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Before you can set sail on your dream cruise, you've got to get to the port your cruise ship leaves from. Many cruises setting sail for the Caribbean leave from the Port of Miami-Dade, known as PortMiami, on Biscayne Bay. Certain cruise packages may include the airfare to Miami, Florida, from your city. If you are flying into Miami International Airport or coming from the greater Miami area, you can choose among several public and private transportation options to get you to the port.
Shared Shuttle Service
If you are flying into Miami for your cruise, check to see if your cruise line runs a shuttle from Miami International Airport (miami-airport.com). Many of them do, including Royal Caribbean(royalcaribbean.com), Carnival Cruises (carnival.com), Celebrity Cruises (celebritycruises.com) and Norwegian Cruise Lines (ncl.com). While some cruise lines include the cost of shuttle transportation in your total cruise package, others require you to pay for it separately. If your cruise package does not offer shuttle transportation, the Miami Airport has a number of shuttle operators that can get you to the cruise port, including Super Shuttle (supershuttle.com), which charges $15 at the time of publication.
To take the train to the Port of Miami from Miami International Airport, take the Orange line from the airport's Metrorail (miamidade.gov/transit) station to the Overtown/Arena Station. You can also take the Orange line in the same direction from downtown Miami Metro stations. From there, take Metro bus 243 to the cruise port, which stops at specific cruise ship terminals. However, the bus only runs during weekday rush hours. If you must travel at any other time, take a taxi about a mile east from the Overtown/Arena Station to the port.
Taxi and Private Car Services
You can take a taxi from the airport to the cruise port for about $25 at the time of publication. You must wait in the designated taxi line outside of your terminal. Another option, if you prefer to travel in style, is to take a private car service. This is ideal if you do not want wait in line for a taxi when you need to get to the cruise port in a hurry, or if you are traveling with a large group. Private car services available from the airport include Transmiami (transmiami.com) and Family Car & Limo Service (familycarservice.com).
If you prefer to drive yourself with a rental car from the airport, follow the airport exit signs and merge onto 21st Street Northwest going east for less than a mile. Make a right onto 37th Avenue Northwest, then merge onto Interstate 836 East and drive for nearly four miles. Take Exit 2A toward Biscayne Boulevard. Make a right on Biscayne Boulevard and follow it for about a half mile, then make a left onto 5th Street Northeast, which becomes Port Boulevard. Port Boulevard will take you over the bridge to the port.
Miami-Dade.Gov: Miami-Dade Transit: Riding Metrorail
Miami-Dade.Gov: Miami-Dade Transit: Route 243 Seaport Connection
Transmiami: Port of Miami Limo Service
Family Car & Limo Service: Port of Limousine Service
Miami-Dade.Gov: PortMiami -- Cruise Lines
Based in Los Angeles, Zora Hughes has been writing travel, parenting, cooking and relationship articles since 2010. Her work includes writing city profiles for Groupon. She also writes screenplays and won the S. Randolph Playwriting Award in 2004. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in television writing/producing and a Master of Arts Management in entertainment media management, both from Columbia College.
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