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Choose an overnight hotelBayonne, NJ · Cape Liberty Cruise Port · Newark Liberty International Airport
Newark Liberty International Airport to Cape Liberty Cruise Port
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EWR to Cape Liberty, as published
Corridor guide · sources dated on this page · checked August 25, 2026
Taxi
No flat fare — Bayonne is not on Newark's table
Jersey City, the nearest town it does list, is $56 before tolls, tip and fees.
Shared van
No published fare
Newark names five authorised van operators; none of them lists Bayonne.
Cruise-line coach
Priced in your booking
Royal Caribbean runs a motorcoach programme and publishes no fare for it.
Typical drive (our estimate)25-35 min
Distance (our estimate)9 miles
Getting from Newark Liberty International Airport to Cape Liberty Cruise Port — 25-35 min, 9 miles
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CruiseDayGuide · Updated September 22, 2026 · sources checked August 25, 2026
Nine miles, and not one operator publishes a price for them. That is the honest answer to this corridor, and it is worth knowing before you budget a number.
EWR to Cape Liberty, mode by mode
Newark Liberty publishes a taxi fare table and a list of authorised vans. Neither one reaches Bayonne, and that absence is the finding. Nobody publishes a drive time either: our own routing of the empty road is 24 minutes for 8.9 miles (OpenStreetMap/Valhalla, 2026-09-22), so traffic only adds to it.
| How you travel | Price as published | Time and distance | What the source says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxi | Price as publishedNo flat fare published — Bayonne is not on the airport's fare table | Time and distance25-35 min, 9 miles by the New Jersey Turnpike | What the source saysNewark lists Jersey City at $56 and Union City at $62, but nothing for Bayonne, so the meter decides. The airport adds $1 per bag over 24 inches and fees of $6.75 to $15.75 on top of any fare. |
| Uber or Lyft | Price as publishedNo published fare — both price by demand at the moment you book | Time and distance25-35 min, 9 miles by the New Jersey Turnpike | What the source saysThere is no regulated benchmark to check an app quote against here, because the airport's table stops short of Bayonne. |
| Shared van | Price as publishedNone published for this route | Time and distance— | What the source saysNewark's authorised van and shuttle page names five operators. None of them lists Bayonne or Cape Liberty as a destination, and none publishes a fare for it. |
| Cruise-line motorcoach | Price as publishedNot published — quoted inside your cruise booking | Time and distance25-35 min, 9 miles | What the source saysRoyal Caribbean names an East Coast regional motorcoach programme for this port and publishes a reservations line rather than a price. |
| AirTrain and NJ Transit | Price as published$8.75 AirTrain, included when you buy an NJ Transit rail ticket to EWR | Time and distanceReaches Newark Penn Station, not the pier | What the source saysThere is no rail station at Cape Liberty, so this only shortens the paid car ride rather than replacing it. Nobody publishes the last leg. |
marks a row read at the source, including the rows where the source publishes no price. Every operator we checked either omits this route or quotes it privately, so the price cells say so.
Questions people ask about this route
Newark Liberty publishes a taxi fare table for New Jersey, and Bayonne is not on it, so there is no flat fare to quote and the meter runs. The nearest town the table does list is Jersey City at $56, before tolls, tip and the airport's own fees.
Not a scheduled one with a published price. Newark's authorised van and shuttle page names five operators and not one of them lists Bayonne. Royal Caribbean runs a regional motorcoach programme to this port instead, and prices it inside your own booking rather than on a page.
Twenty-five to thirty-five minutes for the nine miles, almost all of it on the New Jersey Turnpike to exit 14A. Even the empty road takes 24 minutes on our own routing, and sailing mornings usually miss rush hour. The risk on this corridor is your flight, not the road.
The same way you came, with the same absence of a published fare. Arrange a car the night before rather than opening an app on the pier, because debarkation empties a whole ship onto one curb inside an hour and nine miles of Turnpike does not help you then.
Where these figures come from
- newarkairport.com — Taxi service and fare table · read August 25, 2026
- newarkairport.com — Van and shuttle service · read August 25, 2026
- royalcaribbean.com — Directions and parking, Cape Liberty · read August 25, 2026
Published fares change without notice, so every figure here carries the date we read it. Reconfirm anything time-sensitive before you travel.
Local Tip
Rideshare pickup at EWR is curbside on the arrivals level outside your terminal — the app will route you there. If your cruise line runs its own EWR shuttle, it's a scheduled departure tied to the boarding window, not on demand, so confirm the pickup time when you book. Budget 60-90 minutes for immigration and customs if you're one of Newark's international arrivals, before that ride to Cape Liberty even starts. If you are flying in from outside the US, sort your entry authorization before you book: most visa-waiver travelers need an approved ESTA, it is not issued at the airport, and without one the airline will not board you. Apply through the official CBP site at esta.cbp.dhs.gov — never a paid intermediary.
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