Bpmorley
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We've done it a few times. No problem. I would suggest going back to the Tampa area the day before your flight home. I've been stuck on I4 a few times, once a 6 hour stand still. Unless you return home thru MCO.
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Flying into Tampa with very short layover in Charlotte, NC
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Okay, new question...
I just prepaid and reserved a rental car through Priceline with Avis rent a car. I know that when my tram gets to the terminal at Tampa I go downstairs and out the doors and across the street to the car rental counters. Can someone tell me if Avis chooses my vehicle for me or will they allow me to go to a row of vehicles and choose the one I want (after I've done all of the paperwork at the counter of course)?
I just prepaid and reserved a rental car through Priceline with Avis rent a car. I know that when my tram gets to the terminal at Tampa I go downstairs and out the doors and across the street to the car rental counters. Can someone tell me if Avis chooses my vehicle for me or will they allow me to go to a row of vehicles and choose the one I want (after I've done all of the paperwork at the counter of course)?
bpiper
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Remember, it's MCO that the rental cars are across the street in the garage. TPA has the cars in the off site garage accessed by shuttle train.
That is what people keep saying but I am seeing video after video showing a "walking tour" on how to get to the rental cars and it shows people going outside one set of doors and into another building for the rental cars. I know it is not MCO. I have been there tons of times and I could paint that scene on canvas blindfolded.
4:00 minute mark
bpiper
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That video is from 2013. The SkyConnect train opened in Feb 2018.
Ground Transportation | Tampa International Airport
So it is a tram/train that I take? As long as it is not a shuttle bus. We did that with Enterprise out of MCO back in 05 and it was horrible.That video is from 2013. The SkyConnect train opened in Feb 2018.
Ground Transportation | Tampa International Airport
www.tampaairport.com
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bpiper
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Yes. Not a bus. A train just like you take from the main terminal to the airside gates.
To me that is technically still "on-site". I just hate having to get on a shuttle, wait for it to leave, and drive really far out to get to the rental car agency.
JoeCamel
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The shuttle train to the new car rental center is very low wait and not too far from your gate. Tampa is the best operating airport i have used. Great if you are picking up people as you park on top of terminal and baggage so an elevator to your car. They just spent 2B on the rental center, train and terminal renovations. Its easy
I took that tram twice and until someone mentioned it here I didn't even realize it was off site.
To me that is technically still "on-site". I just hate having to get on a shuttle, wait for it to leave, and drive really far out to get to the rental car agency.