Getting between terminals at port everglades

[klepton]

We will be disembarking the Harmony of the Seas on 4/15, and embarking on the Freedom of the Seas. If history is any indication, Harmony will be at terminal 18 and Freedom at 29. Is there an easy way to get between these terminals? I would imagine a cab driver wouldn't be happy sitting in line for that short of a ride.

 

Do all terminals share a parking garage? Could I shuttle to the parking garage from 18 and then hop on the shuttle to 29?

 

Thanks!

[Lido_Deck]

We will be disembarking the Harmony of the Seas on 4/15, and embarking on the Freedom of the Seas. If history is any indication, Harmony will be at terminal 18 and Freedom at 29. Is there an easy way to get between these terminals? I would imagine a cab driver wouldn't be happy sitting in line for that short of a ride.

 

Do all terminals share a parking garage? Could I shuttle to the parking garage from 18 and then hop on the shuttle to 29?

 

Thanks!

 

Those two terminals are about a mile apart and they definitely do not share a garage. That area of the port is very industrial, heavy truck traffic and I would not recommend walking. You should contact RCCL and see if you could ride the crew shuttle because I'm not aware of any inter-terminal shuttle. If you do take a taxi be up front with them and I think you will find one that would take the quick trip over there for $10-$12 where he could drop you and perhaps pickup another fare over there.

[39august]

We had friends on Freedom in Feb. who changed to HOTS for their second week. They got a free shuttle ride from RCI with about 6 other people. Very nice.

[klepton]

Thank you both for the info, I appreciate it!

 

39august - Do you know how your friends got signed up for this service? I assume guest services on the first cruise?

[ready2cruzagain]

It is very easy. When you get ready to walk out of the terminal, tell a worker that you want to catch the crew shuttle. They will direct you where to go and tell you what to look for. Make sure and tell them that you are going to another terminal to catch another cruise. You will also need to tell the driver what you are doing. We have done it a couple of times.

[klepton]

Just to report back that everything worked out, though not as smoothly as I would like. I talked to the concierge on the Harmony and he let me know there'd be no problem. He asked me to meet him in the lounge at 9:30, he'd escort us down and to a shuttle that would take us to the Freedom.

 

At 9:30 the lounge was chaos, and no sign of either concierge. About 9:40 they both showed up and one took us down and escorted us through the "fast-lane" all the way to customs. He told our porter where to take us to catch the shuttle. Our porter took us to the transportation shuttle stand and told the dispatcher we were going to the freedom. She asked for our name, I told her, she marked something on her clipboard and looked around a few times. Looked at her watch, looked around some more, and then pointed us to of of the big bus shuttles. We walked over there (she walked with us) and told the driver we needed to go the Freedom. He said he'd take us after he dropped everyone else off at the airport. This wasn't ideal, but wasn't the end of the world. We sat on the bus for awhile waiting to leave, rode to the airport and made a stop at each terminal to let everyone else off, and then back to the Freedom. All in all in took about an hour from when we reached the transportation stand until they were dropping us off. Check-in for the Freedom was relatively easy, and they started boarding shortly before we finished checking in so there was no real wait other than standing in lines for a few minutes.

 

All in all it was a pretty simple transition.

[ready2cruzagain]

Just to report back that everything worked out, though not as smoothly as I would like. I talked to the concierge on the Harmony and he let me know there'd be no problem. He asked me to meet him in the lounge at 9:30, he'd escort us down and to a shuttle that would take us to the Freedom.

 

At 9:30 the lounge was chaos, and no sign of either concierge. About 9:40 they both showed up and one took us down and escorted us through the "fast-lane" all the way to customs. He told our porter where to take us to catch the shuttle. Our porter took us to the transportation shuttle stand and told the dispatcher we were going to the freedom. She asked for our name, I told her, she marked something on her clipboard and looked around a few times. Looked at her watch, looked around some more, and then pointed us to of of the big bus shuttles. We walked over there (she walked with us) and told the driver we needed to go the Freedom. He said he'd take us after he dropped everyone else off at the airport. This wasn't ideal, but wasn't the end of the world. We sat on the bus for awhile waiting to leave, rode to the airport and made a stop at each terminal to let everyone else off, and then back to the Freedom. All in all in took about an hour from when we reached the transportation stand until they were dropping us off. Check-in for the Freedom was relatively easy, and they started boarding shortly before we finished checking in so there was no real wait other than standing in lines for a few minutes.

 

All in all it was a pretty simple transition.

 

That is strange. The shuttle we use goes around the port area and does not leave the port. Sounds like they put you on a different shuttle. The one we used is for employees not for taking regular people. Glad it worked out for you.

[klepton]

That is strange. The shuttle we use goes around the port area and does not leave the port. Sounds like they put you on a different shuttle. The one we used is for employees not for taking regular people. Glad it worked out for you.

 

That is how the concierge describe it to us, that it was a terminal-to-terminal shuttle primarily used by crew changing ships. I'm guessing we just missed the shuttle by a few minutes because of the disembarkation chaos, and the dispatcher had to put us on a different shuttle that wasn't direct. At the end of day it wasn't a big deal, we would have been sitting around terminal 26 for 45 minutes and maybe gotten on board 5 minutes earlier than we otherwise did.