ME - What's Your Best Guess?

[Bowen9475]

My daughter and I are arriving at MCO at 7:45 p.m. on May 5 and using ME to get ot OKW. What's your best guess as to what time we'll arrive at OKW and when our luggage will arrive? Thanks!

 

[Lewisc]

The service hasn't even started yet. You'll be one of the posters giving us information.

You're looking for a guess. I'd figure a 15 minute wait before you'll leave the airport. You may just miss a bus and it'll take a few minutes to load it. Probably a 20 minute ride to your first stop. The bus will make 3-4 stops if your stop is the second stop add another 5-15 minutes. I'd GUESS an hour or so. Might be longer if people forget to use the special tags and there are delays loading luggage under the bus.

No idea what to tell you about luggage. We have no idea how often Disney will be trucking the luggage to WDW, how many stops the truck will make and how long it'll take the bellhops to deliver the bags. It may take time to get the bugs out. Hopefully you'll get your luggage before you go to sleep.

 

[pumpkinboy]

When setting up DME for a couple of upcoming trips, the CMs emphasised that "your bags will be waiting for you in the room" when you get there. So it seems that they expect bags to arrive before ppl. Arriving late like you are, I'd guess that you'll be in your room at a semi-decent hour, and that your bags will be there already (at least from what they are predicting).

I hope it works well for you!

 

[Bowen9475]

When I set up the ME reservation the CM told me to bring stuff in my carry on to freshen up with because they didn't know how long it would take for the bags to get there. Being that we are getting in so late and my daughter will be one week shy of 6, we will most likely be checking in and then turning in. I think we will pack pj's and toothbrushes in our carry ons, just to be safe. Hopefully, as ME guinea pigs, all will turn out well. This is a Mother/Daughter weekend trip for Mother's Day and we can't wait!

 

[Lewisc]

pumkinboy--I think CRO is guilty of hyperbole. Your room assignment isn't always confirmed until you check in. All you have to do is get on a bus. Your luggage has to be pulled, go to a central point, get sorted, trucked to your resort and then given to a bellhop for delivery to your room. It's already been posted that your luggage won't even leave the airport until you checkin for ME. Now if you checkin in the morning and go to a park your luggage might be in your room when you get there.

Bowen9475--My concern would be a knock or a phone call walking you up telling you that your luggage is here.

 

[goofy4tink]

pumkinboy--I think CRO is guilty of hyperbole. Your room assignment isn't always confirmed until you check in. All you have to do is get on a bus. Your luggage has to be pulled, go to a central point, get sorted, trucked to your resort and then given to a bellhop for delivery to your room. It's already been posted that your luggage won't even leave the airport until you checkin for ME. Now if you checkin in the morning and go to a park your luggage might be in your room when you get there.

Bowen9475--My concern would be a knock or a phone call walking you up telling you that your luggage is here.

Or the buses will just hang out, killing time until the luggage trucks have enough time to beat us there!!! Or here's an interesting scenario I just thought of....you get to MCO, you check in at 'the podium' for DME. You wait for the bus to load. Meanwhile, your resort is alerted you are on the way...get the room assigned. So, you get to your resort, your room is ready, your luggage is there waiting for you..... and you request a whole different room!!! You know the deal..."But I have to be close to the food court or the pool!!" I'm dying to try this out but I sure can't wait to hear some of the early experiences in May!!

 

[Pumbaa_]

My guess is 1-1.5 hours to arrive at resort. Disney will be looking to send mostly full buses so they will be waiting until a set number of people arrive. And if they are at the back of the bus or dawdling, then it will be a longer wait to depart MCO.

For the way back to the airport they are picking up 3 hours early to make sure you get to the airport 2 hours before scheduled flight. So an hour to get to the resort sounds reasonable.

 

[DebbieB]

Also depends on where you are at on the plane. I was in the next to last row of a 757, it took 20 minutes after the plane stopped at the gate to get off. Then you figure another 20 minutes to get to the bus, especially if you are on B side (the welcome center is on A side). I'd bet on at least 90 minutes, considering the confusion of the first day. Luggage? Bell Services probably is not heavy staffed that time of night. I'd be surprised if you saw it before 10:00, considering it sometimes takes 30 minutes to get it off the plane and over to the baggage claim area. Be sure to report back after your trip!

 

[Lewisc]

Look at the terminal map. When you get off the monorail you're in the middle of the airport. When you go to the monorail to board your flight they're paired, one is the A side and other is the B side. The same thing on the other side. You're don't have to go from the B side to the A side. You're getting off the monorail and going to the A side INSTEAD of going to the B side. How far your gate is from the monorail will have much greater impact on how far you walk than A vs B.

 

[disneyfreak2127]

We (myself, DD11 & DS5) will be using ME on June 1 going to BCV. Arriving at MCO at 10:35 a.m. We are flying Northwest. Which terminal is NWA in, A or B? Help explain where we will get ME? Since DH isn't joining us for 3 more days I will be doing this solo.

Just as a side note, we will NOT be using ME for our return to MCO. I am one of those people who would not be happy to have to leave my resort 3 hours before flight time, so we will be going over the the Swan and renting a one way car to MCO from Alamo. At least this way we get the benefits of ME on the arrival day and also miss the chaos at the Alamo counter for rental.

 

[Lewisc]

We (myself, DD11 & DS5) will be using ME on June 1 going to BCV. Arriving at MCO at 10:35 a.m. We are flying Northwest. Which terminal is NWA in, A or B? Help explain where we will get ME? Since DH isn't joining us for 3 more days I will be doing this solo.

Just as a side note, we will NOT be using ME for our return to MCO. I am one of those people who would not be happy to have to leave my resort 3 hours before flight time, so we will be going over the the Swan and renting a one way car to MCO from Alamo. At least this way we get the benefits of ME on the arrival day and also miss the chaos at the Alamo counter for rental.

There will be signs and probably CM's directing you. A and B are really two sides of the same terminal. When you enter security you're virtually on the line than separates the A and B side. We'll be going to the level below baggage claim.

 

[DebbieB]

Look at the terminal map. When you get off the monorail you're in the middle of the airport. When you go to the monorail to board your flight they're paired, one is the A side and other is the B side. The same thing on the other side. You're don't have to go from the B side to the A side. You're getting off the monorail and going to the A side INSTEAD of going to the B side. How far your gate is from the monorail will have much greater impact on how far you walk than A vs B.

Depends on where the welcome center is on A side and which airline you are using. For example, I was in Orlando today. I got off on B side with USAir (gate 54). A coworker from Hartford got off on B side with Delta (gate 94). The Delta end of B side was way at the other end (I met her at the Delta ticket counter since my flight arrived first). If the Disney Welcome Center is in the middle of A side then it will not make a big difference but if it is on an end it could be a longer walk. It took me about 15 or 20 minutes after I got off the plane to get to the Delta ticket counter (which by the way was a total zoo at 9:45am).

http://www.orlandoairports.net/goaa/images/diagrams/terminal_overview.jpg

 

[Lewisc]

Depends on where the welcome center is on A side and which airline you are using. For example, I was in Orlando today. I got off on B side with USAir (gate 54). A coworker from Hartford got off on B side with Delta (gate 94). The Delta end of B side was way at the other end (I met her at the Delta ticket counter since my flight arrived first). If the Disney Welcome Center is in the middle of A side then it will not make a big difference but if it is on an end it could be a longer walk. It took me about 15 or 20 minutes after I got off the plane to get to the Delta ticket counter (which by the way was a total zoo at 9:45am).

http://www.orlandoairports.net/goaa/images/diagrams/terminal_overview.jpg

The gate area will make a difference, unless the welcome center is in the middle. A vs B doesn't mean anything.

When you get off the monorail you're in the middle not really A or B. Walk ten feet and you'll be in the other section. When you enter security you're basically on the line that separates A from B.

You won't be walking from B to A you'll be walking to A instead of to B. A vs B applies to the ticket counter and baggage claim areas. By the time you get to security you're really not in either section.

Gate 54 is on the "B" side; gates 1-29 are on the "A" side but they enter the main terminal just a few feet from each other.