Carnival Transportation: MCO to Port Canaveral

I paid about $36 for the Carnival Transfer from MCO to Port Canaveral. I did this for two reasons. First off because I was flying in on the day of the cruise. Secondly because I had a lot of onboard credit to use. This saved me from purchasing my own transportation.

My flight arrived at 9:25am. I am hoping to make the 10am transfer otherwise I have to wait for 11am. On my way to the baggage carousel I saw people holding signs for Disney, NCL, and RCL. I asked the lady holding the NCL sign about Carnival. She told me I’d have to go downstairs.

It was an extremely long wait for luggage. I guess that isn’t surprising considering we have to take a train to get from the plane to the baggage claim at this airport. After collecting my luggage I headed downstairs.

I made the mistake of going outside where the busses were and looking for a Carnival sign. I had no idea how long of a walk it was going to be. I saw someone holding a Disney cruise sign and asked them about Carnival. They pointed me to a counter inside. Their sidewalk isn’t the best for rolling luggage so I would definitely make that walk inside.

This is the Carnival transfer counter.

The left line is Mardi Gras. The right line is Magic. It took about five minutes to get to the front of the line from here.

She doesn’t look too thrilled to see us.

She asked my name, gave me this ticket from Indiana, and told me to go sit in the area where there is no available seating. There are literally hundreds of people here waiting for transfers from the various cruise lines.

That must be my 10am bus pulling out!

They’re calling for Mardi Gras orange tickets.

While I’m waiting let’s look at Uber/Lyft prices to cheer me up.

Next was Magic green. That’s me!

 

To recap how long it took to get to this point, I arrived at the transfer counter at 10:17, had my ticket at 10:23, and got called to this bus at 11:05.

 

They’re telling us this will be a 25 minute ride. When we get there we can just leave the luggage and porters will get it. If we want to carry on we can grab it.

 

The good thing is by the time we get there I should be able to walk right on the ship.  

 

 

• MCO
• Port Canaveral
• Transfer