Lots of time before flight departure--what to do?

[Whirl]

I am fairly sure that you cannot check your bags at the airline until 3-4 hours before your flight. You may have to search on your airlines website to confirm.

Does this also apply if you are using DCL transfers back to the MCO....we have a 3:30 flight, so not quite so long as the late evening flights, but will we have to deal with our bags and not be able to go and relax until flight time. If so, that defeats the whole purpose of the convenience of the DCL trasnsfer?