DME pickup time

[sori18]

Does anyone know how much time disney gives you prior to your flight time when scheduling ME pick up time from your hotel?

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Does anyone know how much time disney gives you prior to your flight time when scheduling ME pick up time from your hotel?

Approx. 3 hours before scheduled departure for domestic.

Approx. 4 hours before scheduled departure for international.

Because there are two pick-ups per hour at each resort at set times (such as :20 and :50 after the hour or :10 and :40 after the hour), your pick-up time will adjusted to the closest scheduled DME time -- so it probably won't be exactly 3 hours before your domestic flight departure time.

Ideally, you will get to the the gate with time to spare, even if your DME coach goes to two other resorts, and there's traffic, and there are long lines at the airline counter (if you couldn't use Resort Airline Check-in), and there's a long line at security.

I only recall one person complaining on this board of almost missing the flight. And I've never read of anyone actually missing the flight if they were at their DME pick-up location at the scheduled time.

Airlines usually begin boarding flights 30 minutes before scheduled departure.