A motorcoach is the full-size highway coach a group charters whole, and Scottsdale Sprinters runs one: the 56-Passenger Motorcoach, seating 56 at $325 an hour on a 5-hour minimum, with underfloor bays holding 125 bags. That is $1,625 before tax to start. This guide defines the category, sets the coach against a mini coach, a minibus and an executive Sprinter, and shows how a charter is quoted. Every figure here is a published one.
A motorcoach is the full-size highway coach a group charters as one vehicle: a single deck of forward-facing seats above enclosed luggage bays, boarded up a stairwell, and driven by a professional chauffeur rather than rented for you to drive. Scottsdale Sprinters runs one, the 56-Passenger Motorcoach, seating 56. "Motor coach", "motorcoach" and "coach" are the same vehicle written three ways, and a motorcoach is what most people mean by a charter bus at full size. The category is defined by shape, not badge: proper seats in rows, a centre aisle, a luggage hold under the floor, one operator for the whole vehicle. Ours is the biggest, most luxurious unit in the fleet: $325 an hour on a 5-hour minimum, $1,625 before tax to start, with opulent leather seats, each reclining on its own and underfloor bays carrying room for 125 bags.
56 seats, $325 an hour, a 5-hour minimum and room for 125 bags. Those four numbers are what the booking system enforces: you reserve the coach rather than a seat, so a group of 20 and a group of 56 pay the same for the same vehicle. The starting total is the published rate times that minimum: $1,625 before tax, or about $29 a head with every seat filled — an even split of the pre-tax fare, shown for planning and never sold as a ticket. Give the real headcount and the real bag count together, because the bags decide the vehicle as often as the seats do, and confirm any accessibility requirement with the reservations team in writing.
A charter bus is how the vehicle is sold; a motorcoach is how big it is. Charter means the whole vehicle is booked for one group, so every vehicle below is chartered — what differs is size, and the four seat 14 to 56 between them at $145–$325/hr. The Executive Black Sprinter seats 14 at $145 an hour and is a van, not a bus: no stairwell, no hold, room for 40 bags behind the last row. The Mini Bus (24 Pax) seats 24 at $185 an hour and is the entry minibus, with a bag count we confirm in writing. The Executive Mini Coach (29 Pax) seats 29 at $225 an hour with room for 30 bags — a mini coach, which is the vehicle most "charter bus" searches actually land on. Only the 56-Passenger Motorcoach is a full-size motorcoach, and only it has the underfloor bays. Every row below prices at its own minimum: 5 hours on the 56-Passenger Motorcoach and 4 on the other three. That is why the cheapest hour is not always the cheapest booking.
You are not driving it. Every coach we run is chauffeured — there is no self-drive or unchauffeured rental in the catalog — so the experience is the ride: forward-facing seats in rows, luggage stowed below deck rather than on laps, and one vehicle that keeps the group together from the first pickup to the last drop. What our own catalog publishes for this coach is opulent leather seats, every seat reclines on its own, underfloor bays for 125 bags, overhead compartments, built-in cooler for refreshments, state-of-the-art ambient lighting, sound system and curtains and tinted windows. That is the whole list, and it is what "luxury charter bus" means here: opulent leather seats, each reclining on its own, not a lounge interior. Coaches in the category are often specified with a raised passenger deck and an on-board restroom. Our catalog lists neither for this unit, so neither is claimed here: the published feature list above is the whole of it, and anything outside it is confirmed in writing by the reservations team before you book. A coach day runs on your itinerary rather than a timetable: stops inside the booked hours cost nothing extra, time beyond them bills at the same published rate rather than a penalty rate, and the chauffeur holds the vehicle at each stop. House rules still apply on board: $1,500 for smoking or vaping and $450 to deep-clean an excessive spill and $450 for a biohazard clean.
Ours fits 56, and that is a seated count. No standing or riding figure exists anywhere in our catalog, so 56 is the number the booking system and the quote both use, and a group of 56 is a full coach with no seat to spare. Coaches in the category are usually sold somewhere in the mid-fifties, which is why "54 passenger bus" and "56 passenger bus" are searched as different vehicles. For us they are one booking: that group rides the 56-Passenger Motorcoach, and the seat count we publish and bill is 56. Above 56 riders the answer is a second vehicle rather than a bigger one, quoted with its own rate and minimum.
At 30 riders, once bags are counted. Up to 29 the Executive Mini Coach (29 Pax) is the right vehicle and the cheaper hour at $225 against $325; past 29 the 56-Passenger Motorcoach is the only single vehicle that takes the group. Bags can move the line down. The 56-Passenger Motorcoach is the only unit with underfloor bays and room for 125 bags, against room for 30 bags on the Executive Mini Coach (29 Pax), so a group of 29 with a checked bag each is a different vehicle from the same 29 going to dinner. Per seat, the bigger coach is the cheaper one when it fills: about $29 a head at the minimum on a full 56-Passenger Motorcoach, against $31 on a full Executive Mini Coach (29 Pax) and $41 on a full Executive Black Sprinter. Half a coach is twice the share. The coach's own catalog entry is written for big weddings, big events, team and athlete travel, school and college groups, and moving any large group as one, for up to fifty-six.
Published hourly rate times billable hours, never below the vehicle's own minimum, plus Arizona sales tax of 8% at checkout. For the 56-Passenger Motorcoach that is $325 an hour with a floor of 5 hours, so no quote for it starts under $1,625 before tax however short the day is. Longer days earn hours rather than a discount code: 7 earns 1 free hour, 12 earns 2 free hours, 15 or more earns 3 free hours, and the free hours come off the billable hours automatically. Distance is not billed separately on an hourly charter, so the driving between your stops sits inside the hours you reserved. A one-way move is priced as a transfer instead of an hourly block — flat within 15 road miles from pickup to drop-off; longer transfers priced from the drive with the empty return included — and the published one-way price for the 56-Passenger Motorcoach is $1,250. Say it is one-way when you ask, because the two shapes are quoted differently. A quote needs the date, the pickup and final drop addresses, every stop between them, the real headcount, the bag count and the vehicle. Check availability and request a current quote on the pricing page, or call or text (623) 986-6339 or email reservations@scottsdalesprinters.com; it is confirmed in writing before anything is charged.
The chauffeur, the reserved vehicle for the booked hours, fuel and tolls, every stop on your itinerary and bottled water on board. Added at checkout: Arizona sales tax of 8%, the 50% deposit and optional gratuity. There is no booking fee, no service charge and no fuel surcharge. There are two payments: a 50% deposit confirms the vehicle, and the balance is charged automatically to the card on file 48 hours before pickup. Gratuity is optional and never added automatically. Outside the quote: parking or site-access charges billed directly to you, event permits, and meals. An added stop on a transfer is $50; the only other charges we can add are the house-rule fees named above. Compare quotes on the same three lines — the hourly rate, the vehicle's minimum, and what the total includes before tax — because a low rate on a high minimum is not the cheaper booking.
To the guide for the trip you are running. This page defines the vehicle; the rental guides below carry the local coverage and the planning: charter bus rental in Scottsdale, charter bus rental in Phoenix, and charter across Arizona. For a corporate or conference loop, the corporate transportation and executive minibus group shuttle pages take the booking. The coach's own fleet page carries the photo set; the pricing page carries live availability.
Every figure below comes from the same published rate grid and the same policies as the rest of this guide.
Executive Black Sprinter: seats 14, $145/hr, 4-hour minimum. 5 hours is $725 before tax, about $52 per person. Mini Bus (24 Pax): seats 24, $185/hr, 4-hour minimum. 5 hours is $925 before tax, about $39 per person. Executive Mini Coach (29 Pax): seats 29, $225/hr, 4-hour minimum. 5 hours is $1,125 before tax, about $39 per person. 56-Passenger Motorcoach: seats 56, $325/hr, 5-hour minimum. 5 hours is $1,625 before tax, about $29 per person.
A motorcoach is the full-size highway coach a group charters as one vehicle — forward-facing seats in rows above an enclosed luggage hold, with a professional chauffeur driving. Scottsdale Sprinters runs one, the 56-Passenger Motorcoach, which seats 56 at $325 an hour on a 5-hour minimum.
The same vehicle: "motor coach", "motorcoach" and "coach" are three spellings of one thing, and at Scottsdale Sprinters the coach they describe is the 56-Passenger Motorcoach. It is the largest vehicle in our fleet and the only one with underfloor luggage bays.
Almost. "Charter bus" describes how the vehicle is booked — the whole bus for one group — and "motorcoach" describes its size, so a motorcoach is a charter bus at full size. Scottsdale Sprinters compares four executive sizes here, and only the 56-Passenger Motorcoach is a full-size motorcoach.
You ride rather than drive: every coach Scottsdale Sprinters runs is chauffeured and there is no self-drive rental. On board, our catalog publishes opulent leather seats, every seat reclines on its own, underfloor bays for 125 bags, overhead compartments, built-in cooler for refreshments, state-of-the-art ambient lighting, sound system and curtains and tinted windows. Stops inside your booked hours cost nothing extra.
The 56-Passenger Motorcoach at Scottsdale Sprinters seats 56, and that is a seated count — we publish no standing or riding figure. Above that the answer is a second vehicle rather than a bigger one.
A group of that size rides our full-size coach. Scottsdale Sprinters runs the 56-Passenger Motorcoach, which seats 56, so 54 riders board it with seats to spare at $325 an hour on a 5-hour minimum. There is no separate fifty-four-seat unit in the fleet.
Scottsdale Sprinters publishes $325 an hour for the 56-Passenger Motorcoach on a 5-hour minimum, so a charter starts at $1,625 before tax and each hour past the minimum adds $325. Arizona sales tax of 8% is added at checkout; request a current quote for your own date.
A chartered coach specified for comfort rather than volume. At Scottsdale Sprinters that is the 56-Passenger Motorcoach, whose catalog entry lists opulent leather seats, each reclining on its own and room for 125 bags in underfloor bays.
A Scottsdale Sprinters quote covers the chauffeur, the vehicle for the booked hours, fuel and tolls, every stop on the itinerary and bottled water. Arizona sales tax of 8%, the 50% deposit and optional gratuity are added at checkout, and the balance is charged 48 hours before pickup. No booking fee and no fuel surcharge.
Give Scottsdale Sprinters the date, the pickup and final drop addresses, every stop, the headcount, the bag count and the vehicle. Request a current quote on the pricing page, or call or text (623) 986-6339 or email reservations@scottsdalesprinters.com; the reservations team confirms it in writing.