Northeast Ohio Bus Tour Companies

Cleveland and northeast Ohio offer plenty of things to do -- including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, major league sporting events, parks and museums. But when it's time to get away for a day or a week, northeast Ohio is home to several motorcoach companies eager to do all of the driving on a trip to the ocean, a casino or country music capitals like Nashville and Branson.

Lakefront Lines

Family-owned Lakefront Lines, established in 1964, is the largest motor coach company in Ohio. Based on Cleveland's west side near Cleveland Hopkins Airport, the company offers a variety of one-day and multi-day motor coach tours to destinations such as Branson, Atlantic City, Chicago and Mackinaw City, Michigan. Tours are capped at 20 individuals, so there's plenty of room on the 46 and 56-passenger motor coaches. On-board amenities include DVD players with four monitors, CD players, a restroom, and large windows for viewing the passing scenery. Lakefront periodically offers early booking and senior discounts.

Lakefront Lines

13315 Brookpark Road in Cleveland

216 267-8810

lakefrontlines.com

Southeastern Trails

Located in the eastern Cleveland suburb of Bedford, family-owned Southeastern Trails has a fleet of air-conditioned 55-passenger motor coaches available for group tours, winery tours, school bus trips, and other escorted bus tours. The company also periodically offers individual escorted day tours to casinos in Michigan, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania as well as other popular regional destinations.

Southeastern Trails

43 Harrison Street in Cleveland

440 232-4550

cstbus.com

Great Day Tours

Cleveland-based Great Day Tours operates regular, weekly escorted tours from Cleveland to Detroit's Greektown Casino, Erie's Presque Isle Downs and Battle Creek's Firekeepers Casino, as well as a full schedule of escorted tours every year from February through December. Destinations include other regional casinos, New York City for shopping and theater, Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Chautauqua Institution, and the country music mecca of Branson.

Great Day Tours

375 Treeworth Boulevard in Cleveland

440 526-5350

greatdaytours.com

Mahoning Valley Tours

Located in the Youngstown suburb of Boardman, about an hour's drive from Cleveland, Mahoning Valley Tours specializes in regular escorted junkets to a variety of regional casinos from points throughout northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Destinations include Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Presque Isle Downs in Erie and Wheeling Island in West Virginia, just to name a few.

Mahoning Valley Tours

7338 Southern Boulevard in Boardman

330 726-2800

mahoningvalleytours.com