Tour the John G. & Phyllis W. Smale Riverfront Park

A walk in the park is not just a mere stroll here at the John G. & Phyllis W. Smale Riverfront Park. Charter bus visitors would be surprise to see there is more to this park than just greenery and scenery. This riverfront park has just concluded its Phase 1 of renovation that features:

• Schmidlapp Stage and Event Lawn
• Walnut Street Steps and interactive fountain
• Main Street interactive fountain
• Black Brigade Monument
• Cincinnati Bike and Visitor's Center
• Moerlein Lager House

Located on 45 acres of land along downtown Cincinnati riverfront, this park will later extend from Great American Ballpark to Paul Brown Stadium, and flanking the Roebling Suspension Bridge once it has been fully completed.

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Fascinating Festivals in Cincinnati

When it comes to traveling, the best part is being able to be on time for any festivals held at the destination. Festivals are fun, exciting and an experience to remember. Having said that, charter bus visitors should not miss the opportunity to attend some of these amazing festivals held in Cincinnati.

Cincy Cinco Latin Festival

If you have never experienced a Latino festival, then you should check the Cincy Cinco Latin Festival where you can sample authentic Latino art, music, food, costumes, dancing and more. A festival for rental bus visitors and their families to enjoy themselves, and learn about the culture of the Hispanic.

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Experience Cincinnati on a Hot Air Balloon

Every now and then, it is a good experience to look at things from another point of view. If you think you have already been to Cincinnati often enough to know its ground attractions, how about experiencing it from the sky? You can fly with Bella Balloons and view different areas of Cincinnati atop a hot air balloon.

The Cincinnati Hot Air Balloon Rides are usually launched from the Blue Ash Airport, Warren County Airport, Butler County Airport, or from numerous points within Mason, Deerfield Township, Lebanon, South Lebanon, West Chester, Monroe and Liberty Township. You can get there in your charter bus without any hassle. Don’t worry, it is safe to ride in them as Bella Balloons ensures that their pilots are all FAA Commercial approved, and all the vehicles are insured with a 100% safety record.

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The Best of Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden

With hectic urban lives, one should take time to appreciate nature and the diversity of wildlife found on this land. Having said that, as part of the Cincinnati charter bus visiting group, you should take time to visit the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden as it is one of the oldest zoos in the United States. It first opened in 1875 with the Reptile House as the oldest zoo building in the United States.

Originally named as the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, this zoo original animal collection consisted of eight monkeys, two Grizzly bears, three White-tailed deer, six raccoons, two elk, a buffalo, a Spotted hyena, a tiger, an American alligator, a circus elephant, and more than four hundred birds including a crow. Later on in 1878, the first sea lion was born in captivity and the zoo also acquired its first pair of giraffes.

Currently, many animals in the zoo hold records and one of them is the longest living alligator kept in captivity, which was until 70 years of age. The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden was also the first zoo in the United States to exhibit an aye-aye, a Madagascar lemur. In addition, this zoo housed and bred bonobos, also known as pygmy chimpanzees, and is one of the only dozen in North America to accomplish this.

For those who might not know, the Cincinnati Zoo calls itself the greenest zoo in America. Recently, the zoo boasts of also having the greenest restaurant in the country with the establishment of Base Camp Café. This restaurant have been certified by the Green Restaurant Association with a whopping four stars, which is the highest rating from the association. Only 15 restaurants in the nation have managed to reached distinction and even so, none have acquired as many points as Base Camp Café had.

Just like the rest of the zoo, Base Camp Café gets a quarter of its power supply from a solar electricity array. The food served at the café is also made out of materials that can be composted together with food waste. In addition, there is a full recycling program in both the dining room and the kitchen. Even the food served are made of ingredients locally acquired through farming and rearing.

The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden also holds a popular annual event called the PNC Festival of Lights. The zoo celebrates the holiday season with more than 2.5 million Christmas lights and over 100 light displays. On top of that, there are many interesting activities held in conjunction with this festival such as ice sculpture shows, meeting Santa and even a train ride around the zoo. You would want to take a Cincinnati charter bus to avoid traffic jam and lack of parking space during this event that should not be missed.

Full Throttle Indoor Karting

Looking for an exciting and fun time with your friends this weekend? Do you enjoy karting with them? If your answer is a resounding “yes”, then we would suggest that you quickly make a booking for a Cincinnati charter bus and call your friends to join you for a time of indoor karting experience at the Full Throttle Indoor Karting at 11725 Commons Drive, Cincinnati this weekend!

The race tracks of Full Throttle Indoor Karting challenging for go karters of all ages to enjoy – with or without experience. At any one time, they only allow 7 riders on the track and they do not mix the adult racers with the kids, which is very good. They take the safety of their participants seriously; hence you will see several of their staff on the track to help racers who may have spun out of control or to pull out flags on racers who are driving recklessly or dangerously. Also, all the cars can be controlled by the staff there who will be able to slow down the car if it gets out of control. This is definitely assuring for other go karters who are there for a good time and yet find it disturbing to be racing with others who do not consider the safety of others. When you get here with your friends in the Cincinnati charter bus, and if it happens to be crowded, don’t panic. It may take a while before you and your friends get your turn at the race track, but then they also have pool tables and arcade games to keep you occupied while you wait for your turn.

Said to be Cincinnati’s leading indoor karting facility, Full Throttle Indoor Karting features go karts that can reach the speed of 40mph (but for safety purpose, the ones that kids would ride in would go up to only 25mph) on their indoor track and this is where young (and old too, we hear!) come for thrills and excitement of racing. The best part of this place – it is open seven days a week, all year round! It does not matter what the weather is, any time is a good time to come whenever you and your friends are itching to have a thrill of racing. For many passengers who travel to Full Throttle Indoor Karting in a Cincinnati charter bus – they always leave the place feeling happy and satisfied with their experience of go karting. So, don’t wait too long, pick up the phone now and find out the next available charter bus to take you and your friends for some fun racing time!

The Ensemble Theater, Cincinnati

For married couples with young children, date nights are very precious. It’s not to say that they don’t like having their kids around them, but it helps (and it’s healthy too!) to have date nights with your spouse to keep the bond between husband and wife strong and the romance going. If you enjoy good food and watching great shows, make your next date night extra special by chartering a Cincinnati bus and bring your lovely spouse for a wonderful dinner at one of the restaurants nearby the Ensemble Theater before you bring her for an awesome performance at the theater.

The Ensemble Theater is a wonderful escapade for married couples who are out for a night’s of great entertainment after an evening of marvelous dining experience. The theater is smaller in size compared to some of the bigger theaters that you may have been to before, but the ambience inside is warm, friendly and intimate – just the right kind of place for date nights. Whichever restaurant that you choose to go for dinner before the appointed showtime at the theater, it is never a trouble at all for your Cincinnati chartered bus driver. From the usual American cuisine to pizzas, Italian and Mediterranean dishes – these are just some of the restaurants that you’d find nearby the theater. After you have had your dinner at any one of the restaurants, you will find your bus driver waiting for you to pick you and send you to the theater – what an awesome night it’s going to be, especially when you don’t have to drive and find a parking spot!

Many Cincinnati rented bus visitors enjoy going to the Ensemble Theater because you can never find a bad seat in the house. Even if you have to sit at the last row in the theater, you can still see the stage clearly because there is a steep slope to the seating, and that means, if you happen to have a very tall person sitting in front of you, your view will not be blocked at all. This is not the only plus point about the theater – they have really good selection of plays too because they are quite selective in their choices of play that they would showcase in their theater. You can expect to be entertained with excellent quality of acting and even the props and stage deco are remarkable! Don’t just take our word on this – check it out yourself in your next date night with your beloved spouse.

It's All About Signs At The American Signs Museum

Signs are an important part of our lives, without them, our world could be in chaos. For example, if we need to get from point A to point B, we need signs to give us directions, right? Hence, it is not an overstatement when we say that signs play a very important role in human lives. And if you make a trip to the American Sign Museum in our charter bus in Cincinnati, you will be amazed at the volume of signs that has been collected over the years by the founder himself, Tod Swormstedt.

The American Sign Museum is a favorite spot to visit for many Cincinnati bus charter passengers. Many of them have heard or read so much about this place that it is one of their top priority in their list of “to visit places” when they are on this part of the world! The whole museum literally “lights up” with the many different kinds of signs that you can find – spanning from 1870 right through 1970. From hand carved wooden signs to neon lighted signs, electric bulbs everywhere – this museum is not to be missed at all.

As soon as you get down from our charter bus, you will see that the American Sign Museum is colorful, vibrant and just “crying out for attention” (that’s what signs do, don’t they?) and somehow you will feel a certain drawing to want to walk into the museum and check out what’s inside. That’s the power of signs, some may say.

For some, learning about the history of a certain place would mean going to the museum, which is not wrong, but at the American Sign Museum, history comes to live in a totally different way – in signs and colors, we dare say! Take a walk through the museum, and you will understand what we mean by that – every piece of sign that you see has a story behind it.

Most of the time, Cincinnati bus charter passengers would get a personal tour by the founder himself as he enjoys telling and sharing stories of the history of his passion for signs and his collection. As you hear him talk about the signs, you’d almost feel as though you are re-living the past and you may not have even heard or read about in history books from some of the things that you hear from him too!

As you leave the museum and hop back onto our waiting charter bus, you will probably miss this place already – especially after all the fun and excitement of seeing so many attractive and unique signs, but you don’t have to leave missing this place so much, as you can always start planning for another trip here again.

Birthday Bash with Fun Learning at a Museum

Planning a birthday party for your little one? How about making it extra special by chartering a bus to a museum where they not only learn but get to have fun too? Think fun and museum and Duke Energy Children’s Museum is the perfect place to bring a group of young children for some wonderful time of learning and having fun.

At Duke Energy Children’s Museum, kids get to pretend to be adults, to run through a man-made woods, to use their analytical skills and the fun goes on. It is consistently ranked in the top ten children’s museums to visit in the U.S. The exhibits at Duke Energy Children’s Museum encourage kids to climb, crawl, play, explore and learn about themselves and the world around them. Basically, this museum is divided into four categories - the Energy Zone, Kids’ Town, Little Sprouts Farm and The Woods. Each category has different kinds of activity for different age group. One of the easiest way to get all the kids to arrive at Duke Energy Children’s Museum together and safe would be to charter a Cincinnati bus.

At Kids’ Town, it is a kid-sized neighborhood where children take charge and explore the Kroger grocery store, veterinary clinic, diner, post office and others to pretend to be adults and do what adults do in real life. The next category, Energy Zone, is a netted enclosure and you would feel as though you have just walked into a part of a complex machine. Each station in this zone gives the kids opportunities to analyze which path a ball must take in order to reach its destination, which machine or energy force to use so that this can be accomplished. The fun part is that when you hear the sound of bells - you will have to watch out for balls that will come raining down!

And if raining balls were not enough, The Woods is a place where the children get to climb logs, walk on rope bridges and discover fossils and the animals that live in the woods. There is also a game of treasure hunt where the first clue is across from the slide. Even adults are welcome to join in this adventure with the children.

The Infant Garden and Toddler Farmyard are more for the younger children - 4 years and below together with their parents or caregivers. Over at this side of the museum, toddlers and preschoolers get to play in a more protected area and the setting is just as appealing as the other categories.

After a whole day of fun at Duke Energy Children’s Museum, you’ll be thankful that you have a chartered bus waiting to bring everyone home.

Cruising around Cincinnati

Cincinnati sits in the southwest corner of Ohio near the border of Indiana and Kentucky. This puts it within with easy charter bus driving distance of vacation destinations in all three states. It’s also just a three-hour drive from the border of West Virginia, giving charter bus visitors even more destination options that are close by. A great way of moving in and around Cincinnati, and visiting some nearby destinations, is with a bus, charter bus, coach bus, party bus, mini bus, passenger coach or school bus chartered from Bus Charters Cincinnati.

Columbus is just over two hours and 100 miles by charter bus from Cincinnati, making it an ideal weekend getaway and a prime destination for longer stays without having to spend much time and money traveling to get there. Once there, Cincinnati charter bus visitors can tour the city’s historic German Village to enjoy the architecture and European-influenced shops and restaurants. Families with kids won’t want to miss the Center of Science and Industry, also known as COSI, named by Parents Magazine as the top Science Center in the country. Plant lovers will enjoy Franklin Park Conservatory with its exotic plants and permanent collection of glass art by renowned glass blower Dale Chihuly. Art lovers appreciate the Wexler Center for the Arts offers art exhibitions, performing arts and films and the Columbus Museum of Art. The city is home to the living history museum, Ohio Village; Ohio State University; Columbus Blue Jackets ice hockey team; and the state capitol.

Indianapolis is about 110 miles and a two hour charter bus drive west of Cincinnati. Charter bus visitors will love the Indianapolis canal through three miles of downtown where they can rent paddleboats or take a gondola ride. The canal is part of White River State Park on the White River, the nation’s only cultural urban state park, which includes the canal, White River Gardens, the Indianapolis Zoo, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the Indiana State Museum, the NCAA Hall of Champions and the IMAX Theater. Pro sports fans may want to plan a trip around a competition of the Indianapolis Colts, the Indiana Pacers, the Indianapolis Indians, Indianapolis Ice, and Indy Car racing. Arts and culture lovers will appreciate the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Indianapolis City Ballet, Gregory Hancock Dance Theater,and Indianapolis Repertory Theater. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and Conner Prairie Living History Museum will appeal to families on a charter bus trip

Dayton is a quick 50 miles by charter bus from Cincinnati north on I-75. Aviation buffs and charter bus visitors of all ages will enjoy Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, highlighting the birth of aviation, along with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the National Museum of the United States Air Force. History buffs must see SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park, a national historic landmark, which was a settlement of American Indians. Arts lovers will appreciate the Dayton Opera, the Philharmonic Opera, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, the Loft Theater, Dayton Art Institute and Dayton Cultural Center.

For a fun filled, fuss free trip to Cincinnati and other locations in Ohio, give Bus Charters Cincinnati a call to find out how they can help you plan your trip using one of their charter buses, and freindly, personalized service.