Transportation to Port Everglades
 

We are leaving for a 9 day cruise on Oct. 20 out of Port Everglades. Does anyone know of any private transportation who will take and bring us back door-to-door? Of course, also interested in the price.

Compare any price to parking your car there. 9 day cruise might be more but we figure any 4-5 day cruises we will just drive in and park.

Good Luck. Port is +/- 250 miles away and depending on traffic 4.5- 6.0 hours away. Might try to fly from Orlando to Ft. Lauderdale($61 per person each way) and airport is near the port. Do not know of any services but suspect that private car/Uber will be very expensive.

You might want to post on your sailing's "roll call" thread on CruiseCritic [dot] com and ask if anyone from The Villages will be sailing on your cruise. If so, maybe you could do a ride-share thing with them.

Good luck.

kathy

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I don’t know what he charges

We always drive down the day before and stay at a hotel and then park at the Park N Go near the port. They have dedicated shuttle buses for each ship leaving that day and pick up right at the port. We like to go a day early and start our vacation early.:). You could always rent a car each way also.

Be careful. I had a car breakdown in Fruitland Park and a cab cost me 275 dollars just to get to Altamonte Springs.

Fly inand hop a cab over to the Port. I dont know when your cruise is but you have heard the first couple came back with covid victims, right? Your decision but its. A little early to be jumping on a ship

Yankee Trails has buses that go to the ports. Have used them several times. They leave from Bealls on 441 ( Next to Lowe’s). Also , an office there .
(352) 633 -4643 . $90. round trip. Free if you book with them.

Transport limo service
 

You can call Pete or Raul at (216) 287-5096.

Nor sure of price.

Options
 

We have cruised from Ft. Lauderdale many times.

This doesn’t answer the question you asked, but just gives two other options. We have stayed at the Cambria Suites in Dania Beach the night before cruises. They have a shuttle to and from the cruise port and free parking for your car while you are gone. We have done this when we were on a 15 day cruise a couple of times. Cambria Hotel & Suites Ft Lauderdale Airport South & Cruise Port FL FLL Airport - Park Sleep Hotels

We have also just parked at the cruise port for $20 a day many times at Ft. Lauderdale and Miami. I don’t know if that is still the fee or if it has gone up.

The suggestion to check out the Roll Call for your cruise on Cruise Critic is an excellent one. Since moving to The Villages, we have only been on one cruise where we haven’t met someone from here and that was a Baltic cruise and we have been on over 20 cruises just since we moved here.

Have a great cruise!

Rental car one way to or from Fort Lauderdale is expensive. Might as well just drive to the port and park at the port. We have parked at Port Everglades at the convention center parking garage which is near terminal 2 and 4 many times. Princess uses terminal 2 for their large ships. Cost has been $15 per night and it is off the ship, in the car and home in 4 to 4 1/2 hours. There are hotels that allow you to stay one night and leave your car at the hotel for the duration of the cruise by using their stay and fly/cruise rate. Some of the hotels charge a nominal fee for every night over 7 nights. You have to search for the stay and fly packages.

If you were a Member of the Unique Travel Club you could fly out of Leesburg Airport which is minutes away from The Villages. The flight would be direct and take about an hour and fifteen minutes.

Port Everglades is close to Fort Lauderdale airport and take a taxi or Uber to ship should not be bad. It’s 4 hr drive down if you drive and park vary where you chose. Do your search. There AAA or AARP discounts at different parking places. SW goes into Ft Lauderdale and has cheap flights. Watch for their sales you can always change if price change too. You would pick later morning flight or afternoon coming home.

Call Paul Preuit at 352-531-6591or text him. Email Narralimo@aol.com. He has five new cars and responsible drivers. They will pick you up on time at your house and drive you to any airport or dock you want. Very trustworthy. He drove me to Sanford airport a couple days ago, and it was great.

He will also drive cars north and fly home. DC? Philadelphia? New York? Boston? Much cheaper than using the Auto-Train. I was amazed. Save his name and number. Usually for airport runs, it’s good to make a reservation for a ride. I arranged a ride a day in advance, but that was a fluke.