Would you move your flight?

[kmgt]

Right now we are booked to fly home out of MCO at 4:30pm the day of disembarking. Not getting home until midnight (then still an hour drive home).

There is an option to change it to a 1pm flight getting home at 3pm.

I’ve heard not to book too early in the day, that’s why I originally chose 4:30. But man, that’s gonna be a long day at airports.

 

[WAstateDVCDaddy]

Your original flight takes 7.5 hours, and the revised routing takes 2 hours?

If that’s correct, then heck yes!

A 1 pm flight will make you wake up and get going fairly early, but well worth it.

 

[Snowwhyt]

I think that would be fine. Though you could rent a car, hire a tour and take the early exit off the ship and enjoy the day of vacation doing something. Where are you returning, which port?

 

[kmgt]

Yea, because the 4:30 flight has a long layover and the 1:00 flight is direct.

Port Canaveral

 

[mmouse37]

I would switch it in a heartbeat. DCL recommends nothing earlier than about 11:30 am so you should be fine. We have made noon flights quite easily before so 1 pm would be pretty safe unless some unforeseen delay happened.

MJ

 

[AgentMama]

Definitely switch, you shouldn't have any issues with that flight.

 

[xiphoid76]

No brainer - switch! Non stop 1 pm flight is awesome. If you walk off the ship you can be off by 8, at MCO by 9 or 9:30. With tsa precheck you could easily make a 1030 flight. Without precheck 11 is safer, but 1 is no problem.

 

[SleepyDeb]

Team Switch.

 

[poohs4me]

another vote for switching to earlier flight.

 

[auntlynne]

Assuming we are not talking about one of the busiest travel days of the year. Then, definitely.

 

[gatechfan99]

Right now we are booked to fly home out of MCO at 4:30pm the day of disembarking. Not getting home until midnight (then still an hour drive home).

There is an option to change it to a 1pm flight getting home at 3pm.

I’ve heard not to book too early in the day, that’s why I originally chose 4:30. But man, that’s gonna be a long day at airports.

Not an exact comparison (and we were driving our own car parked at the terminal), but the last time we got off a cruise, we were in the gates at Magic Kingdom by 9:30 if that gives you a reference point for timing.

 

[mab2012]

I would also switch.

If it wasn't for the long layover, and if I wasn't in a hurry to get home, I might take the later flight and spend the day at the beach or something on disembarkation day. But definitely not if it made the difference between a 2h direct flight and a 7.5h itinerary. 1 pm is plenty of time to get to MCO.

 

[Disneyfam854]

Out of Port Canaveral you should be fine with earlier flight, if it was a port such as Galveston that frequently has fog, I would be hesitant.

 

[pearljammer]

Right now we are booked to fly home out of MCO at 4:30pm the day of disembarking. Not getting home until midnight (then still an hour drive home).

There is an option to change it to a 1pm flight getting home at 3pm.

I’ve heard not to book too early in the day, that’s why I originally chose 4:30. But man, that’s gonna be a long day at airports.

Agreed, I’d change it in a heartbeat!

 

[tvguy]

I would feel comfortable with that.
1 pm flight is about as early as I would fly after a cruise out of Orlando. We BARELY made a 12:35 pm flight, literally walked right from security to our gate and boarded. Mind you, we were at the airport by 9:15 am, had checked out bags and had our boarding passes by 9:30 am. The line at security took 90 minutes.
We flew through MCO on our WDW vacation and our bus transfers warned you need to be at MCO 3 hours ahead of flights. This trip, they were pulled people with close flight times out of the regular TSA line and running through the Pre-Check line, although that line was pretty lone too.

 

[SeanSD]

1:00 shouldn’t be a problem. Orlando can have painful security lines but you should get there by 10:30 easy if you get off ship around 9:00.

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

I would switch it in a heartbeat. DCL recommends nothing earlier than about 11:30 am so you should be fine. We have made noon flights quite easily before so 1 pm would be pretty safe unless some unforeseen delay happened.

MJ

I agree with this 100%!

 

[kmgt]

Update: we switched!! AND got first class for slightly cheaper than our originally booked tickets, haha! Win!

 

[dclpluto]

1 o’clock yes you will have plenty of time.

 

[DCLMP]

I’ve easily made a 1030 flight, but we had a car and TSA pre-check. TSA pre check has been worth every penny.