MCO to Disney World transportation, by private car.

Reserve from MCO to any Walt Disney World resort or hotel and the form prints $125 for the Luxury SUV, which seats up to five riders, or $170 for the Luxury Transit with up to eight riders aboard. Nine to eleven riders in the Transit is $195. Each of those numbers is the whole fare for the vehicle; nothing per person is added on top.

Why the Transit says “from”: eight riders or fewer pay $170, and nine, ten or eleven pay $195. Both figures hold when the ride runs from your Disney resort back to MCO.

Other starting points for a Disney ride, Orlando Sanford (SFB) and the Port Canaveral cruise port among them, are priced in the reservation form: choose the pick-up, choose Walt Disney World, and the number is on screen before you pay.

Two lines can join the fare, each shown before you pay: a stop on the way, $20 for up to 25 minutes, and a round trip, which takes $10 off the pair of rides. Split $125 five ways and the SUV comes to $25 a rider; the Transit at $170 with eight aboard is $21.25 each.

All of them. In the reservation form the destination is one entry, Walt Disney World resorts and hotels, and the fare is identical for every resort on Disney property. The form asks for your resort’s name once the destination is picked, so the chauffeur has the exact entrance.

Disney groups its hotels into resort areas, and the area name tells you roughly where on the property you are headed:

• Magic Kingdom Resort Area: Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, and the cabins and campsites at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort.
• EPCOT Resort Area: Disney’s Beach Club and Yacht Club Resorts, Disney’s BoardWalk Inn, Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort, Disney’s Riviera Resort, and the Walt Disney World Swan, Dolphin and Swan Reserve hotels.
• Disney’s Animal Kingdom Resort Area: Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, and the All-Star Movies, All-Star Music and All-Star Sports Resorts.
• Wide World of Sports Resort Area: Disney’s Art of Animation Resort and Disney’s Pop Century Resort.
• Disney Springs Resort Area: Disney’s Old Key West Resort, Disney’s Port Orleans Resort (French Quarter and Riverside) and Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa.

On arrival, Disney lists check-in at 3:00 PM for its Resort hotels and 4:00 PM for the Deluxe Villas. Land in the morning and you will likely reach the resort before the room is ready; Disney’s Online Check-In sends a notice when the room is available, and until then the My Disney Experience app or a MagicBand opens certain areas of the hotel, the pool among them.

Inside Walt Disney World, Disney runs complimentary buses for guests of select resort hotels, starting 45 minutes before a park opens and running up to an hour after it closes, with boats to Magic Kingdom from some resorts and the Skyliner gondola linking others. Most families therefore use our car for the two airport legs and for a day off the property, which is covered further down.

A hotel off Disney property, in Lake Buena Vista or Kissimmee for instance, is a different destination in the form; the resort delivery page explains how those hotel rides are priced.

Six checked-size bags ride in the SUV with five people; fifteen go in the Transit with eleven. The form asks for the count of checked bags and offers the SUV only when your party is five or fewer with six bags or fewer, so a family of four landing with eight suitcases sees the Transit at $170 instead.

A stroller folds into the luggage space, so count it as a bag when you fill in the number. A folding wheelchair or a scooter rides at the same flat price; say which it is in the form.

More than eleven riders, or more bags than fifteen, means a second vehicle: call or text (407) 624-8582 and it is arranged with the first.

Work it out per seat. Take the fare a shared shuttle or a ride app quotes you, multiply by the number of vehicles your riders and luggage would fill, and divide by your headcount; then set that beside $125 split five ways, or $170 split eight ways. Where the line falls depends on your group, and the arithmetic is yours to do with the table above as our side of it.

What the arithmetic leaves out is who else is in the vehicle. A shared shuttle may call at other resorts before yours; this ride goes to one entrance, with the seats your children need already in place, at a fare printed before you pay and unchanged afterwards.

Disney describes its Minnie Van service as rides within Walt Disney World Resort, ordered and paid through the Lyft app and priced by the distance travelled inside the resort, and notes that it is not included in a vacation package. The ride in from MCO is a separate choice, and this page is one of the ways to make it.

Do I need to know my Disney resort before I reserve?

You need a drop-off place, and for this ride it is Walt Disney World resorts and hotels; the resort’s name goes in once the destination is picked. If the resort changes before the trip, call or text at least 24 hours before pick-up and the address is updated.

Is the price the same for a value resort and a deluxe resort?

Yes. Every resort and hotel on Disney property shares the one destination in the form, so Pop Century and the Grand Floridian cost the same $125 in the SUV and $170 or $195 in the Transit. What changes the fare is the vehicle, a stop, a round trip or a late-night pick-up, never the hotel.

Does the chauffeur wait if my flight is delayed?

Yes. The flight number you give is tracked, so the pick-up moves with the real landing time. Waiting is free for the first hour, and for 90 minutes after an international arrival.

Can a party of ten ride together to Disney?

Yes, in the Luxury Transit: eleven riders and fifteen bags at most. From MCO a party of nine, ten or eleven pays $195 for the vehicle, and eight or fewer pay $170.

Can we make a grocery stop between MCO and the resort?

Yes. Add a stop in the form, $20 for up to 25 minutes, and it is in your total before you pay. A stop that runs over 25 minutes is $30 in all, invoiced by email after the ride.

What if we cancel or our dates move?

Cancel 24 hours or more before the pick-up time and the whole fare goes back to your card; cancel inside 24 hours and there is no refund. Date, time and address changes work the same way: at least 24 hours before pick-up, by call or text to (407) 624-8582.

Can you take us from a Disney resort to Universal for the day?

Yes. That ride is priced on its own in the form, $85 in the Luxury SUV and $120 in the Luxury Transit each way, with Walt Disney World as the start and Universal Orlando resorts as the destination. Reserve the ride there and the ride back as two rides, or look at the chauffeur by the hour if you want the vehicle to stay with you.

Do you also drive from MCO to Epic Universe or the other Universal hotels?

Yes. The MCO to Epic Universe page sets out that ride with its own prices, and rides to the other Universal Orlando resorts are priced in the reservation form the same way. Pick the destination and the number appears before you pay.