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Our brightly-coloured biodiesel buses are proving popular, with more and more people choosing to hire them for weddings, day trips, parties, school trips, works events, conferences and festivals.
With transparent, affordable prices and great service, it's no wonder the eco-friendly buses are a hit.
Why not try one for yourself?
Do you want to book a trip to London?
We regret to have to inform you that our super-ecofriendly waste-cooking oil vehicles with ultra-low carbon emissions are, ironically, not allowed within London's Low Emission Zone (click here for the boundary of the zone). This is because the engines in our vehicles are too old to qualify. If we ran them on diesel, they would indeed be smelly, dirty old things, but as we run them on clean, green fuel their pollutive impact is minimal, far exceeding the standards the Low Emission Zone aims to set.
Although the Low Emission Zone is clearly a Very Good Thing, we do think it's bonkers not allowing vehicles in which have emissions far lower than most of the permitted ones, just because their engines are older.
Do you think this is bonkers too? Tell Boris here!
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Price Structure - All areas apart from London
For all our vehicles we charge a flat fee for preparation of the vehicle, an hourly fee for the hire, and a mileage fee for the fuel. All our vehicles come with a driver. For trips which require a drop-off followed by a pick-up later on, we either keep the driver there with the vehicle and charge half the hourly hire rate for the waiting time, or treat it as two individual trips and bring the vehicle back to the depot in between. We will automatically choose whichever option works out cheaper for you, unless you specifically request otherwise.
We regret that we are currently unable to cater for wheelchairs, but we aim to invest in wheelchair-accessible vehicles as soon as we are able to. We apologise for the inconvenience.
31 seater
£30 + £30 per hour (£15 for 'waiting time') + 50p per mile
48 seater
£40 + £30 per hour (£15 for 'waiting time') + £1 per mile
57 seater
£50 + £30 per hour (£15 for 'waiting time') + £1 per mile
The hourly rate and the mileage are calculated from the time the vehicle leaves our operating centre at the address on this website, until the time it returns.
Night-time surcharge:
All journeys between midnight and 6am will be subject to a £30 surcharge to take account of the extra work and costs involved of doing night work. Sorry!
Minimum time:
In order that we can offer drivers a minimum of four hours work for each hire, we have a minimum hire/waiting time of 3 hours (plus the hour preparation of the vehicle = 4 hours work for the driver!)
Repeat Booking Discount:
For repeat bookings we offer an automatic 10% discount.
Customer Referral Programme:
If you recommend us to others we will give you 10% of the cost of their first booking.
Price promise:
If you can find a cheaper comparable quote elsewhere, we will match it subject to vehicle availability.
For all enquires please email us at lemonbus@thebiglemon.com
What others have said about our service:
I just wanted to say on behalf of all of us thank you so much for your charming and efficient service on Saturday night - the Big Lemon was a huge success and we'll be recommending you to all our friends!
Just wanted to say a big 'thank you' for getting us all home safely and 'true style' last Friday
Just wanted once again to say thank you for your services on the day. Several people mentioned in their hungover state the next day that their favourite part of our day was all being crammed into a big yellow bio diesel singing bus. Several people also commented on the lovely friendly bus driver.
The driver was prepared to make our journey as easy as possible and responded to all requests politely and helpfully.
You've done us proud!
Have you used our service?
The Big Lemon CIC is a Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales no. 06045786
Registered Office and Operating Centre: Protran House, Boundary Road, Black Rock, Brighton BN2 5TJ
Tel. 01273 681 681 : Fax. 01273 681 681: E. lemonbus@thebiglemon.com