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pat727
Just Boarded
Member # 1657

posted 10-30-2000 12:47 PM

This will be my first cruise,Is it better to take a cab or the carnival bus to the port of miami from the airport?

Posts: 8 | From: rochester,nyusa | Registered: Oct 2000 | IP: Logged

Winner
First Class Passenger
Member # 1188

posted 10-30-2000 02:10 PM

Hi Pat! Welcome aboard--to this board and to cruising. You're going to love both.
Are you flying on Carnival's air program? If so, bus transfers from the airport to ship should be included. If you made your own flight arrangements, you can either taxi or buy transfers from Carnival. Check with your TA about the transfers. And have a great time!

Posts: 113 | From: Santa Rosa CA USA | Registered: Mar 2000 | IP: Logged

RICHARD CHUDY
First Class Passenger
Member # 1323

posted 10-30-2000 02:16 PM

Take the Carnival bus. They handle all your luggage for you and it has A/C. The taxi is about $30.00 each way and you deal with the luggage. It's way to hot in Miami to deal with luggage! Have a great day.
With Kindest Regards
Richard

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pat727
Just Boarded
Member # 1657

posted 10-31-2000 02:03 AM

Thanks for the info the bus sounds like the way to go.

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Grant
First Class Passenger
Member # 1000

posted 10-31-2000 02:05 AM

For what is worth-I agree that going from the airport to the pier, the cruise line's shuttle is the answer. However, going from to the airport the reverse is true for me. You must lug your bags to the bus, sit and wait for ever for the bus to fill up, usually with the air conditioning not on, and then circle the whole darn airport until they come to your gates. Then, with your bags the last off the bus, the other 40 people are in front of you for the check in lines!! Even if I have transfer coupons, in Miami it is quick and cheap to take a cab, and be infront of the poor hot and sweating people off the bus!

Posts: 834 | From: Victoria, BC, Canada | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

gizmo
First Class Passenger
Member # 972

posted 10-31-2000 09:04 AM

We always take a cab.
We get a porter at the airport to take the luggage out to the cab stand. Cabs are pretty reasonable. From what I have read the buses can take forever to get you to the pier. You may even have to wait for another plane to arrive.

Posts: 686 | From: Kennesaw Ga. (origianlly from Philly) | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

DCM
First Class Passenger
Member # 1454

posted 10-31-2000 12:42 PM

Carnival wants $13pp each way for the bus from TPA to the pier. I figure a cab for the 8 or so miles should be less than $20 each way.

Does anyone know the cost of a cab ride from Tampa Airport to the pier?

Posts: 55 | From: Southeastern PA | Registered: Jul 2000 | IP: Logged

Maggie
First Class Passenger
Member # 1174

posted 10-31-2000 01:45 PM

What about in San Juan? We are taking a cruise there in December (Grandeur of the Seas) Coming back should we take a cab?

Posts: 16 | From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Mar 2000 | IP: Logged

Ascendancy
First Class Passenger
Member # 840

posted 10-31-2000 03:03 PM

Take the cab. The buses wait for those clowns who didn't tag their luggage properly.
They wait for incoming flights as well. We have sat on a bus for an hour and a half at the airport, breathing in the carbon monoxide all that time. When we arrived to the Hotel, we both had splitting headaches. No more.

When you get off the bus to the hotel, you wait in a very long check-in line filled with your fellow busmates. Better to get the cab and beat the bus not only to the hotel, but to the pier, then back to the airport.

Here's another advantage. You can get your bags at the baggage claim and you have them all for your one night stay at the hotel.
If the airline happens to lose your bag, you will know right away and a tracer can be put on it immediately! We no longer allow the cruise line to pick up the bags. They consistently leave bags behind....

Posts: 354 | From: Aurora, CO | Registered: Oct 1999 | IP: Logged

sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 10-31-2000 03:28 PM

We usually take a cab. Ascendancy is right - you may have to wait for the slow pokes or another flight to come in and you sit on the bus breathing the carbon monoxide.
Once we had to wait in a bus, in New York City, that was turned off as there is an idling law, so there we sat sweltering. Mind you, if we have to fly into Miami and the ship is leaving from Ft. lauderdale, then it is the bus for us - too expensive the other way.
A funny thing happened a few years ago - we arrived at the Miami airport, and were picked up by a HUGE touring bus. The driver thought there were eleven people to be picked up as his passenger sheet said 11 - which is turns out meant 2 - he said he would have brought a limo for us if he had known there would only be 2 of us - darn!

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Paddy
First Class Passenger
Member # 357

posted 11-01-2000 01:07 PM

Given the option it would be a cab. Buses are fine but there really is nothing worse than waiting on a bus full of crying kids on a hot day for an hour while you wait the another flight when you could be sitting on Pool Deck with a novel in one hand and a ice cold beer in the other. Taxi.

Paddy.

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Chargap
First Class Passenger
Member # 1686

posted 11-20-2000 01:34 AM

What about Ft. Lauderdale and the airport there? Bus or Taxi and the cost? We have arranged our own flights.

Posts: 17 | From: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Nov 2000 | IP: Logged

sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 11-20-2000 07:51 AM

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Originally posted by Chargap:
What about Ft. Lauderdale and the airport there? Bus or Taxi and the cost? We have arranged our own flights.

If you are flying into Ft. L. and leaving from Port Everglades, definitely a cab. It is a very short trip and should only cost around $10.00. We always take a cab from airport to pier and pier to airport. Much, much faster than the bus.

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