Blackhawk Transportation & Limousine has been running stretch limousines and party buses through Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley . Wine country is the bulk of what we do up here — the run out Highway 154 over San Marcos Pass into Los Olivos and Santa Ynez, or north on the 101 toward the Sta. Rita Hills — alongside party buses for nights out on State Street and stretch limousines for weddings, proms and corporate events.
We are a Ventura County company and we are in Santa Barbara every day, so the chauffeur who picks you up drives these roads in real traffic rather than off a map. Every vehicle is on a preventative maintenance program and serviced by our own in-house staff.
We run the same fleet as our sister company American Luxury Limousine, which means a Santa Barbara booking has the whole Southern California inventory behind it rather than the two or three cars a small local operator keeps. Sizes run from a sedan up to a 56 passenger coach:
Every vehicle is on a preventative maintenance program and serviced by in-house staff. Full details and photos are on the fleet page.
A party bus is the right call when the group is large, the night has more than one stop, or being able to stand up and move around matters more than a formal arrival. A bachelorette run through the Funk Zone, a birthday working down State Street, a company party that needs everybody in one vehicle — the bus waits with you at every stop and nobody has to drive or find parking.
Our buses carry plasma screens, surround sound, leather seating, club lighting and climate control. Packages and full detail are on the Santa Barbara party bus page.
Wine tours are the largest single part of our Santa Barbara business, and the reason most groups call us in the first place. A tasting day runs long, the pours add up, and the drive back over the pass after five tasting rooms is not one to make yourself. Put the group in a stretch limousine or a party bus and the day works the way it is supposed to.
Three routes cover most of what people ask for:
Tasting rooms increasingly require appointments and hold groups to a booking time, so tell us the size of your party and roughly what you want to see and we will build the timing around it. More on routes and what to expect is on our Santa Ynez wine tours page, and our guide to the best Santa Barbara wine tours covers private, group, scenic and historic options.
Santa Barbara is a wedding town, and the transport is usually the part that gets settled last. We run the couple's car, shuttle runs between the ceremony and the reception, and the late send-off, and we hold to the schedule the coordinator gives us. We also carry proms, quinceañeras, birthdays, anniversaries and graduation nights — a chauffeured stretch limousine is the one part of the evening the parents do not have to worry about.
Alongside the limousines we handle corporate travel, point-to-point and charter work, and airport transfers — Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) for short hops, and the longer runs down to LAX and Burbank when the flight is not out of SBA. Flights are monitored, so a delay does not leave you paying for a car that left without you.
Call (805) 658-6903 or fill out the quote form on this page. Tell us the date, the number of people and whether you want a stretch limousine or a party bus, and we will send back a written quote for your date. We answer 24/7.
Stretch limousines start at $199 per hour, SUV and Hummer limousines at $229 per hour, party buses at $249 per hour, and corporate sedans and SUVs at $85 per hour. Hourly minimums are 3 hours on weekdays and 3 to 6 hours at weekends depending on the date and time; weddings are usually a 6-hour package and some peak dates carry a longer minimum. Your rate depends on the vehicle, the date and the hours, and every quote is confirmed in writing before you commit.
