Magical Express Timing

[chicago]

Roughly how long does it take from landing at MCO to arrival at your hotel?  Totally get that mileage varies.  We are staying at the Poly and I'm just trying to figure out what time we can reasonably expect to go to the park.  

[ribollita]

The general rule is that you can plan on getting to a park about 3 hours from landing.

[ssmjlm]

I think it depends on your resort. Since we were BLT/Contemporary we had a shorter line and didn't wait long for a bus. Really the longest part was the drive from the airport to the resort. Maybe 2 hours door to door?

The lines for the value resorts seemed a lot longer, so that could affect wait times.

[ribollita]

I have waited in a long line for the Contemporary bus. It was about 40min IIRC, mostly waiting for a bus to arrive.

[ilikedonuts]

We were the last stop for the contemporary and they had to stop at Saratoga Springs, Old Key West, Wilderness Lodge and then us. It took a while. Basically it depends on how many other resorts they put on the bus you are on.

[ssmjlm]

I guess we were lucky!

[stephm0188]

It really does depend. We've had experiences where we arrived and got right on the bus and left minutes afterward and were the first stop.

We've also had experiences where we've sat at MCO for more than 40 minutes waiting for the bus to leave and then have to stop at a bunch of other resorts before ours.

Most recently I landed at 7:00 and had hoped to take ME directly to Grand Floridian to meet my family for breakfast at 8:35. It was 9:45 before I finally stepped off the ME bus :\

[jaylea]

Ours was probably less than an hour and a half, including deplaning, grabbing the one bag we had to gate check last minute, boarding and getting to the resort.

This was last Monday. We stayed at grand Floridian and poly was the only other stop, just before us.

[chicago]

Jun 6, 2016 16:29:06 GMT -5 jaylea said:

Ours was probably less than an hour and a half, including deplaning, grabbing the one bag we had to gate check last minute, boarding and getting to the resort.

This was last Monday. We stayed at grand Floridian and poly was the only other stop, just before us.

Well this would be amazing!

Our first FP+ is about five hours after our scheduled landing time, so crossing fingers for no snafus!