Moving 200 to 1,000 people in Seattle usually means cruise turn day at Pier 91, a convention departure wave, or a stadium night in SoDo. UCN prices the whole multi-coach move as one number and matches it to vetted local operators who can field the vehicles and hold a staging plan across King, Pierce and Snohomish counties.
Get an instant quote →
The 2026 cruise season brought 330 ship calls and roughly 2.1 million passengers through Seattle, concentrated into Saturdays and Sundays from May into September. That is the largest recurring large-group demand in the state, and it is why coach availability on a summer Saturday is tighter here than anywhere on the West Coast outside peak conference weeks. A 1,000 passenger embarkation is 18 to 20 full coaches, sequenced so the pier receives them in waves rather than all at once. Confirm the current motorcoach procedure with your cruise line, since Pier 66 and Pier 91 set their own arrival windows.
The rest of the large-group calendar is stadium and convention work. SoDo has defined charter drop zones for Lumen Field and T-Mobile Park and almost no room to hold buses nearby, so vehicles drop and leave. Husky Stadium sits in the Montlake bottleneck, where a single approach road serves everything. Big moves work when three things are written down before the day: the load point for each vehicle, the order the coaches arrive in, and a realistic pickup window at the other end. Every vehicle carries a live tracking link so your on-site lead can see where coach 12 actually is.
| Vehicle | Hourly | Daily | Min hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motorcoach (47–56 pax) est. | $175–$260 | $1,700–$2,500 | 5 hrs |
| Minibus (24–35 pax) est. | $140–$205 | $1,350–$1,900 | 5 hrs |
| Sprinter van (10–14 pax) est. | $120–$180 | $1,000–$1,500 | 4 hrs |
Typical published ranges. Excludes driver gratuity (10–20%), tolls, parking and airport or venue fees; fuel is included on local trips and peak dates can run 10–20% higher. Your instant quote is one all-in price for your exact trip.
est. = estimated from regional pricing where few local sources publish rates.
Rates updated September 2026
Hotels downtown and near the airport load in sequence from 9am, each coach assigned a pier arrival slot so Smith Cove is not receiving six buses at once. Luggage goes under the bus once and comes out at the terminal, which is the whole reason the group is not in taxis.
Twelve coaches leave a downtown hotel block at 20 minute intervals through a morning, manifests sorted by flight time. Each driver checks in at the Port ground transportation lot before the airport run, so the schedule counts that step rather than absorbing it at the curb.
Corporate blocks and supporter groups move to Lumen Field, T-Mobile Park or Climate Pledge Arena together. Coaches use the designated drop zones and stage off site until a pickup window, because SoDo and Seattle Center egress after an event is measured in tens of minutes, not minutes.
About 18 to 20 full-size coaches at 49 to 56 seats, allowing for real load factors rather than perfect ones. For a cruise or airport move, luggage capacity, not seat count, sets the number, so send bag counts along with headcount.
Eight weeks or more for anything multi-coach between May and September. Cruise turn days absorb a large share of the regional coach supply on those Saturdays, and a late request for 15 vehicles will be quoted from further afield with more deadhead in the price.
Yes. Each vehicle gets its own live tracking link, so your on-site lead sees the fleet rather than phoning drivers one at a time. That is the single most useful thing on a 15 vehicle move.
The operator builds it with you and works to the venue or terminal rules, which at the cruise piers are set by the port and the cruise line rather than by the bus company. Get the venue contact into the conversation early; the load point is the part that goes wrong.
One all-in price for the whole move, one agreement to e-sign, and a 25 percent deposit to hold the vehicles, with the balance before the trip. Driver, fuel, standard mileage and tolls are included.
One clear price from a vetted local operator — in seconds, no obligation.