Four Port Everglades buildings carry a Princess or Holland America number, and Broward County confirms three of them on its parking map
Broward County names a cruise line for seven of its eight Port Everglades buildings, on its parking map rather than its terminal pages. On that map, Cruise Terminal 2 is primarily used by Princess Cruises and Cruise Terminal 26 is primarily used by Holland America Line, read on 5 September 2026. Only Cruise Terminal 19 is left unnamed.
The eight terminal pages tell a smaller story. There Broward County attaches an operator to two buildings only, Cruise Terminal 4 for Disney Cruise Line and Cruise Terminal 25 for Celebrity Cruises, and its directory of ten cruise lines carries a phone number and a website with no terminal column at all. The parking map is the one county page that puts Princess Cruises and Holland America Line beside a building number in prose, and it hedges every entry with the word primarily and a warning that parking assignments may change. Holland America Line names three halls of its own; the map backs two of them.
| What a driver needs before embarkation morning | Holland America Line publishes | Princess Cruises publishes | Broward County publishes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal number | Cruise Terminals 26, 19 and 21, in prose | Cruise Terminal 2, on a blog page only | Cruise Terminal 2 to Princess, 26 to Holland America, 21 to both, on the parking map |
| Street address for that terminal | 2026 Eller Dr., 2019 Eller Dr., 2021 Eller Dr. | 1801 SE 20th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL | The same four street numbers, with two cities for 2026 Eller Drive |
| Pier assignment for a dated sailing | Not published for any sail date | Notified closer to the sail date, stated twice | Parking map records, which the port says may change on the day, plus a public berth board |
| Garage for that terminal | Palm Parking Garage, named, rate not printed | Heron Parking, 1,818 spaces | Palm 1,966 spaces, Heron 1,818 spaces, both 7 feet |
| Daily parking rate | Not printed, reader sent to porteverglades.net | A maximum of $20-$25 per day | $25 daily maximum since October 1, 2026, $30 oversized in the tariff and $35 on the parking page, taxes included |
| Distance to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport | Approximately 3 miles, 10 minutes | About 2 miles | 1.8 miles, allow at least 45 minutes |
| Taxi fare from that airport | From $20 USD | $15 to $20, typically | Average taxi fare $18 to $21 |
One figure survives all three ranges in the last row. The floor Holland America Line prints is $20, the ceiling Princess Cruises prints is $20, and the county band of $18 to $21 contains both. A passenger who budgets exactly $20.00 for the ride from the airport is inside every published number on the table, which is not true of $18.00 or of $21.00.
Holland America Line puts 349,281 square feet of Port Everglades hall behind a single 7 foot garage roof
Cruise Terminals 26, 19 and 21 measure 115,581, 95,000 and 138,700 square feet on the Broward County pages that describe them. Added together the three come to 349,281 square feet, which is 33.7 percent of the 1,036,317 square feet the county measures across all eight buildings. All three park from the same structure.
The Palm Parking Garage holds 1,966 spaces at 7 feet of clearance and serves Cruise Terminals 19, 21, 25, 26 and 29. Divide the garage by the five buildings it feeds and each one gets 393 spaces on a day when all five sail. The Heron Parking Garage, which is where Princess Cruises sends a car, holds 1,818 spaces for two buildings, or 909 apiece. A Princess car therefore has 2.3 times as many garage spaces behind it as a Holland America car.
Check in capacity divides the same way. Counted from the same pages, the three halls carry 50 stations at Cruise Terminal 19, 50 at Cruise Terminal 21 and 25 at Cruise Terminal 26, which is 125 of the 371 stations across the port’s eight dossiers. That is 33.7 percent again, the same share as the floor area, which puts these three halls at the port’s own average density of desks per square foot rather than above or below it. The full county file on every one of the eight sits in the terminal by terminal reference for Port Everglades.
Only one of the three offers an alternative to the garage. The Cruise Terminal 19 page ends its parking line with secure parking in 400 space Parking Lot B or the 1,966 space Palm Garage, and it is also the only one of the three whose sentence omits the word covered. Wording on the 21 page says covered parking located next to Terminal 21, and the 26 page says covered parking without giving any distance at all. That same hall is also the only one of the three the county will not attach to a brand: its parking map record reads used by various cruise lines, while the record for Cruise Terminal 26 reads primarily used by Holland America Line and the one for Cruise Terminal 21 lists the line beside Balearia Caribbean and Princess Cruises, verified September 2026.
Broward County’s parking map gives Princess Cruises two buildings and Holland America Line two
The page carrying those assignments is not one of the eight terminal dossiers. It is the interactive parking map on porteverglades.net, reached from a Port Parking card in the Cruise section and from a button on the parking page that reads Find your terminal parking. Its own heading is Find Terminal Parking, and its instruction is to select a terminal to see information on parking and luggage drop off, and to check back the day of your cruise, as parking assignments may change.
Seven of the eight records name a line, read on 5 September 2026. The record for Cruise Terminal 2 reads primarily used by Princess Cruises, the one for Cruise Terminal 26 reads primarily used by Holland America Line, and the one for Cruise Terminal 21 reads primarily used by Balearia Caribbean, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line. Only Cruise Terminal 19 carries no brand at all, written as used by various cruise lines.
Two things follow that neither cruise line publishes. A second building goes to Princess Cruises, Cruise Terminal 21, which no page on princess.com mentions, and the same record seats it alongside Holland America Line and a ferry operator, Balearia Caribbean. Holland America Line, which names three halls, ends with county backing at two of them and none at the third.
The hedge is doing real work rather than covering vagueness. Disney Cruise Line publishes fourteen dated Disney Dream sailings that leave its own Cruise Terminal 4, twelve of them embarking or disembarking at Cruise Terminal 2 and two at Cruise Terminal 26, which are the two buildings the map gives to Princess Cruises and Holland America Line. Those dates are laid out in the fourteen Disney Dream sailings that do not use Cruise Terminal 4. The Disney record at Cruise Terminal 4 is the only one of the eight written without the word primarily.
Each record ends with a garage, and they match the pairing above: Cruise Terminal 2 parks in the Heron Garage, Cruise Terminals 19, 21 and 26 in the Palm Garage. Three of those four add the same bracketed instruction, to drop off passengers and luggage before entering the garage. Only the Cruise Terminal 21 record leaves it out, and the Cruise Terminal 2 record is one of two in the whole map that name a closest entrance, the SE 17th Street and Eisenhower gate.
Cruise Terminal 26 has the deepest berth Broward County publishes and half the check in desks of its two neighbors
Berth depth at Cruise Terminal 26 is 40 feet, matched among the six Port Everglades buildings with a published berth only by Cruise Terminal 29, and deeper than the 38 feet at both Cruise Terminal 19 and Cruise Terminal 21. Berth length runs the other way. Quay length at Cruise Terminal 21 reaches 1,475 feet, against 1,337 feet at Cruise Terminal 26 and 1,300 feet at Cruise Terminal 19.
The check in count is where the three stop resembling each other. Cruise Terminal 26 has 25 stations against 50 at each of the others, and yet its passenger waiting area is the largest of the three at 21,183 square feet, against 18,342 at Cruise Terminal 19 and 15,751 at Cruise Terminal 21. Dividing one by the other gives 847 square feet of waiting floor per check in station at Cruise Terminal 26, 367 at Cruise Terminal 19 and 315 at Cruise Terminal 21.
That ratio is worth carrying into the building. A hall with 2.7 times the seating room per desk of its neighbor is a hall where the queue is likely to be the constraint and the seat is not, so arriving at the assigned check in time matters more at Cruise Terminal 26 than at either of the other two. The rule is stated plainly on the county’s arriving and departing page: follow the cruise line’s assigned check in time, and to alleviate delays, do not arrive prior to assigned time.
Vertical circulation splits the same way. Four elevators and 4 escalators appear on the Cruise Terminal 26 and Cruise Terminal 21 pages, while the Cruise Terminal 19 page lists 2 and 2 for the same 50 desks the larger building has.
Princess Cruises still defers the pier twice on the page where the cruise is booked, and its own seaport has already answered
Princess Cruises answers the terminal question in two incompatible ways on princess.com. The Fort Lauderdale departure port page says you will be notified as to which pier your cruise from Fort Lauderdale will dock, then repeats further down that you will be notified of your specific pier assignment closer to your sail date. The word terminal never appears on it.
An undated guide on the same domain does the opposite. Under the heading asking where the Princess cruise terminal is, the page states that Princess ships are located at the following terminal, and gives Terminal 2 at 1801 SE 20th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL. That address is the exact street number Broward County prints on its own Cruise Terminal 2 page, down to the SE.
What the brand withholds, its own seaport has already published. The Broward County parking map reads primarily used by Princess Cruises at Cruise Terminal 2, and a second county trace agrees: over a 37 day window read on the public vessel traffic board on 4 September 2026, Regal Princess recorded 12 movements at berth 02 and Ruby Princess recorded 2, with no ship changing berth in the whole window. The board prints the operator as Princess Cruises, Inc. and the stevedore as Metro Cruise Services. Berth numbers at Port Everglades match terminal numbers, which is how Disney Cruise Line at berth 04 and Celebrity Cruises at berth 25 behave on the same board, and what that board carries for every ship is set out in the Broward County vessel traffic board and what it publishes before a sail date.
None of that overrides the booking page, and the reason sits on the county map itself. On the map the county writes primarily rather than exclusively, tells drivers to check back the day of the cruise because parking assignments may change, and berths at this seaport are not reserved for cruise ships. The best documented building in this guide is now Cruise Terminal 2, with the brand guide and three separate county traces behind it, and the dated boarding document is still the only instrument that names a berth for one sailing.
The Cruise Terminal 2 page names Carnival Corporation in prose and Princess Cruises only inside a photograph
Broward County describes Cruise Terminal 2 at 1801 SE 20th Street as an 85,504 square foot building whose amenities include Carnival Corporation’s Ocean Medallion service, a wearable technology that lets passengers connect to enhanced services before and after their cruise. Checked on 5 September 2026, that sentence has no counterpart on the pages for Cruise Terminals 4, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26 or 29.
One line on that same county page does name Princess Cruises, and not in prose. The single occurrence of the brand on the Broward County Cruise Terminal 2 page sits inside the alt text of a photograph, which reads that beautiful artwork is displayed behind the check-in counters at Cruise Terminal 2, which services Princess Cruises. Checked on 5 September 2026, no alt text names a cruise line on the Cruise Terminal 19, 21 or 26 pages. A sighted reader never meets that line and a screen reader reads it out, which makes it the quietest of the four traces pointing at Cruise Terminal 2.
That device is the one Princess Cruises publishes as its own. Its MedallionClass guide says all U.S. guests receive their free Medallion device either in the mail before leaving home or when they arrive at the terminal, that international guests pick theirs up at the port, and that the quarter sized device delivers faster boarding. So the county named a corporate parent and a wearable on the building whose street number Princess later printed, and kept the brand itself out of the prose.
A covered approach exists at only one of the four buildings in this guide. Broward County describes an air conditioned elevated passenger bridge with moving sidewalks connecting the Heron Parking Garage to Cruise Terminal 2, accessed from the 5th floor of the garage or from the elevators outside the terminal. No comparable bridge appears on the pages for Cruise Terminals 19, 21 or 26, where the walk from the Palm Parking Garage is outdoors.
The rest of the Cruise Terminal 2 dossier is modest beside the Holland America three. It lists 30 check in stations, 35,956 square feet of baggage laydown, a 20,720 square foot waiting area, 2 elevators and 3 escalators, and a berth of 1,602 feet by 31 feet, which is the longest quay and the shallowest water of the four buildings in this guide.
A Princess parking sentence charges $1 an hour and only one of the six filed steps costs that
The Princess guide that names Cruise Terminal 2 also prices the garage, and this is where it goes wrong. It says the first hour is generally priced at $4 and up to 5 hours at $8, after which additional hours are charged at $1 each up to the daily maximum. The first two figures matched Broward County exactly until the tariff was reissued on October 1, 2026, and now sit $1.00 and $2.00 low. The rule that follows does not exist in either version.
The port now publishes $5 for 0 to 1 hour and $10 for up to 5 hours on its parking rates page, then says only that fees for additional hours vary up to the daily maximum based on vehicle type. Item 1135 of Port Everglades Tariff No. 12, and since the October 1, 2026 reissue the main parking page as well, fill in what the rates page leaves out: $13.00 above 5 and up to 6 hours, $14.00 to 7 hours, $18.00 to 9 hours, $20.00 to 11 hours, $23.00 to 12 hours, and $25.00 from 12 hours on. Of those six steps exactly one, from six hours to seven, costs $1.00 more than the step below it.
Run the Princess rule out and the gap is measurable. Seven hours past the five hour mark at $1 each gives $15.00, while the filed tariff charges $23.00 at hour 12 and $25.00 from there on. The blog rule is $8.00 short at hour 12, and it does not reach the $25.00 maximum until hour 22, ten hours after the tariff does. The ceiling it prints, a maximum of $20 to $25, now matches only at its top end, and item 1135 adds the part no cruise line mentions: all parking fees include sales taxes. Every step of that ladder is laid out in the full Port Everglades parking tariff with tax inside it.
The Holland America page avoids the error by refusing to print a number. It names the Palm Parking Garage and sends the reader to porteverglades.net for current rates, which is why nothing on hollandamerica.com can go stale the way the Celebrity Cruises figure of $15 per day has.
Which of the four buildings a driver can trust, counted by how many issuers name it
Count the issuers behind each building and the ranking inverts. Four stand behind Cruise Terminal 2: the undated princess.com guide, the parking map sentence, the alt text on the county terminal page and 14 Princess movements at berth 02 on the county board. Two stand behind Cruise Terminal 26, the Holland America page and the map. Two stand behind Cruise Terminal 21 as well, with a complication, since the map adds Princess Cruises and Balearia Caribbean to it. One stands behind Cruise Terminal 19, and it is the cruise line’s own page.
So the building with the thinnest paper trail belongs to the brand that publishes most, and the building with the thickest belongs to the brand that publishes least. On advance planning from the brand’s own site Holland America Line still wins, and the criterion is how much of the drive can be settled at home: its page fixes three street numbers, a named garage, an airport gap of approximately 3 miles and 10 minutes, a taxi fare from $20 USD, a statement that there is no luggage storage at the pier, and a Broward County Transit stop in the Northport section of Port Everglades on SE 17th St. On documentation of the building itself, Princess Cruises wins at Cruise Terminal 2 without having published anything new.
The margin on the brand’s own pages is three buildings to one, and it comes with a defect the county exposes. Holland America Line opens that section by stating that there are three cruise terminals in Fort Lauderdale. Port Everglades has eight, numbered 2, 4, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26 and 29, so the sentence describes the line’s own rotation and not the seaport. Read as a rotation it is useful; read as a fact about Fort Lauderdale it is wrong by five buildings.
Princess Cruises wins on everything that is not the building. A passenger can have the Medallion mailed home, upload documents in advance, and reach the port by a mode the county lists without naming: Port Everglades says it is accessible by car, taxi, bus, train and ship, while Princess Cruises names Brightline outright and describes a partnership with it. The trade is narrower than it was. One brand tells you the door and leaves the rate to the county; the other keeps the door until the documents arrive and hands you everything else early, while the county now opens the door for both on the page that tells a driver where to park.
For a same day flight the two converge anyway. County guidance asks for at least 45 minutes between flight arrival and cruise check in time, and the spread between the brands on that same drive is a full mile, 1.8 miles from the county, about 2 from Princess Cruises and approximately 3 from Holland America Line. Which brand is right about the mileage does not change the 45 minutes.
Seven checks a Princess or Holland America passenger can finish before leaving home
- Measure the car against 7 feet. Both the Heron and the Palm garages carry a 7 foot clearance, and Broward County caps oversized parking at a maximum of 24 feet of length at $30.00 per entry under item 1135, $35 on the parking page, arranged by calling the parking management team on 954-468-3680.
- Bring identification for every adult in the car. Each of the three port entrances, at SE 17th St. by Eisenhower Blvd., at State Road 84 just east of U.S. 1 by Spangler Blvd., and at I-595 East on Eller Dr., runs a checkpoint where everyone 18 and older shows a government issued photo ID plus cruise documents, and vehicles are subject to search.
- Carry a card, not a booking. The port does not accept reservations or pre-payment for parking, and the daily rate begins when you pull the parking ticket from the machine, not when the ship boards.
- Check which taxi range your terminal page prints. Cruise Terminal 19 and Cruise Terminal 21 quote $80 to $159 to Miami International Airport while Cruise Terminal 26 quotes $80 to $150, so two of Holland America’s three buildings sit in one band and the third in another.
- Count the party before booking a van. Van on Demand serves parties of 3 or more at $11 per person to Fort Lauderdale, $25 to Miami and $45 to Palm Beach, and it is not available on all sailing days, so three passengers heading to the airport pay $33 against a metered taxi at $18 to $21.
- Open the Port Everglades parking map on the morning of the sailing. Its instruction is to check back the day of the cruise because parking assignments may change, and that map is the page pairing Cruise Terminal 2 with the Heron Garage and Cruise Terminals 19, 21 and 26 with the Palm Garage, verified September 2026.
- Plan the return for the morning, not the afternoon. Debarkation runs early, since the county states that passengers typically debark the ship between 7 and 9AM, and the parking facilities are not staffed 24 hours a day or on non cruise days.
Where a Princess or Holland America arrival at Port Everglades goes wrong
The costliest error is now reading primarily used by as an assignment. Six of the seven named records on the Broward County parking map carry that hedge, the map asks drivers to check back on the day because parking assignments may change, and Disney Cruise Line’s fourteen dated exceptions show what it covers: twelve of them put a Disney Dream sailing at Cruise Terminal 2, the building the map gives to Princess Cruises. A driver who parks at the Heron Parking Garage on the strength of that sentence and finds the ship on Eller Drive has crossed the port to the wrong side.
The second error is copying the Princess parking arithmetic into a budget. A $1 per hour rule that does not exist in the filed tariff underprices hour 12 by $8.00 and reaches the daily maximum ten hours late, and the same page misdescribes the port’s layout by calling Northport, Midport and Southport three main entry points. Those are port sections. The three entry points are the gated checkpoints on SE 17th St., State Road 84 and I-595 East.
A third trap belongs to Holland America passengers specifically. Its own count of three cruise terminals in Fort Lauderdale invites a driver to assume the port is small enough to guess at, and Cruise Terminal 21 is the one whose alternative transportation page the port’s own side menu does not link, even though that page loads normally and prints a different Miami taxi band from Cruise Terminal 26.
The last one is the address itself, and Broward County writes it two ways. A driver aiming at Cruise Terminal 21 is aiming at 2021 Eller Dr. in Hollywood under a Fort Lauderdale ZIP code of 33316. The county prints Cruise Terminal 26 at 2026 Eller Drive in Fort Lauderdale on its terminal page and in Hollywood on its parking map, both read on 5 September 2026, so the same county gives the same street number two towns, and a navigation app fed the city instead of the street number can send the same family to two different places for the same port. Royal Caribbean passengers meet a related version of this, described in what the Broward County berth log says when the cruise line will not.
Which pages behind these figures were read, and the one board that would not open
Every county number here comes from porteverglades.net pages read in September 2026 and again on October 7, 2026: the eight terminal dossiers, the interactive parking map, the parking and parking rates pages, getting here, arriving and departing, the cruise lines directory, and the alternative transportation pages for Cruise Terminals 2, 19, 21 and 26. The parking steps between $10 and $25 come from item 1135 of Port Everglades Tariff No. 12 as reissued on October 1, 2026, which the rates page summarizes as varying and the main parking page now prints. The eight records on the parking map are assembled in the browser by script, so they are readable in the page source and not in the rendered text, which is why searching the visible map for a cruise line returns nothing.
The cruise line figures come from the Fort Lauderdale port details page on hollandamerica.com and from three pages on princess.com, the Fort Lauderdale departure port page, the undated Fort Lauderdale port guide and the MedallionClass guide. Neither the vessel traffic board nor the cruise line pages were reachable in the same way: pevvesseltraffic.broward.org answered a scripted request in September with a challenge page and on 7 October 2026 with an empty script shell, never with rows, so the berth counts here are quoted from a browser reading dated 4 September 2026 and are a sample, not a published assignment. The county directory of ten cruise lines was confirmed on 5 September 2026 and again on 7 October 2026, and still carries three columns, cruise line, phone and website, with Holland America Line on 877-932-4259 and Princess Cruises on 800-774-6237, and no terminal anywhere in it. Which brands do put a number on their own pages is compared across all ten in the reconstruction of Port Everglades terminals by cruise line.
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section, and every figure credited to Broward County or Port Everglades was read again on October 7, 2026, twice and minutes apart, after Tariff No. 12 was reissued on October 1, 2026. Confirm a rate on the Port Everglades parking page or in item 1135 before driving in. Every October 1, the first day of its fiscal year, the county reissues its port tariff, while 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.
The Fort Lauderdale port details page on hollandamerica.com lists three: Cruise Terminal 26 at 2026 Eller Dr., Cruise Terminal 19 at 2019 Eller Dr. and Cruise Terminal 21 at 2021 Eller Dr. On its Port Everglades parking map the county backs two of those, 26 and 21, and leaves 19 as used by various cruise lines.
Princess Cruises defers twice on its Fort Lauderdale departure port page, but Broward County does not. On its Port Everglades parking map, Cruise Terminal 2 reads primarily used by Princess Cruises and Cruise Terminal 21 names the brand again, and an undated princess.com guide gives Terminal 2 at 1801 SE 20th Street.
All three park from the Palm Parking Garage in the Broward County listing, 1,966 spaces with 7 feet of clearance, a garage that also serves Cruise Terminals 25 and 29. Only the Cruise Terminal 19 page offers an alternative, the 400 space Parking Lot B. The Holland America page names the Palm garage and prints no rate.
Only the top of the ceiling is right, and the ladder is wrong. Princess prints $4 for the first hour, $8 to five hours and a maximum of $20 to $25; since October 1, 2026 Broward County charges $5 and $10. Its claim that additional hours cost $1 each does not appear in item 1135 of Tariff No. 12, whose six steps now run $13.00, $14.00, $18.00, $20.00, $23.00 and $25.00.
Three issuers give three numbers for the same drive. Port Everglades publishes 1.8 miles, Princess Cruises says about 2 miles and Holland America Line says approximately 3 miles and 10 minutes. The county asks for at least 45 minutes between flight arrival and cruise check in time regardless of which figure is used.
Twenty five stations appear at Cruise Terminal 26 against 50 at both Cruise Terminal 19 and Cruise Terminal 21 in the Broward County listing, which also gives it the largest waiting area of the three at 21,183 square feet. That works out to 847 square feet of waiting floor per desk, against 367 at Cruise Terminal 19 and 315 at Cruise Terminal 21.
The county answered the terminal question on a page about where to leave the car
One brand hands over three buildings and no price. The Princess pages hand over a price with a broken rule, a device in the mail and a building the booking page will not stand behind. Both leave the rate card to Broward County, and Broward County has the name on the door for seven of its eight buildings, filed under parking rather than under terminals.
Where it is filed is the practical finding here. The sentence naming Princess Cruises at Cruise Terminal 2 and Holland America Line at Cruise Terminal 26 sits on a map about where to leave the car, on the same website whose eight terminal dossiers name only Disney Cruise Line and Celebrity Cruises, and the one number every issuer still agrees on is $20.00, the taxi fare that satisfies all three published ranges, while the daily parking maximum it used to match rose to $25.00 on October 1, 2026.