Avoiding boredom at Orlando airport

[Toobl]

Flight back to the U.K. on Monday is at 5.30pm and we get kicked out of our villa at 10am. This leaves quite a bit of time to kill and not too keen on loading the car with our stuff and parking up anywhere.

Only alternative is to get to the airport and hand back the car. The dilemma here would be we would be too early to check in for our flight (BA) as presumably the check in opens 3 hours before the flight.

Any suggestions?

Has anyone used any of the lounges at the airport? The reviews are not great as far as I can see and don’t look like value for money

[Gryff]

Look at a day room at the Hyatt use the pool etc get showered changed and fresh forvthe flight what we did before we had our own villa

[Markpc2013]

Originally Posted by Gryff

Look at a day room at the Hyatt use the pool etc get showered changed and fresh forvthe flight what we did before we had our own villa

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This 👆

[ERICSMUM]

Originally Posted by Gryff

Look at a day room at the Hyatt use the pool etc get showered changed and fresh forvthe flight what we did before we had our own villa

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Another vote for this.

[Toobl]

Thanks guys, day room now booked

[Gemini157]

A great tip, I will look into this for our trip next year

[arabella]

Never thought of this
how did you book the day room?

[dibdobber]

We came back on friday, similar timings. We went to disney springs to check in, had a coffee at the Starbucks and then 2 hours at Aquatica before lunch at Florida Mall. Were TSA pre-check for security for some reason (not complaining) so still ended up with about 3 hours before the flight. Think Orlando airport airside really isn't that good> i know Manchester airport needs some updating - which is currently happening - but even with that in mind the range of shops is far better than Orlando which seems to me to be missing a trick. The range at the duty free shop is also really limited and something which i find really annoying is that they never seems to take off the right discount - 15% off 2 bottle of spirits for example which i picked specifically because they were supposed to be in the offer but weren't! Rant over.

[Thorpy]

Originally Posted by dibdobber

We came back on friday, similar timings. We went to disney springs to check in, had a coffee at the Starbucks and then 2 hours at Aquatica before lunch at Florida Mall. Were TSA pre-check for security for some reason (not complaining) so still ended up with about 3 hours before the flight. Think Orlando airport airside really isn't that good> i know Manchester airport needs some updating - which is currently happening - but even with that in mind the range of shops is far better than Orlando which seems to me to be missing a trick. The range at the duty free shop is also really limited and something which i find really annoying is that they never seems to take off the right discount - 15% off 2 bottle of spirits for example which i picked specifically because they were supposed to be in the offer but weren't! Rant over.

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Manchester is a predominantly airside airport, Orlando is a landside airport. The Landside at Orlando is massive. The trick is to not go through security straight away. Just keep an eye on the security times and don't cut it too fine.

[sparkyweb]

Originally Posted by Thorpy

Manchester is a predominantly airside airport, Orlando is a landside airport. The Landside at Orlando is massive. The trick is to not go through security straight away. Just keep an eye on the security times and don't cut it too fine.

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I think this is true for quite a lot of US airports. Don’t forget a lot of Americans treat planes as buses and leave the minimum time to be airside (lots of domestic flights though) whereas we are accustomed to 3hours before etc.