There is a great parking lot basically across the street from port in Ft. Lauderdale called Park N Go. We try to cruise out of Ft. Lauderdale when we can. They are great. It’s a five min shuttle ride to port from there. We just returned earlier this month from a Navigator of the Seas cruise from Miami. RC has a beautiful new terminal and since it was just a 4 day cruise, we decided to park in their garage. What a breeze that was! We followed parking directions to Level 3 in their garage where they took our bags for us and we just had to go down the elevator and were inside the terminal! It was so easy.
We are going drive down to Mobile day before we cruise. We are going to stay at a Marriott that does a park and cruise and take a shuttle to the cruise port. We cruise out Tampa on our first cruise this year I just pay the $20 extra to valet parking. I have learned a lot watching your videos for our next cruise in February.
I always arrive at port a day before embarkation. I pick a hotel that has a shuttle (sometimes free) to the port and that allows free parking while on the cruise. Compared to paying to park at the port terminal I get the equivalent of a free night in the hotel.
I’d love info on offsite parking in NOLA. Maybe it was because we went around Marcus Gras, it port parking was the cheapest option I found when I left out of NOLA.
Park N Go in FLL is the best. Port Everglades is a busy, federal port, which means enhanced security and long lines at the gates. Park N Go breezes through their special entrances.
We usually... always do the park and stay. It is just nice to relax the day before in the pool and then likeyou stated its so easy to just hop on that shuttle..they take care of everything and all we need to do is get off the shuttle and head on the ship. :)
I so agree, offsite parking... I usually rode with family to the port & contribute to parking offsite, this year I booked an offsite parking for $42/7 day cruise. In 2011 & 2015 we drove to Miami stayed at La Quinta with my daughters Military discounts was able to park for Free for our 7 day cruise, such a savings
Sydney has 2 cruise terminals, the OPT (Overseas Passenger Terminal) and White Bay. (White Bay tends to have the smaller ships that will fit under the Harbour Bridge) The OPT is right in the middle of Circular Quay and the train station is only a 5 minute walk to the OTP. If flying into Sydney the best option is to catch a train from the airport. This train goes to Circular Quay so there is no changing platforms requred. You also won't get lost from the train station to the OTP because the first thing you see when you get off the train is a dirty great big boat. As for White Bay there is next to no public transport and even taxis and Ubers get lost sometimes taking you there. Luckily for us our daughter only lives 10 minutes away from White Bay so we usually get her to drive us.
I parked offsite this past July. I just didn't want to pay so much for the parking at the port. I parked at the Fulton Garage in New Orleans and parking was $13.00 if you didn't prepaid online (which was about $10.00). The shuttle was there when I got there and it was soo easy to get out of the garage. The garage was maybe 5 minutes away from the port. Maybe less. My car was was not touched (other than they put a green sticker on my window I guess to say my car will be there for 4 days). Nothing was missing I'm trying to find offsite parking for Mobile and its very hard to find a parking garage that will shuttle me to the terminal. I live 3 hours away and I wasn't going to come in the day before since I'm not that far from Mobile. I guess I will continue to do research on the parking. If I was going back to New Orleans, I would had used Fulton Garage again.
Not sure about overseas but in Australia the offsite parking stations as well as the onsite parking stations will have deals and it pays to shop around. Tomorrow we are flying to the USA and it was cheaper (with a discount code) to use the onsite parking then it is with the offsite parking stations.
Sorry I am now waffling, however our next cruise required us to be a little creative with our parking. In November we are going on 2 cruises (close to Back to Back but not quite) Our first cruise is Brisbane to Sydney (only 2 nights) In Brisbane they have also 2 cruise terminals. The first cruise leaves Fishermans Island so we are parking our car at the other port called Portside Wharf (Brisbane's International Port) Part of the deal is they will drive us in a shuttle from Portside to Fisherman's Island. After the first cruise we stay 2 nights in Sydney then we fly back to Brisbane. The carparking people will then pick us up from Brisbane airport and take us to Portside Wharf where we will then catch our 2nd cruise (only 3 nights) with this cruise coming back to Portside. After the 2nd cruise we simply pickup our car and drive back home. It is a good cheap way of doing it this way because we don't have to then pay for an Uber or Taxi.
We do use the Cruise Port parking, yes it is more expensive, but easiest for us. Don’t have to handle luggage much, we drive around to front side and porters take luggage there, we just give them a tip. I have a disability that makes it difficult for us to take shuttles, wish we could as it’s great to save money.
my wife and I sail out of Port Canaveral in Nov. I'm definitely thinking about off site parking this time. I have always parked at the port. Now we can afford a few more drinks at Senior Frogs :)
A suggestion to look into is long-term parking at the airport. I know all airport long-term parking varies but where I live it’s six dollars a day. So when you park your car at the lot they have a shuttle that will take you to the airport just need to get from the airport to the port.
So looking at the FT. Lauderdale airport parking web page. $3.99 a day to park. Most hotels around the airport will pick you up for free. And most offer shuttle service to the port, for a small fee.
Flying is definitely cheaper from Abilene, Texas, however, I have a 45ft with 14ft clearance motor home and was wondering if there is any rv parks or parking areas at cruise ports. Just curious.
Hi Tony. I'm from Canada. I enjoy your video's. Is there a place that I could park off-site at Brooklyn cruise terminal or near my? Thanks in advance for your Help. Joe
Absolutely agree with you. Just returned from our cruise, left out of Tampa. Did off site parking with shuttle it was perfect for myself and my daughter-in-law. They got the suitcases out of the trunk loaded in the Van. Unloaded them out of the Van and straight to the porters. We didn't have to touch our suitcases once they were in the car. Also it was much cheaper than parking at the port.
Do you have any suggestion where to park in Miami Port for the Royal Caribbean? Ive seen some google reviews and most of the reviews of the offsite parking were terrible.
Do you have any suggestion for off parking it Port Everglades. Last year we used the combo pkg and still had to pay for transportation to the port, but this year we are staying at a different hotel.
Since I haven't figured out the contact info for the "Mythical Dragon" 😢 any other suggestions for a park & stay in Tampa! I would really like one that has shuttle service on both ends cause we'll probably stay the nite b4 we leave as well as the nite after so we can check out Tampa. We are cruising in April 2020, our 1st! Woohoo, 281 days til departure! Tx in advance!
We stayed at the Tahitian in Tampa and I was great. They had park and cruise package. Here the video we did on it. th-cam.com/video/Xcj6KunVRZM/w-d-xo.html
I am gonna park at the terminal, I would rather leave right away. Also, The argument about not paying extra money parking at the terminal, but yet some people don't mind paying for the first to the fun. I guess it all depends what everyone figures their priorities are.
Have you every cruise out of Cape Liberty in New Jersey? Would you still recommend offsite parking? First time to cruise from Cape Liberty and will be driving in from Toronto, so any advice/insight would be great
@@serel777 Yes we had an amazing time! We decided to park at port. No regrets. Easy to drop off 4 of us and luggage and go park. Arrived at 10:30a, so no problem with finding a spot or crowds. Upon departure we self disembarked so easy and quick. Husband went to get car and we stood by a space and quickly loaded bags. So easy. We would definitely use again. Maybe not for 14 day but with 6 day it was great. $110
Flying in here...I hear it is $20.00 a day to port park eh?....will the hotel let you park there if you stay the night before the cruise? For a fee even would be less than $20.00/day in Miami....on Hurricane watch here for late Sept disembarkation on NCL Getaway...Wahoo...21 days left...
how do you find these other places to park? I really don't want to pay $22 a day so I asked a friend to drive my husbands truck to and from to drop us off but if I could find a cheep place to park the truck I could avoid bothering my friendly mythical dragon (her name is Jennay too!).
I have a question. Is there a time that cruise ships generally start boarding? I am sure that some times depend on status but they need to get people off the ship and clean so I imagine they have a time that boarding would start. The reason why I ask is there is a video by another tuber regarding FTTF. They got to the port very early, had to wait, didn't access their room. I suspect they did not understand boarding times and assumed that they could just show up whenever they wanted.
Please explain what you mean. We are scheduled to get on our NCL ship the same day as the Super Bowl in 2025 and parking is a huge question mark for us. The questions are 'will there be room?'.... "how early do we need to be to ensure we get a spot?" The last time we were in a hotel 2 blocks away with a shuttle...the shuttle literally took over an hour to get to the port at 10am. We've got far more questions than answers. We've already been told that if we wanted to same hotel the rooms will be over $1000 for the night so we are looking at hours away for an overnight hotel.
Chilling on a Sunday and watching a video that does not apply to me but it's La Lido Loca vlog so I have to watch
I agree. parking off site is more convenient cheaper by 50%% and it is very safe. Shuttles takes you right to your cruise.
There is a great parking lot basically across the street from port in Ft. Lauderdale called Park N Go. We try to cruise out of Ft. Lauderdale when we can. They are great. It’s a five min shuttle ride to port from there. We just returned earlier this month from a Navigator of the Seas cruise from Miami. RC has a beautiful new terminal and since it was just a 4 day cruise, we decided to park in their garage. What a breeze that was! We followed parking directions to Level 3 in their garage where they took our bags for us and we just had to go down the elevator and were inside the terminal! It was so easy.
We are going drive down to Mobile day before we cruise. We are going to stay at a Marriott that does a park and cruise and take a shuttle to the cruise port. We cruise out Tampa on our first cruise this year I just pay the $20 extra to valet parking. I have learned a lot watching your videos for our next cruise in February.
I always arrive at port a day before embarkation. I pick a hotel that has a shuttle (sometimes free) to the port and that allows free parking while on the cruise. Compared to paying to park at the port terminal I get the equivalent of a free night in the hotel.
I agree.
Loved the offsite parking in New Orleans
I’d love info on offsite parking in NOLA. Maybe it was because we went around Marcus Gras, it port parking was the cheapest option I found when I left out of NOLA.
Park N Go in FLL is the best. Port Everglades is a busy, federal port, which means enhanced security and long lines at the gates. Park N Go breezes through their special entrances.
We usually... always do the park and stay. It is just nice to relax the day before in the pool and then likeyou stated its so easy to just hop on that shuttle..they take care of everything and all we need to do is get off the shuttle and head on the ship. :)
Looking good I agree I’m shuttled all the time
I so agree, offsite parking... I usually rode with family to the port & contribute to parking offsite, this year I booked an offsite parking for $42/7 day cruise. In 2011 & 2015 we drove to Miami stayed at La Quinta with my daughters Military discounts was able to park for Free for our 7 day cruise, such a savings
Sydney has 2 cruise terminals, the OPT (Overseas Passenger Terminal) and White Bay. (White Bay tends to have the smaller ships that will fit under the Harbour Bridge) The OPT is right in the middle of Circular Quay and the train station is only a 5 minute walk to the OTP. If flying into Sydney the best option is to catch a train from the airport. This train goes to Circular Quay so there is no changing platforms requred. You also won't get lost from the train station to the OTP because the first thing you see when you get off the train is a dirty great big boat. As for White Bay there is next to no public transport and even taxis and Ubers get lost sometimes taking you there. Luckily for us our daughter only lives 10 minutes away from White Bay so we usually get her to drive us.
Now that sounds like a plan. I need to encourage my daughter in Florida to move closer to a cruise port! - Tony
I parked offsite this past July. I just didn't want to pay so much for the parking at the port.
I parked at the Fulton Garage in New Orleans and parking was $13.00 if you didn't prepaid online (which was about $10.00). The shuttle was there when I got there and it was soo easy to get out of the garage. The garage was maybe 5 minutes away from the port. Maybe less. My car was was not touched (other than they put a green sticker on my window I guess to say my car will be there for 4 days). Nothing was missing
I'm trying to find offsite parking for Mobile and its very hard to find a parking garage that will shuttle me to the terminal. I live 3 hours away and I wasn't going to come in the day before since I'm not that far from Mobile. I guess I will continue to do research on the parking. If I was going back to New Orleans, I would had used Fulton Garage again.
I always park off site for the reasons you listed.
Not sure about overseas but in Australia the offsite parking stations as well as the onsite parking stations will have deals and it pays to shop around. Tomorrow we are flying to the USA and it was cheaper (with a discount code) to use the onsite parking then it is with the offsite parking stations.
Sorry I am now waffling, however our next cruise required us to be a little creative with our parking. In November we are going on 2 cruises (close to Back to Back but not quite) Our first cruise is Brisbane to Sydney (only 2 nights) In Brisbane they have also 2 cruise terminals. The first cruise leaves Fishermans Island so we are parking our car at the other port called Portside Wharf (Brisbane's International Port) Part of the deal is they will drive us in a shuttle from Portside to Fisherman's Island. After the first cruise we stay 2 nights in Sydney then we fly back to Brisbane. The carparking people will then pick us up from Brisbane airport and take us to Portside Wharf where we will then catch our 2nd cruise (only 3 nights) with this cruise coming back to Portside. After the 2nd cruise we simply pickup our car and drive back home. It is a good cheap way of doing it this way because we don't have to then pay for an Uber or Taxi.
Makes sense Ian to end for your car to be where you end up! Sounds like some nice cruising coming up! - Tony
Looking forward to it but tomorrow we are off on a plane to the USA... (West Coast only this time)
We do use the Cruise Port parking, yes it is more expensive, but easiest for us. Don’t have to handle luggage much, we drive around to front side and porters take luggage there, we just give them a tip. I have a disability that makes it difficult for us to take shuttles, wish we could as it’s great to save money.
Exactly us too. wondering how Cape Liberty port parking is.
my wife and I sail out of Port Canaveral in Nov. I'm definitely thinking about off site parking this time. I have always parked at the port. Now we can afford a few more drinks at Senior Frogs :)
A suggestion to look into is long-term parking at the airport. I know all airport long-term parking varies but where I live it’s six dollars a day. So when you park your car at the lot they have a shuttle that will take you to the airport just need to get from the airport to the port.
Thats a great tip! - Thanks Randy!
So looking at the FT. Lauderdale airport parking web page. $3.99 a day to park. Most hotels around the airport will pick you up for free. And most offer shuttle service to the port, for a small fee.
Oooh Jenny...luv that purple "Loca Fam" shirt! Gotta have one. I'll find your link. 😎
Oh that you. You can find them at www.lalidoloca.com/funshop
Thank *you
Hadn't thought about it but I will now!
Totally agree!! Thanks for the video
yes
Very helpful tips. Thanks
Good content.
Flying is definitely cheaper from Abilene, Texas, however, I have a 45ft with 14ft clearance motor home and was wondering if there is any rv parks or parking areas at cruise ports. Just curious.
Hi Tony. I'm from Canada. I enjoy your video's. Is there a place that I could park off-site at Brooklyn cruise terminal or near my?
Thanks in advance for your Help.
Joe
I agree
Hahaha I want a mythical dragon to take me to the cruise port😂🤣👍🏻
That would be a pretty cool way to get there. :) - Tony
Always awesome tips!!!
Great ideas...where did you offsite in Port Everglades ?
We used at spot called Park by the Ports www.airportparkingreservations.com/lot_park_by_the_ports_cruise_flz
Do Jax port have any type of shuttle service to the port? We board Elation in November.
Cornelia Brown We are sailing Elation in December and I am searching for parking and pre cruise hotel
@@Blessed_baby_Tamika That's what I want to do as well. It will be so much easier and relaxing than trying to get there the same day.
Cornelia Brown My Cruise isn’t til May but Jacksonville Plaza and suites offers a sail and stay.
@@johnswife4life260 I will look into it. Thank you so much
Absolutely agree with you. Just returned from our cruise, left out of Tampa. Did off site parking with shuttle it was perfect for myself and my daughter-in-law. They got the suitcases out of the trunk loaded in the Van. Unloaded them out of the Van and straight to the porters. We didn't have to touch our suitcases once they were in the car.
Also it was much cheaper than parking at the port.
Where did you park if you remember
Do you have any suggestion where to park in Miami Port for the Royal Caribbean? Ive seen some google reviews and most of the reviews of the offsite parking were terrible.
Thanks! Any recommendations for where to park in Jacksonville?
I am wondering the same thing. It will be our first cruise in November on Elation and this is the port from which we have to board the ship.
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I spent 80$ on parking on my last cruise. I am going to search for offsite parking at the Long Beach Port.
Do you have any suggestion for off parking it Port Everglades. Last year we used the combo pkg and still had to pay for transportation to the port, but this year we are staying at a different hotel.
We park across the street from the terminal. but we drop our luggage off before we park.
Hello,I’m driving our rv to Long Beach Cruise Terminal Parking. Any tips on parking an rv there? Thanks
Since I haven't figured out the contact info for the "Mythical Dragon" 😢 any other suggestions for a park & stay in Tampa! I would really like one that has shuttle service on both ends cause we'll probably stay the nite b4 we leave as well as the nite after so we can check out Tampa. We are cruising in April 2020, our 1st! Woohoo, 281 days til departure! Tx in advance!
We stayed at the Tahitian in Tampa and I was great. They had park and cruise package. Here the video we did on it. th-cam.com/video/Xcj6KunVRZM/w-d-xo.html
I am gonna park at the terminal, I would rather leave right away. Also, The argument about not paying extra money parking at the terminal, but yet some people don't mind paying for the first to the fun. I guess it all depends what everyone figures their priorities are.
Any Miami port hotels that include parking ?
What places do you recommend in Lauderdale and Miami?
We will be driving from memphis tn to miami in may 2019. Any inexpensive hotel suggestions. We will be traveling with 9 kids & 3 adults
Have you every cruise out of Cape Liberty in New Jersey? Would you still recommend offsite parking? First time to cruise from Cape Liberty and will be driving in from Toronto, so any advice/insight would be great
Did u find out if offsite was better?
If so, where did u stay?
@erbrooks cruising this December. Decided to just park at the port parking
wondering the same thing. We are sailing in 5 days and planned on port parking, is it worth a little savings for the shuttle parking?
@Ready2Cworld hope you did get to go on ur cruise and enjoyed🙂. Did you park at the cruise port??
@@serel777 Yes we had an amazing time! We decided to park at port. No regrets. Easy to drop off 4 of us and luggage and go park. Arrived at 10:30a, so no problem with finding a spot or crowds. Upon departure we self disembarked so easy and quick. Husband went to get car and we stood by a space and quickly loaded bags. So easy. We would definitely use again. Maybe not for 14 day but with 6 day it was great. $110
Flying in here...I hear it is $20.00 a day to port park eh?....will the hotel let you park there if you stay the night before the cruise? For a fee even would be less than $20.00/day in Miami....on Hurricane watch here for late Sept disembarkation on NCL Getaway...Wahoo...21 days left...
Do you know which company has good off site parking is good at port Canaveral..
We like park n cruise they are very good and timely
@@sherladixon2842 Thank you
Bill Zinkhan if you don’t mind leaving your keys try park n cruise. If you don’t want to leave your keys try lots of honor.
@@sherladixon2842 thank you
how do you find these other places to park? I really don't want to pay $22 a day so I asked a friend to drive my husbands truck to and from to drop us off but if I could find a cheep place to park the truck I could avoid bothering my friendly mythical dragon (her name is Jennay too!).
I have a question. Is there a time that cruise ships generally start boarding? I am sure that some times depend on status but they need to get people off the ship and clean so I imagine they have a time that boarding would start.
The reason why I ask is there is a video by another tuber regarding FTTF. They got to the port very early, had to wait, didn't access their room. I suspect they did not understand boarding times and assumed that they could just show up whenever they wanted.
We have entered the terminal at 10:00, 10:30 every time. However, at times we've waited to actually board until 12:00.
Ha! Mythical dragon
Who offers early boarding parking
I meant early shuttle to the ship
Agree
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If I am flying a dragon, I don't need no cruise.
This doesn't apply to New Orleans Port!!!! It's a BIG EASY BUTTON in the Big Easy!!
Please explain what you mean. We are scheduled to get on our NCL ship the same day as the Super Bowl in 2025 and parking is a huge question mark for us. The questions are 'will there be room?'.... "how early do we need to be to ensure we get a spot?" The last time we were in a hotel 2 blocks away with a shuttle...the shuttle literally took over an hour to get to the port at 10am. We've got far more questions than answers. We've already been told that if we wanted to same hotel the rooms will be over $1000 for the night so we are looking at hours away for an overnight hotel.