Heads-up on rental cars in FLL

[FOPMan]

Heads-up-

 

We returned to Port Everglades on the Nieuw Statendam yesterday. The rental car world at Port Everglades was a zoo.  By 9:30am, Alamo had no cars, even for people with reservations. Budget had the same kind of issues. We got our particular needs met eventually, but there were a lot of people who were not happy.

[cyntil8ing]

My family was one of them. We arrived at Alamo at 10:00 to be told it would be a 3 hour wait. We had only booked for the day because our flight was at 7:00pm. Since we had already wasted two hours getting the shuttle to Alamo and trying to get a car, we spent the rest of the day at the airport with our luggage. What a waste of the last day of our vacation!

 

Had we had advance warning, we would have made alternate plans. Alamo did warn us before we got on the shuttle that there would be a wait, but did not indicate there were no cars.

 

One note that we heard over and over -- priority was being given to those who had pre-paid their reservations, but even they were waiting for cars to become available.

 

It was definitely a zoo.

[bilyclub]

They should have taken one person per reservation in the bus to FLL to pick up a car, or was FLL out of cars too?

[BlueHerons]

It's the busiest two weeks of the year.  Christmas and New Years.

 

I'm not surprised.

[Ashland]

And the reason we always opt to take a taxi to FLL to pick up our rental post cruise.

[bouhunter]

17 hours ago, Ashland said:

And the reason we always opt to take a taxi to FLL to pick up our rental post cruise.

That makes a lot of sense.  Rental Car and Hotel shuttles are rarely quick or efficient.  Generally to be avoided if at all possible

Edited December 31, 2019 by bouhunter