Gettysburg review: Overall the trip was good. Driver fine. Dinner OK. Would have liked to visit and spend a little time downtown, instead of Hospital. Train ride (could not hear commentator too noisy) Not much about the battle, only saw back of homes and trees. Wade House was good. The bus tour of battlefield was very good because we had an excellent, informed guide (4 stars). Almost everyone on trip did not like Hospital.2 read more

We went to Philadelphia zoo with my uncle who is 89 and received the best service. He had a serious accident on scooter at zoo and had to go to ER. My husband and son were able to go to bus and get our belongings and Mike the nice bus driver helped us with getting a ride back on later bus! Thank you Mike! Also, the later bus we took was amazing. Sergio took amazing care of us. Even though we had some major traffic on way back, he and the bus driver remained calm and professional at all times! The bus driver was new and Sergio did an excellent job training him on this journey back to wb mall. Excellent service as well with the customer service for setting up our seats on bus to back to wilkes barre. We got my uncle back home safe and sound! Thank you! read more

Wish I could give a negative Star. Piss poor service. Disrespectful to commuters. Training bus operators during rush hour commute & closing bus stations at the worst possible times now increasing fares! I wish smaller bus companies in the area will partner to provide more options. Martz is undeserving of their customer's loyalty. read more

Cynthia at the Scranton location cost my mother $200 in Lyft costs because she chose to be untrustworthy. One of my mother's travel bags was left on the bus coming from Philadelphia to Allentown, due to the bus driver detaching her two travel bags. A nice gentleman at the Scranton location named Mike retrieved her bag and put it away. He left detailed instructions for Cynthia to put the travel bag on the first bus the next morning, heading out of their location and to Allentown. My mother and I were to meet the bus and grab the bag. He also asked that Cynthia give us a call to let us know that the bag was on the bus and heading to the Allentown location. When we did not receive a call from Cynthia, we called her regarding the bag. As soon as my mother told her who she was, Cynthia disconnected the call. When we called back, Cynthia claimed that there was an issue with the phone and commenced to lie about why she didn't put the travel bag on the bus. She claimed to not know what was going on even after reading the instructions that were left for her by Mike. She claimed to have plans on calling but never called. She claimed to be in the middle of figuring out what she needed to do. She told my mother that she had to wait until the next day to get her bag. Cynthia clearly tried to hold the bag at her location an additional day. I'm sure she had plans on going through the bag and stealing something because she went out of her way to ensure the bag did get on the bus. We had to take a Lyft an hour away to get the travel bag. This company is horrible, so Cynthia will likely not be reprimanded for her shady behavior. read more

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Martz bus such a rip-off! Take advantage of the locals since they got monopoly over transportation to/from New York - Scranton/Wilkes Barre. They have no competition and the Greyhound that have only one-two rides per day, and less than half price of Martz, but not good schedule in the day. Why is a rip-off? The price of Diesel for a bus for the distance of Wilkes-Barre to New York is $60. The price of a ticket is $69 one way Usual the bus is full so a bus full will make $2800 per ride X 10 rides (round trips), will make $28000 per day from one route. The price is ridiculous high for 120 miles. Conclusion: Martz doesn't care about you! Only to make tons of money off of you! read more

We had a great driver into NYC. On the return trip, as soon as the driver came on he said cell calls were prohibited unless it was an emergency. That made sense to the extent of not disturbing other passengers. However, he then said if he could hear you speaking you were too loud. We were sitting 1 seat behind him. He said many passengers worked all day (5:45 pm bus) and it was disrespectful to them if we were speaking. Absolutely ridiculous. We had to whisper to each other despite the fact that we paid the same amount as everyone else on the bus. read more

This review only applies to the 4:45 leaving the port that told me no dogs allowed and that will be the first and last time the only reason he let us board the bus cause the others drivers said that dog is not biting anyone the driver was mean with no commonsense read more

Martz Bus - Golden poodle - Buses Near Me - Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Overpriced as opposed to other bus companies for the same distance. They have no competition. When they went online for you to purchase tickets by reservation, they started charging a $4 surcharge plus raising the price by $13 so now it's $17 more. One way is $65. WiFi never works. Port for chargers has never worked for me. I just got an email response from customer service. They got rid of Wi-Fi. No plans on bringing it back. The Hampton Jitney from New York City to the Hamptons is $45. Its the same distance to Scranton. It's a premium service with Wi-Fi. I hope they bring the train back and give them competition. I did a google search and greyhound offers buses from port authority to Scranton for $29 one way direct. That's more than half the price. Another called Flixbus is $29 direct as well. Both have Wi-Fi. I will be taking them instead of Martz when I have the opportunity. read more

Awful experience from Scranton to Port Authority in NYC. I hadn't been on a Martz bus in about 9 years. It's $60 one way. They DO NOT LET YOU TALK on the bus! You get yelled at my nasty driver if you do. They were 40 minutes late getting into NYC and 15 minutes late getting home. Not worth the cost and aggravation! read more

The bus was being driven so violently that while I was asleep my purse slid to the other side and someone robbed me. Dealing with customer service has been an insulting waste of time. read more

2/1/24- the bus driver refused to put on any type of air. There was no air blowing from the top, foot, or sides of the bus. No air circulation what so ever. I asked the bus driver twice to put the air on and his response was someone will complain. LIAR! This bus driver is a mean person. Complaining to the coward administration doesn't do any good. read more

Since Martz has taken over my bus route #735 (bus 15) the buses have been late EVERYDAY!!!!! The drivers are more invested in their personal conversations on their cellphone than getting us riders to our stops on time. It's no reason why we should be getting to our stop 1 hour after the expected arrival time. Keller bus drivers are more professional and punctual. They also know short cuts. Martz drivers need to be trained by Keller bus drivers because this isn't it. Half of the riders on my bus have started to carpool and drive due to these Martz drivers being late everyday. Well I think it's time that I start back driving too until Keller gets the contract back! read more

Not only is Martz Bus a Ripoff, their Schedule is completely bonkers! The fact that they will leave commuters stranded for days on end because they don't have a bus that leaves later than 1130 pm from Port Authority is unacceptable for the money you charge to your commuters/Riders. read more

I have never had an issue with this company until today. All previous trips i had were pleasant. The bus driver, unsure of her name, caused the trip to have a miserable start. She immediately started yelling at my group and other passengers telling us that "the rules are no taking" and threatened to remove passengers from the bus....simply for "talking" when neither I nor others were aware of any disturbance. There was no true disturbance on the bus, as any and all taking was done in a low tone and no passengers were bothered or expressed dissatisfaction with talking. The driver targeted two women in the bus who were not disturbing anyone, and she asked them if they'd like to exit the bus about a half hour into the trip. Her tone was disrespectful, totally unprofessional, and all other passengers were visibly disturbed and upset by the driver and no other passengers. After picking up passengers in Stroudsburg, she again scolded all passengers and made a comment that she will drive slow since everyone "wants to talk" on the bus. This really needs to be addressed. No one deserves to be treated in such a manner. Thank you for your attention. read more

This bus company discriminates against. Disabled people by not allowing them to have their mobility scooter even though the disabled person got his scooter approved when he bought his ticket. The bus company left violated federal and state law not allowing the disabled person his mobile scooter read more

As a regional bus line Martz is pretty decent. The number of buses they run daily is pretty large so there is always a way to get home or away as one would have it. The location in Port Authority could be a little better and have the tickets handles locally rather than by the Trailways office on the first floor but that's ok. The signage has improved much with clear schedules posed by the gates, which wasn't the case for quite some time. So with schedules changing as they are (and they have been for awhile) schedule postings help a lot. read more

You guys need more buses and more frequent buses at that a lot of people work in the city and you guys have no buses running at 10am or 11:00 am it's insane also you have no buses running at 10 pm or even 10:30 pm this is sad for the kind of money you guys charge should have more updated buses running help !!!!!!!' read more

The service is decent but like most regional busses, there aren't enough departure times. Busses are usually messy with smelly bathroom. They claim to offer wifi but it hasn't worked for me on any bus in 5 yrs. The drivers never know what to do about it. Not convent for business travelers. No mask rule enforced during covid. People walked onto the bus with the mask worn as a chin strap and were allowed to enter that way so they never had to actually pull it up for the whole ride. Martz is not looking into taking care of passenger health or wellness read more

If I could give a negative I would. They had my boyfriend arrest for credit card fraud, only to realize that they had the wrong person. My boyfriend has a very common name. All they had to do was verify the credit card or his identity. Instead everyone was disrespectful and treated us like we're low life criminals, assumed the worst, never once stopping to do their due diligence. Worst company ever. Terrible costumer service. Poor systems and poor communication. NEVER ever again will I do business with them. Since when does a refund make up for having someone arrested and jeopardizing their future over a mistake make up for things?!? read more

New reservation system is AWFUL. If the is EVER another option they will be out of business.

Bought tickets for the 8:30PM bus out of NY city. Was waiting in line by 8:15 but they told us it was first come first serve and we would have to take the next bus at 9:00PM. When I asked why you would overbook a bus they told me "we don't sell the tickets". Terrible service would not recommend read more

Great price for a Saturday morning departure. Clean on time and smooth ride into Philly.

I've used Martz few times over the last few years, going from New York to East Stroudsburg and back. They're decent but seemed to have gotten worse lately. First of all, the round-trip ticket is now ~$60, which I find to be on a high side. For 2 people, it's ~$120 and comparing to travelling to the city by car, if we consider ~$30 on gas and ~$50 on full-day parking, it comes up to be way cheaper by car (if you have a car of course). Another problem is that the bus is often late by anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes. But the worst part is the lines / buses availability. Last time I came to the 9pm bus at ~8:45, going from New York, and the line was so big half of the people didn't fit. Everyone was obviously pissed and we had to wait another hour until 10pm for the next bus (which was packed full again). Then, literally the next day, we come to take a bus to New York at 2:20pm. We're 10 minutes early, and there are only ~10 people in the line before us. Not only does the bus come at 2-freaking-36, only 5 people fit in it! The huge line that gathered behind us and all the people before are just left standing there again. At that moment, they send an extra bus at 3:15, which arrives at... 3:45. Imagine being someone who comes at 2pm and has to stand in line until 3:45 just to leave that damn place. I understand they can't accommodate everyone and shit happens, but this is by far not the 1st time, so be aware of possible "fun" scenarios like that. Oh, and I wish they'd stop blasting AC so much when it's not even hot outside. I have to wear a jacket and it's still blowing freeze right at you! read more

Extremely horrible service. DO NOT TRAVEL BY MARTZ. Excessively unresponsive. Rude, useless, unreliable. They sold 9 extra tickets for a 11:35am and would not get an extra bus as they didn't have any room. They asked us to gather 15people to get another bus that was available on site with a driver. The employees on site kept avoiding the questions and made us wait until 12.30pm which was the next bus giving no guarantee of the seats available on the next one. When we made them aware that we had another bus from New York City and no one gave us any response. Basically they don't feel any responsibility towards their customers. [The employee said that this keeps happening and the management does not do anything about it.] This a waste of time and an extremely useless service they are running. read more

Martz is garbage. They have a monopoly on direct transportation between NYC and the poconos and they milk that for all its worth. Round trip tickets are now nearly $75 per person. The schedules are erratic. They sell unlimited tickets for any given bus, with no assigned seating. It's just first come first served. I bought tickets for a 10am bus. Got to the gate at 9:30 to find the line already halfway down the terminal, and I had to take the 10:30 am instead. It's insane to have to line up for a bus I paid a ridiculous amount of money for an hour or more in advance just make sure I actually get on the bus I paid for and planned on taking. Screw you, Martz for being so shameless with your money grubbing. If you're going to have astronomically high prices, at the very least allow passengers to reserve seats so they don't have to waste so much of their time lining up. Unless their policy changes, I'm done with Martz. It's so expensive at this point that if you're traveling with more than one person, it makes more sense to just rent a car. The NJ transit trains also go pretty far Into New Jersey, so if someone doesn't mind driving an extra 15 minutes to pick you up from/drop you off at the train station, take that instead. read more

Way to expensive shitty service uncomfortable buses slow drivers always a problem with something but you have no other choice

How did they get two stars? Expensive, frequent cancellations, and uncomfortable seats that collapse into your lap. Monopoly preventing competition and rumored to be backroom dealing to prevent a railway. Doesn't matter, they have no choice. Am sure not one employee has ever read or cares about Yelp. read more

Driver never issued us our $10 food voucher and $30 casino voucher. We didn't know we were even supposed to receive them until we were dropped off at our destination. When we boarded back on the bus to go home, I approached the driver telling him we never received these vouchers. His careless response was, "I could have sworn I gave them to you". I feel we should have that $40 in credit issued to our account... read more

I wish I could give them negative stars. We chartered 2 buses for our wedding which cost $1800. I had multiple calls with the team to confirm timing and locations of pickup and drop off of the guests. The night of the wedding the buses were 1. late to the pickup locations and 2. missed the drop off location which caused guests to be an hour late to the wedding. As if that wasn't enough, one of the buses crashed into a tree completely shattering the windows and forcing guests to WALK to the venue. Of course I was furious so I waited a few days to calm down and called the sales office to discuss what had happened. I left 3 voicemails over a 2 week period and never received a call back. Finally, I emailed the sales representative and he responded saying he was sorry to hear what had happened and he wanted to offer a $50 credit. Really? It takes a lot to get me angry but this service was absolutely terrible. read more

We booked the bus for 12 days. We had a beautiful bus with a excellent Driver (Name: Bill) a real smooth driver, and a very nice guy

Incredibly unhelpful staff. Trying to find any ounce of information about schedules and gates is impossible. No locations, NO GATE NUMBER, missed my bus while traveling home for a funeral cause I was wandering around the station trying to figure out what was going on. read more

I would give the bus a rating of 5 if they didn't cancel the Effort runs from Wall street. We only had 1 bus leaving Wall street to Effort. Now we have nothing. I can't believe Martz is cancelling "all" downtown buses going to Effort. read more

I've used Martz once to get to the Poconos (Stroudsburg to be exact,) from Port Authority. It was fine. There isn't much to say about a bus service, but after reading the horror stories about Greyhound, I have to say that Martz is pretty good. The round-trip ticket was $54, the bus was on time and comfortable enough, and my luggage showed up. read more

So lets just say that I dont use Martz all the time. A few times a year I make the trip to NYC from the Penna burbs. The bus leaves out of the terminal and is prompt, clean, comfy and if all else fails its got a toilet. Not the cheapest ride in the hood but I am glad to have it if I dont have to sit next to any crackies in comfort. read more

Unacceptable performance by a company that has been providing service to people for over 100 years. I do hope that your buses are periodically service for maintenance repairs. It is unacceptable for a bus twice in 2 weeks to break down on 80 and we the passengers at the mercy of this company. I feel like I am being held hostage. There must be more options in regards to public transportation. This is 2019 and no one can become a monopoly of public transportation. A train is much needed!!! At least in NYC there are options!! This company must do better and come to realize that it cannot provide service in Utopia! read more

I was on a martz nyc bus sept. 14. Rebecca the bus driver on bus1314 was a total disgrace to the Martz Bus company. the minute she left the terminal she told the bus she wouldn't tolerate talking unless it was low and brief. She claimed there were commuters who needed to sleep. I can't explain the undo stress for the next 2 hours as she stopped the bus at a commuter parking lot to threaten to kick people off for talking, wouldn't leave the water gap stop because people were talking. Later she put her hazards on to creep on the interstate saying she didn't care what time we arrived.. I can only tell you about the anxiety each time I heard the clicking of the hazards 4+times ! Finally when we pulled into port authority people sang and cheered that we got there safely. She had serious issues and should be removed. sadly it was reported by Channel 16 that she was back driving the next day to terrorize her next captive audience! I would not recommend this bus company to anyone. The trip was much worse than I could even type! Stay away read more

This bus company is a waste of time and money. The employees are rude. The drivers aren't adequately trained.

Wish I could give 0 stars. I purchased a bus ticket leaving Wilkes-Barre on Dec. 13 traveling to New York. The bus not only neglected to pay attention to changing traffic patterns (I could see on my phone's GPS that we could have avoided 1+hour of traffic by taking another route), but we were hit by another bus just before going into the Lincoln Tunnel. Though I understand these situations unfortunately occur, the way in which the driver handled the situation (or rather failed to address it) was not only unprofessional but unacceptable. The driver did not alert any of the passengers what was going on or what to expect. Passengers were getting off the bus into Ubers, again right before the Lincoln Tunnel on a 5+ lane highway because of the lack of communication. No announcements were made regarding protocol for these situations or how long passengers can expect to be delayed. I had to go to the front of the bus to speak with the driver and ask what was happening and ONLY THEN did he get on the intercom to make an announcement regarding the accident and police arrival. This is unacceptable and certainly warrants a refund for this portion of the trip. Not only did it cause a 2 hour delay, it was a severe breech of safety. I reached out to the Director of Safety who has ceased communication with me and does not seem to understand or truly care about the safety of the passengers. read more

Bus broke down, it will take an hour for them to send another bus for us. Their service has been declining since 2015 when they started taking up their prices. It is up to $80 per round trip, just not worth it. Polonez is another option, more affordable, but the hours are limited. There needs to be better travel solutions for travel to and from PA. I am at my wit's end with this horrible bus service. I would never recommend this to anyone. read more

Needed to purchase tickets. Website reported no service. I called multiple times to buy tickets with a representative and dealt with incompetent staff who kept hanging up the phone. read more