City buses at MVD drop right by Terminal 1’s curb
Bus Parking at Carrasco (MVD) mainly serves group coaches pulling up to Terminal 1 rather than a classic long-stay lot. It’s set up for tour groups, school trips, and charters arriving together in one vehicle, not for individual cars. The stand is within a 2-minute walk of the main departures doors, so passengers step off the coach and head straight into T1 without crossing big parking fields.
This area is for group coaches only, not private vehicles or taxis, and it sits on the same terminal access road used by public bus lines like COT and Cutcsa. There’s no posted daily rate for Bus Parking, because coaches usually load, unload, and move on instead of staying all day. If you’re organizing a group drop-off for a flight that leaves at 07:00, plan your bus arrival for about 05:00 and factor in the short 2-minute walk for luggage and headcounts.
Most budget travelers and many airport workers just use regular city routes that stop on the terminal side of the access road and walk in to T1, treating the bus like any other local service. Reviews on FlyerTalk and Reddit talk about which line to catch from Montevideo’s Tres Cruces terminal, but they don’t mention any dedicated coach compound or long-term staging lot. That matches what you see on the ground: buses pull up, doors open, people hop off, and the bus leaves again.
If you’re running a charter coach, coordinate exact timing with your group and with the driver so you’re not lingering in the loading area during the afternoon bank of departures around 15:00–18:00. One practical tip: agree on a very clear pick-up time and spot at the same terminal curb, then tell everyone “bags off the belt and outside within 20 minutes of landing” to keep the coach from circling.
2 min walk