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AllyBali123 · 2025-02-18T18:53:36+00:00

what’s the Best way to travel to Orlando from Glasgow? What airline/route/ month comes up cheapest? Also any recommendations for self catering if we don’t drive? Best location to stay? Trying to see if a disney trip is affordable or if it will just be crazy money!

Microbantime · 18/02/2025 19:15

Last time we did Edinburgh-Gatwick-Orlando going out then Orlando-JFK-Edin coming back. If we ever went again I’d do it that way as the New York flights land early in the morning and you get home quickly. Going via London, you are generally held until mid morning ish before the flight back to Scotland. That can be a painful wait with lack of sleep. You can also fly from Glasgow to Orlando direct. I am sure Virgin and Tui both go.

Timing wise, avoid Christmas and Easter. We went in the October holidays but that was before our council decided to move our October holidays from the first 2 weeks in the month to the middle 2 weeks. The middle weeks are quite busy but the first week was great as we managed so much in the first week/10 days before the parks got busy. Are you working to school holidays or can you go outwith? If outwith, I’d do November or January.

Self catering is perfectly doable. You don’t need to hire a car as uber is readily available and quite cheap. You could look at accommodation near Disney Springs so you could make use of the free parking shuttles. Some hotels on international drive have self catering apartments and run free shuttle buses too.

It’s an expensive holiday. No way round it. I’d have a play around with sky scanner for flights, then I would look at trivago or other booking sites for accommodation and then compare to virgin or BA holidays.

Wildehorses · 19/02/2025 02:13

This is the best forum for all things Orlando https://www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/index.php

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AllyBali123 · 19/02/2025 12:20

Microbantime · 18/02/2025 19:15

Last time we did Edinburgh-Gatwick-Orlando going out then Orlando-JFK-Edin coming back. If we ever went again I’d do it that way as the New York flights land early in the morning and you get home quickly. Going via London, you are generally held until mid morning ish before the flight back to Scotland. That can be a painful wait with lack of sleep. You can also fly from Glasgow to Orlando direct. I am sure Virgin and Tui both go.

Timing wise, avoid Christmas and Easter. We went in the October holidays but that was before our council decided to move our October holidays from the first 2 weeks in the month to the middle 2 weeks. The middle weeks are quite busy but the first week was great as we managed so much in the first week/10 days before the parks got busy. Are you working to school holidays or can you go outwith? If outwith, I’d do November or January.

Self catering is perfectly doable. You don’t need to hire a car as uber is readily available and quite cheap. You could look at accommodation near Disney Springs so you could make use of the free parking shuttles. Some hotels on international drive have self catering apartments and run free shuttle buses too.

It’s an expensive holiday. No way round it. I’d have a play around with sky scanner for flights, then I would look at trivago or other booking sites for accommodation and then compare to virgin or BA holidays.

Thanks, yeah def no getting round the expense eek! Just trying to add up how expensive…it’s still just an idea but would prefer to do the maths before seriously consider it. Icelandair flights were coming out at 2.5k for four of us in sepetember. Wasn’t sure if that was good or not 😆 Yeah when i went when i was little it was international drive we stayed on but its hard trying to work out where as its such a big area 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Microbantime · 19/02/2025 17:01

What dates are you looking at?

snoopyfanaccountant · 19/02/2025 20:48

We have flown to various US locations (we have been to Orlando and BIL lives in the North East having moved around for work so we have visited him several times) via Dublin with Aer Lingus. The big advantage, especially with children, is that you clear US immigration in Dublin so you don't need to go through passport control after you land.
The first time we visited BIL, our DC were 5 and 9 and we went via Amsterdam and landed at JFK at 8pm NY time. We then joined a very long queue for immigration, having been up for 20 hours with DC who hadn't slept; thankfully after the Green Card line cleared we were pulled out of the main queue and put through it.
The last time we visited Orlando, Virgin from Edinburgh via Manchester was the cheapest (we live close to Glasgow but Edinburgh Airport is more convenient for us).