RV Rentals for MEGACON Orlando

The convention centre charges forty-two dollars a day for an oversized vehicle and will not let it stay the night. A camper van sidesteps both.

Modern camper van parked near an Orlando convention center with palm trees and visitors in the background.

Class A motorhome parked in an oversized Orlando convention-area parking space beside standard vehicles.

International Drive, four days

Priced by the Day, Banned by the Night

Twenty-One or Forty-Two

The centre charges twenty-one thirty for a standard vehicle and forty-two sixty for an oversized one, tax included.

Out by Eleven on Sunday

Exhibitor breakdown has run from just after five until eleven at night on the closing Sunday.

Our Manager and the Orlando team field the same MEGACON question every spring, which is whether the convention centre will take a rig. By day it will, at forty-two dollars sixty including tax for an oversized vehicle against twenty-one thirty for a standard one, first come first served and card or phone only since the lots went cashless. By night it will not, because the centre says overnight parking is not allowed, full stop. That one line is why we tell people to pick the camper van for this show: it fits an ordinary bay and pays the standard rate. If you are exhibiting, say so, because breakdown has run from just after five until eleven on the closing Sunday.

Clean camper van interior prepared for an Orlando convention trip with a made bed and compact kitchen.

Empty Orlando convention center parking lot illuminated at night after an event.

The overnight rule

Overnight Parking Is Not Allowed

That is the convention centre's own wording, and it is the fact the whole trip has to be planned around. During show hours you can park an oversized vehicle perfectly legally for forty-two dollars sixty including tax, first come and first served, card or phone only since the lots went cashless. When the doors shut, it has to go somewhere else.

Somewhere else is the easy part. Orange County has more campground capacity within half an hour of International Drive than most states manage, and we deliver to it, connect the unit and collect it afterwards, so the rig never has to move during the show at all. If you are weighing it against four nights of I-Drive hotel rates, our pricing is the comparison to make.

Which unit, and why

The One That Fits a Normal Space

There is a unit in our fleet that solves this neatly. The camper van sleeps four, drives like a tall estate car and takes an ordinary parking bay, which means the standard rate rather than the oversized one. Over four days that difference is most of a badge.

For a bigger group the sums change and a motorhome earns its oversized rate back on the first night you are not paying for two hotel rooms. Exhibitors should note the other half of it: breakdown has run late into Sunday night, exhibitors are told to make their own parking arrangements, and there is nowhere on site to sleep afterwards. Tell us whether you are exhibiting and we will plan the Sunday. [VERIFY: delivery fee and radius are still unconfirmed.]