Electronic Tollways!?

[gabyta]

Hello everyone!!
I'm considering driving from MCO to WDW
It's my first time in Orlando and I have no idea if I have to take any electronic toll road.
I'll drive from Disney to Universal/IoA, to Busch and to Sea World.
Please help?

 

[TheWog]

I don't think you have to take a toll road, but the most direct routes will bring you onto toll roads. And even then you won't be required to use an electronic transponder to pay for them, they will still accept your paper money or coins.

 

[Donna M]

You can get from MCO to WDW without the transponder, just stay to the far right when the toll comes up. Get a receipt! The rental cars have transponders in them and you will want proof that you paid the toll.

Budget, (I think) makes a statement that The Florida Turnpike doesn't take cash; that is only true down by Miami. You'll have no problem around Orlando.

Have some quarters with you since some exits don't have a person present.

 

[gabyta]

thank you for your answers!!

 

[gmeh1]

You can get from MCO to WDW without the transponder, just stay to the far right when the toll comes up. Get a receipt! The rental cars have transponders in them and you will want proof that you paid the toll.

Budget, (I think) makes a statement that The Florida Turnpike doesn't take cash; that is only true down by Miami. You'll have no problem around Orlando.

Have some quarters with you since some exits don't have a person present.

Not all rental companies's cars have transponders. Some toll booths are not manned, so, I am not sure how you get a receipt.

 

[goodferry]

How do you prove that you paid the toll if you don't have a receipt?

 

[KINGBOBOFTHENORTH]

Not all rental companies's cars have transponders. Some toll booths are not manned, so, I am not sure how you get a receipt.

ALL mainline toll plazas around Orlando are staffed 24/7 and can give change and receipts. Some exit and entrance ramps have tolls and have no staffing ever, except for the Turnpike which is always staffed.

BobK/Orlando

 

[Snowysmom]

I was going to ask about the electronic tolls in Florida and if they still took cash around WDW. Thanks for this thread. We are renting from Dollar and they charge 6.99 per day for a transponder. I am happy to hear that we can still use cash as long as we stay in the area. The furthest away we will be going other than the airport is Universal.

 

[bumbershoot]

How do you prove that you paid the toll if you don't have a receipt?

The ones we experienced that aren't manned (ever) have a green and red light that change when you've paid. It also counts down the amount you've put in.


One of them on our last trip was really funky, and we ended up paying twice, LOL. The first time it just didn't look like it had recorded it, so I got out my camera for the second attempt, and took pictures as it counted down the quarters we put in. Did it just to prove we'd paid - it never said Zero...it just went back to the total price the next person owed. The light, from memory, was totally broken, so that was of no help!


But those unmanned ones have handy envelopes to take, so if you run into one and don't have change, just snag an envelope and send your money in.

DH's ridiculous GPS put him onto a toll road one night. I still don't know how this happened, as he was going from Old Key West to the Publix across from the Super Target, and it was a pretty straight forward, surface-street drive, that I'd written directions out for (and he'd BEEN THERE!), but he believed the GPS over me, and found himself going through an unmanned 50 cent toll with no change whatsoever.

Since he got the envelope, I tossed a check for $1 (I just couldn't write a check for 50 cents) in, filled out the envelope (you have to put time, date, your license plate number, so make sure that part is filled out before you drop off your rental car!), and had my local aunt mail it in. Could hardly have been easier!