From $89 per vehicle: a private, one-way ride from Port of Miami to El Portal, met at the cruise terminal curb and driven to your door.
One flat figure covers the whole vehicle, not each seat, so a couple and a full party pay the same locked rate — tolls and fuel already inside it, no metering and no surge.
Once the gangway clears and your bags are in hand, the driver is standing at the PortMiami terminal curb, ready to load the cruise luggage and point the vehicle north toward El Portal. Ask for a name sign over WhatsApp beforehand and it will be waiting where you step out, so there is no rideshare lot to comb through. Disembarkation mornings move slower when several ships empty together, so the driver tracks the vessel’s actual arrival and shifts the pickup to match. Send the ship name and your off-ship estimate ahead of time and the whole meeting is built around it.
El Portal is a small, leafy residential village in the northeast of Miami-Dade, a quiet pocket of single-family homes and tree-shaded blocks set apart from the busier corridors that frame it. It sits within easy reach of the Biscayne Boulevard dining and design strip, the Little River creative district, and the parks and green space along Miami’s upper bayfront. One detail worth flagging at booking: the village is wedged between two main roads, several of its streets do not run all the way through, and a handful of turns are off-limits during certain hours. Give the driver the full street address with its ZIP and say which road you usually turn off, and the drop-off lands at your door on the first pass.
The trip from the port into El Portal is a short city run rather than a highway haul, though disembarkation day sets the pace. When a cluster of ships releases at the same hour, the streets around the terminal crawl, and a mid-morning pickup can meet more traffic than an early or midday one. Because the fare is fixed the moment you book, none of that congestion touches the total — a metered car would climb, but the flat price holds. Tell the driver your expected off-ship time and the pickup is paced around it, with courtesy waiting built in so no one feels rushed.
Yes. The same private SUV or van handles the reverse leg from El Portal back to the cruise terminal, plus hotel and airport runs across the Miami region. Share your dates and both endpoints on WhatsApp and the pickup time is set for each direction.
From the Port of Miami, plan on about 21 minutes and 7.6 miles to reach El Portal via I-95 and Port Boulevard (SR 886). Prices are per vehicle, not per seat: $89 for the Black SUV, $140 for the Van, $200 for the Van XL. Pickup is at your cruise terminal curb at PortMiami.
| Road distance | 7.6 miles |
|---|---|
| Black SUV, 1-5 | $89 |
| Drive time | 21 minutes |
| Van, 6-9 | $140 |
| Main roads | I-95, Port Boulevard (SR 886) |
| Van XL, 10-14 | $200 |
| Back from El Portal | $89 / $140 / $200 |
For the trip back, your driver picks you up at your address in El Portal and drives the 7.6 miles to your cruise terminal at PortMiami in about 21 minutes. The return fare is $89 for the Black SUV, $140 for the Van and $200 for the Van XL. The booking box opens with El Portal as the pickup; just add the date and time. Book the return
El Portal is 7.6 miles by road from the Port of Miami. In light traffic the drive takes about 21 minutes via I-95 and Port Boulevard (SR 886); rush hour can add time, but it is a fixed fare, no traffic or surge charges: $89 for the Black SUV.
Book the time you expect to walk out of the terminal with your bags, not the docking time. The waiting rules for slow disembarkation days are on the FAQ page linked below. The drive to El Portal then takes about 21 minutes.
Outside the cruise terminal, at the curb. Driver, car and plate arrive by message ahead of the pickup, so you know who to look for; the drive to El Portal starts as soon as the bags are loaded and takes about 21 minutes.
Count people and big suitcases together: up to 10 fit the Black SUV at $89. Larger groups going to El Portal take the Van at $140, for 9 passengers and 9 cases, or the Van XL at $200, for 14 and 14. One carry-on each is included.
On sailing day the ride from El Portal to your terminal is $89 for the Black SUV, $140 for the Van and $200 for the Van XL. The 7.6 miles take about 21 minutes in light traffic, so leave early enough for boarding.
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Se nota la organización. primera vez reservando así, lo haríamos otra vez, lo mejor nos confirmaron por mensaje la noche anterior.
Viaje cómodo, recogida fácil, y un conductor que manejó la terminal como un experto. Recomendado. En el auto íbamos solo nosotros — sin recogidas de otros — mucho mejor que ir con desconocidos.
My partner and I had a wonderful cruise and capped it off with a private car waiting right at the terminal to run us out to El Portal — no fuss at the port. The driver loaded all our cruise luggage so we didn’t have to lift a thing.
Clean car, easy pickup, and a driver who knew exactly where to go. Recommend. I’ve already saved them for my next cruise out of PortMiami.
La forma sin estrés de manejar el desembarque en PortMiami. Muy recomendable.