Coach hire for a day trip

A coach with driver for a day trip with your club, your family or your neighbours: to the seaside, the Ardennes, a city or a theme park, and home again in the evening.

A coach for your day trip

In Flanders a day out by coach is a tradition: the senior citizens' club heading for the Ardennes, the youth movement spending a day at the seaside, the families' association visiting a theme park, the neighbourhood going to a Christmas market across the border. Everyone gets on at the same place in the morning, and in the evening the coach is back there again.

What makes such a day a success is a programme that fits the hours. A trip to the Ardennes or the Moselle soon takes a few hours each way, and then there is less time left on site than you think. If you plan a stop on the way, for coffee or lunch, and do not make the return journey too late, you come home with a happy group.

If you are driving to Wallonia, you do not need to look for a low-emission zone: no town there has one. In Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels you do.

BusOffer.com in Flanders has just started

Enter your trip and you will see the prices of the participating coach companies side by side, including companies from the Netherlands that drive in Belgium. The Flemish coach companies on this page are not taking part yet: they are listed without a price with your trip, and you can invite them from there.

Arranging the coach

Draw up a schedule for the day with the departure, arrival, the stops on the way and the time of the return journey, and send it with your request. Agree where the driver will wait while the group is out. If the trip crosses the border, to the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg or Germany, give the destination as precisely as possible.

Good to know, with the source

On 26 April 2024 the Walloon Parliament voted to scrap a low-emission zone for the whole of Wallonia.
Cities and municipalities may introduce one themselves, but according to the Walloon government no Walloon city or municipality has done so yet (updated on 19 August 2025).

Source: SPW Environnement, Wallonia, read on 9 October 2026.

A driver drives at most 9 hours a day; twice a week this may be 10 hours.
After at most 4.5 hours of driving comes a break of at least 45 minutes, which may be split into 15 and 30 minutes.

Source: European Union (ec.europa.eu), Driving time and rest periods, read on 9 October 2026.

Destinations for a day trip

For each place, what the park or the city itself says about the coach: where it stops, where it parks and what the driver gets.

KeukenhofLisse, the Netherlands Bruges Christmas marketBruges, West Flanders Ghent Christmas marketGhent, East Flanders Brussels Christmas marketBrussels

Frequently asked questions

Questions about a coach for your day trip

How long may a driver drive in one day?

Under the European rules, at most nine hours at the wheel per day, ten twice a week. After four and a half hours of driving he takes a break of at least 45 minutes. On a long day that can mean a second driver has to come along.

Does the coach wait for the group during the trip?

Yes, on a day trip the driver usually stays on site. Agree where he will park and what time the group will get back on.

Do I need to watch out for a low-emission zone in the Ardennes?

No. Wallonia scrapped the zone for the whole region, and according to the Walloon government no Walloon municipality has yet introduced one of its own.

Other occasions

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