Napaway's UltraLiner: The Sleeper Coach Redefining Pro Sports Travel

ESTERO, FL – June 29, 2026 – For most professional sports teams in minor leagues, road trips are a grueling necessity involving cramped buses and restless nights. But for the Florida Everblades, the reigning 2026 ECHL Kelly Cup champions, travel has just become a significant competitive advantage. This quarter, Napaway Coach delivered its first next-generation UltraLiner motorcoach, a vehicle that blurs the line between ground transportation and a mobile luxury hotel. This delivery marks a critical commercialization milestone for Napaway, validating its innovative design philosophy by securing a high-profile client and proving its concept can translate from prototype to profitable reality.

A New Blueprint for Athlete Performance

The most significant impact of the UltraLiner is not just its luxury, but its direct application to athlete welfare and performance. For teams like the Everblades, which navigate demanding travel schedules across the country, the quality of rest between games can be the difference between a win and a loss. The UltraLiner is purpose-built to address this, transforming dead travel time into productive recovery periods.

The coach’s interior is a marvel of space optimization, featuring 27 individual lie-flat beds, each equipped with a custom 6.5-foot-long mattress. This isn't a simple reclining seat; it's a dedicated sleeping pod complete with privacy curtains, personal ventilation, LED lighting, and power outlets. This setup allows an entire team, plus coaching and support staff, to get a full night's sleep while en route to their next game. The coach also features 35 extra-legroom seats for daytime travel, a spacious rear bathroom, Wi-Fi, and a refrigerator, ensuring all needs are met on the road.

This focus on sleep directly aligns with established sports science, which emphasizes rest as a cornerstone of muscle recovery, cognitive function, and injury prevention. By providing a quiet, private, and comfortable environment, Napaway is offering teams more than just transportation; it's providing a tool for performance optimization. The delivery to the Everblades, a team owned by the Hoffmann Family of Companies which also owns the operator Dolphin Transportation, showcases a vertically integrated strategy to leverage this advantage. The investment signals a growing trend in professional sports: recognizing that how a team travels is integral to how it performs.

Engineering a New Class of Travel

The UltraLiner's impressive capabilities are the result of a complex collaboration and cutting-edge engineering, overcoming significant design and regulatory hurdles. The project represents a successful fusion of expertise from three key partners: Napaway's innovative concept, Loki Coach's custom conversion mastery, and Prevost's industry-leading vehicle platform.

Built on the robust Prevost X3-45 VIP chassis, the coach was upfitted by Quebec-based Loki Coach, a firm renowned for its high-end, technologically advanced motorhome conversions. The collaboration was essential to realizing the ambitious design. “The UltraLiner is the product of hundreds of hours of time, effort, and design by Napaway and Loki,” said Daniel Aronov, CEO of Napaway Coach. “We are proud and excited to see it come to life and running down the road to be enjoyed by passengers for years to come.”

The technological centerpiece of the UltraLiner is the integration of 16 proprietary convertible suites from Butterfly Flexible Seating Solutions. Originally developed for the aviation industry, the Butterfly seat is an engineering feat that can manually transform in seconds from two premium seats into a private lounge or a 78-inch lie-flat bed. Napaway was an early adopter, securing U.S. exclusivity for the motorcoach application in a deal that reportedly saw Butterfly take an equity stake in the company. This deep partnership allowed Napaway to adapt the technology for ground transport, creating a flexible cabin that maximizes both seating and sleeping capacity. Combined with 11 additional permanent bunks, the design achieves a sleeping capacity that Napaway claims is unmatched by any other modern coach, all while adhering to post-2016 seatbelt and emergency exit regulations that have made high-capacity sleepers more challenging to build.

Beyond the Rink: A Broader Commercial Strategy

While the Florida Everblades are the flagship client, the UltraLiner's delivery signals a much broader commercial ambition. Napaway is not merely selling a single product but is executing a scalable business model aimed at capturing the burgeoning market for premium group travel. The coach’s availability for charter through Dolphin Transportation when not in use by the team is a key part of this strategy, ensuring the high-value asset generates consistent revenue.

This model is being replicated elsewhere. Napaway's strategy involves granting exclusive operating territories to partners, providing them with a differentiated, high-demand product without direct local competition. For instance, Venture Tours in Virginia was another early adopter, securing rights to operate Napaway coaches in its region. This franchise-like approach allows Napaway to scale its network and brand presence with trusted regional operators, who benefit from the company's marketing and sales support.

The target market extends far beyond sports. The same features that appeal to athletes—privacy, comfort, and productivity—are highly sought after by entertainer tours, corporate clients on roadshows, and private groups seeking a luxury travel experience without the hassles of air travel. Napaway’s journey began in 2022 with its first public route between Washington, D.C., and Nashville, proving the consumer appetite for a more humane way to travel. The UltraLiner represents the next evolution, a specialized B2B product tailored for the most demanding clients.

By successfully navigating the path from an innovative seating concept to a fully commercialized, road-ready fleet, Napaway has demonstrated a clear vision for the future of ground transportation. With the UltraLiner now in service, the company has not only delivered a vehicle but has also established a new benchmark for what premium group travel can and should be.