Airport transport & swimming

[deblup]

This is my first post here and we are also total cruise and Disney cruise newbies; we've been to WDW lots. We leave on a 3-day cruise next Thurs. YAY

We're arriving in Orlando on Tuesday, not staying at a WDW property and plan to go back to MCO Thursday morning to return a rental car. I've seen that the buses leave MCO starting at around 10 AM. Where is the best place to meet a DCL rep or find the bus transport after returning a rental car at the airport?

When we return on Sunday our flight is at 1:45 PM. We *should* make it, right?

On the swimming question, we have an almost 3-year old who is currently learning to swim in a program that uses swim bubbles, you know the styrofoam type things you strap on their back. Do they allow them at the pool or at Castaway Cay? Obviously a parent with her the whole time. Or are there things to borrow/rent?

Thanks much! Lots of great info here

 

[kshabare]

I'm not sure if you had a contact but maybe you can call 1-800-395-9374 - that is the phone on the GROUND TRANSFER INFORMATION ticket stub in my package. I think you'd just report to the busses terminal with the baggage - there should be transfer tickets in your packet.

As far as the flight home - you have to be off the ship by 9am. You go to your specified breakfast restaurant at 6:45 am for early seating or 8:00 am for late seating and you don't go back to the cabin. You can be on a bus in a matter of 15 minutes and to the airport by 10:00 am if you wanted. We could have actually made the 10:45 am flight this morning but our luggage was checked in. We had to wait 5 hours to take a 1:45 pm flight home.

I think swimmies are fine. Kids brought their snorkels and stuff w/them. Actually, you probably will feel comfortable w/o swimmies for your child. Lifeguards are real good too.

Kim ºOº

 

[tschorer]

we were at the airport by nine, you could take the early buffet breakfast and walk off the ship at 7:30.
you will make your flight easily.

Lots of kids had flotation devices in the pools and on castaway.

 

[Dave_from_Marietta]

If you're renting a car anyway, why not just drive the rental car to the port rather than driving to the airport and getting on a bus? If you rent from Avis, you can return the car at a hotel near the cruise terminal without paying a drop-off charge. You can save money by cancelling your airport-to-port bus transfers, plus you'll save a bit of hassle.

I have info about the car rental options at my web site:

www.dcltribute.com/carhire

And if you're worried about driving to the port, don't. It's easy to get to. I have directions at my site:

www.dcltribute.com/directions