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:Our flight home doesn't leave until 7:30pm. Our DME departure time is 12:00. Do we have any choice in this? I do not want to sit at the airport for 6 hours with three kids. I think 2:00 is early enough.
If you are talking about the DME paperwork in your package documents, it usually has flight time listed as 12:00. As long as the flight number is correct, you will be fine. You will have an envelope on your door the day before your departure which should reflect your actual departure time, about 3 hours prior to your flight.
If you are talking about the DME paperwork in your package documents, it usually has flight time listed as 12:00. As long as the flight number is correct, you will be fine. You will have an envelope on your door the day before your departure which should reflect your actual departure time, about 3 hours prior to your flight.
Sounds like there is a flight time miscommunication somewhere.
If you are looking at the information booklet you received in the mail, Disney puts 12:00 on everyones reservation. Flight times change so often that they started putting 12:00 on everyone's booklet. As long as your flight number, date and airline are correct, you will receive a letter in your room the night before with your pick up time. Make sure you are there with any luggage 15 minutes before scheduled pickup since they will not wait for you if you are late.
As others have posted it will be close to 3 hours before your scheduled flight.
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If you are talking about the DME paperwork in your package documents, it usually has flight time listed as 12:00. As long as the flight number is correct, you will be fine. You will have an envelope on your door the day before your departure which should reflect your actual departure time, about 3 hours prior to your flight.
I had this same issue. I called DME and they told me the same thing. As long as the flight #s are correct it will be fine.
We flew last October and DME picked us up 3 hours before our flight. I also wondered what we would do with all that extra time but here is what happened with us...
You get dropped off at the DME terminal which for us (flying Southwest) was all the way at the other end of the airport from where we needed to be for our flight...so we took the tram, walked the whole length of the airport and finally got to security. We go in the off season but the Orlando airport is horrendously busy every single day of the year. They don't operate on Disney schedules...so it took us 45 minutes just to get to security from the long line waiting to go into security...then once we got past the security checkpoint it was another 20 minutes before we all finally got through it ourselves.
Also when you leave your resort you may have to make stops at other resorts to pick up other ppl so from the time you leave your resort it may be an hour before you actually get to the airport.
But by the time it was all said and done, we got all the way through security and to our gate area, we had 1 hour to go before our flight left. Southwest boards 30 minutes prior to flight departure, so we only actually had to sit and kill about half an hour at the gate.
If we had driven ourselves and only left the resort 90 minutes prior to departure we probably would have missed our flight.
When they first told me we had to be picked up from the resort 3 hours early I was kind of ticked off thinking what a waste of my time...but they do it for a reason.
You won't have too much time to kill unless you just get lucky and get through security super fast.
And since you can't take liquids through security having that extra half hour gave us time to go buy snacks and drinks for the flight once we got past security.
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LOL I think DH and I are the only ones that think 3 hours isn't enough time.
The last 2 times, prior to last November when I added an hour to our pick-up time, we were the first resort pick-up on the DME airport route and it seemed that at every subsequent stop, there was at least one family that wasn't quite ready to just hand over their luggage and go. At one stop, we waited 10 minutes for a family to run back and forth from the resort and back out to the driver who was just trying to get them on the bus! I have no idea what the hold up was, but it was just that, a hold up. By the time we got to the airport, we had to hoof it to ensure we had enough time to get through security, on the tram, etc. -- as it's not so tiny an airport.
I just didn't like feeling like we were "hurried" on our last day. I mean it's bad enough I was leaving Disney, but I didn't need to be frazzled unnecessarily just to make it to my gate, you know?
Anyway, I'm sure it isn't an everyday occurrence, but since it had happened on our first 2 attempts with DME, I've just learned to give myself more time. We usually don't hit a park that day -- could you imagine the claw marks in the cement when DH said it was time to go?? -- so sitting at the resort or at the airport isn't a big deal to me. Either way, I know I'm going home.
So, long-story-short , it's just something to think about when worried about all of that "free time;" most of it is spent traveling to and through the airport anyway.
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