Post excursion - Miami

Our flight leaves Miami at 8:00 Pm. We are booking a post tour to Everglades that drops off at airport. Has anyone taken this tour and if so, what is the process of getting our luggage off ship and to airport? Do we collect our luggage at the terminal, take luggage on tour with us or will the cruise ship arrange for luggage to be sent to airport ahead of us? The later was arranged for us in Hawaii, Alaska, and Europe but do not know procedure out of Miami.

If I am remembering correctly, we picked up our luggage took it to the bus - it stayed with us to the airport.

We did that tour earlier this month. Yes, you must retrieve your bags in the cruise terminal and take them through customs and to the bus. (We had a porter handle that for us). At the airport you will be given your bags from under the bus and must lug them to check-in.

Unfortunately the program you mentioned where it is all done for you is no longer being offered.

When you get off the bus at the airport there will be porters to handle your luggage. Tip at least a buck a bag once you are at the check in. Easy.

When you get off the bus at the airport there will be porters to handle your luggage. Tip at least a buck a bag once you are at the check in. Easy.

Sadly that has not been the case on two of our four cruises this past year. In both Houston and New Orleans, the bus dropped us off in areas without porters and we were forced to lug our own bags across traffic lines in orde to check in. NOT so user friendly - especially when you have paid for First Class airfare tickets!

For this reason, we have stopped doing he last day tour/excursions provided by NCL.