Rental Car from MCO v. WDW onsite

[MECH8T7]

Could anybody please give me the factors to take into account when renting a car from MCO versus onsite?

My plan is to book something througn National and, if we rented from MCO, I was planning on signing up for their Emerald club to allow me to avoid a long wait to get a car.

However, I've seen a few posts / suggestions that one should compare getting renting at the airport versus limo transfer to WDW and rent car from WDW counter.

Is the analysis strictly the economics of what the relevant rates are?

We will be at WDW for 8 nights and staying on-site: Poly and AKL. The Poly portion of our stay was going to be at POFQ and that is part of the reason that we wanted a rental car. Now that we are staying at the Poly (and on the monorail), I'm not sure that we will need / want the rental car as much. So, I suppose if we rented the car at WDW, it would give us the flexibility to only have it for a part of our stay.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

[DebbieB]

I have a reservation for December 4 to 10 for $142 incl tax, Emerald Aisle w/priceless contract code and $20 entertainment coupon. The price of a limo (town car) is going to be over $100 with tips. That's what you need to compare, then decide if the difference is worth it. We always rent a car. We go offsite to the outlets, go grocery shopping, go to some offsite restaurants, in addition to driving to the parks.

 

[ckret01]

We just rented a car from MCO and it was extremely convenient. If you rent a car onsite you have to get transportation to get there and when you leave to go home you would need transportation to get back to the airport from when you drop the car off. In my opinion I would rent directly at MCO. We rented with Budget and had a good experience with them.

 

[ahoff]

We have found that the cost of the rental car is comparable cost-wise to other means of transport to WDW. We rarely use it during our stay except for resort to resort travel, but is nice to have when you need it.

Renting a car at MCO is easy. While I get the luggage the wife gets the car, and we usually are finished at the same time, then just walk across the street, get in and drive away.