School and camp groups to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, by the ferry from Liberty State Park in Jersey City or from Battery Park in Manhattan. The bus is at the school before the bell, waits for the boat back, and has the class home before dismissal.
Price the Statue trip →Every trip runs under a licensed motor carrier’s New York or New Jersey DOT authority, with vehicles maintained and inspected on schedule.
Every driver is background-checked before they sit behind the wheel of a school group.
Each vehicle is checked before it rolls — not after the kids are loaded.
Every trip runs insured. A certificate of insurance is available for your school or organization on request.
The ferry to Liberty Island and Ellis Island leaves from two places, Liberty State Park in Jersey City and Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan. For a bus they are very different days, and where the school is usually decides which dock to use.
On the New Jersey side the ferry company points groups to parking for cars and buses in the ferry lot, about a five-minute walk from security screening, for a fee. The bus parks there and waits for the boat back.
On the Manhattan side the park service is plain: you cannot drive to the site and there is no designated parking. The bus drops the group near the park, waits where city bus rules allow, and is back at the curb for the boat back. Battery Park is inside the congestion zone.
School reservations open up to six months out, with one chaperone, 21 or older, for every ten students. The ferry’s school rate is not offered in July or August.
Everyone goes through security screening before boarding, so the arrival is timed ahead of the reserved boat, not to it.
Spot time is set ahead of departure, and the teacher and the driver have each other’s cell the night before. The arrival is timed to the reserved boat, with room for screening.
For a New Jersey school the Jersey City dock is the short drive: about 40 minutes from Midtown or Newark, 35 from Staten Island and 50 from Bergen County on a weekday morning. Battery Park means a Hudson crossing and the congestion toll, both itemized at cost.
At Liberty State Park the bus waits in the ferry lot. At Battery Park it waits where the city allows and is back at the curb at the boat time. Round trips are quoted with the wait built in.
The return is timed to the boat the group takes back, and the teacher gets a heads-up when the bus is ten minutes out.
The trip date, students and chaperones, the school address, and the time on your confirmation if you have it.
Gratuity and fuel are in the number and tolls are itemized at cost: one price a business office or PTA can approve.
Driver info the day before, one contact the morning of, and the bus at the school before the bell.
A class of 25 with its chaperones rides a mini coach. Two classes with chaperones, up to 55, fill a full coach.
The whole grade? Several buses leave the school together and arrive together, coordinated as one trip.
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The date, the headcount, the school address and the dock are enough to price the day.
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