Dme - Cr

[PixiePowered]

Planning on using DME, going to CR on 8/14. Flight comes into MCO at 6pm. Just out of curiosity (I'm not necessarily worried about when my luggage will be in our room, as we plan on having the necessities in our carry on)... wondering about how long it will take to get to resort... and how many stops DME will make along the way.

Thanks!

 

[Bob P]

From reports on this board, it generally takes between 70-90 minutes from the time you get off the plane to the time you walk into your resort.

And there is no certainty on how many stops the bus will make. But 70-90 minutes will cover it.

 

[CleveRocks]

Planning on using DME, going to CR on 8/14. Flight comes into MCO at 6pm. Just out of curiosity (I'm not necessarily worried about when my luggage will be in our room, as we plan on having the necessities in our carry on)... wondering about how long it will take to get to resort... and how many stops DME will make along the way.

Thanks!

There are no pre-set bus routes, no pre-set groupings of resorts on a bus, and thus no pre-set drop-off order. They tend to group the resorts geographically, but they will do it differently if it would be more efficient the other way. DME decides which resorts get grouped together on a particular bus at a particular time. The guideline is for the driver to stop first at the resort closest to the airport and to stop last at the resort farthest from the airport, but this is just a guideline and the driver has discretion to order it as he/she sees fit.

They DO have the resorts grouped into 4 zones, but like I said, there is no hard and fast rule that any one DME bus will stay in a single zone. In fact, the procedure is that if a DME bus has guests from resorts in two or more zones, then that bus will drop-off at a maximum of 3 resorts (it's a max of 4 within the same zone). I suppose they cap it at 3 for inter-zone drop-offs to make up for the extra travel time between resorts ... darn nice of them!

You can expect to be at CR by not later than 7:30 p.m. Your luggage is supposed to get there about 3 hours after you do.