Customer-data methodology
How the planning figures on this site are produced
Some pages on Party Bus Quotes show sentences such as “about 61% of dated requests were for a Saturday.” This page explains exactly what those sentences are made from, what they exclude, how privacy is protected, and what they do not mean.
Library calculated 2026-09-04 · reviewed period June 2023 – September 2026 · 769 approved statements (515 market, 160 state/province, 79 event, 7 vehicle, 8 network-wide).
What counts as a record
A record is one inquiry: a quote request, chat, call or form submission received through the company’s group-transportation websites and phone lines. Records flagged as spam are excluded. An inquiry is not a reservation, a completed trip or a customer; most inquiries never become bookings.
Fields used and fields never used
Used (allow-list)
- • Date received and event date
- • Passenger count
- • Requested hours
- • Normalised event type
- • Vehicle category parsed from the request or quote label
- • Numeric vehicle size
- • Market website the request came through
- • Whether the record carries a booked flag (used only to reject unreliable claims, never published as a rate)
Never used (deny-list)
- • Names, emails, phone numbers
- • Pickup, drop-off or billing addresses
- • Payment card details of any kind
- • Reservation or contract identifiers
- • Notes, emails, texts, chats, call recordings or transcripts
- • Vendor identities, vendor costs or margins
- • Any single customer’s row
Cohort and suppression rules
- • A figure is published only when its cohort has at least 25 qualifying records; narrow city, event or vehicle intersections need 30.
- • Any cell under 10 records is suppressed, along with any complementary cell that would reveal it.
- • Percentages are rounded to whole numbers, and to the nearest five for cohorts under 100. Exact denominators are kept private; public text says “about” or “roughly.”
- • Malformed values are rejected rather than guessed: for example, passenger counts that were saved in the event-type field are excluded from event analysis.
- • Party buses, Sprinters, limousines, shuttles and coaches are never combined, and quotes are never combined with reservations.
Geography attribution
Market figures are attributed through the company’s dedicated market website for that city (for example, requests received through the Grand Rapids market website count toward Grand Rapids). The mapping from website to market was reviewed by hand; ambiguous domains were resolved conservatively and flagged for owner confirmation. When a city has no qualifying cohort, the page shows the state or province figure, then the network-wide figure, and labels it as such. Broader figures are never relabelled as local.
What the figures are not
- • Not prices. Historical quote amounts are not published and would not describe your trip.
- • Not availability. Vehicle availability is confirmed only by a live agent and the assigned carrier.
- • Not market share. The data describes requests to this company’s network, not the whole industry.
- • Not customer reviews or satisfaction scores.
Questions about the methodology can be sent through the contact page. Corrections are applied at the next scheduled refresh or sooner if a figure is found to be wrong.
Proprietary planning data
Examples of network-wide statements
Network-wide inquiry data
In our historical inquiry data, about 61% of dated group-transportation requests were for a Saturday, and roughly 81% fell on a Friday or Saturday. Weekend dates are where vehicle availability tightens first.
Cohort: network-wide qualifying inquiries. Record type: inquiry. Reviewed period: June 2023 – September 2026.
Network-wide inquiry data
Across qualifying inquiries recorded during the reviewed period, the median gap between the request and the event date was about 30 days. One in four requests came in with under two weeks to go, and one in four were more than 68 days out.
Cohort: network-wide qualifying inquiries. Record type: inquiry. Reviewed period: June 2023 – September 2026.
Network-wide inquiry data
The typical group in our historical inquiry data was 15 passengers. Groups of 15–20 were the single most common band (about 31%), while roughly 45% were 14 or fewer — the range where Sprinters and stretch limousines compete with small party buses — and only about 7% exceeded 30 passengers.
Cohort: network-wide qualifying inquiries. Record type: inquiry. Reviewed period: June 2023 – September 2026.
Network-wide inquiry data
When groups told us how long they needed the vehicle, about 70% asked for exactly four hours — the most common provider minimum. Only around 9% requested more than six hours, which is where per-hour pricing and second-driver rules start to matter.
Cohort: network-wide qualifying inquiries. Record type: inquiry. Reviewed period: June 2023 – September 2026.
Figures describe inquiries received across the company’s group-transportation websites and phone lines, not completed trips, and are not price quotes or availability promises. Small cohorts are suppressed and percentages are rounded.
FAQ
Methodology questions
Plain answers about what the figures mean.