Bus rental on Orchard Road
The hard part of Orchard is not the driving. It is finding somewhere a bus is allowed to stop long enough to load a whole group.
Group pickups along Orchard Road in Singapore from $85 per transfer, most often from a hotel driveway. Orchard has heavy kerbside restrictions and several hotel porches a full coach cannot enter, so we agree the boarding point before the booking is confirmed rather than leaving the driver to find one on the day.
Where we pick up on Orchard Road
Hotels, malls and the side roads at either end of the strip. The exact point depends on vehicle size, because what a 23 seater can enter and what a 49 seater can enter are not the same list.
- Orchard Road hotels, from the driveway where the vehicle actually fits
- Tanglin and Scotts Road
- Somerset and Dhoby Ghaut
- Newton and Novena, often easier for a full coach than Orchard itself
- Bukit Timah Road at the western end
What to check before booking a bus on Orchard Road
Orchard is a stopping problem more than a traffic problem. Three things decide whether a group boards in two minutes or twenty.
- The coach cannot get into the hotel driveway
- What we doSome Orchard porches have a height bar or a turn a full coach cannot make. We check the specific hotel against the vehicle size, and where it will not fit we agree a boarding point on a side road before you book.
- Ask this of any quoteHas this driveway been checked against the exact vehicle, including any height limit?
- The bus is moved on before everyone is aboard
- What we doWaiting at the kerb on the main stretch is restricted, so a group that trickles out loses the spot. We agree one meeting point and a boarding time, and the driver arrives to that instead of circling.
- Ask this of any quoteWhere exactly is the bus allowed to wait, and for how long?
- Weekend traffic turns a short hop into an hour
- What we doOrchard at the weekend, and through December, is slow in a way distance does not predict. We time these runs on the actual day and hour rather than a map estimate.
- Ask this of any quoteIs this timed for the day and hour we are travelling, or for a clear road?
Common questions about bus rental on Orchard Road
Can the bus pick up outside my Orchard hotel?
Usually from the hotel driveway, if the vehicle fits it. Some porches have a height bar or a turn a full coach cannot make, in which case we agree a boarding point on a nearby side road before you book.
How long can a bus wait on Orchard Road?
Not long. Waiting at the kerb on the main stretch is restricted, so we work to an agreed meeting point and boarding time rather than having the bus sit there.
Is a smaller bus better for Orchard?
Often, yes. The 23 seater gets into hotel driveways and side roads a 45 or 49 seater cannot, so for a group under 23 it is usually the easier vehicle here.
Orchard is one of six areas with access worth settling in advance. Raffles Place has the same problem in a harder form. The other five are on the areas we serve page.
Picking up on Orchard?
Send the hotel or the meeting point and the group size. We confirm where the vehicle can actually stop before you commit.
Driver, fuel, ERP and parking are included, and no GST is added because we are not GST registered. Prefer the phone? Call +65 8065 3479.