Recommend a rental car place?

[PrincessAnnabell]

We are going to WDW for the first time in May. We are staying at the All star music resort. We want to drive out to the ocean one day. How do we go about renting a van? Will the rental place pick us up at the resort or is there a shuttle? We only need it for part of the day and probably our last day there. Also, since we chose Magic express to take to the airport, do we go back to our resort to catch the ME? Our flight is not until evening and check out is 11 am, I think.

 

[Lissa1978]

When my husband and I go to Disney we go through Dollar Rent a Car. It's pretty cheap and they just moved to the airport. We looked into renting a car via Disney and it's really expensive. Renting a car through dollar is cheaper, even when renting for a full week vs renting for one day through Disney

 

[all4fun]

When using DME you can check your luggage back in at the airport check in desk at the resort. There is a lot of information on the Transportation board about DME if you look there it will answer a lot of your questions about that. We have used DME at 3x now and on our departure day, we check our luggage in the morning, and then found something to do for part of the day if our bus wasn't actually taking us to the airport until later. You do need to go back to the resort to catch your bus. It's a really great service. So nice not to have to haul your own luggage to and from the resort!

This site has information on car rental agencies at and around Disney: http://www.mousesavers.com/onedayrentals.html

We have rented from the desk at the Dolphin (we were staying at the boardwalk which "next door") and returned it to a location at DTD (this was a trip when we split our stay between BWV and Saratoga springs - we are DVC members).

this site below has more info about the ins and outs of renting cars in the WDW area I thought you might find helpful as well:
http://allearsnet.com/pl/rentcar.htm

HTH!