Orlando International Airport Ground Transportation: Every Numbered Curb

Orlando International Airport numbers the curb space for every way out except the one most people use

The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority publishes a numbered commercial lane space for taxis, shuttle vans, hotel shuttles, out of town shuttles and the local bus at Orlando International Airport. For ride share it publishes a level and a set of hours and no space number at all, at any of the three terminals.

Orlando International Airport ground transportation is the set of eight local modes the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority permits at its curbs, priced from a $2.00 bus to a $115 taxi. That range is published by the airport itself, on a single approximate rates table, and it is the widest spread of any airport in this region.

Everything below was read from Greater Orlando Aviation Authority pages in September 2026. Where two of those pages disagree, and they do twice, both readings appear with the page each came from. Nothing here is priced from a company website: the fares are the airport’s own approximate rates, and the airport says so.

Way out of MCO	Where the airport says it waits	Space number published
Taxi cab	Ground Transportation Curb, Level 1, Terminals A and B; Arrivals Curb, Level 6, Terminal C	A22 to A25, B30 to B34
Shuttle van	Ground Transportation Curb, Level 1, all three terminals	A19 to A21, B76 to B78, C200 to C204
Hotel shuttle	Ground Transportation Level 1, all three terminals and the Train Station	A1 to A4, A42 to A45, B1 to B4, B40, C270, C271, C7, C8
Universal’s SuperStar Shuttle	Terminals A and C, Level 1	A30 to A33, C282, C283
Out of town shuttle	Ground Transportation Level 1, all three terminals	A14 to A15, C205 to C209, and two different answers at Terminal B
Local bus, Lynx	A side of the terminal, Ground Transportation Level 1	A38 to A41
Ride share	Arrivals Curb Level 2 at A and B, Arrivals Curb Level 6 at C	none published
Peer to peer car sharing	Surface Lot Atlantis only, reached from the Train Station	not a terminal curb

The pattern holds across every page. A traveller meeting a permitted operator is told which numbered slab of pavement to stand on. A traveller opening an app is told a level and, at two terminals, a two hour window in the middle of the night when a second curb also works.

The limousine costs the same to a hotel next door and to a seaport 42 miles away

The approximate rates table covers eight destinations and five services. Seven of the eight destination rows change as the distance grows. One does not move at all.

Destination as MCO names it	Hotel shuttle	Local bus	Shuttle van	Taxi	Limousine
Airport Hotels	Free!	$2	$15/$22	$14-$18	$50-$90
International Drive Area	N/A	$2	$21/$33	$38-$45	$50-$90
Downtown Orlando Area	N/A	$2	$20/$32	$38-$45	$50-$90
Winter Park/Maitland Area	N/A	$2	$29/$49	$45-$55	$50-$90
Lake Buena Vista Area	N/A	$2	$23/$37	$47-$55	$50-$90
Kissimmee Hotels Area	N/A	$2	$29/$49	$45-$75	$50-$90
Disney Resorts Area	N/A	$4	$23/$37	$52-$68	$50-$90
Port Canaveral	N/A	N/A	N/A	$115	$50-$90

Read down the last column and the figure never changes. Its own figure is $50 to $90 for a limousine to a hotel it describes as an airport hotel, and $50 to $90 for a limousine to a cruise port it measures at 42 miles away on the same website. Eight destinations, one band, no distance component at all.

Read down the taxi column instead and the spread is more than sevenfold, from $14 at the low end for airport hotels to $115 for Port Canaveral. That produces the one arithmetic result on this table worth carrying to the curb: Port Canaveral is the only destination of the eight where the top of the limousine band, $90, sits below the taxi figure, $115. Everywhere else the taxi is the cheaper of the two, and at airport hotels it is cheaper by a factor of three.

The bus column has one exception too. Lynx charges $2 to seven of the eight destinations and $4 to the Disney Resorts Area, which is the only fare on the table that doubles without the airport explaining why on that page.

Port Canaveral is the only destination with three N/As in a row

Six of the eight destinations carry a price in the shuttle van column. Port Canaveral carries N/A there, N/A in the local bus column and N/A in the hotel shuttle column, which leaves a taxi at $115 and a limousine at $50 to $90 as the only two priced ways the table offers to reach a cruise ship.

That is not the same as saying no shuttle exists, and the airport is careful about the difference. Its cruise transfers page names five on-site cruise transfer companies with telephone numbers, and adds a sentence that does more work than any fare on the table: taxis charge per trip, while shuttles charge per person. One mode gets a price and the other gets a warning about how it scales, from the same page.

For two adults that sentence decides the question, and for five it reverses it. The detail of how those operators actually price the leg belongs to the shuttle, taxi and rideshare fares published for the run from Orlando airport to Port Canaveral, and the separate question of whether any of it comes free with a booking belongs to what each issuer actually publishes about a free shuttle from Orlando airport.

That same 42 mile route appears on the cruise transfers page and, indirectly, through the mileage that shapes the distance and drive time from Orlando to Port Canaveral as each issuer measures it. A cruise line running its own coach is a third path again, set out in what the cruise lines charge for a transfer from MCO and what the airport says about it.

One out of town shuttle bay, two different Terminal B space numbers

Out of town shuttles serve Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, Kennedy Space Center, Melbourne, Port Canaveral, Tampa and about twenty other places, grouped by direction. Two Greater Orlando Aviation Authority pages tell a passenger where to wait for one, and they do not agree.

The shuttle vans page places out of town shuttles at Terminal A spaces A14 to A15, Terminal B spaces B14 to B15, and Terminal C spaces C205 to C209. The out of town shuttles page places them at Terminal A spaces A14 to A15, Terminal B spaces B63 to B64, and Terminal C spaces C205 to C209. Terminals A and C match exactly. Terminal B differs by 49 spaces, and both pages were read on the same day in September 2026.

Neither page is dated on its face, and nothing on either one acknowledges the other. A passenger who read the shuttle vans page and walked to B14 is standing where the airport also says shuttle vans wait at B76 to B78, on the same level, which is close enough to look right and wrong enough to miss a departure. This is the bay that serves the 42 mile run to Port Canaveral as well as Daytona Beach and Tampa, so the walk is not a spare five minutes on a cruise morning.

The same telephone number belongs to two different companies on two airport pages

The cruise transfers page lists five on-site cruise transfer companies. Four carry a number: Busy Traveler Transportation on +1-321-453-5278, Cocoa Beach Shuttle on +1-321-631-4144, Mears Destination Services on +1-855-463-2776 and Sunward Tours on +1-321-453-0704. Go Port is named without a telephone number, the only one of the five listed that way.

The out of town shuttles page lists the operators serving Brevard County and the beaches: Busy Traveler Transportation on (321) 453-5278, Cocoa Beach Shuttle on (321) 453-0704 and Melbourne Airport Shuttle on (800) 826-4544. Busy Traveler matches on both pages. Cocoa Beach Shuttle does not, and the number the second page gives it is the number the first page gives to Sunward Tours.

Whichever page is stale, the consequence is the same for a reader who dials from the wrong one. Two of the five names on the cruise page also appear on the out of town page, which is the only overlap between the two lists, and it is the overlap that carries the mismatch. Mears appears twice under two names on a third page, as Mears Destination Services on +1-855-463-2776 and as Mears Taxi on 407-422-2222, and these lists were read in September 2026 against a route the same site prices at $115.

What the taxi ordinance forbids, and what it does to a party of nine

Taxis at MCO wait at Terminal A between spaces A22 and A25, at Terminal B between B30 and B34, and at Terminal C on the Arrivals Curb of Level 6. Four companies are named: Diamond Cab Co. on 407-523-3333, Quick Cab on 407-447-1444, Town & Country Transport on 407-828-3035 and Mears Taxi on 407-422-2222.

Two rules sit under those numbers. Taxis may carry up to 9 passengers and charge the same rate regardless of the number of passengers. And every taxi picking up at the airport is regulated by the City of Orlando’s Vehicle-for-Hire ordinance, which requires fares to be determined by a taximeter, so flat rate fees are not authorized and the metered rate may vary from the approximate rates the airport quotes.

Put those two rules against the shuttle sentence and the arithmetic is blunt. A taxi to Port Canaveral is quoted at $115 for one passenger or for nine. A shuttle charging per person crosses that figure at whatever headcount its own fare implies, and the airport declines to publish that fare. The party size at which the meter wins is therefore knowable from the airport for the taxi side only, which is precisely the asymmetry a group has to resolve before landing.

The ordinance also explains why the table says approximate. Greater Orlando Aviation Authority is quoting a range it does not set and cannot enforce, on a meter run by a city department, and labels the column that way.

Rail out of MCO: a station open until 11pm and a line that stops at 9:30pm

Two rail products reach Orlando International Airport and only one of them touches the terminal. Brightline runs from the MCO Train Station, which the airport lists with hours of operation of Daily 5am to 11pm, serving Orlando, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Aventura and Miami. Closest parking to that station is given as Surface Lot Discovery at 10412 Jeff Fuqua Blvd. and Surface Lot Endeavour at 10734 Jeff Fuqua Blvd.

SunRail does not reach the airport at all. The airport’s own wording is that riders connect to Orlando International Airport via the bus link to the Sand Lake Road SunRail station, and that SunRail operates Monday to Friday from 5:30am to 9:30pm. The bus link is Lynx, from Terminal A, Level 1, at Commercial Lane spaces A38 to A41, at the $2.00 fare.

The gap between those two clocks is the planning point. A flight landing at 10pm on a Saturday can still reach a Brightline platform inside the airport and cannot reach SunRail at all, because the commuter line does not run at weekends and has stopped for the night on weekdays by then. The rail station is open four and a half hours later than the commuter railway it connects to.

Every mode MCO permits, and the one it only allows in a parking lot

Peer to peer vehicle sharing is the exception to the curb system. Sharing of that kind is permitted only in Surface Lot Atlantis, reached by taking the Terminal Link to the Train Station from Terminals A and B, or by following signs to the Train Station from Terminal C, then following signs for Surface Lots from Level 1. A shuttle picks up outside the Train Station every 10 minutes to reach the lot, which is the only headway in minutes the airport publishes for any of its own vehicles, and the curb in front of the Train Station is allowed for quick pick-ups or drop-offs only. The airport’s own FAQ prices that instruction in feet: the Terminal Link runs 24 hours per day between Terminal B and the Train Station, reaching Terminal C from it is a walk of approximately 1,200 feet through Parking Garage C, and Terminal A and Terminal B sit 525 feet apart on opposite sides of one building.

Ride share sits at the other end of the same spectrum. Uber, Lyft, Wingz and KreweCar may drop passengers at the Departures Curb on Level 3 at Terminals A and B and on Level 2 at Terminal C, and may pick up at the Arrivals Curb on Level 2 at Terminals A and B, 24 hours per day, or on the Departures Curb on Level 3 between 9:00pm and 2:00am. At Terminal C, pick-up is the Arrivals Curb on Level 6 with no second option and no hours attached.

Two details in that paragraph do work that no fare does. The drop-off level at Terminal C is Level 2 and the pick-up level at Terminal C is Level 6, four floors apart in the same building. And the second pick-up curb at Terminals A and B exists for five hours a night, which is the window in which a delayed arrival is most likely to be looking for it.

Details on the MCO pages that change a ground plan

• Mears Destination Services is not just an operator. MCO calls it the Aviation Authority’s Ground Transportation Concessionaire, and it appears on the cruise transfers list, the shuttle vans page and the taxi list under a second name, Mears Taxi, on a different number.
• Lynx sells an all day fare the rates table does not show. The local bus page gives $2.00 for each destination or $4.50 all day, while the approximate rates table prints only the $2 single. Two trips cost $4.00 as singles against $4.50 for the day, so a third ride is free by the second afternoon.
• Hotel shuttles are the only mode with a bay at the Train Station, at Commercial Lane spaces C7 and C8, which matters to anyone arriving by Brightline rather than by air.
• Terminal C sends hotel shuttle passengers to a different level for drop-off. Spaces C270 and C271 are given for pick-up, with drop-off noted on Level 2.
• The word Free! appears exactly once on the rates table, on the hotel shuttle row for airport hotels, and it is the only cell on the table with an exclamation mark. Every other hotel shuttle cell reads N/A.
• Lynx publishes its own customer service line, (407) 841-5969, and the airport prints it rather than answering bus questions itself. SunRail is handed off the same way, to 1-855-RAIL-411.
• Brightline is listed by the airport with the number 831-539-2901, an area code that belongs to California rather than Florida, printed without comment on a Florida airport page.

Where an Orlando airport ground plan comes apart

Treating the approximate rates as fares is the first mistake. Greater Orlando Aviation Authority quotes them, the City of Orlando ordinance governs them, and the taxi page says in terms that the metered rate may vary from the approximate rates quoted. A $47 to $55 quote to Lake Buena Vista is a forecast, not a price.

Reading N/A as none is the second. Port Canaveral shows N/A for shuttle van on the rates table while the cruise transfers page names five companies that run exactly that service. The N/A means the airport declines to quote, and the airport says why: those companies set their own fares, schedules and reservations.

Standing at the wrong Terminal B bay is the third, and the airport supplies the confusion itself with B14 to B15 on one page and B63 to B64 on another. The safest reading is to treat the page named after the service as the more specific of the two, and to allow time to walk.

Expecting a numbered space for a ride share pick-up is the fourth. There is none to find, and looking for one on a curb where taxis, vans and hotel shuttles all have numbers is how a traveller ends up in the wrong lane. Level and terminal are the whole instruction.

Assuming rail runs when the station is open is the fifth. Brightline’s platform sits inside an airport building open until 11pm; SunRail is a weekday commuter service that stops at 9:30pm and does not reach the terminal without a bus.

How these Orlando International Airport figures were checked

Every figure above came from a page the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority publishes at flymco.com, read in September 2026: the ground transportation index for the approximate rates table, and the dedicated pages for cruise transfers, ride share, taxi cabs, shuttle vans, hotel shuttles, out of town shuttles, the local bus, SunRail, peer to peer sharing and Brightline trains.

Two disagreements between those pages are reported here rather than resolved, because the airport has not reconciled them: the Terminal B bay for out of town shuttles and the telephone number attached to Cocoa Beach Shuttle. In both cases both readings appear above with the page each came from.

Operator names appear only where the airport itself names them. No fare, schedule or claim from any company website is used, and the airport’s own instruction to contact the companies directly regarding fares, schedules and reservations is the reason. Comparisons with the other two airports that serve this coast are set out in the three airports measured against Port Canaveral by each issuer’s own mileage.

The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Parking rates usually change in January, shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here and none can pay to appear. As of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site, and any that ships will be marked as sponsored and flagged in this line.

An airport that numbers the pavement and leaves one lane unmarked

Orlando International Airport is unusually generous with the small print. It gives a slab number for a taxi, a slab number for a hotel van, a slab number for a bus and a slab number for a shuttle to Daytona Beach, and it prints an eight destination fare table on a public page where most airports print nothing.

The gaps are where that generosity stops rather than where it fails. A limousine band that never moves across 42 miles, a Terminal B bay with two numbers, a telephone number shared by two companies, and a ride share pick-up described only by level are all published facts, and each one is easier to plan around once it is read as what the airport chose not to settle. On the car park side of the same site, one page prices the same garage twice.

Numbered pavement for seven ways out of Orlando International, and a bare level for the eighth.