The seven numbers Port Canaveral prints, and the three it never uses
Port Canaveral runs seven cruise terminals numbered 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10, and the Canaveral Port Authority publishes no Terminal 4, 7 or 9. Terminals 1, 2 and 3 are the B side, reached from Exit 54B off S.R. 528. Terminals 5, 6, 8 and 10 are the A side, Exit 54A.
Read in August 2026, the port’s terminal guide gives those seven addresses and nothing else a driver can act on. No cruise line beside a number, no garage, no ramp.
Anyone hunting for Terminal 4 or Terminal 7 finds no page, because those digits were never given to a cruise berth. Anyone reading Terminal 10 as the far end of the harbor finds it at 9005 Charles Rowland Dr., the lowest street number on that road. A Terminal 1 boarding pass followed by the A side signs ends across the channel from the ship.
The number is a routing code. Not a ranking, and not a distance.
Why the terminal number and not the cruise line picks the exit off S.R. 528
Every set of driving directions the Canaveral Port Authority publishes closes on one sentence, and it names terminals rather than ships: take S.R. 528 east directly to Port Canaveral, Exit 54A for A Terminals (CT-5, -6, -8 and -10) or Exit 54B for B Terminals (CT-1 or CT-3).
That sentence runs three times on a single page, once under each airport. Orlando International Airport, approximately 45 minutes west, feeds S.R. 528 East from its north exit. Orlando Melbourne International Airport, approximately 25 miles and 40 minutes south, feeds U.S. Highway 1 north for about 20 minutes and then about 4 miles past S.R. 520 in Cocoa. Orlando Sanford International Airport, approximately 1 hour northwest, sends drivers 23 miles down the Central Florida Greenway first.
Recovery is the part nobody publishes: none of the pages read in August 2026 says what to do after the wrong ramp. Which line and which ship the port assigns to each berth is answered in the reference on how Port Canaveral numbers its seven terminals and which cruise line sails from each one.
Two exits, seven numbers, one decision.
What a Port Canaveral terminal arrival guide actually says
Each terminal has its own arrival guide on portcanaveral.com, and the four read in August 2026, for Cruise Terminal 1, 2, 8 and 10, carry the same four sentences. Plan to arrive at the cruise terminal at your assigned boarding time. Follow the route for passenger pickup and drop-off. Follow the route for secure cruise terminal parking. Contact your cruise line directly with all itinerary questions.
None of those pages names a berth address, a ramp, a garage or a cruise line. The one street address printed on them is 445 Challenger Road, Suite 300, the Canaveral Port Authority’s own office on (321) 783-7831. Routing is handed off twice, to an Apple Maps link and to a View, Download or Print Map option.
The index that lists all seven berths carries the timing rule instead: garages and surface lots do not open before 10 AM for embarking passengers. What a stay in one of them costs is worked out in the billed days inside a Port Canaveral parking charge.
Seven pages, one paragraph, repeated.
Address, side and exit for all seven Port Canaveral cruise terminals
Below is the terminal guide read against the terminal map, verified August 2026, with the street numbers put in order. All seven berths are in Cape Canaveral, FL 32920.
| Cruise terminal | Address published by the Canaveral Port Authority | Side and exit | Street position and next number on the list |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cruise Terminal 1 | 9050 Discovery Rd. | B side, Exit 54B | Sole berth on Discovery Rd.; next number is 2 |
| Cruise Terminal 2 | 180 Christopher Columbus Dr. | B side, Exit 54B | Lower number on Christopher Columbus Dr.; next is 3 |
| Cruise Terminal 3 | 220 Christopher Columbus Dr. | B side, Exit 54B | 40 numbers above Terminal 2; no Terminal 4 exists |
| Cruise Terminal 5 | 9245 Charles Rowland Dr. | A side, Exit 54A | Highest of four on Charles Rowland Dr.; next is 6 |
| Cruise Terminal 6 | 9241 Charles Rowland Dr. | A side, Exit 54A | 4 numbers below Terminal 5; no Terminal 7 exists |
| Cruise Terminal 8 | 9155 Charles Rowland Dr. | A side, Exit 54A | 86 numbers below Terminal 6; no Terminal 9 exists |
| Cruise Terminal 10 | 9005 Charles Rowland Dr. | A side, Exit 54A | Lowest of four on Charles Rowland Dr.; none higher |
Six steps separate the seven numbers, and three skip a digit: 3 to 5, 6 to 8, and 8 to 10. Along Charles Rowland Dr. the street numbers climb 9005, 9155, 9241, 9245, while the berths run 10, 8, 6, 5. Counting up the road counts down the terminals.
Port Canaveral’s B side berths, numbered 1, 2 and 3
Cruise Terminal 1 stands at 9050 Discovery Rd., the only berth the Canaveral Port Authority addresses on that street, behind Exit 54B. Royal Caribbean publishes the same number as Terminal #1 and sends guests to their cruise documents for the berth that applies. One reading of the port’s parking page returned 9500; the guide, the map and the cruise line all give 9050.
The odd entry is Terminal 2, at 180 Christopher Columbus Dr. It carries an address, a printable map and an arrival guide worded like the other six, and the master schedule published for September 2026 to February 2027 assigns it no sailing.
Number 3 sits at 220 Christopher Columbus Dr., 40 street numbers north of its neighbor, behind the same ramp. Carnival Cruise Line is the one issuer that prints the side letter beside the digit, listing B-Side South Cruise Terminal #3 and A-Side North Cruise Terminal #6.
One road, two berths, one of them idle.
Port Canaveral’s A side berths, numbered 5, 6, 8 and 10
Terminal 5 occupies 9245 Charles Rowland Dr., the highest street number of the four A side berths. Royal Caribbean lists it as Terminal #5, 9245 Charles M Rowland Dr, adding a middle initial the Canaveral Port Authority leaves out.
Four street numbers away, at 9241, Terminal 6 appears in both the Royal Caribbean and the Carnival Cruise Line address lists, so a document naming Terminal #6 can come from either company. At 9155, 86 numbers down the same road, Terminal 8 has an arrival guide word for word identical to the one published for Cruise Terminal 1.
Number 10 closes the list at 9005 Charles Rowland Dr. MSC Cruises tells drivers to follow the signs to terminal 10 and take exit 54A, while Norwegian Cruise Line routes to the A-Side North Terminal without printing a number, measuring its own approach as about 10 miles of S.R. 528 East from U.S. Highway 1. Which ship stands at these berths in a given week is taken apart in the reading of the master cruise schedule the port reissues without notice.
Four berths, one street, numbers running backwards.
Details that decide which Port Canaveral gate you reach
- The boarding document is the only issuer that names a berth for a specific sailing. The port’s cruise lines page lists eight operators with reservation numbers, among them Disney Cruise Line on 1-800-951-3532, and prints no terminal beside any of them.
- No two issuers agree on the distance and all of them agree on the ramp. MSC Cruises puts Orlando International Airport approximately 46 miles out, in a sentence that reaches us only as a search engine snippet because its own pages refused an automated read, the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority calls it a 42 mile route, and Norwegian Cruise Line measures 12 miles from Exit 205 on I-95.
- Royal Caribbean’s driving directions FAQ names three berths, #1 at 9050 Discovery Road, #5 at 9245 and #6 at 9241 Charles M Rowland Dr, and requires everyone aboard no later than 90 minutes before port operations close.
- Garages and surface lots stay shut before 10 AM for embarking passengers, so a berth confirmed at 7 AM buys a wait. The Ground Transportation office answers on (321) 394-3203 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.
- Working the terminal curb takes a permit. A commercial operator needs one from the Canaveral Port Authority, starting at a non-refundable $50 application fee and billed in 60 minute blocks, and no commercial vehicle may sit in a loading zone longer than 15 minutes unless it is actively loading.
- No numbered berth has a published bus stop. Space Coast Area Transit runs route 9 through Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach with designated stops only, none of them named Port Canaveral or a cruise terminal, and the closest by name is George King Blvd. Its printed sheet, dated 2019, sets a full one ride fare at $1.50 and a 10 ride pass at $12.00, with buses every 30 minutes from 6:00 and hourly after that until 11:13 pm.
- All seven berths share the Cape Canaveral, FL 32920 postal code, which is why a hotel search returns properties that look adjacent to one. What crosses that gap is set out in the guide to hotels near the Port Canaveral cruise terminals and the transfers that reach them.
Where a Port Canaveral terminal number gets misread
Following the A side signs with a Terminal 1 or Terminal 3 booking. The Canaveral Port Authority routes CT-1 and CT-3 through Exit 54B and the other four through Exit 54A, and the highway offers that choice once.
Reading Terminal 10 as the far end of the port. Its address, 9005 Charles Rowland Dr., is the lowest of the four A side street numbers, below the 9155 of Terminal 8.
Treating 9050 as a Terminal 10 address. Those numbers sit 45 apart on different roads behind different ramps: 9050 Discovery Rd. is Terminal 1 on the B side, 9005 Charles Rowland Dr. is Terminal 10 on the A side.
Searching for Cruise Terminal 4, 7 or 9. Neither the terminal guide nor the terminal map lists them, so the traveler assumes the port’s own site is incomplete.
Expecting a berth’s arrival guide to give the ramp. Across the four guides read in August 2026 those pages carry four sentences and no exit number, while the sentence naming Exit 54A and Exit 54B sits on the directions page.
How these Port Canaveral terminal details were checked
The figures in this guide were verified in August 2026 against the sources named in each section. Parking rates usually change in January, 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.
Questions about the numbered terminals at Port Canaveral
All of the answers below come from the port’s terminal guide, terminal map and master cruise schedule, and from the cruise lines named in each one, read in August 2026.
Port Canaveral uses seven numbered cruise terminals: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10. The Canaveral Port Authority prints those seven on its terminal guide and terminal map, with addresses in Cape Canaveral, FL 32920. Numbers 1, 2 and 3 are the B side, verified August 2026.
No cruise terminal numbered 4, 7 or 9 appears on the Canaveral Port Authority’s terminal guide or terminal map, both read in August 2026. The published list runs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10, so three of the six steps between consecutive numbers skip a digit.
Berth 1 is at 9050 Discovery Rd., berth 2 at 180 Christopher Columbus Dr., berth 3 at 220 Christopher Columbus Dr., and berths 5, 6, 8 and 10 at 9245, 9241, 9155 and 9005 Charles Rowland Dr., all in Cape Canaveral, FL 32920, verified August 2026.
Number 2, at 180 Christopher Columbus Dr., has an address, a printable map and an arrival guide worded like the other six. The master cruise schedule the Canaveral Port Authority published for September 2026 to February 2027 assigns it no sailing, so the page exists without a ship.
Each arrival guide carries four sentences: plan to arrive at the cruise terminal at your assigned boarding time, follow the route for passenger pickup and drop-off, follow the route for secure cruise terminal parking, and contact your cruise line directly with all itinerary questions. No exit number appears, verified August 2026.
Number 10 stands at 9005 Charles Rowland Dr. on the A side, reached from Exit 54A, while number 1 stands at 9050 Discovery Rd. on the B side, reached from Exit 54B. The higher digit sits across the channel rather than farther along one road, verified August 2026.
Seven numbers, two exits and no Terminal 4
A terminal number at Port Canaveral looks like a position in a sequence and behaves like a fork in a road. Berths 3 and 5 are consecutive on the port’s list and sit on opposite sides of the channel, behind different ramps, while berths 5 and 6 are four street numbers apart. The gaps at 4, 7 and 9 mean nothing to a passenger; what the digit carries is a ramp, chosen once, near the end of a 45 minute drive, off a document printed weeks earlier.