Tolls From MCO to WDW

[Martyap]

Are the roads from MCO to WDW toll roads? If so, how much?

 

[bookgirl]

Yes, there is a northern route(528 to I4) and a southern route (417 to 536/I4). Both are toll options. (I4 is not a toll road it's the roads from MCO to I4 that are toll roads, so once you get to WDW you can pretty much avoid any other toll roads and only need to pay tolls on the roads closer to the airport)

I take the northern route and it's got two booths. I think one of them is $1 and the other is between $1 and $2 (I think it was $1.25 or $1.50). So less than $3.

I think the southern route is right around the same price maybe a little more, but less than $5 either way. Make sure you have some quarters just in case there is only an exact change lane.

Don't pay for a sunpass It's more per day than you will pay in tolls and the tollbooths around Orlando still have cash option lanes (some places in FL don't), they will try to 'scare' you into the pass.

 

[seashoreCM]

Using the north airport exit and just a few side roads you can do it reasonably for about a dollar's worth of tolls.

 

[bookgirl]

Okay,

I just went to double check my prices at the booths on the Sunpass website and there is a big page that tolls have changed as of July 2013.

It looks like they have removed???? some booths and now there is only one booth on each of the routes and it's $1 either way.

I find that hard to believe but maybe someone who has driven recently will have more knowledge. (I haven't driven in Orlando since last Oct).

 

[bookgirl]

Using the north airport exit and just a few side roads you can do it reasonably for about a dollar's worth of tolls.

Okay that looks more like what I remember from my past trips. INcluding the expensive gas on Semoran Rd. Good thing I only needed a couple of gallons. LOL On the web site it looks like the booths closest to MCO are now free and it's only the mid point booths that still require a dollar.

 

[seashoreCM]

If you pay cash for the tolls, I suggest waiting in the line to get a receipt and/or change.

New horror story from Jeff Kuhner (WRKO 680 Boston, 7/18/13 AM)
He says he was driving from Boston to Washington DC and paid the tolls in New Jersey when, several weeks later, he got a bill from a NJ toll agency assessing him a toll and a $50. fine and a $40. late charge.

If he had been using a transponder (EZ-Pass in that region) he probably would have been spared the fine upon inquiry but I suspect he pays only cash to avoid being tracked electronically.

 

[Tee it Up]

We traveled the south route on 6/30 and 7/6. There are 2 tolls of $1.50 each.

 

[bookgirl]

We traveled the south route on 6/30 and 7/6. There are 2 tolls of $1.50 each.

Thanks.

I'm pretty sure that if they had quit charging at one of the booths there would have been some threads about it.

The Sunpass site is not very user friendly. So I think anyone new would be safe as long as they had around $3 or $4 dollars each way.

Not to hijack the thread but is there a reason you do the southern route verses the northern one?

I took the northern one on my first trip 4 years ago and I've just stuck to it all this time (my gps automatically brings it up as the fastest route). I figurered it was the same either way but know a lot of people really prefer the southern route.

 

[bumbershoot]

North = 528?
South = 417?

We generally do 417 leaving the airport, and it's about half/half going back.

The expensive gas on Semoran was mentioned...don't go there if you're going along 528. We heard about the station at McCoy and, I believe, Conway? And it was much more normally priced than the expensive stations, but close enough to the airport that there was no problem (with National, at least).

 

[Tee it Up]

North = 528?
South = 417?

We generally do 417 leaving the airport, and it's about half/half going back.

The expensive gas on Semoran was mentioned...don't go there if you're going along 528. We heard about the station at McCoy and, I believe, Conway? And it was much more normally priced than the expensive stations, but close enough to the airport that there was no problem (with National, at least).

There is no particular reason we have gone on 417 v. 528; just seems to works out that way. I filled up at the Hess station right at World Center Dr. (exit 6) as it was by far the cheapest. I had no problem with that when returning the car.