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[Cheriemek]

I just purchased our air fare for our cruise in December. We will be flying into Orlando Friday night. I was thinking of going to a hotel in Port Canaveral on Friday night for the Saturday departure. But how should we get there? Our TA said that we can't use the Disney travel since we are coming in on the night before (if we stayed overnight in Orlando, then could we?) We don't want to rent a car to sit in a parking lot for a week. There will be 5 of us. Any suggestions?

[Tink and co.]

Towncar(well for 5 it'd be a limo or a van.) is an option. And then you could taxi to the port in the morning.
The least expensive option for five was renting a car. DH will drop us & luggage off at the port, return the car, and ride the shuttle back to the port. It was less than $50 to rent a full size car for that period of time. DH thinks we're doing the same for the return trip to the airport, but I have something up my sleeve. You can also book Disney transport for the return trip to the airport only, but that'd run $30 a person. By the way, we chose to rent from Budget, as we've had good luck with them in the past and it's the closest rental place to the port. Passporter lists all the agencies that have offices near the port. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Have fun!

[JoanW]

I can answer this one for you!

After you land, take a town car from the airport to Port Canaveral.

Book a room at the Radisson at the Port and they have a free shuttle to the ship in the morning. It's a nice hotel and you can book the time for your shuttle a month in advance, I think.

You can walk to a few restaraunts near the hotel, including my favorite Kelsey's Pizza and Pasta.

I think they are mentioned in the Passporter Cruise book. I may have a link to their menu somewhere too.

[wdwfanatic]

For our July 29th cruise, we flew into Orlando on Friday and rented a car from Budget. We had reservations at the Radisson at the Port. We returned out car at 8am on Saturday. Actually, my DH did this. Budget is only about two blocks from the hotel. He walked back to the hotel. We then took the hotel shuttle to the port. Upon returning to Port Canaveral we rented another car to get us back to Orlando. We found this to be the most cost effective option for us.

[trinigirl]

When we did our cruise last year (and what we're going to do next year) is get a rental car at Orland International (more than likely from Budget since I've also had good luck with them) and drive down to Cape Canaveral. The best thing about the rental, is that you're on your own time and schedule. You can do any last minute shopping you need. For the day of the cruise, I dropped my family at the Port then I returned the rental and took the rental company's shuttle to the Port (it's free). Again, the advantage being that we were on our own schedule and at our own ease. Also, if you leave your passport with a member of your party, they can stand in line and check all of the members of your party in while you return the car. In fact, we didn't know this at the time (it was our first cruise) but the cast memebers who were working crowd control, kept saying only one member of your party needs to stand in line and they preferred it if only one memeber stood in line. However, I don't know if that has changed. At any rate, we found renting a car to be the easiest, most economical, and the most relaxing way to kick off our cruising experience. Good luck what ever you decide and HAVE FUN!!!!