Car Rental Return Morning of Cruise?

[tlsearay]

Since we are flying into Fort Lauderdale the day before, I am thinking of renting a car there and then returning it the morning of the cruise. Has anyone done this? Which rental agency? How far from the Miami cruise port? Did they provide a shuttle to the ship? Thanks everyone.

[mrsjetpup]

We have done this several times using Budget and it has worked great. Their 2nd Avenue office is about a mile from the port and they have a free shuttle to the port. We are doing it before and after for our cruise next week.

[JohninDC]

National, Alamo, Thrifty and Enterprise offer free shuttles between their MIA airport location and POM.

[loanshark]

The rental car companies have shuttles to/from the following dropoff/pickup locations as follows:

 

Alamo / National / Enterprise (select location code MIA or Miami Airport) - uses the Miami airport location

Thrifty / Dollar (select location code Miami Cruise Ship - Shuttle) - They also use the same counter as the Miami airport location

Hertz (select Miami - Port of Miami) - uses the 229 Southeast 2nd Street location

Budget (location code P2F) - uses the 89 SE 2nd St location

Avis (location code Q8M) - uses the 99 SE 2nd St location