Bus hire in Sydney done properly — mini buses, midi coaches and full-size coaches with experienced drivers. Coach charter in Sydney for weddings, corporate events, school excursions, sporting teams and day tours, with charter across Sydney and New South Wales. Accredited operator, phone answered around the clock.
Charter is priced per vehicle, so picking the right size is the single biggest thing you can do about the price. Here is how the three tiers differ in practice.
12 – 24 seats
Mercedes-Benz Sprinters, Toyota Coasters and Mitsubishi Rosas. The right call when the group is small enough that a full coach would be dead weight — and when the pickup is a narrow driveway, a hotel porte-cochère or a Bondi side street a 57-seater can't enter.
25 – 35 seats
Our most-booked size. School excursions, sporting teams, conference shuttles and mid-size weddings. Big enough to move a whole group in one vehicle, small enough to turn around in a school driveway or a cellar-door car park.
36 – 57 seats
Conferences, large weddings, multi-day tours and interstate runs. Lowest cost per seat of anything we operate — if you can fill it, it is almost always the cheapest way to move the group.
We are not a tour company that also hires buses, and we are not a booking site that sells your enquiry on. We run the vehicles, we roster the drivers, and we quote the job in front of us.
Weddings, conferences, school excursions, sporting fixtures, airport and cruise transfers, event shuttles, party charters, wine and day tours. The same fleet and the same dispatch desk covers all of it, so a multi-part job stays with one contact instead of three suppliers.
See every charter typeYou speak to the people who allocate the vehicle and roster the driver. No quote gets passed down a chain to whoever will do it cheapest, which is where most charter horror stories actually start.
Charter is priced per vehicle, so a coach you only half fill is money you did not need to spend. Tell us the real headcount and the real luggage, and we will quote the smallest vehicle that genuinely does the job — even when that is a smaller invoice for us.
How to choose a vehiclePer vehicle, with tolls and inclusions stated and exclusions listed in full. Parking, airport access charges and out-of-hours loading appear on the quote rather than on the invoice afterwards.
How our pricing worksPart of the Waggie Group, family-owned coach operators since 1974. When a group needs a coach in Brisbane, Cairns, Byron Bay or Hervey Bay, we arrange it inside the family rather than handing you to a stranger.
The 4am airport run, the carnival that went to extra time, the reception that ran long. Charter does not keep office hours, so neither does the phone.
Call 0467 892 783If it involves moving a group from A to B — sometimes via C, D and a car park nobody measured — we have done it before.
Full-size 36–57 seat coaches for conferences, tours and long-distance runs.
12–24 seats with a driver, for groups a full coach would swallow whole.
Guest shuttles between ceremony, photos and reception — and the late run home.
Hens, bucks, milestone birthdays and Christmas parties, on a proper charter.
Offsites, conference shuttles, staff transport and client roadshows.
WWCC-verified drivers, seatbelted vehicles and the paperwork your risk assessment needs.
Weekend fixtures, carnivals and interstate tournaments, gear included.
Concerts, festivals, race days and park-and-ride loops, run to a schedule.
T1, T2 and T3 group pickups with flight tracking and a meet point that works.
Overseas Passenger Terminal and White Bay, timed to the terminal's coach window.
Vehicle and driver for the Hunter or Southern Highlands — your cellar doors, your day.
Every metro suburb, and regular runs to the Hunter, the Blue Mountains, the Southern Highlands, the Central Coast and Canberra.
Every metro suburb — CBD, North Shore, Northern Beaches, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Parramatta and Western Sydney, Sutherland Shire, Macarthur.
Katoomba, Leura, Wentworth Falls, Blackheath, Jenolan.
Pokolbin, Lovedale, Broke, Rothbury cellar doors.
Gosford, Terrigal, Avoca, The Entrance, Norah Head.
Bowral, Berrima, Mittagong, Moss Vale, Robertson.
Wollongong, Kiama, Berry, Jervis Bay, Ulladulla.
Parliament House, AIS, War Memorial, Questacon.
Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast and beyond.
Charter is priced per vehicle, not per person, so the cost per head falls as the group grows. Across the Sydney market, mini buses typically run about $90–$150 an hour, midi coaches $110–$200 and full-size coaches $150–$250 (market ranges, August 2026). Most operators, including us, apply a minimum hire of three to four hours. Airport and point-to-point transfers are usually quoted as a fixed price rather than hourly. We quote every job individually against your actual itinerary.
Twelve families of it: full-size coach charter and mini bus hire by vehicle; weddings and party charters; corporate and conference shuttles, school excursions, sporting teams and event shuttles; Sydney Airport and cruise terminal transfers; and private wine and day tours. Office relocations, site crew transport, community outings and wholesale supply to tour operators are all normal work too — if it is a group and it needs moving, ask.
For December weddings, school excursion season, major concerts and race days, as early as you can — the Sydney fleet genuinely runs out. For everyday charters, 24 to 48 hours is usually enough. If you are not sure, call; we will tell you straight away whether the date is tight.
Some do and some do not, which is why it is worth asking rather than assuming. Under the NSW Road Rules a bus is treated differently from a car, but where seatbelts are fitted they must be worn. If your school, workplace or highway route requires a fully seatbelted vehicle, say so when you enquire and we will allocate one.
Non-alcoholic food and drink, yes, on every vehicle. Alcohol is permitted on private adult charters — not school or junior sport work — on the understanding that consumption stays sensible and the vehicle comes back clean. A cleaning or security deposit may apply on party and event charters.
Talk to us as early as you can. Amendment and cancellation terms are set out in your booking confirmation and on our terms page. Moving a booking is nearly always easier than cancelling one, and we would rather reschedule you than lose you.
Per vehicle. A 45-seat coach costs the same whether 30 or 45 people are on it, so matching the vehicle to the group is the single biggest lever on price. Tell us your real passenger number and we will tell you the cheapest way to move them.
Yes — for groups above 57 we run multiple vehicles in convoy, coordinated so everyone arrives together rather than in waves. Large conference and festival shuttles are quoted as a schedule, not a single trip.
What we sell is the vehicle and the driver. You set the route, the stops and the timings, and we get your group there — anywhere in Sydney and the surrounding regions.
If what you actually want is a packaged, guided tour with the itinerary, commentary and bookings already arranged, that is a different product and our sister company runs it properly. Cooee Tours is part of the same family business and has been operating since 1974.
Visit Cooee ToursSend the details and we will come back with a clear, per-vehicle quote — usually the same business day, always within 24 hours. Need an answer faster than that? Call. We pick up.
A family of Australian coach and charter operators. If your group is heading beyond NSW, we can arrange the vehicle at the other end.
