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Orlando has no coach hub. Greyhound and FlixBus share a terminal on John Young Parkway, megabus stops on a different road entirely, RedCoach boards at a third address near the airport, and a fourth stop is a corner of a shopping-centre car park with an explicit warning attached to it. LYNX Central Station, the building most visitors assume is the bus station, is the local transit hub and no intercity coach uses it.

That makes Orlando a city where the address printed on the ticket matters more than the brand printed above it. FlixBus says so itself, in the small print under its Orlando stop list.

The compensation is that the coach is genuinely the right mode on two of the corridors out of here. To Miami and to Tampa it beats Amtrak by hours, for reasons that are structural rather than incidental.

Four operators, four addresses, and not one of them is LYNX Central Station

Greyhound’s Orlando terminal is at 555 N John Young Pkwy, Orlando, FL 32805, and Greyhound lists it as open 24 hours, seven days a week. It is the only staffed, round-the-clock coach building in the city, and that fact does more work than anything else on this page.

FlixBus has no terminal of its own here. What its booking engine calls “Orlando Bus Station” is the same Greyhound building — both are Flix brands — and FlixBus does not pretend the boarding arrangement is self-evident: “Check with station staff on exact bus slip boarding location.” There is no permanent gate number to look up in advance.

Megabus does not use that terminal at all. Its own route guides for Miami and for Fort Lauderdale both give the Orlando stop as the Orange Blossom Center bus stop at 4504 South Orange Blossom Trail, the same address for arrival and departure. Different road, different part of town, no connection to the Greyhound building.

RedCoach is a fourth address again: 1777 McCoy Road, which RedCoach describes as “15 Minutes away by car from the Orlando Airport (MCO) 30 minutes away from Disney.” It also boards on the UCF campus at 3820 Libra Drive, zip 32826, where the instruction is to stand “In front of the garage building that says ‘Libra’ and has a big UCF logo on top” — a car park structure, not a shelter — and at Kissimmee, 1471 E. Osceola Parkway, 34744.

The Florida Mall car park, and the stop you are told not to stand at

FlixBus lists exactly two Orlando stops, and the second is not a station of any kind. It is 1634 Florida Mall Ave, Orlando, FL 32809, unstaffed, in a shopping-centre car park. The boarding note is worth reading in full before travelling: “Bus will board from the parking lot adjacent to the Florida Mall at the corner of Florida Mall Ave. and August Ln, near the Lynx stop on Florida Mall Ave. No overnight or long-term parking permitted. Unattended vehicles will be towed. Please do not sit at or utilize the Megabus stop location.”

Two things in that are practical rather than boilerplate. Anyone dropping you off cannot leave the car on the site. And there is a second coach stop on the same ground belonging to a different operator, which is an easy mistake to make after dark, in a car park, with two shelters and no staff to ask. Wait at the wrong one and the coach you are booked on leaves from the other.

FlixBus also disclaims its own website as the authority on where you board: “Please note: your ticket will contain the most up-to-date address information.” Take that as the general Orlando rule. Kerbside stops move and stop lists go stale; the address on the ticket you actually bought is the one to navigate to.

Luggage: four operators, four incompatible rules

No two of the four use the same allowance, and only one of them gives a second checked bag away.

Greyhound in the US includes one small carry-on plus one stored bag; the two-stored-bag allowance applies in Mexico, not here. A paid bulky item is capped at 95 inches of combined width, length and height. The charge for excess or bulky baggage is a band rather than a price — USD 21.99–44.99 — because “Space and fees vary depending on the route, schedule, when you are booking and how you are booking.”

FlixBus states the same idea dimensionally: hand luggage 12 x 7 x 16 in up to 25 lb, one stored bag 20 x 12 x 31 in up to 50 lb, and one bulky item to 95 inches combined and 75 lb, subject to compartment space. Additional baggage sits in the same USD 21.99–44.99 band, with one warning that costs real money: “Adding baggage at the bus is subject to higher fees.” Add it online.

Megabus allows one stowed bag per passenger reservation of no more than 62 inches total exterior dimensions and 50 pounds, plus one small carry-on. There is no extra-bag fee as such: “If you wish to take an extra piece of luggage, you should purchase an additional travel ticket in advance of travel.” Bicycles are not permitted, and liability for lost or damaged luggage is capped at US $250 per passenger. Megabus is also blunt about cabin bags: “Maximum bag sizes that are commonly used for airline carry-on, such as wheeled rectangular bags are typically too large to be taken onboard the bus and will not be permitted in the passenger area.”

RedCoach is the outlier, and for anyone moving house or flying onward it is the reason to book it: “2 checked bags and 1 personal backpack free of charge. Carry-on items must fit under seat” — twice the stowed allowance of the other three. Overweight is priced by the pound rather than as a flat fee, $1 for every pound above 50 on each checked bag. The catch is at the other end: the carry-on limit changes with the class of ticket, First Class 8.5 x 17 in, Business Class 8.75 x 15 in, Economy 7.5 x 15 in. The same bag can be legal on one RedCoach service and refused on the next.

One Orlando-specific trap sits inside the megabus terms. Orlando is one of ten named locations — with New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco and all Texas cities — where a passenger turning up with an extra piece and no second reservation is “requested to pay the full walk-up fare for the carriage of additional pieces of luggage.” Not a baggage fee: a whole fare, bought at the kerb, at the price the last seat is selling for.

On megabus, fifteen minutes is a contract term rather than advice

Most operators suggest arriving early. Megabus writes it into the conditions of carriage: “Customers are required to be at their departure point at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled departure time.” Arriving later can forfeit the ticket outright, with no refund and no credit, and the coach departs at its scheduled time whether or not you are there.

What makes that sharp in Orlando is the nature of the stop it applies to. Megabus states it plainly: “Please note that many stops are curbside, outdoor locations.” The Orange Blossom Trail stop is one — no counter to ask at, no departure board, and nobody to hold the coach while a first-time passenger works out which shelter is the right one. Fifteen minutes is the entire margin, and finding an unfamiliar kerb can consume all of it.

That is also the honest case for paying a little more to leave from John Young Parkway. A terminal open 24 hours has a waiting room at two in the morning and staff to point at the correct bus slip; a car park has neither. On an overnight departure, a long layover between connections or a bad-weather arrival, that is the difference being bought, not the seat.

Published journey times, and the two corridors where rail simply loses

Greyhound publishes fastest times from 555 N John Young Pkwy, and those are the numbers to plan against. Tampa: fastest 1 hr 40 mins over about 82 miles, 6 buses a day, into Tampa Bus Station at 1315 N Marion St. Fort Lauderdale: fastest 3 hr 5 mins over about 215 miles, 12 a day, first departure 12:45 am and last 11:05 pm. Atlanta: fastest 6 hr 15 mins over about 438 miles, 7 a day.

Miami is quoted differently in each direction, which is a useful reminder that these are operator figures rather than measured distances. Southbound Greyhound lists 3 hr 55 mins over about 243 miles, 12 buses a day; northbound, Miami to Orlando is 3 hr 50 mins over about 229 miles, also 12 a day. FlixBus quotes the same corridor at a minimum 3 hr 55 mins over 243 miles with 12 trips. RedCoach publishes the quickest, 3 hours 45 minutes over 236 miles, up to 11 a day between 8:00 am and 11:59 pm, on coaches sold in three classes with “bathrooms, free wifi, and sockets to charge mobile phones, laptops, and any other electronic device”. Note that Miami is not one arrival point: Greyhound splits arrivals across the Miami Intermodal Center at 3801 NW 21st Street, Golden Glades and Miami Beach, so read which of the three the ticket names.

Against those, conventional rail is not in the contest. In the Amtrak Floridian timetable dated Saturday, September 12th, 2026, train 41 leaves Orlando (ORL) at 10:19a and reaches Miami at 6:09p — 7 hours 50 minutes — because the train runs out to Tampa and back along the way. Train 40 northbound is 11:05a to 6:50p, 7 hours 45 minutes. Even to Tampa the train loses: 10:19a to Tampa Union Station at 12:43p is 2 hours 24 minutes against the coach’s 1 hr 40 mins. Amtrak’s Orlando station is at 1400 Sligh Boulevard, south of downtown and nowhere near the bus terminal; the Orlando rail page has the rest of it.

One rail service does beat the coach to Miami, and it leaves from the airport rather than the city. Brightline’s Orlando station is inside Orlando International at 10705 Jeff Fuqua Blvd, reached from Parking Garage C by a Level 5 skyway bridge and joined to Terminal C by a pedestrian bridge, and Brightline publishes the ride as “approximately two hours” to West Palm Beach and three hours thirty minutes to Miami. If the trip starts at the airport, compare that with the coach rather than with Amtrak.

Two more numbers worth having. FlixBus publishes a shortest 20 hr 25 mins to New York over about 907 miles, with 27 departures a day and a first bus at 04:45 am — a real option, and the point at which flying earns a look. And the short hop to Kissimmee is thinner than its 20-odd miles suggest: 34 minutes, but only 3 rides a day, stopping behind the Mobil gas station at 1979 Osceola Pkwy, 34743, a different Osceola Parkway address from RedCoach’s Kissimmee stop at 1471 E. Osceola Parkway. For anyone connecting off a train, the only Thruway motorcoach schedules in the Floridian timetable that reach Orlando are on the Fort Myers line: 6098 daily, Fort Myers 06:00a to Orlando 11:50a, and 6097 daily, Orlando 01:30p to Fort Myers 07:15p, both operated by Amtrak Chartered Motorcoach. The other two schedules on that line, 6091 and 6092, stop short of Orlando.

Reaching an unsigned coach stop without a car

There is no rail link to the coach terminal and no direct airport coach. Orlando International’s own instruction for reaching the Greyhound station is a two-bus LYNX trip: “Take Lynx bus #11 to North Garland Avenue, then take Lynx bus #25 to 500 John Young Parkway” — about 13 miles, roughly 60 minutes, for $2. LYNX boards on the A-side of the terminal, Ground Transportation Level 1, at Commercial Lane spaces A38–A41, which is a different kerb from the out-of-town shuttle vans at Terminal A spaces A14–A15, Terminal B spaces B14–B15 and Terminal C spaces C205–C209.

LYNX fares are $2.00 a ride, $4.50 all day (valid from 4:00 a.m. on the date issued to 3:00 a.m. the next day), $16.00 for 7 days and $50.00 for 30 days, and the onboard rule is unbending: “EXACT FARE REQUIRED No change given.” Transfers cost nothing but expire quickly — “Transfers are limited to 90 minutes. Transfers are not valid on the same link or for round trip purposes.” On a two-bus, 60-minute journey with a wait in the middle, 90 minutes is not a comfortable margin. The downtown LYMMO circulator is fare free.

The Links that matter here are four. Link 11 connects LYNX Central Station with the airport, 4:20a–11:23p weekdays outbound and 5:10a–12:08a inbound. Link 25, Mercy Drive/Shader Road, is the one that passes the coach terminal, with a timepoint at LYNX Ln & N John Young Pkwy; it runs 5:20a–10:20p weekdays outbound and 4:45a–9:10p inbound, so a late-evening Greyhound departure can easily outlast the bus that would get you to it. Link 42 joins the airport to Florida Mall and the kerbside coach stop, 4:25a–12:33a weekdays eastbound and 5:10a–1:10a westbound. Link 107 runs down U.S. 441 to Florida Mall with a timepoint at S Orange Blossom Trail & 45th Street, the nearest transit spine to the megabus kerb, weekday outbound from 4:15a and weekday inbound until 1:03a.

Two closing traps. LYNX Central Station at 455 N. Garland Ave is the local hub, and its windows shut long before the coach terminal does: the terminal window is open Monday to Friday 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., against a Greyhound station that never closes. And SunRail, the commuter railway that touches LYNX Central Station, “only operates service Monday - Friday”, which makes it useless for a weekend coach connection; its fares start at $2.00 within one zone and rise $1.00 per county boundary crossed, to $5.00 one way across four zones. Where none of that fits the timetable, the car hire page covers the other way of doing it, and the general buses page has the cross-city version of the kerb problem.

Common questions

Where do intercity buses leave from in Orlando?

From four different places. Greyhound and FlixBus use the terminal at 555 N John Young Pkwy, which is open 24 hours; the same two also use an unstaffed kerb at 1634 Florida Mall Ave. Megabus uses the Orange Blossom Center stop at 4504 South Orange Blossom Trail. RedCoach uses 1777 McCoy Road, plus the UCF campus at 3820 Libra Drive. Go by the address printed on your own ticket.

Is the Orlando bus station at LYNX Central Station?

No. LYNX Central Station, 455 N. Garland Ave, is the local transit hub and no intercity coach boards there. Its terminal window is open Monday to Friday 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., whereas the Greyhound and FlixBus station on John Young Parkway is open around the clock.

How much luggage is included, and what does an extra bag cost?

Greyhound and FlixBus each include one small carry-on and one stored bag, with excess or bulky items charged in a USD 21.99–44.99 band that varies by route and booking method, and FlixBus warns that adding a bag at the bus costs more than adding it online. Megabus includes one stowed bag of up to 62 inches total dimensions and 50 pounds. RedCoach includes two checked bags and a personal backpack, and charges $1 per pound above 50 on each.

Why is an extra bag so expensive on megabus in Orlando?

Because Orlando is one of ten named locations in the megabus terms where extra luggage without a second passenger reservation is “requested to pay the full walk-up fare for the carriage of additional pieces of luggage.” That is a whole fare at the kerbside price, not a baggage fee. The policy also says an extra piece should be covered by buying an additional travel ticket in advance, which is the cheaper way to do it.

Is the coach faster than the train from Orlando to Miami?

By hours, yes. Greyhound publishes a fastest 3 hr 55 mins southbound and RedCoach 3 hours 45 minutes, against Amtrak’s Floridian train 41 at 10:19a into Miami at 6:09p — 7 hours 50 minutes, because the train detours to Tampa and back. The exception is Brightline, which publishes three hours thirty minutes, but leaves from inside Orlando International rather than from the city.

How do I get from Orlando airport to the Greyhound station?

Orlando International’s own advice is LYNX Link 11 to North Garland Avenue, then Link 25 to John Young Parkway: about 13 miles, roughly 60 minutes, $2, exact fare only. LYNX boards at Terminal A, Ground Transportation Level 1, spaces A38–A41. Watch the clock at the end of the day, because Link 25 inbound finishes around 9:10p on weekdays while the coach station stays open all night.

Sources

Fares, journey times and operating rules on this page were checked against these sources on 11 September 2026. Authorities change fares and timetables without notice — confirm anything time-critical on the operator’s own site.

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