The crawl will run roughly from 11:30am to 6:30pm. Check-in will be between 11:30a-12p, with optional shopping at our base stop. We will depart to begin the crawl at 12p, and arrive back at 4:30pm. Then, we will have crafting and chill time with more book perusal to wind down our day!

Feel free to arrive early to grab lunch, or bring your own packed lunch for the bus!

We will work to provide any accessibility accommodations possible, so please reach out to us if there’s anything you’d like to request! For our first crawl, we are limited to a mini-coach, which does not have wheelchair accessibility. For future crawls, we do hope to expand to full-size buses, which will have wheelchair access! Coach seats are equipped with seatbelts. Please see the individual details page for each crawl for information on our transportation.

Your ticket price includes the travel of the bus and the supplies and reserved area for the craft at the end. While coffee, drinks, and food are all available for purchase at our start/end location, these are not included in your ticket.

Absolutely! Any snacks and non-alcoholic beverages are fair game on the bus. We will ask that you respect individual bookstores’ rules on food/drink, and leave snacks on the bus if needed. We will send out an email notification ahead of the crawl if there are any allergies (i.e. peanut, etc.) that should be taken into consideration. No glass containers are allowed on the bus.

We will be at each bookstore for 30 minutes. The besties team will give a ten minute warning so that you can make any purchases you’d like, and we will make sure we have everyone on the bus before departing–we won’t leave you stranded!

Since we’ll be hanging out for awhile, we definitely recommend bringing water to stay hydrated, comfy shoes to be walking around in, and if you’re anything like us, maybe an e-reader for the bus ride! We also recommend keeping a large tote bag on the bus, so that as you’re shopping, you can pack away your purchases for the day all together. Lucky for you, we have a really cute tote available soon.

At Cream and Amber, there are a couple of different parking options. We do not recommend parking on Mainstreet, as there is a 2-hour parking limit. There is unlimited parking available on 16th Ave, and one side of 17th Ave (please take a look at signage!). There is also parking available behind Cream and Amber and the building next door. If you’re coming with friends, carpooling may be a good option! You can park at 102 10th Ave N for free with no time limit, this is approximately a half-mile walk. Many of the municipal lots have an upper limit of 3 hours.

Please feel free to reach out to us at bookbesties@roundtripreaders.com if you have a ticket for a crawl, and are planning to get picked up partway through the event, so we can make sure we aren’t looking for you when we re-board the bus. If you aren’t able to stay for the craft and chill at the end, that’s okay! Don’t forget to pick up your supplies to build at home! At this time we are not able to offer partial refunds should you need to leave early.

No, but we do offer the option to transfer your ticket to a different attendee. Feel free to reach out to us at bookbesties@roundtripreaders.com if you would like to transfer your ticket to someone, or if you have any other questions.