Operating hours for Magical Express?

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Sorry - I'm sure it's here somewhere! I need to know what hours the ME buses run. We THINK we have finally nailed down DH's work schedule so we can book airfare. We are looking at flying home on a Sunday at 9:45 AM. I have seen conflicting reports of ME resort departures - but the average is about 3 hours prior to flight time. Do the ME buses run out of the resorts at 6:45 AM? Anyone? THANKS!

 

[VickiVM]

Wow, that's a good question. Our return flight leaves Orlando around 6 a.m.'ish. I hadn't thought that there wouldn't be ME available. I wish we had gotten a little later flight, but my husband has to go back to work the next day and he didn't want to come home late. Good grief - that means we have to leave POR around 3:00 in the morning??

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I found on another ME thread that the Disney Welcome Center at MCO is scheduled to be open from 6 AM - 11 PM daily but that the buses will run ANYTIME a guest comes in, round the clock. The info on that thread says your pick-up time will be about 2 hr. 45 min. prior to departure, but on another website it said 3.5 hours prior. So I am sticking with the 3 hour estimate. The worthless Disney website says nothing about time, and I got tired of PAYING to be on hold with CRO.

Our flight in January left about 7:20 AM and I think our Town Car picked us up at 4:50 AM. That was ugly. The food court at Pop wasn't even open - we had to get food at the airport.