Going from Epcot to MCO at a peak time question

[tstidm1]

I am staying off site due to Star Wars Celebration, don't have a car and want to do my last day (Monday after Easter) in Epcot to do Frozen Ever After and Soarin. My flight leaves MCO at 10:30 PM back to Baltimore. What is a reasonable time to be at Beach/Yacht Club to pick up my bag and make MCO with about 90-120 minutes to spare? Will Yacht/Beach Club be willing to hold my bag with an appropriate tip ($5-10 at drop off and pick up) even though I am not on property guest? I don’t want to add a half hour to my trip back to MCO going back to my I-Drive hotel. Would I be safe if I leave at 8 PM or should I aim earlier?

 

[pooch]

If you are off site with no car, how are you getting around?

 

[tstidm1]

Planning to Uber or use a paid service from my hotel to Beach/Yacht Club.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Bell services will only hold luggage for resort guest so you will not be able to leave your luggage at BC. So you will need to have a car to store your luggage or leave it at the resort you will be checking out of and then catching your Uber ride from that resort.

 

[AngiTN]

I am staying off site due to Star Wars Celebration, don't have a car and want to do my last day (Monday after Easter) in Epcot to do Frozen Ever After and Soarin. My flight leaves MCO at 10:30 PM back to Baltimore. What is a reasonable time to be at Beach/Yacht Club to pick up my bag and make MCO with about 90-120 minutes to spare? Will Yacht/Beach Club be willing to hold my bag with an appropriate tip ($5-10 at drop off and pick up) even though I am not on property guest? I don’t want to add a half hour to my trip back to MCO going back to my I-Drive hotel. Would I be safe if I leave at 8 PM or should I aim earlier?

I suggest taking your bags with you to Epcot. Front of the park has luggage lockers outside the park, near the bus stops (and the Taxi/Uber drop off). 4 quarters gets you a locker that will hold a big suitcase or a couple carry on bags. Then you can grab the bags and walk over to the Uber pick up and grab your ride to MCO. We do this every trip now, we never use ME even though we are on site.

Anyway, we have PreCheck so we don't arrive at MCO that early. It's about 30-35 min from Epcot to MCO, without traffic. We leave Epcot 90 min before our flight boards (not departs, boards). Add 15, 20 min if you will be hitting drive time traffic. So just take the time you want to arrive at MCO and add 45 min. You'll be fine.

 

[joelkfla]

I suggest taking your bags with you to Epcot. Front of the park has luggage lockers outside the park, near the bus stops (and the Taxi/Uber drop off). 4 quarters gets you a locker that will hold a big suitcase or a couple carry on bags. Then you can grab the bags and walk over to the Uber pick up and grab your ride to MCO. We do this every trip now, we never use ME even though we are on site.

Anyway, we have PreCheck so we don't arrive at MCO that early. It's about 30-35 min from Epcot to MCO, without traffic. We leave Epcot 90 min before our flight boards (not departs, boards). Add 15, 20 min if you will be hitting drive time traffic. So just take the time you want to arrive at MCO and add 45 min. You'll be fine.

Addl. info:

The luggage lockers are located behind the abandoned Bus Info booth, between resort bus stops #8 & 9. The current Uber/Lyft pickup is nearby, opposite bus stop #7 (subject to change.)

Bring the quarters with you; the nearest gift shop is a bit of a walk. There is a change machine with some vending machines around the corner, but it's usually out of order.

 

[tstidm1]

These are great ideas and will take luggage with me to Epcot with me. Thanks a ton with those ideas.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

What is a reasonable time to be at Beach/Yacht Club to pick up my bag and make MCO with about 90-120 minutes to spare?

1) For DME, Disney requires leaving resorts 3-hrs prior to flight time.
2) I see no reason to change that when using a taxi service.

 

[AngiTN]

2) I see no reason to change that when using a taxi service.

Oh heavens I do. That's why we don't use DME. Who wants to spend their last hour at Disney sitting at the airport when you can spend it in the parks?
Provided you have already checked your bags and especially if you have PreCheck.
Plus, Disney requires 3 hours because they are most likely stopping at other resorts. If you are driving straight to ticketing, with no other stops, you don't need 3 hours to get there. The last time we used DME we sat at our gate for over 2 hours. I said never again.

One trip it saved us sitting at an airport over night.
We were walking out of Epcot to call for Uber to head to the airport 2 hours before our flight boarded. I got an alert that our flight was delayed leaving as we were walking under SE. That delay was going to leave us in Atlanta overnight, no other flights out to home that night. They'd rescheduled our connecting flight for the next morning. Instead I was able to call Delta and have them put us on a flight out of Orlando the next morning. We got a room at the MCO Hyatt for that night, to catch a very early flight the next morning and spent our last night closing Epcot instead of Atlanta airport. Or even Orlando's airport. Considerably better ending to the trip. So yeah, not using DME was a huge benefit that trip. Rare but it solidified what I knew already, we will never use DME back to MCO again.