Carnival Cruise Line spreads its Port Everglades operations across three Midport berths - Terminals 19, 26 and 29 - and which one your ship uses can vary by sailing. That detail catches people out constantly: passengers tell a taxi "the Carnival terminal," get dropped at the wrong building, and start their vacation dragging luggage a half mile along the harbor road. Our dispatch checks the day's berth assignments against your ship before pickup, so the car aims at the right canopy the first time.
All three terminals are reached through the Eller Drive entrance, roughly two and a half miles from FLL - a six to nine minute run. Carnival crowds are heavy on weekends and school holidays, and the line boards big, energetic groups: multigenerational families, birthday parties, reunion cruises. This is where our larger vehicle classes do their best work. A Business SUV takes six passengers with six bags; a Mercedes Sprinter takes fourteen of each; and the pricing is fixed, so splitting a van from a Miami hotel usually undercuts what the same group would pay in two surge-priced rideshares.
Carnival check-in uses assigned arrival appointments, and the terminals enforce them more firmly than most - arriving two hours before your slot mostly buys you a wait outside. We time pickups to land you ten to fifteen minutes ahead of your appointment window. On debarkation day, self-assist walk-offs clear from about 7:30 AM and checked-luggage groups follow through mid-morning; tell us your group at booking and the car is at your terminal - the correct one - when you walk out.
What to expect
- Berth verification before pickup - Terminal 19, 26 or 29, never a guess
- Six to nine minutes from FLL via the Eller Drive gate
- SUVs and 14-passenger Sprinters for large Carnival groups
- Pickups timed to Carnival arrival appointments
- Fixed fares from $89 airport / $75 local hotels