Our South San Francisco yard is about 12 minutes north of Burlingame Avenue on US-101, which makes hotel row and the Broadway corridor effectively home turf for our dispatchers. No marketplace, no subcontractor, no 20–40% broker margin between the quote and the driver. The vehicles are ours and the drivers are on our payroll.
CPUC TCP 0037963 · USDOT 3126263 · commercial auto liability on every coach · certificates of insurance issued same business day.
Our own vehicles, photographed by our crew. Not stock photography, not a partner's coach.
Road miles are from Burlingame Avenue downtown and times are typical off-peak. Burlingame Ave itself has almost no bus parking, so most of these rows are staged from the Park Road lot or from a hotel driveway on Bayshore.
| Trip | What it usually looks like | Miles | Drive | Best vehicle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayfront hotel row to SFOOld Bayshore Hwy, Airport Blvd, four miles | The shortest scheduled hop we run on the Peninsula. Groups moving between the Bayshore hotels and the terminals get a fixed departure and a vehicle staged in the driveway rather than a shared van that fills up. | 4 | 10 min | 56-pax coach |
| Kohl Mansion weddings and galasAdeline Dr, El Camino Real, Mercy High campus | Guest loops from the Bayshore hotel block up to the estate, sized so the vehicle fits the approach rather than blocking Adeline Drive while eighty people board. | 2–6 | varies | 24–35-pax minibus |
| Conference and meeting shuttles on the BayshoreAirport Blvd, Anza Blvd, Old Bayshore Hwy | Multi-day conferences housed along the water, where the schedule is a repeating loop and the organiser wants one point of contact for all of it. Sixty-nine seats a lap keeps the morning wave to a handful of departures. | 1–5 | 10 min | 69-pax double-decker |
| Burlingame Country Club and golf outingsNew Place Rd, Hillsborough boundary, El Camino Real | Tournament days and member events where the club driveway takes one vehicle at a time. We stage off site and feed the entrance on a rolling schedule so nobody queues on the road. | 2–4 | 10 min | 24–35-pax minibus |
| Downtown Burlingame and Broadway evening loopsBurlingame Ave, Park Rd lot, Broadway | Holiday parties and rehearsal dinners moving between restaurants on the two commercial strips, with the Park Road lot as the staging point because the avenue has no room to hold a bus. | 1–3 | varies | 14-pax Sprinter |
| San Francisco event and convention runsUS-101 north to SoMa and Union Square | Corporate groups based on hotel row heading into the city for a show, a dinner or a convention hall, with the return staged before the evening southbound crush. | 18 | 28 min | 56-pax coach |
| School and campus travelBurlingame High, Mercy High, Peninsula district trips | Athletics travel, band moves and field trips on coaches with luggage bays, driven by employees enrolled in our DOT drug-and-alcohol program with district COI wording issued the same day. | 5–150 | varies | 56-pax coach |
| Napa and Sonoma day tripsUS-101 north over the Golden Gate Bridge | Full-day wine outings out of the hotel block, quoted with the bridge toll and the driver hours shown separately so the number is not a surprise at the end of the day. | 65–80 | 85–105 min | 56-pax coach |
Something else in Burlingame? Any group of 10 to 69 out of Burlingame, Millbrae, Hillsborough or San Mateo, anywhere in Northern California, including multi-day. Describe the trip and dispatch will price it.
Every unit below is titled to Umbrella Global Bus, maintained in our own shop and driven by our own employees. The vehicle you confirm is the vehicle that shows up.
Our double-deckerSixty-nine seats with a wheelchair lift and a restroom, which is what a Bayshore conference morning needs when four hundred people all want the 8:15 departure.
Our coachRestroom, Wi-Fi, USB and luggage bays for SFO groups, city runs and wine-country days, with a driver who knows the commercial vehicle lanes at the airport.
Our minibusTwenty-four to thirty-five seats sized for the Kohl Mansion approach, the country club driveway and the hotel porte-cocheres along Old Bayshore.
Our SprinterFourteen seats for downtown restaurant loops, small client groups and the four-mile airport run at odd hours.
Same vehicles, photographed inside by our crew. Leather seating throughout, wood-look flooring, LED cove lighting and a wheelchair lift on the ADA units.
Most sites ranking for "charter bus Burlingame" do not own a single vehicle. They resell operators like us and add a margin. Here is what changes when you skip that layer.
| Question | Umbrella Global Bus | Booking marketplace |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the vehicle? | We do. Titled, insured and maintained by Umbrella. | A third-party operator assigned after you pay, often unnamed until day-of. |
| Who is driving? | Our employee, in our DOT drug-and-alcohol program, known to our dispatch. | Whoever the assigned operator sends. |
| What is the price built from? | Our operator rate, itemized: hours, deadhead from South San Francisco, tolls, gratuity. | An operator's rate plus the platform's margin, typically 20–40%. |
| Who answers at 5:40 a.m. when the bus is late? | The dispatcher who assigned the driver, with the coach on GPS. | A call center that has to phone the operator. |
| Certificate of insurance for a venue or employer? | Issued by us, usually same business day. | Requested from the operator through the platform. |
| Can I track the bus? | Yes, a live tracking link for every trip. | Depends on the operator. |
The ranges below are published so you can budget before you call. Your quote is itemized to the hour and the mile, and a four-mile airport job is not priced like a day trip.
Driver included. Five-hour minimum, so a half day runs $750–$875. Hotel row transfers, Kohl Mansion guest loops, downtown evening runs.
Driver included. Quoted per itinerary on top of the hourly rate because deadhead, tolls and return time change the total.
Repeating hotel and conference loops on the Bayshore. Monthly invoicing, PO-based billing and net terms.
Always included: driver, fuel, standard insurance, live tracking. Quoted separately: tolls, parking, driver overnight on multi-day trips, gratuity if you choose to add it.
A half-day (5-hour) 24-35 passenger minibus in Burlingame typically runs $750–$875 including driver, fuel and insurance. A 56-passenger motorcoach is quoted per itinerary. Short hotel-to-SFO work is priced on hours rather than distance, because four miles is not where the cost sits.
Yes. We run repeating loops for multi-day conferences on Old Bayshore and Airport Boulevard, usually with a double-decker on the morning wave and minibuses filling in through the day. You get one dispatcher for the whole program and a live tracking link to share with the meeting planner.
Not on the avenue. We stage from the Park Road public lot or a hotel driveway and pull to the curb only for the load, which keeps the downtown blocks clear and avoids the tickets that come with a 45-foot vehicle sitting on a two-lane retail street.
San Francisco (SFO, about 4 road miles), Oakland (OAK, about 26 miles over the San Mateo Bridge) and San Jose (SJC, about 35 miles). SFO is close enough that a delayed flight means a hold at our yard rather than an extra hour billed to you.
The operator. Umbrella Global Bus owns the Van Hool coaches and the minibuses, employs the drivers, and runs its own dispatch and shop from South San Francisco under CPUC TCP 0037963 and USDOT 3126263. Nothing is resold and no online booking marketplace adds a margin to your rate.
Yes, usually the same business day. Venue and hotel risk teams normally want to be named as certificate holder and additional insured with specific limits, and because the vehicles are on our own policy we can send that without going back to a third party.