus is what the wedding party itself often books for the getting-ready-house-to-venue ride, with lounge seating and a sound system; the guest loop belongs on this shuttle, where everyone has a forward-facing seat and the coordinator can run announcements over the PA.
