From $600 per vehicle: a private, one-way ride from Port of Miami to Xi Hu Resort Hotel in a chauffeured SUV or van.
Pricing is by vehicle, not by seat: a solo traveler and a full car pay the same flat one-way rate.
Book with the ship’s name and the date, and the driver handles the rest at PortMiami: waiting at the correct terminal, helping with the suitcases, and leaving the port without a queue. The curbside greeting costs nothing extra; the Meet & Greet at the terminal with a name sign adds $40.
Xi Hu Resort Hotel sits at 10249 South John Young Parkway, planted in the International Drive district that anchors Orlando’s tourist side. I-Drive runs as the city’s main visitor artery, a long stretch that lines up attractions, outlet shopping, and the convention crowd end to end, so the hotel puts you inside the busiest corridor Orlando keeps for travelers. Arriving here means you land in the middle of it rather than on the edge looking in.
Step outside and the neighborhood does a lot of the work. Universal Orlando Resort and ICON Park sit close by, with the Orange County Convention Center and SeaWorld Orlando also within the same International Drive stretch. That mix suits almost any reason for the journey — a family chasing theme parks, a couple after the observation wheel and the dining clustered around it, or someone in town for the convention floor who wants a short hop back to their room at the end of a long day.
For a cruise traveler stepping off the ship, the appeal is the reset. After days at sea, the hotel gives you a fixed base with the parks and outlet malls a short reach away and the pace of the day back in your hands. If your plans stretch past the sailing, this pocket of Orlando keeps you close to the attractions that draw people north from the port in the first place, so extra nights never feel like a detour. When we drop you at the door, you are already where the week is headed, luggage carried in and the corridor’s whole lineup waiting a few minutes away.
The ride is one continuous run from the pier to the hotel door. After you disembark at PortMiami, your chauffeur is already organized by message and waiting at the curb of your ship’s own terminal — not a parking lot, not a meeting hall across the port. Your luggage goes straight into the vehicle, and from there it is a single stretch north along Florida’s Turnpike to 10249 South John Young Parkway.
Plan on roughly 224.6 miles and somewhere between 221 and 232 minutes terminal to door, depending on how the Turnpike is moving that day. Traffic is the only real variable, which is why the pickup follows your ship’s actual arrival with room to spare instead of a fixed slot. Your group keeps the vehicle to itself the whole way, so you set the departure and the pace, and the driver handles the bags again at the hotel end.
Xi Hu Resort Hotel in Orlando is 224.8 miles from the Port of Miami by road, about 3 hours 39 minutes without heavy traffic via Florida’s Turnpike. The fare is per vehicle: $600 for the Black SUV, $850 for the Van and $1050 for the Van XL. Pickup is at your cruise terminal curb at PortMiami.
| Road distance | 224.8 miles |
|---|---|
| Black SUV, 1-5 | $600 |
| Drive time | 3 hours 39 minutes |
| Van, 6-9 | $850 |
| Main roads | Florida’s Turnpike |
| Van XL, 10-14 | $1050 |
| Back from Xi Hu Resort Hotel | $600 / $850 / $1050 |
For the trip back, your driver picks you up at the main entrance of the resort and drives the 224.8 miles to your cruise terminal at PortMiami in about 3 hours 39 minutes. The return fare is $600 for the Black SUV, $850 for the Van and $1050 for the Van XL. The booking box opens with Xi Hu Resort Hotel as the pickup; just add the date and time. Book the return
Xi Hu Resort Hotel is 224.8 miles by road from the Port of Miami. In light traffic the drive takes about 3 hours 39 minutes via Florida’s Turnpike; rush hour can add time, but it is a fixed fare, no traffic or surge charges: $600 for the Black SUV.
Choose the moment you will be on the curb with your luggage. The driver is at your terminal at the agreed time, then covers the 224.8 miles to Xi Hu Resort Hotel.
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 Xi Hu Resort Hotel starts as soon as the bags are loaded and takes about 3 hours 39 minutes.
The Black SUV holds up to 5 passengers, with passengers plus big suitcases up to 10; on this route it costs $600. Six to nine travelers with their cases take the Van ($850), ten to fourteen the Van XL ($1050). All three go door to door to Xi Hu Resort Hotel.
Yes. The return from Xi Hu Resort Hotel to the Port of Miami costs $600 in the Black SUV, $850 in the Van and $1050 in the Van XL. Allow about 3 hours 39 minutes for the drive, plus a margin, before your boarding time; the return section above has the booking link.
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Spot on. courteous from the moment we got in. no waving down anyone, the car was where they said. Couldn’t have gone better.
Coordinamos una sola van para la comitiva entera de la terminal a Xi Hu Resort Hotel para que hiciéramos el check-in todos juntos. El conductor se encargó de cada bolso para que no tuviéramos que batallar con todo.
Mi esposa y yo bajamos del barco en PortMiami y había un auto privado ahí mismo para nosotros para llevarnos a Xi Hu Resort Hotel. Había un cartel con nuestro nombre en la acera, así que ubicamos al conductor al instante. Reservar fue simple, recibimos todo por escrito, y todo salió tal cual. Muy recomendable.
After our cruise, my husband and I didn’t want to risk a ride at the terminal, so we arranged a private car to Xi Hu Resort Hotel. The driver loaded all our cruise luggage so we didn’t have to struggle with anything. There was a courtesy waiting window from the agreed time, so we never had to rush off the ship. No stress at all.
Los dos dejamos listo un traslado privado para después del crucero y así no preocuparnos por los tiempos camino a Xi Hu Resort Hotel. La tarifa estaba acordada de antemano, sin nada extra en la acera. Lo último que quieres tras una semana en el mar es un viaje que falle, y este fue totalmente sólido.