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<p>Convenient bus travel now offered to FSU students
College bus service comes to Tallahassee and offers more ways to travel
By: Alyson Hart
Posted: 2/4/08
With increasing gas prices and plane fares, the demand for quality bus travel is higher than ever for college students hoping to save some money. Florida Coach Connection, a purely college transportation service, has already answered the call in Gainesville at the University of Florida and is now offering bus services starting this week in Tallahassee for Florida State University students.</p>

<p>After only six weeks in Gainesville, Florida Coach Connection became a popular choice among students for bus travel, prompting the company to expand to Tallahassee where it hopes to have the same result.</p>

<p>"This is a company run by recent and current college students, whose aim is serving students' needs," said representative Anna Dilernia. "There is a need for reliable, low cost and safe transportation for FSU students."</p>

<p>Bus stops currently include Miami, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Gainesville and now Tallahassee. Florida Coach Connection also offers weekend trips such as New Orleans for Mardi Gras and Islands of Adventure in Orlando. There's even a Facebook group, "Florida's Official Mardi Gras Party Bus," taking advantage of $85 ticket prices, free food provided by CapitalCityFood.com (formerly NoleFood.com), and travelling to New Orleans for the festivities.</p>

<p>In addition, each bus is also equipped with restrooms, luxury seating, air conditioning, newly released movies and wireless internet connection with 110volt plug outlets so students' can check their e-mail or message a friend on Facebook while riding home.</p>

<p>This service is expected to be especially popular with Greek students and other campus organizations that travel often, particularly due to group rate discounts.</p>

<p>"This would make it a lot easier to plan trips for a large number of girls because we always run into problems like who would be driving and those sorts of things," said Alpha Delta Pi member Stephanie Hammersand.</p>

<p>Florida Coach Connection plans to expand their services in the coming months.</p>

<p>"We do what the students want," said Dilernia. "Currently we're considering adding additional cities to our weekly trips and allowing other colleges the opportunity to ride. Additional research is underway as to which cities are the most popular and at what times are most convenient to our customers."</p>

<p>For more information visit <a href="http://www.FloridaCoachConnection.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.FloridaCoachConnection.com&lt;/a> to look at prices and book online. Operators are available 24 hours a day at 1-877-934-2867. © Copyright 2008 FSView & Florida Flambeau</p>

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<p>Is there a bus company that offers roundtrip transportation between Tallahassee and Tampa? We live in SW Florida and Tampa would be easier than Orlando/Miami/Lauderdale for us.</p>

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<p>Yes, I really hope they add a Tampa/St Petersburg stop onto it. Any word?</p>

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<p>The other student bus service available is <a href=“TmtTransport.com is for sale | HugeDomains”>TmtTransport.com is for sale | HugeDomains;
They take a similar route as the new service.
There is Greyhound bus service from Tally but it is not a strictly student bus of course and the schedules are not nearly as convenient.</p>

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<p>yea, i’m sure tmt isn’t happy about the new comptetiton but I definetely see them adding a tampa route, it would make sense for them to do a tally-gainesville-tampa-orlando route. Connect the 4 major colleges.</p>

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<p>I found the website TMT a little hard to navigate. Do they stop in or near Orlando on the South Florida route?</p>

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<p>They stop at the Turkey Lake rest stop on the turnpike near Orlando.
You buy your ticket at the Oglesby Union the Wednesday before.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know if TCC students can also use this service. Has anyone experienced any problems with this? How do you find a schedule of times when the service is available? Need halp! Thanx.</p>

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<p>I wish they stopped in Fort Myers.</p>

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<p>Last spring I called and talked to TMT. My friend also has a child at FSU and we wanted to visit for a couple days, but didn’t really want to drive from West Palm. The rep at TMT said that anyone can ride on the buses, not just the students. We were going to do a backwards trip, round trip from WPB, but decided to drive ourselves.</p>

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<p>ANYONE can ride up or back. One can ride up for a weekend at FSU (they call that a reverse trip) and anyone can ride down from Tally to any of its stops. Boyfriend/Girlfriends can make reverse trips up. Students and nonstudent friends can ride down for the weekend. The NEW service that is mentioned at the top of the thread is out of business, but TMT and GMG are still going strong.</p>

<p>This is the new consolidated website <a href=“http://www.gmgtrans.com/schedules.php[/url]”>http://www.gmgtrans.com/schedules.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>my daughter is coming from Pennsylvania. Does anyone know if it’s easy to find transportation to and from the airport in Tallahassee?</p>

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<p>The airport is an easy cab ride from FSU. My D had taken a cab to the airport. It is so close, getting a ride with a friend is not hard either. I think it was $20 or less for ride and tip.</p>