Hotel at MCO, help!

[jack87891]

Hilton garden and Hampton are good choices

 

[Marc D]

Have you called DCL to see if they can get you a better rate at the MCO Hyatt? I’ve seen people post that DCL has come up with good rates at times.

This. We never paid more than 229$ for the Hyatt when bookin thru DCL, even when the publicly Hyatt-members rate was 300$+. The luggage service on embarkation day is great. We eat breakfast upstairs, grab our day bags then stroll to the bus and get our bags at the stateroom.

 

[ember1205]

If you don't stay at the Hyatt at the airport, choose something with a free shuttle to/from MCO and that allows you to choose the specific time to return to MCO in the morning. Be there by about 8:30 to get an early motorcoach and an earlier boarding group.

 

[allashore]

I've stayed at the Hamton Inn Gateway and the Hyatt Place and would recommend both. Both offered a shuttle to/from the airport and were significantly cheaper than the Hyatt MCO. Both also include breakfast.

we have also stayed at both of these hotels and would recommend both, used the free van service to get wine & beer at local grocery store too, morning of cruise we get are own car service from hotel to port

 

[bumbershoot]

We stayed at the doubletree once. The shuttle was good.

 

[ChicosWife]

Just looking for some advice. We fly into MCO on a Friday night and catch the disney cruise transportation the next morning to the ship. Has anyone stayed at a hotel outside the airport (not the Hyatt) and then shuttled back to MCO the next morning to catch Disney transportation. It’s $300 for one night at the Hyatt, trying to find a more economical solution. Do area hotels offer free shuttles to and from the airport? Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

Yes, there are several hotels within a few mile radius that offer free shuttles to and from the airport. We have stayed in the nearby Holiday Inns and had no issue.

 

[mevelandry]

Just looking for some advice. We fly into MCO on a Friday night and catch the disney cruise transportation the next morning to the ship. Has anyone stayed at a hotel outside the airport (not the Hyatt) and then shuttled back to MCO the next morning to catch Disney transportation. It’s $300 for one night at the Hyatt, trying to find a more economical solution. Do area hotels offer free shuttles to and from the airport? Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

Doubletree by Hilton. It was cute and comfortable with amazing staff. Good shuttle to and from too.

 

[ember1205]

Something else to consider when booking a hotel for the night before...

Look around the immediate area of the hotel for various businesses - places to grab dinner that evening as well as places like Walgreens where you can get wine to bring on board or snacks if that's in your plans. We spent an additional $20-ish on Uber to get out that evening to pick up things we needed and to have dinner (just two adults) since places were close enough that Uber was cheap.

 

[BigRob66]

Just looking for some advice. We fly into MCO on a Friday night and catch the disney cruise transportation the next morning to the ship. Has anyone stayed at a hotel outside the airport (not the Hyatt) and then shuttled back to MCO the next morning to catch Disney transportation. It’s $300 for one night at the Hyatt, trying to find a more economical solution. Do area hotels offer free shuttles to and from the airport? Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

Hey, your on my Cruise!

Don’t think it helps specifically for this cruise, but I’ve been collecting Hilton points for years, and snagged 2 “free” room at Homewood Suites. Just a plug for hotel credit cards... All of the Hilton parent branded hotels offer shuttle service to / fro MCO. On a side note, do people see value in the Disney credit card?


I did a RCCL Cruise 2 weeks ago, with just the wife, and Lyft was a decently affordable transportation alternative. Not for everyone, and depends on number of people and bags. Also picks you up at the hotel, saving transport hassle to MCO. Make sure you see them end the ride before you get out of the car, so you don’t pay for them driving in circles afterwards (happened two times at Port Canaveral now). For this upcoming Fantasy cruise, we have 6 people, and a Limo was $140 cheaper than the Disney bus for all 6.

 

[barbarossa_hoosier]

I just reserved the Springhill Suites near the airport. We have 10 in our travel group so I was able to book 2 rooms with 5 people in each one. They offer a free shuttle (it says they are 2.2 miles from the airport) and also provide a free breakfast. Trip Advisor has them rated well and it looks like there are food options for dinner within walking distance. We cruise in January and I plan on opening a Marriott credit card before the end of September. Typically, if you spend around $3000 in 3 months you get at least 50,000 points (it depends on the offers available at the time). Most of the time there's a yearly $99 annual fee. I think right now they started a new offer for 50,000 points for a card with no annual fee. This hotel is 25,000 points per night so mine for 2 rooms will be 50,000 points. That would mean I would only pay the $99 annual fee to stay there. I had the card a few years ago and haven't been traveling much so I cancelled mine. It's a pretty nice deal. If you keep the card you get a free night yearly which basically negates the $99 annual charge.

Regular work traveler and Marriott lifetimer here, and this is exactly what we'll be doing for our May 2020 cruise. We're flying in the night before, and staying at the Orlando Airport Marriott Lakeside using points (just a family of 4, so one room needed). Free shuttle to/from the airport, which we'll use to catch our Disney bus to the port the next morning.

(I'm staying in a SpringHill Suites hotel right now. You should enjoy it - though I'm curious how one room will sleep 5 people.)

Side note: I think 2020 is when Marriott will start implementing their seasonal (peak/normal/off-peak) points redemption rates; so what is 25K points per night today may or may not still be 25K points by then.

 

[DayOhDisMom]

We book MCO Hyatt with Disney we've stayed there for past cruises and the Disney rate was good.

 

[ajo]

Regular work traveler and Marriott lifetimer here, and this is exactly what we'll be doing for our May 2020 cruise. We're flying in the night before, and staying at the Orlando Airport Marriott Lakeside using points (just a family of 4, so one room needed). Free shuttle to/from the airport, which we'll use to catch our Disney bus to the port the next morning.

(I'm staying in a SpringHill Suites hotel right now. You should enjoy it - though I'm curious how one room will sleep 5 people.)

Side note: I think 2020 is when Marriott will start implementing their seasonal (peak/normal/off-peak) points redemption rates; so what is 25K points per night today may or may not still be 25K points by then.

SpringHill Suites Orlando airport has rooms with 2 queens and a couch bed that has a trundle. Easily sleeps a family of 5 (parents in one queen, 1 kid in the other queen, 1 kid on the couch bed, 1 kid on the trundle). The kids love the trundle and fight over who gets to sleep in it!

 

[barbarossa_hoosier]

SpringHill Suites Orlando airport has rooms with 2 queens and a couch bed that has a trundle. Easily sleeps a family of 5 (parents in one queen, 1 kid in the other queen, 1 kid on the couch bed, 1 kid on the trundle). The kids love the trundle and fight over who gets to sleep in it!

Ah, I wasn't thinking about the two-queen-bed rooms. I'm always in a king bed room. Nice to hear that SpringHill has actual queen beds; so many Marriott properties have "queens" that are barely twins.