MCO - how much time plan from wheels down to at resort?

[Luisfba]

Assuming I will be checking luggage and taking either a ride share or a private car, about how much time should I plan for between the landing time to at resort. For what it’s worth, I will be at the dolphin.

thanks

 

[CarolynFH]

I’d estimate 60-90 minutes depending on traffic, weather, and how slow baggage claim is.

 

[Ross Kratter]

Baggage can be really quick or painfully slow at MCO, so it’s hard to truly tell you. I am a luxury chauffeur with the biggest company in Orlando. The other night, the luggage carousel for my passenger’s flight didn’t even start moving until 45+ minutes after the flight came in.

 

[Ross Kratter]

And a private car will get you out faster than rideshare. The driver will meet you at baggage claim and escort you right down to the car, which will be parked in the Express Pick-Up tunnel on level 1. You won’t have to wait for an Uber or Lyft to arrive and battle the level 2 traffic.

 

[Someone28624]

And a private car will get you out faster than rideshare. The driver will meet you at baggage claim and escort you right down to the car, which will be parked in the Express Pick-Up tunnel on level You won’t have to wait for an Uber or Lyft to arrive and battle the level 2 traffic.

Are there companies you can hire for private care transport?

 

[Ross Kratter]

Are there companies you can hire for private care transport?

Lots of them. The biggest is Mears.

 

[_19disnA]

Hard to say for sure since there are too many variables. Sitting at the back of the plane can easily add 15 minutes since everyone in front of you has to exit before you and lots of people drag their luggage onto the aircraft to avoid paying a checked baggage fee. The gate where you land could be further from the terminal and involve a long walk. You then have to take one of those trams to get the luggage area. MCO tends to always be crowded/congested since many families have small children and it often seems like they aren't familiar with where to go or what to do. Luggage might arrive quickly.....or not. The actual car ride to Disney can also be impacted by traffic. Are you trying get somewhere by a specific time or is there a reason you are trying to figure this out?

 

[LadybugsMum]

I would count on at least 60 minutes, but 90 would be better. Last week it took 20+ minutes after we got to the baggage claim for our luggage to come and it wasn't on the carousel that was posted for our flight. It was on the next one over - so close, but still annoying. And a couple of flights that landed after ours had their luggage out first. We had a rental car and were driving out of the garage at 70ish min after landing.

 

[sam_gordon]

Is there something you're planning on doing at a certain time (a meal for example)? Or you just want a rough idea? The 60-90 minutes is a good general rule. If you're trying to plan something else, A) IMO, it's a bad idea. Too much can go wrong with air travel delaying your arrival. B) I'd plan on a MINIMUM of two hours between arrival time listed by the airline and resort arrival. If it's something I'm going to lose money on if I don't make it (again, bad idea IMO), I'd budget 4-5 hours.

 

[Luisfba]

Thanks. Was just trying to figure out about how much park time I could get that night, may make an ILL or two selection, or stack G+ LLs. Land at 3, staying at Dolphin, hoping to get a couple of hours at HS.

 

[sam_gordon]

Thanks. Was just trying to figure out about how much park time I could get that night, may make an ILL or two selection, or stack G+ LLs. Land at 3, staying at Dolphin, hoping to get a couple of hours at HS.

I think a decent estimate is getting to the park at 5 at the earliest, but probably by 6.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Totally out of date experience but I looked over our notes from our 2017 trip.

We went during Irma and it was the day before the airport was closing, we had a 1 hour delay in our home airport as MCO was halting all arrivals so planes could depart from MCO without issues.

Our plane (we flew SWA) landed at 11:30am got to gate at 11:40am, and we left the airport with our checked luggage and after getting a rental car (Avis with skipping counter) at 12:30pm. In our case we went to Universal which is closer to the airport than Disney and arrived at the parking garage at Universal at 12:50pm. Looks like it was about an hour after landing that we left the airport.

I would plan for 1 1/2-2 1/2 hours to account for issues like staffing shortages getting luggage off the plane, longer taxing, ride share issues, etc but be okay if something happens where it takes longer than that.

Since you're planning to be at the parks that evening it may depend on what kind of ticket you have (AP where you can pop in for a few hours no worries, multi-day ticket where you're burning a park day with shortened time in the parks, etc), the time the park closes, etc as far as will the time be worth it.