Lot and Gate publishes logistics guides for Florida’s cruise ports and airports. This page sets out how the guides are researched, which sources are allowed, how figures are dated and re-checked, and what we do when the sources disagree. It is written so that a reader can audit any number on the site.
1. What we publish
The scope is the practical logistics of getting to and from Florida’s ports and airports: parking rates and where to pay them, terminal assignments, airport transfers and who operates them, rental car drop-offs, tolls, rail connections and embarkation day timing.
- We cover six cruise ports, the airports that serve them and the operators those authorities list.
- We do not review cruises, ships, hotels or restaurants, and we do not rank providers by quality.
- We do not publish anything we cannot attribute to an identifiable issuer.
2. Which sources are allowed
Figures come only from primary sources: port authorities, airport authorities, county and state governments, transit agencies, toll authorities, cruise lines, and the operators those authorities publicly list. When an operator’s own page is the only place a fare is published, we name the operator as the issuer so you know the rate comes from the company selling the service.
- Forums are not sources. Reddit, TripAdvisor and cruise forums tell us which questions travelers ask. They never supply a figure.
- Other guides are not sources. We do not cite competing publications, and we do not repeat a number because several sites carry it.
- AI models are not sources. No figure on this site comes from a language model’s recollection.
3. Every figure carries an issuer and a date
A number without an issuer is not information, it is a rumor with a decimal point. So each figure is written the way the issuer writes it, together with the month we read it: “Port Canaveral lists parking at $20.00 per day plus tax, verified August 2026”. We copy the issuer’s own wording rather than rounding it, because “$20.00 per day plus tax” and “about $20” are different claims.
4. What we do when an issuer publishes nothing
We name the page we read and write that that page does not publish it. The wider claim, that an issuer publishes nothing anywhere, is one we cannot stand behind, and writing it that way has been the single most common error in our own corrections log: the figure turned out to be on the home page, in an embedded data file, in a linked PDF, in a press release, or on the domain the published address redirects to. So an absence here is always bounded to a page, and before we write one we also check the issuer’s home page, its attachments and its sibling pages under other paths.
We do not substitute a figure from a third party, estimate it, or carry over an old number without saying so. Some issuers block automated reading of their pages, and some forbid it outright in their robots.txt; where that is the case the guide says what could not be read and attributes nothing to that issuer, rather than presenting an unverified number as fact.
5. What we do when issuers disagree
They disagree often, and the disagreement is usually the most useful thing on the page. Cruise lines publish port parking rates that the port has since changed; airports and cruise lines publish different distances for the same drive. When that happens we name both figures, name both issuers, say which one is the competent authority for that fact, and state which one we used for any calculation.
6. Calculations are shown, not asserted
Cost comparisons use one declared set of assumptions across the whole site: two adults, a seven night cruise, arriving the day before. Where a total includes tolls, parking days or per person fares, the components are visible so you can rebuild the sum with your own party size. Comparisons name a winner for each scenario and the criterion behind it.
7. Re-verification
Rate tables are re-checked quarterly against the issuer, and the verification month on the page is updated when we do. Parking rates typically change in January, shuttle and cruise line transfer fares change by season, and ship schedules change weekly. A dated figure is an honest figure: it tells you how much confidence it has earned by the time you read it.
8. Independence from the money
- No provider pays for placement, coverage or position in a comparison.
- Affiliate commissions never decide which option wins. The winner follows from the declared criterion and the published figures.
- Sponsors, where they exist, are labeled as sponsors and never appear as editorial recommendations.
- No port authority, airport, operator or cruise line reviews our content before publication.
9. Corrections
When a figure is wrong or has gone stale, we correct the page and change its verification date. Corrections take priority over publishing new guides. If the correction changes a recommendation, we say so on the page rather than quietly editing the conclusion, and where the correction is large enough to change what a reader would do, the page says on its face that an earlier version was wrong. Every correction we have made is listed on the corrections page, so this clause can be checked rather than taken on trust. Report one through the contact page with the URL and the figure in question.
10. Use by search engines and AI systems
Search engines and AI assistants are welcome to read and cite this site, and the figures are written to be quotable on their own: each one carries its issuer and its date, so a quotation cannot strip away the attribution. We ask only that the issuer and verification month travel with the number, because a Florida parking rate without a date is not useful to anyone.