After landing
FLL to your hotel
A hotel airport pickup is property-specific. Confirm its final pickup time, or take a direct car after a late FLL arrival.
Choose an overnight hotelPortMiami · Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to PortMiami
FLLTouch down
PortGet to your ship
- Typical drive (our estimate)
- 35-55 min
- Distance (PortMiami's figure)
- 25.7 miles
Provenance: Port route data · no dated corridor source list
Getting from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to PortMiami — 35-55 min, 25.7 miles
Your fly-in plan for FLL
Arrive the day before.
Give your FLL flight one night of breathing room before you board at PortMiami.
FLLLand
HotelSleep
PortMiamiBoard
Tonight / embarkation morning
Embarkation morning
Hotel to PortMiami
A few Miami hotels publish cruise-shuttle terms. Check the exact pickup, fee, and terminal before booking.
Hotels with a cruise shuttle near PortMiamiFlying into FLL on cruise day?
Avoid it if you can. If you have no alternative, compare the direct options on this page and protect the time you have left.
Transfer Options
FLL is 25.7 miles north of PortMiami by the port's own published figure — plan on 35-55 min by car straight down I-95, and more during rush hour. Flights into FLL often cost less than MIA, but weigh the savings against the longer transfer.
Broward County publishes $86 for a taxi from FLL to the Port of Miami and $90 for a luxury sedan, calling both estimates subject to a fuel surcharge. No shared-shuttle or rideshare fare is published for this route.Best for: Cruisers who found better flight deals to FLL
I-95 traffic can be brutal during rush hour. If your flight arrives during peak times (7-9 AM or 4-7 PM), add extra buffer. Landing the day before and staying near FLL — or in downtown Miami — turns a stressful sail-day transfer into an easy morning ride.
Brightline's Fort Lauderdale station is downtown, not at the airport — a dedicated Brightline shuttle covers the airport-to-station leg. The train reaches MiamiCentral in under 40 minutes, and MiamiCentral is less than a 10-minute drive from PortMiami.
Brightline prices its trains dynamically and publishes no fixed Fort Lauderdale to Miami fare. Its connecting shuttle and the last leg to the port are quoted at booking.Best for: Cruisers who'd rather ride the rails than sit on I-95
The airport shuttle runs 8 AM-7 PM at roughly 30-minute intervals, first-come first-served — no advance reservations, so a very early boarding window means rideshare instead. Premium fares include a complimentary Uber within five miles of the station, which covers the MiamiCentral-to-port leg.
Many Miami hotels offer cruise shuttle packages, especially those near the airport. Quality and timing vary widely.
Bundled into the room rate and quoted by the property; no standing package price is published.Best for: Cruisers who want to bundle hotel + parking + transport
Verify shuttle times before booking — some only run once in the morning — and confirm how many parking nights the package actually includes, because that count varies by property and a seven-night sailing needs eight days of parking. The best packages include both legs, to the port and back. Price the total against a week in the port garage at $25 or $35 a day plus the room you would have booked anyway.
Rideshare is readily available throughout Miami. The port has designated pickup/drop-off areas.
No published fares — pricing is dynamic. Downtown is the shortest hop, South Beach a little longer, MIA 7.1 miles out and Fort Lauderdale 25.7, both PortMiami's own figures.Best for: Flexibility and door-to-door service
On busy embarkation days (Saturdays especially), prices can surge, so the app's estimate the night before is not the price you will pay in the morning. The port drop-off area is well-organized — drivers know where to go.
Traditional taxis are available at the airports and can be hailed downtown.
No fare published by the port for any taxi route — agree the fare or confirm the meter before you set off.Best for: Cruisers who prefer a quoted fare over surge-based rideshare
Taxis can be the better deal when rideshare is surging, but treat any figure you have read online as unverified: neither PortMiami nor the cruise lines publish passenger fares. Confirm the rate with the driver or the stand dispatcher before getting in.
A flight that lands late the night before changes which hotel is the right one. Hotel airport shuttles thin out or go on-call in the late evening, and an on-call pickup after midnight is a wait on the curb with your bags. Plan the last leg as a taxi or rideshare, and choose the hotel on the room and the location instead.
No published fare for the airport-to-hotel leg — it is quoted by the meter or the app, and each property sets its own shuttle hours.Best for: Fly-in cruisers whose flight lands late the night before the cruise
Ask what time the hotel's last airport pickup runs, not whether it has a shuttle — that answer is what the shuttle is worth to you. Then decide where you would rather be at 9 AM: the airport hotels sit minutes from MIA but about 20 from PortMiami, longer in morning traffic, while a downtown room is a longer ride tonight on empty roads and roughly 10 minutes from the terminal in the morning.
PortMiami has parking garages at each terminal. The port is on an island — take the Port Boulevard tunnel from I-395 (toll-free) or the MacArthur Causeway from South Beach. Garages AA (MSC) and B (Norwegian) are $35 per vehicle, per space, per day. Garages C, D, F and G are $25/day long-term and $10 short-term with no overnight — Carnival sails from Terminals D and E and parks in Garage D. Surface Lot E, the open-air option and the only one without a height limit, is $25 per space per day, doubling to $50 if your vehicle takes two spaces. Garage A, serving Royal Caribbean at Terminal A, is the one garage the port does not price on its own page; it refers you to the garage operator's site instead.
$25-35/day for cruise-length garage parking, depending on terminal. Garage A is quoted by its own operator rather than the port.Best for: Cruisers driving from Florida or nearby states
Debit cards are NOT accepted — bring a credit card or cash. Follow signs to your specific terminal number; the port is large and garages are not interchangeable. Check the clearance for your garage before you drive in, because the first floor is much taller than the rest: Garage D drops to 6ft 8in above the ground floor, Garage C to 6ft 10in. The garages are staffed 6am to 5pm on cruise days and the free terminal shuttle runs on cruise days only.
Flying into a different airport?MIA to PortMiami
Cost Comparison
| Option | Cost | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| From Fort Lauderdale Airport (FLL) | CostBroward County publishes $86 for a taxi from FLL to the Port of Miami and $90 for a luxury sedan, calling both estimates subject to a fuel surcharge. No shared-shuttle or rideshare fare is published for this route. | Best ForCruisers who found better flight deals to FLL |
| Brightline Train from Fort Lauderdale (FLL) | CostBrightline prices its trains dynamically and publishes no fixed Fort Lauderdale to Miami fare. Its connecting shuttle and the last leg to the port are quoted at booking. | Best ForCruisers who'd rather ride the rails than sit on I-95 |
| Hotel Shuttle Services | CostBundled into the room rate and quoted by the property; no standing package price is published. | Best ForCruisers who want to bundle hotel + parking + transport |
| Uber/Lyft from Anywhere | CostNo published fares — pricing is dynamic. Downtown is the shortest hop, South Beach a little longer, MIA 7.1 miles out and Fort Lauderdale 25.7, both PortMiami's own figures. | Best ForFlexibility and door-to-door service |
| Taxi | CostNo fare published by the port for any taxi route — agree the fare or confirm the meter before you set off. | Best ForCruisers who prefer a quoted fare over surge-based rideshare |
| Late-Night Arrivals at MIA | CostNo published fare for the airport-to-hotel leg — it is quoted by the meter or the app, and each property sets its own shuttle hours. | Best ForFly-in cruisers whose flight lands late the night before the cruise |
| Driving & Port Parking | Cost$25-35/day for cruise-length garage parking, depending on terminal. Garage A is quoted by its own operator rather than the port. | Best ForCruisers driving from Florida or nearby states |
Local Tip
The 7-9 AM peak on I-95 southbound overlaps exactly with cruise check-in, so leave FLL before 7 or after 9:30 when you can. Landing the day before removes the gamble entirely — a hotel near FLL or in downtown Miami puts you an easy morning ride from the port either way. Taking Brightline? Its first airport shuttle leaves at 8 AM, so a very early boarding window means rideshare to the downtown Fort Lauderdale station or skipping the train altogether. Arriving from abroad, budget 60-90 minutes for immigration and customs before the drive south even starts.
Once you arrive, find your terminal:
Want the complete PortMiami cruise guide?
Restaurants, activities, hotels, terminal tips, parking, packing lists, and boarding advice — all in one page.
View Full GuideLet them watch you sail
We sail from PortMiami. You can watch our ship leave on a live camera at the port.
More PortMiami Guides
ShipsSailing ScheduleTerminalsParking & TransportRestaurantsHotelsActivitiesBoarding TipsPacking List
Flying In?