The Absolute Fastest Way To Get From MCO to the Parks

[goofy4tink]

I always rent a car. I can be at Epcot within half an hour from getting off the plane (Used to do it a lot to get to the last set of Off Kilter!)

Walk directly from airplane to National Emerald Aisle. Quickly select a car (no you won't have time to check the mileage and features on every car on the aisle LOL!) Get in car and drive. Just pay for the toll pass to avoid stopping at toll booths!

If those are all your steps, you aren't hauling everything you own and you move along it can be done. If you stop for bathrooms, everyone has more stuff then they can handle when moving quickly etc... it won't be done.

And about half the people I see doing "carry on only" can't move quickly with their luggage because they stretched it as far as possible, so they have to stop every few feet to "rearrange" The fact that OP has a kid who needs a stroller pretty much means they will be slower IMHO.

My experience with car services was so bad I wouldn't risk another vacation. (And I routinely use them other places, but never again in Orlando LOL!) But I would assume they will be late etc....

Man, that's fast time!!! It takes up to 15 mins to get from the gate to level 1! Sure, you can do it in under 10 if the tram is there, waiting and you can get right on. And if you're the first off the tram and not caught in the slow moving swarm!!! Same for going through the terminal and down to level 1. Then, less than 10 mins to get a car is incredible timing. I've never made it to WDW, from MCO, in less than 22 mins! I would figure it would take at least 45 mins. I guess the OP could skip getting the stroller and just drive directly to DHS. BUT....and here's the rub.....there is no guarantee that any given character is going to be available at any given time. So, Princess Leia could be there, but more possibly not be there. And I would be hugely peeved if I had gone to all that trouble and she wasn't available!!!
If it were me? I would try to move things around in order to try to see her another day.

 

[sam_gordon]

I always rent a car. I can be at Epcot within half an hour from getting off the plane (Used to do it a lot to get to the last set of Off Kilter!)

Walk directly from airplane to National Emerald Aisle. Quickly select a car (no you won't have time to check the mileage and features on every car on the aisle LOL!) Get in car and drive. Just pay for the toll pass to avoid stopping at toll booths!

If those are all your steps, you aren't hauling everything you own and you move along it can be done. If you stop for bathrooms, everyone has more stuff then they can handle when moving quickly etc... it won't be done.

And about half the people I see doing "carry on only" can't move quickly with their luggage because they stretched it as far as possible, so they have to stop every few feet to "rearrange" The fact that OP has a kid who needs a stroller pretty much means they will be slower IMHO.

My experience with car services was so bad I wouldn't risk another vacation. (And I routinely use them other places, but never again in Orlando LOL!) But I would assume they will be late etc....

How fast are you driving? Sorry, I don't see anyway you can step off a plane at MCO and be walking into EC in 30 minutes. I believe pulling out of the rental lot to EC in 30 minutes, but as PP said, you've got to add 10-15 minutes (at least) to get from the plane to the rental car lot.