From $150 per vehicle: a private, one-way ride from Port of Miami to Villa Caprice Hotel in a chauffeured SUV or van.
Every fare below is per vehicle, one way, with the driver, fuel and tolls inside the number. Pick the row that fits your group and luggage.
Walk off, clear the terminal, and the private vehicle is already outside. The driver knows which terminal the ship uses and times the pickup to the real disembarkation, with the curbside greeting included in the fare and the Meet & Greet at the terminal available for $40 if you desire it. Bags in, and the car heads out of the port.
Villa Caprice Hotel stands in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, the small beach town just up the coast, at 4110 El Mar Drive. Step out the door and the shoreline is right there — a few paces of sidewalk and you are on real sand. It is the kind of address where the ocean, not a parking lot, is the first thing you see when you wake up.
The town itself is built around the water. A living reef sits just offshore, close enough that divers wade in straight from the beach rather than boarding a boat. Behind the shore runs a low-key main street of ice-cream shops, and the old wooden fishing pier — Anglin’s Fishing Pier — reaches out over the surf at the end of it. Datura Avenue and the green space of El Prado Park are both within a simple walk of the hotel, so an afternoon here can be as full or as slow as you desire it.
For travelers coming off a cruise, that closeness to the water is the whole point. Plenty of guests drop their bags at Villa Caprice Hotel and are back in the ocean the same day they disembark, trading the ship’s crowded pool deck for open sand and the reef just past the break. The pier, the shops, and the shoreline are all steps from the room, which makes the hotel a simple base for a few unhurried days after the ports and shore excursions are behind you.
The ride is a single door-to-door leg from the cruise terminal to the front of Villa Caprice Hotel. Your chauffeur tracks your ship’s arrival and is staged at the terminal when you walk off, so there is no line to join and no car to search for. Tell us your cruise line ahead of time and the driver meets your group at the curb of your ship’s own terminal on Dodge Island, coordinated by message as you clear the hall.
Once the bags are loaded at the curb, the vehicle is reserved for your group alone and heads straight north to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea — no extra stops, no shared seats. Your luggage stays with you in the same vehicle from the terminal to the hotel entrance, and the driver handles it at both ends. Weekend cruise mornings are the port’s busiest stretch, so the pickup is timed to your actual disembarkation rather than a fixed clock.
Villa Caprice Hotel in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea is 35.4 miles from the Port of Miami by road, about 1 hour 1 minutes without heavy traffic via I-95. The fare is per vehicle: $150 for the Black SUV, $290 for the Van and $350 for the Van XL. Pickup is at your cruise terminal curb at PortMiami.
| Road distance | 35.4 miles |
|---|---|
| Black SUV, 1-5 | $150 |
| Drop-off address | 4110 El Mar Drive, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea |
| Drive time | 1 hour 1 minutes |
| Van, 6-9 | $290 |
| Main roads | I-95 |
| Van XL, 10-14 | $350 |
| Back from Villa Caprice Hotel | $150 / $290 / $350 |
The return covers the same 35.4 miles: pickup at the main entrance of the villa (4110 El Mar Drive), drop-off at your cruise terminal at PortMiami after about 1 hour 1 minutes. From Villa Caprice Hotel the Black SUV costs $150, the Van $290 and the Van XL $350. Open the booking box with the points swapped and choose the date and time. Book the return
The 35.4 miles from the Port of Miami to Villa Caprice Hotel take about 1 hour 1 minutes without heavy traffic via I-95. At busy hours, allow extra time. Each vehicle has a fixed fare, no traffic or surge charges: $150 for the Black SUV, $290 for the Van and $350 for the Van XL.
Set the pickup for when you expect to clear the cruise terminal, allowing for customs and the luggage hall. From the terminal, Villa Caprice Hotel is 35.4 miles away, about 1 hour 1 minutes in light traffic.
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 Villa Caprice Hotel starts as soon as the bags are loaded and takes about 1 hour 1 minutes.
In the Black SUV ($150 to Villa Caprice Hotel) passengers plus big suitcases can add up to 10, so five people with five cases fit. The Van ($290) carries 9 passengers and 9 big cases, the Van XL ($350) 14 and 14, and everyone keeps a carry-on.
Yes. The return from Villa Caprice Hotel to the Port of Miami costs $150 in the Black SUV, $290 in the Van and $350 in the Van XL. Allow about 1 hour 1 minutes for the drive, plus a margin, before your boarding time; the return section above has the booking link.
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We reserved one van for the whole group from the terminal to Villa Caprice Hotel so nobody got left behind. We knew the plan before the ship even docked, so there was nothing to worry about at the terminal. There was space to spare for the whole group and all our cruise luggage in one van to Villa Caprice Hotel.
Meu marido e eu tivemos uma viagem incrível e rematamos com um carro privativo esperando no terminal para nos levar até Villa Caprice Hotel — sem confusão no porto. Já guardamos o contato para o nosso próximo cruzeiro saindo do PortMiami. Chegar a Villa Caprice Hotel logo cedo significou que pudemos fazer o check-in e enfim tomar um banho depois da semana no mar. Sem estresse nenhum.
Just as easy as it sounded — a driver waiting, bags loaded, and a comfortable ride over to Villa Caprice Hotel. For a reliable way to get from the ship to Villa Caprice Hotel, it was money well spent.
nao precisei carregar uma mala sequer.
Cruising with the kids, we wanted the port end handled, so a private van straight over to Villa Caprice Hotel made the day. The car seat was already installed, which was a real help that morning.