We provide Unique Sleeper Coaches and Nightliners for use throughout the UK and Mainland Europe

Unique Megaloader™ coaches

The Megaloader®* is a 14 or 16 bed double deck coach with a huge patent pending walk in loading bay thus avoiding the need for a trailer. This will save money on ferries, tolls, and driver allowances. Please see the silver coach at the top of this page as well as clicking here.

Anthony Meade of MUTEC, who help us keep our coaches in shape in Ireland, learning what must be native American sign language from Chuck Billy of Testament outside a venue in Dublin

Now double beds

We are starting to fit double beds in the rear lounges of some of our coaches (or the front upstairs on some double deckers). These beds need to be booked in advance and will reduce the number of passengers allowed on the bus.

Some of our client base - repeat clients (in alphabetical order).

A Day To Remember, Alexandra Burke. Alexisonfire, Ataris, Automatic, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Boyzone, Brainiac, Bring Me The Horizon, Buckcherry, Capitalize, Carl Cox, Creamfields, Dave Matthews Band, Delirious, Dizzee Rascal, Enemy, Enter Shikari, Fall Out Boy, Feeder, Florence & The Machine , Finley Quaye, Fratellis, Foals, From First to Last, Friendly Fires, Girls Aloud, Goldfrapp, Gossip, Hawkwind, In Flames, Isle of Wight Festivals, Jack Penate, Jamie Lidell, Jamie T, Jason Donovan, JLS, Kate Nash, Leila, Little Boots, Martha Wainwright, McFly, Motorhead, MTV Clubland, My Bloody Valentine, N-Dubz, Noah & The Whale, Paloma Faith, Panic at the Disco, Plain White T, Queensryche, Reading Festival, Reel Big Fish, Roots, Santigold, Saturdays, Saw Doctors, SSE, Snoop Dogg, Taking Back Sunday, Testament, T In The Park (Organisers), Twisted Angels, UB40, Westlife, Wildhearts, X-Factor

Internet access

Each coach now carries two 3G routers. One is for T-Mobile in the UK and is available to you free of charge where signal and equipment can provide. it is for emails and basic web pages access, not for streaming.

The other 3G router supports Vodafone outside the UK. The first person to try to access the internet each day is presented with a Vodafone web page demanding a credit card or Vodafone phone number for payment. The cost is €5 a day in Germany (1 GB per 24 hrs) or €15 in most other Europen countries (50 MB for 24 hrs). If you hit the limit then you are asked to pay more. If one person pays, all others who can access the router can share.

Ways to save money

Often when booking a coach for a long European tour, bands only look at the actual price quoted but do not consider other issues.

One thing we have noticed is that American bands often negotiate their appearance fees in dollars and yet pay us in pounds or Euros which really makes no sense.

The problem is that by the time you have done your deal and converted to US dollars, then converted back to either Euros or Pounds to pay us, you have probably lost around 8% of the value of the money concerned.  Why not do the gig for Euros and have a Euro bank account to receive the money.

Pay your suppliers in the Euros you have earned then any excess cash can be converted to dollars by your own bank as and when required.

We also have other techniques to save you money including circumventing withholding taxes.

Please feel free to call to discuss these issues.  If you do not expect to make a profit in the current tax year or simply have cash flow issues, even allowing for bilateral tax agreements what we propose may save you all your back holding tax liabilities. Feel free to discuss with us once you have booked a bus what we can do for you.

Trailer sizes

Trailer sizes are width 1.73m (5ft 8 in) and length 3.03m (10 ft) and height 2.14m (7 ft) with a maximum payload of 1.5 tonnes. = 11 cubic metres = 385 cubic feet. Megaloaders are around 9 cubic metres.

We have a couple of trailers that are 12 ft long.

Talking about trailers...

Insurance

Please remember that you will be responsible for insuring your own equipment or merchandise carried by Jumbocruiser. It is not possible for us to get "Goods In Transit" insurance and we only carry on condition that you accept that we can not take liability for any losses other than where we have been negligent according to the law.

Many general insurance policies have loopholes that are not discovered until its too late. The team at Apex Insurance Services have over 30 years experience working solely with the music industry so their policies are tried, tested and recommended by their clients - from young bands starting out to international stadium tours.

Jumbo Cruiser cannot re-iterate strongly enough that you check any current policy you have, or contact Apex who will happily offer advice on your current arrangements, or quotes if you do not have insurance.

Please contact Martin Goebbels on +44 207 384 9222 and ask for a quote based on your needs. It could be much cheaper than you think.

Venues with no or poor parking

The following venues have no parking so cross-loading may need to be organised

Brighton - Komedia (over 12m)

Exeter - Phoenix (any size)

Leeds - Rio's, The Cockpit (over 12m or with a trailer)

London - Shepherds Bush Empire, Islington Academy, Jazz, Koko, Underworld, The Forum (no trailers, no 14m coaches).