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Old 05-30-2021, 11:01 AM
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If I may add……..the “bus” type transportations is called Workman Transportation….formally The Villages Transportation. They were bought out. This service is a large white bus like transporter that has “Workman Transportation” on the side of it. For an extra fee, You may schedule to have a home pick up/drop off scheduled with them. You will be picked up by a van with a different driver than the “bus driver” and then taken to either Brownwood Hotel or Sumter Landing (designated pick up places) where the Bus will take you to the airport from there. The bus takes you directly to the airport….Terminal and and B. They run on time and very efficiently. The busses are clean and comfortable.

The Village Airport Van is completely different. It is a van with a yellow stripe down the side of it and picks you up and drops you off at your home. There are many down sides to this company.
1. You are packed in like sardines in a very uncomfortable, unkept older van.
2. You have to endure riding all over creation to pick up or drop off other people.
3. Some people aren’t even ready when picked up….you have to sit in the van and wait for them.
4. You could be an hour plus EXTRA from the time it takes the Van to get back to the villages to get dropped off back to your house. So if it takes 1.5 hours to get back to The Villages from MCO, you could be 2.5 hours getting home.
5. If there are people in the van that are chatty…..you get to listen to them practically talking in your ear all the way on the ride.

Hope that clears up the difference between Workman Transportation and Village Airport Van.