Are there any good, cheap bus companies to use for traveling around the western United States?

10/6/2019 8:48:16 PM

There are many scheduled intercity bus companies in the Western US. They include:

  • ACN
  • ADN
  • Amtrak Thruway bus
  • BoltBus
  • Cabin
  • CoachRun
  • EPLA Limo
  • FlixBus
  • Fronteras del Norte
  • Hoang Express
  • Intercalifornias
  • Lux Bus America
  • Los Paisanos
  • Megabus
  • Mexicoach
  • TAP Royal
  • Tufesa
  • Quick Shuttle

On Busbud you can search and compare many of these and read user reviews to get a better idea of the quality of service. (Full disclosure: I work there.)

10/6/2019 10:42:17 AM

Flixbus is now also serving some western states, with a popular boston-nyc route. As also mentioned, greyhound, Megabus are also cheap and ever present operators

1/4/2017 7:34:29 PM

Megabus does serve California and Nevada now (since 2012). It looks like they have service along the I-5 (San Francisco to Los Angeles), I-80 (San Francisco – Sacramento – Reno – Sparks) and I-15 (Los Angeles to Las Vegas) corridors.

6/25/2011 12:31:47 PM

The short answer is no, as has been said. There are a few bus lines popping up. You can check them out at http://gotobus.com and http://cashuttlebus.com. They typically take you between SF/LA and LA/LV and that’s about it.

6/23/2011 11:04:25 PM

I had to travel to Barstow, California on the Greyhound route between Los Angeles and Las Vegas a few times last winter and I noticed a few other bus lines running that route. It may be an anomaly, but it couln’t hurt to research this and see of those bus lines have other routes.

10/16/2013 10:19:30 AM

When I traveled the east coast USA, the Chinatown bus was the budget way to travel. It was (apparently) cheaper than Greyhound, at the cost of a little luxury (although after taking a Greyhound bus I’m not sure there were many luxuries to lose).

The Chinatown buses run from Chinatown in one city to Chinatown in another. These were mainly an East coast thing, but they are spreading more and more to the West coast.

I’ve never actually been on one myself (I got suckered into riding a greyhound), so I can’t speak to their comfort and such.

these might be of use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines – wiki article

http://www.chinatown-bus.org/ – Chinatown bus page

6/23/2011 4:05:49 AM

Sorry, but no.

  • There are parts of the western states you can get to and from via train, but they’re a small percentage of the whole area.
  • If your goal was to, for instance, just get around the SF Bay Area, then the combination of BART, Muni, CalTrain, etc. would be sufficient.

But given that “the Western US” is about half the country (depending on where you draw the line), you’re not going to find any one thing that applies to all of it.

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