Hop on. This is going to be fun.
Hand-painted buses, real Detroit stories, drivers who earn a thriving wage — and every seat you buy gives a Detroit kid a free, safe ride to school.
★4.8 on TripAdvisor · 259 reviewsDrivers rated 9/10 by 1,025 surveyed guests
Three ways to ride with us
_Book a tour
Historic bar crawls, holiday lights, and the real stories of Detroit. Buy a seat on a public date, or take the whole bus private on a day you pick.
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_Rent a bus
Weddings, work outings, field trips, game days. Your crew, our hand-painted bus and professional driver, one honest all-in quote within a business day.
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_Our mission
Ride For Ride: every seat you buy gives a Detroit kid a free, safe ride to school or an after-school program. You have fun, a kid gets to class. That's the deal.
How it works →Now boarding
Drunks of Antiquity: The Detroit Historic Bar Tour
A guided ride through Detroit's oldest, most notorious bars — aboard a hand-painted bus.
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Merry & Bright: The Detroit Holiday Lights Tour
Detroit's best holiday lights, warm drinks in hand, from the seat of a hand-painted bus.
Tickets on sale soon →Want the bus to yourselves? Any tour can go private — your date, your time, your pickup spot. Request it on the tour's page and a real person confirms within one business day.
How you spend money with us
- Public tours: the price on the page is the price you pay. Buy a seat in two clicks.
- Private tours: request your date on the tour's page. A human confirms availability and your whole-bus price within one business day.
- Bus rentals: a real all-in quote within one business day — fees and fuel included.
“I'm Detroit born-and-raised and you took me to parts of town I didn't even know existed. Friends and family who responded to my social posts were intrigued, impressed, and envious.”
“Fun and festive. Full of Christmas spirit. All I wanted was all of my kids together for a family picture and a festive event. This was perfect!”
“We were able to see parts of Detroit that were new to us. It ignited more interest in revisiting areas of the city.”
#12 of 128 Tours & Activities in Detroit
You ride, a Detroit kid rides.
We started in 2011 with one bus and a simple idea: get every Detroiter a ride where they need to go. We've been giving Detroit students free, safe rides to school and after-school programs since 2012 — and since 2016, every seat you buy helps fund them.
