Red eye flight

[Drewmama]

There is a cheaper red eye flight available for my June 2017 trip that arrives at MCO from LAX at 7:30a. Is that too early for Magic Express? Also, since check in isn't until 4p, what do you do while waiting for your room? Can you leave your luggage somewhere? We will have my 9yo son and possibly my 75+ year old parents and I'm afraid a red eye may not be the best idea.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Magic Express runs 24 hours a day. But you're unlikely to get a room until after 4PM. Your luggage can be taken by ME after 5:30AM, and will be left at Bell Services until you have a room.

Otherwise, consider adding a night on the front end to your stay and talk to the resort so they know you're coming in at 7:30.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I would add a night on the beginning, and if you do, tell Member Service that you are arriving early the next day.

Is the saving very substantial?

 

[Drewmama]

I would add a night on the beginning, and if you do, tell Member Service that you are arriving early the next day.

Is the saving very substantial?

It's a total savings of $330. I don't have enough points to add a day to the beginning (getting 2 studios at Poly).

 

[rocketriter]

There is a cheaper red eye flight available for my June 2017 trip that arrives at MCO from LAX at 7:30a. Is that too early for Magic Express? Also, since check in isn't until 4p, what do you do while waiting for your room? Can you leave your luggage somewhere? We will have my 9yo son and possibly my 75+ year old parents and I'm afraid a red eye may not be the best idea.

This depends more on your family's tolerance for sleeplessness than on Disney, since Magical Express will bring your luggage to the resort at any time and bell services will hold it until you're ready to go to your room. They will also hold grocery deliveries, by the way, even keeping them cold or frozen as needed, until you're ready for bell services to bring them up.

 

[disneynutz]

Can you add one studio at the front so you will have somewhere to crash?

Bill

 

[CarolMN]

If your parents are going, a redeye is probably a bad idea. Travel is tiring enough without having to deal with a disruption in normal sleep patterns. Could mess up your touring plans for several days. It would for me and I'm about 10 years younger than your parents.

 

[Drewmama]

Thank you all for the info and suggestions. Much appreciated. Now that I put more thought into it, saving $300 probably isn't worth being around tired seniors and a grumpy kid. I do have enough points for 1 studio on the front end so maybe if we do do the red-eye, they could rest while the rest of the family could explore the resort until check in time. Thanks again!

 

[bobbiwoz]

Sounds like you can have a solution!

 

[Drewmama]

Sounds like you can have a solution!

Which is why I love this forum. People are so helpful!

 

[bumbershoot]

We will have my 9yo son and possibly my 75+ year old parents and I'm afraid a red eye may not be the best idea.

For most kids and seniors...no, it's not the best idea.

Not sure what I was thinking, but I've booked another red eye for us next month, and I'm dreading it. I can't sleep on planes (what was I thinking?), my son is AWFUL about sleeping on planes (and he's 12...what was I thinking?), and, well, DH can sleep anywhere unless DS is being his usual sleepy big ol' pain. What was I thinking?

 

[Drewmama]

For most kids and seniors...no, it's not the best idea.

Not sure what I was thinking, but I've booked another red eye for us next month, and I'm dreading it. I can't sleep on planes (what was I thinking?), my son is AWFUL about sleeping on planes (and he's 12...what was I thinking?), and, well, DH can sleep anywhere unless DS is being his usual sleepy big ol' pain. What was I thinking?

Oh my goodness... I hope everything works out well for all of you. The older I get, the more I treasure good sleep. Good luck!

 

[Meriweather]

Glad you didn't go with the red eye.
We used to do those all the time......but as years have passed, DH and I can't handle it. I just stumble around and don't enjoy the day at all.

 

[bumbershoot]

We used to do those all the time......

My very first solo x-country flight was a red eye with a plane change at O'Hare. OH those were neat times, being 18 and going on that peoplemover with the neon...

If it's just me I *can* deal with it. But with family, ugh.

DS let us sleep for (I can't remember exactly now) 20-40 minutes on our entire flight from Vancouver BC to Heathrow, where we had under 2 hours to get through to our Aer Lingus flight. I'm still twitching from the nerves that involved. He just would NOT settle. And he was 10. I totally thought he could handle it.

And I know what I was thinking with our upcoming flight; I was thinking "cheap". 12.5K miles each vs 25K. And we have NO status on United, so I can't change it without a fee, and I'm still being cheap LOL.

 

[Dano1182]

We have gotten to disney early about 9 or 10
On few occasions our room was available.
Last few visits we had not been advised that our room was ready until long after 4

We also stay at Marriotts and they seen more accommodating getting us into a open room
Proactively checking to see if an alternative room is available
That being said I would avoid the red eye
If your family members are not good plane sleepers
They will be miserable on at least the first day.

 

[DougEMG]

We'll be doing our first red eye flight on our next trip. Plan is to take some gravel and hopefully get some sleep. It will definitely feel strange getting in at 6am compared to our normal arrival time of midnight. One good thing is we have no kids to worry about.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Whenever we did the redeye to save cash when it got to it I would have paid somebody double to get some sleep! Always seems like a good idea at the cart... treat yourself to the better flights. Don't start of Disney tired lol!

 

[Happy2BMommy0812]

We took a red eye home from Disneyland to North Carolina this spring. My kids were a mess all day and my husband and I were exhausted. Never again.....