Rental Car Help

[oreo1975]

Hello! We are going on DCL in March. Port of Miami.

We fly into Ft. Lauderdale a day early. Wanting to rent a car and drive to Miami to spend the night. Then drop of rental car and board ship.

Upon end of cruise (in Miami) we want to rent a car then drive to Ft. Lauderdale to spend the night. Our flight leaves at 7am the next day.

 

My thoughts through research:

Rent through Enterprise at FLL. Drive to Miami. Spend night. Drop car off at the rental office across the street from the port, take shuttle to port.

 

After cruise, take shuttle to Enterprise office across street. Rent car. Drive to Ft. Lauderdale. Take car to FLL airport the next morning.

 

Thoughts???

Thank you :)

[JohninDC]

Sounds like a good plan, but I was not aware that Enterprise in downtown Miami offered port shuttles? :confused:

 

The only POM shuttles consistently confirmed on this board are from National, Alamo & Thrifty to their MIA airport location.

 

Avis and Hertz have downtown locations with mixed reports about shuttles. :(

 

If you get a good rate from Enterprise, even without a shuttle a taxi to/from POM should only run about $12

[Davey Wavey]

Also consider that one way rentals from airport to non-airport location many times have a one-way fee where airport to airport won't. It's hit or miss. And depending on how you book, like going through something like Southwest, will only allow airport to airport. I book through an agency that always waives one-way fees, but they only allow airport locations. Most times for me it makes the difference of being $15 total for a full size or $75. Like JohninDC said, consider going FLL to MIA using National/Alamo or Thrifty and using their free shuttle.

[drdoolittle830]

Parking in Miami can be pricey. we have flown into Ft Lauderdale a few times and taken a shuttle to our hotel and then a taxi to the port. We have used Hertz after a cruise a few years ago and they did have a shuttle that ran every 30 minutes or so. Last fall we took a cab to Sixt rental cars. We have found that some of the companies who offer shuttles are not always the cheapest.

Where are you planning on staying in Miami? We stayed at the Intercontinental and a taxi was about $10 or so and they always have several available.