The Red Bus: Vintage Routemaster Bus Hire in Edinburgh
Our buses are the perfect addition
to your big day, your corporate event or special occasion
about our buses
Our three splendid vehicles have all been kept in vintage condition, complete with open platforms, authentic red livery, tartan moquette seating, tungsten lighting and plenty of chrome.
weddings
The bus will arrive with fresh flowers and ribbons on both decks, uniformed driver and conductor with original ticket machine. And your own personal destination blind, yours to keep.
corporate
Overseas visitors love to come on board for a tour of the Scottish capital or surrounding areas, or just to get from A to B. Edinburgh dwellers and guests from all over the UK love the vintage ride too.
Travel in style
We cover an area within about 30 miles of our base in Edinburgh.
Get in touch to discuss your location – we will try our best to accommodate you and your venue.
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Special occasions, arts & music events, and more...
We don't just do weddings and corporate events.
We do special occasions, arts & music events, photoshoots and more.
Find out about all the amazing special events we've done.
On the blog
It’s been so good to get the buses out again after their long winter/spring layoff. For the wedding of Jen & Amy at the end of May, we had three pieces of good luck: the haar that had lain over Edinburgh for several days lifted, the sun came out and the road up Calton Hill was open!
Swathes of our clients have postponed their weddings to 2021. However, some have crafted a special, smaller-scale celebration and we have been delighted to play a vital part in this with our vintage buses.
A preserved Routemaster is a repository of social and personal history on wheels. It may have been built at a fixed point in time and worked on certain verifiable routes long, long ago but then it will loom out of the past – a big red, benign friend – and move us in unexpected ways.
In what turned out to be our final trip before lockdown, what could be better than Ben & Neil’s wedding on the bus on March 14 in Holyrood Park?
They brought their magic to Edinburgh from the other side of the world and now, three weeks and 42 shows later, Java Dance Theatre are on their way back to New Zealand. From the cab it was wonderful to see blank, wary or even grumpy punters board the bus then get off an hour later with smiles on their faces, dancing in the cobbled street…