Brightline Tickets To Orlando: Prices Begin At $79, Available In May

Brightline has unveiled its Orlando station and announced pricing and schedules.

A one-way ticket between Miami and Orlando will start at $79, while premium seats will cost $149 and up.

There will also be bundles available for families of four, starting at under $199.

Ticket sales will launch in May, with service to begin in Summer 2023.

There will be 16 roundtrips per day, with express trains running non-stop between the two biggest stations, as well as regular trains that stop at all Brightline stations.

The express trains will take 2 hours and 59 minutes between Miami and Orlando.

Regular trains, which will stop at all Brightline stations including West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale and Aventura, will have a run time of three hours and 30 minutes.

Trains between Miami and Orlando will depart hourly from early morning until late at night. There will also be dedicated commuter trains still running between Miami and West Palm Beach.

Brightline’s 37,350 square foot Orlando station is now complete, and was shown to reporters this morning.

It includes a bar, lounges and marketplace.

Construction of the Orlando extension is expected to reach substantial completion in May, the company told investors today.

Brightline said it forecasts a total of 4.3 million “long-distance” annual passengers.

Passengers projected by the company to use the new route include:

  • South Florida residents traveling to Orlando (expected to represent approximately 47% of long-distance ridership)
  • Orlando-area residents traveling to South Florida (approximately 18%)
  • U.S. domestic visitors traveling between South Florida and Orlando (approximately 20%)
  • international visitors (approximately 15%).

 

Photos of Brightline’s newly completed Orlando station, unveiled this morning:

 

(photos: Brightline)

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Choo Choo
1 month ago

Honestly not as expensive as I would’ve expected. $200 for a family of four is a really good deal too, hopefully that can scale for bigger/smaller families as well. Also pretty happy with the express trains

Rem
1 month ago

The $79 fare is cheaper than I expected (rumors were $100), but I think that $199 is a one-way price, though, given a single rider one-way was $79. So you’d be $400 round trip for a family/group of 4.
One tank of gas is maybe $100 and that’s all it takes to get there and back. Unless you just really don’t want to drive, I still have a hard time justifying this with it taking roughly the same amount of time as driving. So you’re at 4x the price of just driving, without saving any time and not having a vehicle once you’re up there, which means addition expenses of Uber/taxis unless your hotel has a shuttle for the parks…

Westchester Kid
1 month ago

You make a fair point Rem, the convenience of not driving is really great but Orlando being such a car centric city with no means of getting from the Brightline station to International Drive with the exception of Uber makes it a tough sale for me. However, I will still be trying this service out as I can justify the cost on, for example, a Friday I end up working well into the day and just feel too tired to drive up to Orlando. As a frequent rider to Boca I really love the service it provides.

Rem
1 month ago

Yeah, that’s the other thing, the station is currently at the airport, not near any of the parks.

And I want it to be clear that I’m not against this service….I like the idea of it. I just think they need to have lower fares and/or faster travel time to get around some of those “obstacles” I mentioned above.

Anon
1 month ago

The fair to Wpb used to be 10 dollars. It’s always cheaper when it starts.

Miami4Life
1 month ago

fare*

Me*
1 month ago

Rude*

Anonymous
1 month ago

Will be a great service to UCF students wishing to visit home in South Florida.

Jose
1 month ago

Or Miami folks visiting family that moved to Central Florida because it’s too expensive to live in Soflo now

Anonymous
1 month ago

Or Orlando-South Florida commuters.

Anonymous
1 month ago

all 6 of them

Smith
1 month ago

I go to UF and am planning to take the bus to MCO and then brightline down to Aventura since the bus sucks, would rather spend half the time on rail when can do work

Not Anonymous
1 month ago

This is a prime example of how high-speed passenger rail can work in the U.S. if properly planned and operated. Hopefully other private enterprises will follow suit in other densely populated areas of the country, as well as the federal government investing more into Amtrak.

Mr. Bombardier
1 month ago

It only works if it doesn’t go bankrupt in the process. The jury is still out on that.

Anonymous
1 month ago

if they don’t….. 8% yield on their 25 yr note is amazeballs.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s already left Cali’s publically funded train back in the weeds.

Not Anonymous
1 month ago

People have to stop pointing at Cali’s HSR project as a failure. All major infrastructure projects in the country go overbudget. A quick look at a similar project, the I 65 highway project, is massively more overbudget and expensive, while facilitating the use of dirty cars and destroying large tracts of plains and forests. Brightline is also not comparable, running on existing infrastructure for most of the way and is not elevated like CHSR.

Anonymous
1 month ago

So Commiefornia can’t even get freeways right, let alone a train whose first phase is to nowhere? Yeah, you proved a point alright.

uh..
1 month ago

Show me on the doll where California hurt you…

Anon
1 month ago

Still waiting for the Free State of Florida to deliver the signature bridge on time and on budget.

Ignacius Reilly
1 month ago

CORRECTION: All major GOVERNMENT infrastructure projects go overbudget.

Not Anonymous
1 month ago

Lol private ones do too (remember that Brightline to Orlando was first scheduled for 2017)

Anonymous
1 month ago

Good luck expanding Amtrak when the fairy Secretary of Transportation is would rather demonize railroad owners Amtrak depends on, and spend money on making bridges not ray-cyst.

Anon
1 month ago

Hater, you’re probably fighting with Disney and making fake culture wars so you can say you won something in life, while you sit at home with no gas. Pete is the man!

Ignacius Reilly
1 month ago

“Pete is the man!”
Wow….
That is the first time that I have ever heard anyone ever say that.

150mph
1 month ago

Brightline is not a high-speed train. At least not yet.

Anon
1 month ago

It’s the furthest thing from a prime example. Brightline only works because half the infrastructure was already in place, they own the ROW, and they own a ton of land where the stations are being built.

For the millionth time: Brightline is a RE development play, not high-speed rail alone

Anon
1 month ago

There are unused rail lines all over the country. The brightline model is great solution that can be repeated.

Ignacius Reilly
1 month ago

Obvious to you and me…not obvious to most people evidently.

Google this: “Harbor Group International Buys ParkLine Miami in Record Residential Deal’

Anonymous
1 month ago

Cant wait to try this out!

Anonymous
1 month ago
Mr. Bombardier
1 month ago

4.3M passengers divided by 365 days divided by 32 trains = 368 passengers per train, every train.

That requires five regular coaches and one premium coach and then selling 97% of all seats.

That’s a very tall order.

Original 2013 All Aboard Florida business case called for 1.5 to 2M passengers for long-distance.

Something is going to give here.

BDub
1 month ago

They’ll be able to add more service as demand increases. According to Wikipedia, they will have a total of 15 4-car trainsets by 2025.

Ñooo que barato!!!
1 month ago

amazing infrastructure project. hopefully this alleviates traffic and reduces the strain on solely-car dependent infrastructure that plagues not just florida but most of the americas.

Mmmm
1 month ago

Not bad!

Anonymous but you can call me Mike
1 month ago

Not bad at all> MIA to MCO in Orlando with AA starts at $114 in basic economy for a 1 hr and 13 minutes flight. Considering that you have to be at the airport 1 hour in advance and deal with security and long walks to terminal I can see how this may start diverting 100% of the traffic to rail.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Does it stop at Disney?

Anonymous
1 month ago

it will stop at Disney on 2027

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yay!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Wrong

Anonymous
1 month ago

It will not stop at Disney, they were offered a station and refused. It will stop at Orlando International Airport and Universal/I-Drive.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That sucks then.

Anonymous
1 month ago

So… more central to all the theme parks, the convention center, and penetration into an autocentric area. Win-win.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It sucks. Disney is our State biggest attraction. We needed a stop there.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The beach is actually the state’s #1 attraction.

Ignacius Reilly
1 month ago

“we” don’t “need” a stop there.
WE haven’t had a stop there since 1968 and WE still don’t need one there.

If Disney put Space Mountain in a UHaul and headed to California, Universal would buy up their old property for 40 cents on the dollar and the attraction would do just fine.

Anon
1 month ago

Love the project, but what’s the point for Miami travelers to arrive at the Orlando airport? You’ll pay half the fare in Uber getting anywhere.

Anon
1 month ago

The station Seems small for that passenger count, no?

Anonymous
1 month ago

A lot of the passengers will be small kids. They don’t take up much room.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Lol Orlando is way more than Disney

Anonymous
1 month ago

LOL, what? It looks just as cramped as Miami’s except not a concrete atrocity below a parking garage and two cereal box towers.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Except they run around, in which small spaces poses danger. What are you talking about?

Anonymous
1 month ago

^are you an 80 year old who trips over gum wrappers?

Melo is sigma and Chad
1 month ago

They probably see if there is enough demand for the orlando to FTL and Orlando to Boca routes.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Bozos in this state are all about EVENTS. I am certain Amtrak was a hit back when it first started and was a novelty to ‘try out’ as well. All fun and games until 10years go by. That is the real test. Most of these folks on this site are children, act like newbies to everything and have no understanding of how to make comparisons. Trying to compare every NEW thing to things that have been around for a hundred years then wonder WHY they don’t yield the same results. These are the same people who draw conclusions from something in operation for 1 week with something proven out both pros and cons for over 50yrs! Just a bunch of uneducated ningcumpoops living in this place. It’s like it attracts the least intelligence from everywhere to setup shop here. They shout we’ve won 2mins into the first quarter if this was an NFL or NBA game!

Anonymous
1 month ago

People on this site: “I bought a Tesla, been driving it for a month now, it’s awesome. I compare it to my 1978 Ford and no comparison. Ford sucks. Detroit sucks, inefficient and the state of Michigan don’t know how to make cars and is dying fast. I love Elon!”

Ignacius Reilly
1 month ago

????

Anonymous
1 month ago

Damn shame they won’t allow firearms, not even in baggage like airlines allow. We’ll be driving up I guess, which will still be cheaper in the end. It would have been convenient until we got to Orlando, where we’d then need to rent a car, so we don’t save anything and we’re inconvenienced with not being able to carry or even transport.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Hope you drive on out of the state. We want safe comfortable transit, not the Wild Wild West ride.

Antonio
1 month ago

Miami Orlando in 3h? Sorry, I don’t buy it. But I am sure old people on vacation will love it. Could we have a fast train in Florida please?

Anonymous
1 month ago

You must be one of those old people if you think it still takes less than three hours to get to Orlando on Florida roads today.

A Traveling Construction Worker
1 month ago

I drive to west Palm every morning, it takes at minimum 2 hrs – 2hr 30 mins each way from Cocoa. I also drive to Orlando on occasions to get to the airport. That takes bout 1 hour. I also drive to Miami for work, that’s 3hr 30 ms, less if I’m lucky. How in the hell is driving better? I be ready to tap out after getting out of south Florida knowing I still got 2 hours left of driving. I’m never driving to SoFlo again unless I absolutely have to.