Best value for money for flying to Orlando

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by Scotts2a

Thanks, Manchester is our local airport

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Last time we went, Thomas Cook was the cheapest direct airline from Manchester. That was flying in the Easter holidays though, not June.

I've never fancied flying indirect so I don't know whether there were cheaper indirect flights (there probably were).

[Burgmeister]

Originally Posted by cornishfrogboy

Car. (Through Expedia). A Chevy Cruze through Budget (part of the Avis group), £417 inc CDW. Pick up and drop at Fort Lauderdale.

Hoping it helps you. With more research, I feel sure that I could go lower than that!

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I've been looking at getting car hire and I couldn't see on the expedia site what their prices included. All I managed to see is "Includes insurance" but didn't say what insurance. Is SLI and CDW definitely covered with Expedia?

[Sew109]

Originally Posted by Burgmeister

I've been looking at getting car hire and I couldn't see on the expedia site what their prices included. All I managed to see is "Includes insurance" but didn't say what insurance. Is SLI and CDW definitely covered with Expedia?

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I booked a car in Italy this year through Expedia it did cover everything but had a $750 excess I took out a policy in line here with a third party insurer that made that zero.

[Burgmeister]

Originally Posted by Sew109

I booked a car in Italy this year through Expedia it did cover everything but had a $750 excess I took out a policy in line here with a third party insurer that made that zero.

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I've done that when hiring a car in Europe too.

I'd really like to know what Expedia include with their US Budget cars though as they are significantly cheaper than anywhere else for my dates.

[cornishfrogboy]

All Expedia are is a search engine that leads you in to Alamo, Budget' Avis, Hertz etc . The deal is with the car hirer, in this case it was Budget.

Budget car hire comes with CDW. I would never drive in the US without it. I also get seperate insurance to protect the excess. For this calendar year it was £55 for car hire worldwide.

[clarebearuk]

Make sure you check different departure airports.

I was pricing from Dub to Orlando and it was much cheaper going Dub - Man- Orlando. But if I priced Man-Orlando it was more expensive.

Likewise when we priced Belfast to orlando we got a much better deal doing Belfast-LGW-MCO - it was more expensive than LGW-MCO! Crazy!

Last year we got flights direct from Belfast with virgin for £1300 in May for 2ad 2ch.
This year we just booked in the BA sale - belfast-lgw-mco - 2 weeks in July - 2ad 2ch - £1600 including car which was costing £400 anyway - so flights were £1200! Plus as we including the car we only paid £300 deposit, rest is due 5 weeks before we fly! 😃😃 so def play about with airports if it suits you.

[Burgmeister]

Originally Posted by cornishfrogboy

All Expedia are is a search engine that leads you in to Alamo, Budget' Avis, Hertz etc . The deal is with the car hirer, in this case it was Budget.

Budget car hire comes with CDW. I would never drive in the US without it. I also get seperate insurance to protect the excess. For this calendar year it was £55 for car hire worldwide.

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I thought CDW was no excess? I guess I thought wrong.

Is SLI included too?

The Expedia site didn't lead me to any other site when I clicked on the particular car I was interested in - it just went to an Expedia booking page.

[Scotts2a]

Sorry to bring the thread back up, apart from the obvious benefits of having a vehicle out there, financially, park payments, hotel paying, is there realistically an alternative to hiring a car if you're not staying on site. It might start costing a bit for uber's if we get a villa. Thanks

[dippy lippy]

My son is currently staying in the comfort inn suites at Maingate. Hes not driving (too young) they provide shuttles to all the parks - he will be using a mix of the hotels shuttles and Uber to get around as suites.

Uber is surprisingly cheap - in my opinion anyway.

Quite a few of the hotels provide a shuttle service to the parks.

happy holiday hunting

[dippy lippy]

And dont forget the parks charge 22 dollars for parking!