It's Andy Fish!

I’ve talked previously about flying from The Woo to Orlando– it’s a reasonably short 2.5 – 3 hour flight. It’s JetBlue ™ which is what I would best call a “budget” airline. Now let me make something perfectly clear, airline travel has gone from being luxurious to like taking the bus. The seats are uncomfortable, they are too close together and maybe its because everyone is giant now it feels like you’re stuffed into third class steerage on the Titanic.

For the flight down we chose an Exit row for extra room– row 10 to be exact– and despite the flight being filled with so many Toddlers I expected the Muppets to work the drink cart it was a reasonably pleasant experience. We left about a half hour late with a storm coming in but arrived at almost our exact estimated arrival time.

Orlando Airport is huge– we walked to baggage claim and still waited a bit for them to be off loaded. Outside it was warm and humid. We called our Uber and got zipped over to the hotel.

UBER/LYFT How To

I know I have a few readers who have asked me if I can explain how these ride shares work– it can be a little confusing, especially at airports where they designate the pickup area. It’s a lot easier for other rides.

Okay- so first you download the app- I’ve used UBER in the past, I prefer LYFT for no particular reason. As you set the details up make sure you allow location to be shared at the very least while you’re using the app. That’s important.

You connect some manner of payment to the app. I connect to Apple Pay.

Now when you want a ride (not at an airport) you simply pull up the app it asks you where to go- put in that info– it will show where you are. Confirm you’re where you’re currently standing.

Choose your ride- you can take a bargain car that might take up to 20 mins to save a few bucks or you can upgrade to a nicer car and faster pickup– you can guess which I choose.

It will give you the details of your driver name, their pic, a pic of their car and most importantly the license plate. I take a look at the first two digits of the plate and I double check as the car pulls up. The driver will also ask your name– you want to make sure you get in the right car– recently a guy heading to Orlando Airport almost got driven to my resort because he jumped in my Lyft. Spoiler alert– a lot of the drivers don’t speak a ton of English so this can happen. Just make sure you’re getting in the right car and you’ll be okay.

NOW at the airport it works the same but you need to get yourself over to where they corral their Ride Share services, once you’ve found that you just use it the same way.

Full disclosure at O’Hare last year the ride share area was so far away I just gave up and jumped in a cab sitting right outside the door.