Port Everglades Rental car update

[MADflyer]

As I have previously highly recommended Alamo/National for Port Everglades post-cruise rental car pick-up, due to their large bus and it's frequency, I wanted to report that things have changed. I have had 6 cruises out of Ft. Lauderdale this past year.

 

On a B2B on RCI Vision this past week, Alamo let me down on 2 rentals in the same week. The shuttle never showed up on the first arrival when we were the only ship at Terminal 18. In the end we were over 40 passengers waiting and I just took a taxi as the shuttle never arrived. We waited over 1 hour on arrival at Terminal 22/24 and was able to get a good overview of operations during this wait.

 

Budget new large van circulated every 20 minutes to 17th street location.

 

Sixt small van circulated once to 17th street location.

 

Thrifty / Dollar large van circulated every 20 minutes to location at Spangler exit near US1.

 

Avis had large van every 30 minutes to location at Hyatt Pier 66

 

Hertz had new large van to US1 Crowne Plaza hotel location every 20 minutes.

 

Alamo/National is still only bus to airport but has now become undependable and I will never use them again following these 2 poor experiences in one week. Called the Airport location 3 times and never reached an agent, but only was directed to an answering machine that they were unavailable.