The only price either Broward County department prints for the crossing itself sits in a bus timetable
Broward County Transit names one bus for Fort Lauderdale Beach Park on its Destinations page, Route 40, and prints its full weekday timetable. No Broward County department publishes a fare, a distance or a travel time between that beach and any of the eight Port Everglades cruise terminals, in September 2026.
A Fort Lauderdale Beach to Port Everglades transfer costs $2 per adult on Route 40, which is the only fare either Broward County department publishes for it. The seaport prints a taxi estimate for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and for Miami International Airport, and nothing else. The figures below come from the agency that issues each one, read in September 2026 and again on October 7, 2026, and they answer a single trip: two adults leaving a Fort Lauderdale Beach address on sailing morning for a numbered cruise terminal.
| How you leave Fort Lauderdale Beach | What its issuer publishes for this leg | Published price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broward County Transit Route 40 | An all-week timetable effective September 27, 2026, with time points on the 17th Street Causeway | $2 one way per adult in cash, exact fare required | Two travelers with one bag each and an hour to give the trip |
| Metered taxicab | Port Everglades: “Metered rate only. Flat rates are NOT allowed” | Not published for any origin except FLL at $18 – $21 and MIA at $80 – $159 | Anyone who has to arrive at a specific terminal address at a specific hour |
| Ride app pickup, Uber or Lyft | Port Everglades cruise FAQ: “There is no negotiated price for ride-share services” | Not published by any Broward County department | One traveler willing to accept the price the app shows |
| Hotel shuttle from a beach property | Port Everglades: “Many area hotels provide transportation between Port Everglades and the hotel. Contact your hotel for details” | Not published, and the port never uses the word free | A guest who has the offer confirmed in writing by the property |
| Van on Demand | Port Everglades: $11 per person to FLL, $25 to MIA, $45 to PBI, parties of 3 or more | Not offered from a beach address in either direction | The ride to an airport after the cruise, not the ride to the ship |
| Own car left in a port garage | Broward County Tariff No. 12, item 1135 | $25.00 daily maximum with sales taxes inside it, or $175.00 for seven ticket days | A driver whose car is already parked at the beach hotel |
Only two rows of that table carry a number set and printed by a Broward County agency for this specific movement. One of them is a bus fare and the other is a parking rate, which is what you pay for not making the trip at all.
Three published street corners stand between a beach towel and a gangway
Port Everglades publishes three entrances and puts a security checkpoint on each: Southeast 17th Street at Eisenhower Boulevard, State Road 84 just east of U.S. 1 at Spangler Boulevard, and I-595 East at Eller Drive. Guests aged 18 and older must present a government-issued photo ID and cruise documents, no weapons are allowed under Florida State Statute 311.12(3b), and vehicles are subject to search.
The three distances the seaport does publish all end at a runway: 1.8 miles to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 27 miles to Miami International Airport and 50 miles to Palm Beach International Airport, renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT) in July 2026. No Broward County page prints a mileage from a Fort Lauderdale Beach address to a cruise terminal, and none prints a minute count either.
The Getting Here page of Port Everglades also tells local travelers which gate to use, stating that for those already in the Fort Lauderdale area, the SE 17th Street or State Road 84 entrances may be more convenient. Behind those gates sit eight numbered terminals, from Cruise Terminal 2 at 1801 SE 20th Street to Cruise Terminal 29 at 2200 SE 35th Street, and the reference on the eight Port Everglades terminals and the garages and lots Broward County assigns to each is what turns a gate into a destination. A beach traveler is never going to the port. They are going to a street number inside it.
One sentence on the same port page covers public transport in full: local bus service stops at the Northport section of Port Everglades on SE 17th Street, just north of the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, with a phone number and a link to Broward County Transit. No route number, no fare, no frequency, and no walking distance to any of the eight terminal addresses.
The one Broward County Transit time point at the port’s own gate belongs to Route 40
Broward County Transit publishes the missing route number in a place the port never links to. Its Route 40 timetable, effective September 27, 2026, is titled “Lauderhill Transit Center to The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale via Sistrunk Boulevard/17th Street Causeway/A1A”, and its eastbound time points run Lauderhill Transit Center, Sunrise Boulevard and NW 31 Avenue, Broward Central Terminal, the corner of SE 17th Street and Eisenhower Boulevard, Points of America at SE 20th Street and Ocean Drive, and the Galleria.
That fourth time point is the corner Port Everglades calls its own entrance. The route map prints the seaport and the Broward County Convention Center beside it, and the port appears in the timetable’s list of 17 points of interest, alongside the International Swimming Hall of Fame Museum, Bonnet House Museum and Gardens and Hugh Taylor Birch State Park. Of the 52 route timetables Broward County Transit published in September 2026, three name Port Everglades in that way: Route 1, Route 40 and the US 1 Breeze, Route 101. Only Route 40 prints Eisenhower Boulevard.
The same route is the one Broward County Transit assigns to the beach. Its Destinations page lists Fort Lauderdale Beach Park at 1100 Seabreeze Boulevard against a single route number, 40, and gives Bonnet House three routes, 11, 36 and 40. Route 11, whose timetable is effective May 24, 2026, does print a beachfront time point at Las Olas Blvd. and A1A, but it runs north from there to the Galt Mile and A1A and Atlantic Boulevard, and its schedule never names Port Everglades.
What Broward County Transit times on this causeway, and what it leaves untimed
The timetable is the only document in this whole transfer with clock times in it, so the table below counts what it prints. All figures are read from the Route 40 weekday timetable effective September 27, 2026, which replaced the October 26, 2025 edition, and the trip counts are our own tally of its rows.
| Time point on Route 40, as Broward County Transit prints it | Direction it appears in | Weekday trips timed there | First and last weekday time | What the county puts beside it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE 17 St. and Eisenhower Blvd | Eastbound only, toward the Galleria | 37 of 38 | 5:43 a.m. to 10:54 p.m. | The route map marks the seaport and the Broward County Convention Center here |
| SE 17 St. and SE 15 Ave. | Westbound only, toward Lauderhill | 35 of 38 | 6:34 a.m. to 10:38 p.m. | The next printed time point westward is Broward Health Medical Center |
| SE 20 St. and Ocean Dr, Points of America | Both, on selected trips | 7 eastbound, 2 westbound | 7:19 a.m. to 4:01 p.m. eastbound | The south tip of the barrier island, off A1A |
| Broward Central Terminal | Both, with separate arrival and departure times | 37 of 38 departures | 5:30 a.m. to 10:39 p.m. departing eastbound | Transfers to Routes 1, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 20, 22, 30, 31, 50, 60, 81 and the US 1 Breeze |
| Galleria at Fort Lauderdale | Both, as the eastern terminus | 37 eastbound, 35 westbound | 5:56 a.m. to 11:08 p.m. eastbound | The end of the A1A leg named in the route title |
| Fort Lauderdale Beach Park, 1100 Seabreeze Blvd | Named on the Destinations page, printed in no timetable | None, because it is not a time point | No time printed in either direction | The beach the whole trip starts from |
The bottom row is the finding. A Destinations page names Route 40 as the bus for Fort Lauderdale Beach Park, and then no timetable prints a time for that beach, in either direction, across all 52 of them. The schedule does add that there are additional bus stops in between those listed, and that the bus picks up and drops off at every Broward County bus stop sign along the route, so an untimed corner is not an unserved one.
Four or five minutes out to the island, ten minutes back, and one direction with no printed time at all
The two directions of Route 40 are not mirror images, and the difference falls on the leg that matters most. Going to the ship from a beach address means riding westbound, and the first time Broward County Transit prints after the island belongs to SE 17th Street and SE 15th Avenue, a different corner of the same street. The Eisenhower Boulevard corner, the one Port Everglades publishes as its entrance, carries no westbound time.
Coming back from the ship is the eastbound direction, and there the same corner carries 37 weekday times, from 5:43 a.m. to 10:54 p.m., with consecutive buses 19 to 46 minutes apart, the widest gap falling in mid-morning. The port states that passengers typically debark between 7 and 9 AM, so the return direction is already running more than an hour before the first passenger walks off.
The scheduled hops are asymmetric too. Eastbound, the seven trips that serve Points of America take 4 or 5 minutes from the Eisenhower Boulevard corner to SE 20th Street and Ocean Drive. Westbound, the two trips timed there take 10 minutes to reach the SE 15th Avenue time point. Those are Broward County Transit’s own minutes; the doubling comes from the westbound routing, not from our arithmetic.
Two adults for $8, and the same $8 the port charges to cross its own property
Run the published fare out and the comparison settles itself. Two adults riding Route 40 to the port and back pay four cash fares at $2 each, which is $8, by our own arithmetic on the Broward County Transit adult rate. The port charges a flat rate of $8 for a single taxi transfer between two of its own terminals for back-to-back cruisers. One county agency will move two people across the causeway twice for what the other charges to cross the property once.
Against parking the comparison is wider and narrower at the same time. Seven ticket days at the $25.00 daily maximum that took effect on October 1, 2026 is $175.00, with sales taxes already inside it under item 1135, and the port adds that all daily rates begin when you pull the parking ticket. The bus wins that subtraction by $167.00, but only for a couple who would otherwise have driven, which is why the $25.00 cap and the eight step schedule underneath it belong to a different decision than this one.
The winner by scenario is therefore split, and the criterion is delivery rather than money. For two adults with one bag each and no assigned check-in time before mid-afternoon, Route 40 wins outright: it is the only mode either county prices for this leg. For a party of three or more with cruise luggage, or anyone whose cruise line assigned an early boarding window, the metered taxi wins on delivery rather than on price: it ends at the street number the cruise line printed on the ticket instead of on SE 17th Street, and the port’s rule that only metered rates apply is the nearest thing to a price control on it. Neither agency publishes the walk from that bus stop to any terminal door, and neither says which side of the checkpoint it is on.
Details of the beach run that only appear in a timetable or a rate card
- Put the corner into a trip planner, not the port. Port Everglades writes it as Southeast 17th Street at Eisenhower Boulevard and the transit agency writes the same corner as SE 17 St. and Eisenhower Blvd.
- Exact fare is required when boarding and operators do not carry change, in Broward County Transit’s own words. The adult one-way is $2 and the reduced fare for riders 18 and under, on Medicare or with a disability is $1.
- The All Day Pass is $5, so a second ride the same day still costs less than the pass and the third one pays for it.
- Route 40 is an all-week schedule, not a weekday route, and the version in force carries the date Effective 9/27/26 on its cover.
- Transfers happen at Broward Central Terminal, where Route 40 meets Routes 1, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 20, 22, 30, 31, 50, 60 and 81 plus the US 1 Breeze, which is what a beach address north of Sunrise Boulevard will need.
- Live tracking now sits in the RideBCT app, which Broward County Transit says combines trip planning, real-time bus tracking and fare payment, and the agency staffs 954-357-8400, which is the same number Port Everglades gives when it declines to name the route.
- Broward County’s Consumer Protection Division licenses and regulates chauffeurs, taxis and for-hire vehicles in the county from 1 N. University Drive, Suite 203 in Plantation, open 8:00AM to 4:00PM Monday through Friday. The seaport sends taxi, limousine and bus operators to that division for their business permit and prints no meter rate itself.
Where a Fort Lauderdale Beach transfer goes wrong on sailing morning
The first mistake is directional. Boarding Route 40 eastbound at a beach stop takes you north to the Galleria at Fort Lauderdale, away from the water and away from the port; the port is on the westbound side of the same schedule, and the westbound trip crosses the causeway before its first printed time.
The second is reading a points of interest list as a stop list. Route 40 names Port Everglades among 17 destinations, but the timetable’s port-side time point is a public street corner at a security gate, not a terminal curb, and everyone aged 18 and older still shows a government-issued photo ID and cruise documents to get past it.
The third is planning around Points of America. Only 7 of the 38 weekday eastbound trips and 2 of the 38 westbound trips are timed at that spur, and the last eastbound one is at 4:01 p.m. The fourth is assuming a cab will quote a price at the terminal: all eight Port Everglades terminal pages state that only metered rates apply and that flat rates are not allowed, and the port prints no estimate for any origin other than the two airports. The fifth is arriving early with bags to kill time, because Port Everglades states that luggage cannot be left or stored at the port and that passengers should follow the cruise line’s assigned check-in time and not arrive before it.
The last one is a false comparison with a hotel van. The port publishes only that many area hotels provide transportation between Port Everglades and the hotel and that guests should contact the hotel for details, and the guide to what Broward County will and will not say about hotel shuttles at Port Everglades shows how little of that is checkable before a deposit is paid.
Dating the timetable, the fare table and the rate card behind this crossing
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section, and everything credited to Broward County, Broward County Transit or Port Everglades was read again, twice and with identical text, on October 7, 2026. That reading found two changes, both dated to the county’s new fiscal year: a Route 40 timetable effective September 27, 2026, whose times replace the old ones above, and a port parking maximum of $25.00 from October 1, 2026, up from $20.00. The $2 fare did not move. Tariff items at Port Everglades carry October 1 effective dates, shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.
Six questions about crossing from Fort Lauderdale Beach to a cruise terminal
The six answers below rest on the same October 7, 2026 readings as the tables above: the Route 40 timetable effective September 27, 2026, the Broward County Transit Destinations page and fare schedule, and the Port Everglades cruise pages.
Yes, and Broward County Transit names exactly one. Its Destinations page lists Fort Lauderdale Beach Park at 1100 Seabreeze Boulevard against Route 40 alone, and that route’s eastbound timetable carries a time point at the corner of SE 17th Street and Eisenhower Boulevard, which the seaport publishes as an entrance.
No Broward County agency publishes one. Port Everglades prints taxi estimates for two origins only, $18 – $21 from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and $80 – $159 from Miami International Airport, and states on all eight terminal pages that only metered rates apply and flat rates are not allowed.
Two dollars in cash for an adult one way, with exact fare required because operators do not carry change. The reduced fare is $1 for riders 18 and under, on Medicare or with a disability, and the All Day Pass is $5, so two adults riding out and back pay $8 in total.
Neither agency prints an end to end figure for it. The only published hop across that stretch runs between the Eisenhower Boulevard corner and Points of America, which the Route 40 weekday timetable effective September 27, 2026 gives as 4 to 5 minutes eastbound and 10 minutes westbound.
No. Its own page says local bus service stops at the Northport section on SE 17th Street, just north of the convention center, and the eight terminals carry street addresses from 1801 SE 20th Street to 2200 SE 35th Street. Neither agency publishes the walk between them.
Nothing published by either Broward County department says it can. Van on Demand is priced only from the cruise terminals to three airports, at $11 per person to FLL, $25 to MIA and $45 to PBI, for parties of 3 or more, and the seaport adds that it is not available on all sailing days.
The one approach to Port Everglades that nobody was asked to price
Broward County Aviation Department prints a taxi estimate of $80 from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to South Beach, a beach in another county. It prints nothing at all for the beach on its own side of the county line, which is the one a Broward cruise passenger is most likely to be standing on. The seaport prices what arrives by air and leaves the rest to whoever is driving.
What fills the gap is a bus schedule written for a different purpose. Route 40 exists to connect Lauderhill to a shopping mall, and it happens to cross the causeway that both endpoints of this trip sit on, which is why the only two published numbers a beach traveler can use are a $2 fare and a set of time points, one of which is missing in the direction that matters.
That is a workable answer and a fragile one. It holds as long as the timetable holds, and it changes without notice on the next effective date, which is the risk of building a trip on a document that was never about the port.