Parking Cape Liberty (Bayonne)?

[LB_NJ]

I usually park at the port however, it is getting a little pricey.

 

Any good alternatives?

 

Not staying at a hotel so park and stay is not an option.

[princeton123211]

1 hour ago, LB_NJ said:

Any good alternatives?

 

Not staying at a hotel so park and stay is not an option.

Not a ton. Maybe if you found a deal at one of the offsite Newark Airport lots and Ubered to the port?

[meadowlander]

6 hours ago, LB_NJ said:

I usually park at the port however, it is getting a little pricey.

 

Any good alternatives?

 

Not staying at a hotel so park and stay is not an option.

No reputable alternatives.

[mjkacmom]

Nope.

[Scottdalfonso]

Between safety and security of your car being parked in the port and the additional cost for an Uber or Lyft on top of wherever you park, I've yet to find a better alternative to the port parking lots. 

[megr1125]

no

[Crazy planning mom]

Our cruise is during hurricane season.  Is it safe to leave our car at the port?  

Is there covered parking?  We haven't cruised out of NJ in a dozen years.

[njhorseman]

41 minutes ago, Crazy planning mom said:

Our cruise is during hurricane season.  Is it safe to leave our car at the port?  

Is there covered parking?  We haven't cruised out of NJ in a dozen years.

There's a parking garage, but in the recent past when there are multiple ships homeporting in Cape Liberty the garage has been reserved for handicapped parking, with everyone else being required to park in a surface lot. Since the summer season when there will be multiple ships using Cape Liberty more or less coincides with hurricane season, without knowing exactly when you're sailing I'm going to assume that you won't be able to use the garage.

 

No one can predict where and when a hurricane will hit  and whether any particular storm will cause issues there. It's not something that happens often, but nor can anyone say it won't.

[princeton123211]

On 3/8/2024 at 3:47 PM, LB_NJ said:

Any good alternatives?

I don't know where you are coming from in New Jersey but what about just taking an Uber to the port? Even if it was a break even cost wise you still wouldn't have to worry about anything happening to your car there.

[mjkacmom]

20 hours ago, Crazy planning mom said:

Our cruise is during hurricane season.  Is it safe to leave our car at the port?  

Is there covered parking?  We haven't cruised out of NJ in a dozen years.

Lived in NJ for over 50 years, experienced several hurricanes, own 4 vehicles but not a garage, I haven’t heard the parking in Bayonne is prone to flooding so cars should be fine. 

[navybankerteacher]

13 hours ago, princeton123211 said:

I don't know where you are coming from in New Jersey but what about just taking an Uber to the port? Even if it was a break even cost wise you still wouldn't have to worry about anything happening to your car there.

And, depending upon where home is, perhaps rail to Newark followed by Uber or taxi to the port.   There always seems to be many people reluctant to consider public transportation.

[njhorseman]

3 hours ago, mjkacmom said:

Lived in NJ for over 50 years, experienced several hurricanes, own 4 vehicles but not a garage, I haven’t heard the parking in Bayonne is prone to flooding so cars should be fine. 

There definitely was flooding at Cape Liberty from Sandy. If you look at page 22 of this study https://www.nj.gov/dep/docs/flood/final-studies/stevens-hudson/hudson-river-waterfront-sandy-surge-mitigation-analysis-final.pdf  you'll see "Two hours before the peak surge in the Harbor, the Military Ocean Terminal Pier was overtopped" . The Military Ocean Terminal is the location of Cape Liberty Cruise Terminal.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal parking lot on the New York side was also flooded...in fact at the time the official port website nycruise.com confirmed that all vehicles parked there were damaged and would have to be towed.

[mjkacmom]

1 hour ago, njhorseman said:

There definitely was flooding at Cape Liberty from Sandy. If you look at page 22 of this study https://www.nj.gov/dep/docs/flood/final-studies/stevens-hudson/hudson-river-waterfront-sandy-surge-mitigation-analysis-final.pdf  you'll see "Two hours before the peak surge in the Harbor, the Military Ocean Terminal Pier was overtopped" . The Military Ocean Terminal is the location of Cape Liberty Cruise Terminal.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal parking lot on the New York side was also flooded...in fact at the time the official port website nycruise.com confirmed that all vehicles parked there were damaged and would have to be towed.

Sandy was a whopper, largest power outage in US history. So many homes and vehicles destroyed. I believe the airport long term lots are also uncovered and on the ground.

[Scottdalfonso]

12 hours ago, njhorseman said:

There definitely was flooding at Cape Liberty from Sandy. If you look at page 22 of this study https://www.nj.gov/dep/docs/flood/final-studies/stevens-hudson/hudson-river-waterfront-sandy-surge-mitigation-analysis-final.pdf  you'll see "Two hours before the peak surge in the Harbor, the Military Ocean Terminal Pier was overtopped" . The Military Ocean Terminal is the location of Cape Liberty Cruise Terminal.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal parking lot on the New York side was also flooded...in fact at the time the official port website nycruise.com confirmed that all vehicles parked there were damaged and would have to be towed.

That's a bit different. That was THE Hurricane in NJ. In the most part, 99% of the time, a storm isn't going to cause torrential flooding in Bayonne. 

[njhorseman]

6 hours ago, Scottdalfonso said:

That's a bit different. That was THE Hurricane in NJ. In the most part, 99% of the time, a storm isn't going to cause torrential flooding in Bayonne. 

My point is that it can happen and it has happened, so you can't say it won't happen. Nowhere do I say it's likely to flood.

[JsMom2]

On 3/12/2024 at 12:09 PM, navybankerteacher said:

And, depending upon where home is, perhaps rail to Newark followed by Uber or taxi to the port.   There always seems to be many people reluctant to consider public transportation.

Unfortunately there's no public transportation that will get you close to the port.  The first time I cruised out of Bayonne, I looked at Uber prices to the airport.  Surge pricing was around $72!  By the time you pay to Uber to a train station, take the train, and Uber to the port, you've spent more time and money than driving to the port and parking!

 

[mking8288]

Read from CC'ers posting a short while ago, using this service - their secured (fenced) lot is in Jersey City, off the Holland Tunnel & NJ Turnpike ... about 15 minutes drive to/from Cape Liberty while cruising ... anyone with feedback, comment & experience leaving the car with them and getting shuttled to port ?  How about pickup & wait time when disembarking at the end of the cruise ?  Sailing soon with RC out of Cape Liberty ... like to know if this is a viable options.  Thanks in advance

 

https://parkandsailnj.com/

 

$14 a day (plus taxes ??) with a reserved spot, prepaid in advance ... that's half of the going rate at Cape Liberty ... 

Edited 12 hours ago by mking8288

[njhorseman]

1 hour ago, mking8288 said:

Read from CC'ers posting a short while ago, using this service - their secured (fenced) lot is in Jersey City, off the Holland Tunnel & NJ Turnpike ... about 15 minutes drive to/from Cape Liberty while cruising ... anyone with feedback, comment & experience leaving the car with them and getting shuttled to port ?  How about pickup & wait time when disembarking at the end of the cruise ?  Sailing soon with RC out of Cape Liberty ... like to know if this is a viable options.  Thanks in advance

 

https://parkandsailnj.com/

 

$14 a day (plus taxes ??) with a reserved spot, prepaid in advance ... that's half of the going rate at Cape Liberty ... 

Never heard of them, and I would be very cautious about using this parking service for a number of reasons:

(1) In the past parking services of this type have popped up and were found to be using shuttles that were not properly licensed and insured.

(2) Their website has at least two blatant lies:

      (a)Near the top of the home page says: "Trusted by millions". Really? Millions of people have parked their car there?

        (b) The bottom of the home page has this juicy lie: "We are the official providers of         Cruise ship parking. You can't park closer!" Uh...sorry...no on both counts.

Edited 10 hours ago by njhorseman

[mking8288]

@njhorseman  Paul ... thanks for your take on this, pretty much what I'm concerned with.  Haven't spend much time on the EC board lately and out of the loop w news.  Going on the Liberty OTS next week, 6 in 2 cars with our elderly BIL/SIL in tow, luggage plus a little mobility issues and rather not leave them/the group waiting upon disembarkation (longshoremen's possibly strike on/after Oct 1st notwithstanding at Cape Liberty)   We'll just cough up the $30 daily fee & put into CL, plan for weekday traffic on "best GPS routing) coming in from NE Queens and deal w midday boarding.  

 

Much appreciated - Henry 

 

P.S.  AI / Google search not yielding anything with 1 brief mention by a CC'er that apparently used the service, not sufficient data to be reliable or helpful. 

Edited 10 hours ago by mking8288