Can the Chatt bus take you to Knoxville?

Can the Chatt bus take you to Knoxville?







You've only been here 7 weeks, and you're already trying to run away?

Jokes aside, there are at least two bus options that you can take from Chattanooga to Knoxville and back: Greyhound and Megabus.

Both services have at least a few routes everyday, and at last check, you can get a ticket for as cheap as $14.00 one way on either service.  However, the services vary greatly beyond this.

Greyhound has been around for nearly a century and has a fixed bus station here in Chattanooga on Airport Rd. within spitting distance of the airport.  A ticket from here to Knoxville can cost anywhere from $14.00 to $39.00 one-way ($14 for web purchase, $33 for the standard fare, and $39 for the refundable-ticket) plus purchase fees and/or taxes.  You can take one checked bag and one carry-on without any fees.  You can carry additional bags for certain fees. And in recent years, Greyhound has made efforts to upgrade their buses, so they allegedly offer more leg room, sockets for various devices, and free Wi-Fi.   The website linked above provides details.

Megabus has been around since 2006 and is a curbside pick-up bus service, which means they do not operate out of a station.  However, they do drop off and pick up at the same location each time.  In Chattanooga, the bus stop is in the Eastgate Shopping Center on Brainerd Rd.  A ticket from here to Knoxville will cost $14.00 one-way plus a 50 cent (yes, $0.50) processing fee. (Depending on where you are travelling to and from on Megabus, tickets can be as low as $1 one-way.  Yes, one dollar.)  You can carry one checked bag and one carry on--that's it.  Their buses also come equipped with Wi-Fi.  The website linked above can provide more details.

So if you need to get out of town on a bus, here's how you do it.

Prof. Chatterbox