Jessica
It has been several years since all three of your children have made it home for Christmas. This year, however, not only are all three children and their spouses coming home, but your house will also be full of six grandchildren. Would it be wrong to hope for getting snowed in a couple of days after everyone?s safe arrival?
In addition to planning lots of delicious family recipes for the Christmas get together, your husband has also insisted on a special surprise. He has the whole thing well planned. Just as it turns dark on Christmas Eve he has a charter bus scheduled to come to your house. Yes, a bus. Obviously he has invited some neighbors and their grandkids as well. Your entire family will take an hour long trip around town checking out the best holiday lights the city has to offer, hot chocolate and popcorn provided!
If you are looking for a convenient and safe way for your large or small group to travel, making the decision to rent a charter bus is an excellent option. While you may have thought about a charter bus company for long road trips. They are often available in town for short drives as well.
The world’s largest gymnastics meet held in Chicago every February actually has charter buses that take the gymnasts and their families and friends from the host hotel locations to the meet venue. This service which not only saves the participants expensive downtown parking fees, also limits the large number of out of town drivers who could be clogging the five mile routes between the meet and the hotels.
In addition to providing safe and cost effective options, shuttle services and week long or single day bus tour options can also provide environmental benefits. In fact, each full motorcoach has the potential to remove 55 vehicles from the highway. On a more extensive level, switching to motorcoach travel for the 12,500 miles traveled annually by the average automobile would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 4.3 tons per automobile a year. In a time when Beijing, China is issuing its first red alert for pollution, carbon emission caused by vehicles is on everyone’s mind. Did you know that one of the initial recovery measures in Beijing’s red alert was to eliminate all individual vehicle driving in the city?
Air pollution problems make the option to rent a charter bus and use other mass transportation options a priority. Whether you are a grandfather planning a holiday surprise for his grandchildren, or you a city planner looking for ways to decrease your city’s pollution levels, public and private transportation options may be the solution. Motorcoaches, in fact, emit the least carbon dioxide (CO2) per passenger mile when compared to other vehicles. They are also on average six times more energy and fuel-efficient than single occupancy automobiles.
Rent a charter bus for a safe travel option that also saves the environment!
