Cruise Connections, Both Directions

South Florida cruising is a four-node network: MIA and FLL on the airport side, PortMiami and Port Everglades on the water side. Every itinerary eventually needs a leg between two of those nodes, and each pairing has its own distance, traffic pattern, and terminal quirks. MIA to Port Everglades runs about 25 miles; FLL to PortMiami about 28; the airport nearest each port is a 10-to-15 minute hop; and the port-to-port run between the two harbors covers roughly 27 miles of I-95.

The port-to-port transfer deserves special mention because almost nobody else plans for it. Back-to-back cruisers stepping off a ship at Port Everglades to board another at PortMiami the same morning have a tight, luggage-heavy connection that no shuttle serves properly. We stage the car for your disembarkation group number, load everything once, and deliver you to the next terminal before general boarding opens. Fares for these ground connections start at $75; airport-to-port legs start at $89.

Timing is the entire product on sailing day. Ships board from late morning and close the gangway well before the published departure; disembarkation runs from about 7:30 to 10:00 with customs queues in between. We schedule against those windows, track flights for fly-in passengers, and keep 24/7 dispatch on the phone number at the top of this page, because a Sunday 6:00 a.m. connection question deserves an answer at Sunday 6:00 a.m.

What to expect