Royal Caribbean at Port Everglades: The Terminal Nobody Claims

A Royal Caribbean booking out of Fort Lauderdale arrives with a ship, a sail date, a check-in window and no building number. At Port Everglades, Broward County measures eight cruise terminals down to the square foot and names a cruise line on only two of those eight pages. Its parking map names one for seven of the eight, and gives Royal Caribbean two buildings.

Royal Caribbean’s two Fort Lauderdale ships berthed at Port Everglades berths 18 and 19 across a 37 day window in September and October 2026. The berth number and the terminal number are the same number, which is what makes that record usable. Nobody publishes the pairing as an assignment, so the useful question is not which building it is, but who holds the answer and at what moment they hand it over.

Berth 18 and berth 19 held the Royal Caribbean ships, and no Port Everglades page says so

Royal Caribbean International does not publish a terminal number for Port Everglades. Broward County does, though not on the page describing the building: its parking map calls Cruise Terminal 18 primarily used by the line, and gives the line Cruise Terminal 29 as well, verified September 2026.

The assignment reaches the public in three places: that map, the boarding document the line issues, and the county’s free vessel traffic board, which prints the berth number weeks ahead of the sailing.

Question a Royal Caribbean passenger has	Issuer that publishes it	What it says	How far ahead it exists
Terminal number for one named sailing	Royal Caribbean, in the boarding document	The web page defers: follow the directional signs for your designated ship’s pier terminal	With the cruise documents
Berth number by ship and date	Broward County vessel traffic board	Allure of the Seas at berth 18, Jewel of the Seas at berth 19	36 days on the day it was read
Size and layout of the building	Broward County terminal pages	Cruise Terminal 18, 259,370 sq ft, 90 check-in stations	Always published
Parking rate for the week	Port Everglades Tariff No. 12, item 1135	$25.00 daily maximum since October 1, 2026, sales taxes included	Always published
Which car park serves the building	Broward County parking page	Parking Lot C with 600 spaces and Parking Lot B with 404 spaces serve Cruise Terminal 18, and Parking Lot D with 850 sits beside it	Always published

Three of those five rows are settled months in advance. The two that decide where a car ends up are not, and they arrive from different issuers on different clocks. That gap is the whole subject here.

Cruise Terminal 18 is the largest hall at Port Everglades and the map hands it to Royal Caribbean

Cruise Terminal 18 sits at 1901 SE 32nd St., Hollywood, Florida 33316, a Hollywood city line under the ZIP code Fort Lauderdale uses. The county lists its total floor at 259,370 sq ft, its baggage laydown at 71,467 sq ft and its passenger waiting area at 76,198 sq ft, with 90 check-in stations, six elevators, seven escalators, a VIP area and a berth of 1,648 ft at 38 ft of depth. No operator is named on that county page. One is named on the county’s parking map, which calls the building primarily used by Royal Caribbean International and sends its drivers to Parking Lots B and C unless directed elsewhere, verified September 2026 and again on October 7, 2026.

Compare that with Cruise Terminal 19 at 2019 Eller Drive, which the same county template gives 95,000 sq ft, 45,612 sq ft of baggage laydown, 18,342 sq ft of waiting area, 50 check-in stations and a 1,300 ft berth at the same 38 ft depth. Two Royal Caribbean ships, two buildings, and a floor area ratio of nearly three to one between them. The map does not name the pair the board recorded: it gives the line Cruise Terminal 18 and Cruise Terminal 29, while the 37 day sample put its ships at berths 18 and 19. Cruise Terminal 19 is the one building the map leaves as used by various cruise lines, which describes that week rather than contradicting it.

The terminal pages themselves name only two lines. The Cruise Terminal 4 page belongs to Disney Cruise Line and the Cruise Terminal 25 page says the building is primarily used by Celebrity Cruises, and the Cruise Terminal 18 page names nobody at all. Its Cruise Lines page then lists ten companies, Royal Caribbean International among them on 866-562-7625, in a three column table of name, telephone and website with no terminal column at all. The wider picture, line by line, is set out in the reconstruction of which company names which Port Everglades terminal, and the summary of it is that six of the eight buildings are claimed by a cruise line on its own site, while Cruise Terminals 18 and 29 are claimed by no cruise line and only by the county map.

Three Florida ports get a terminal number from Royal Caribbean, and Port Everglades gets an address

One directions answer per homeport is what Royal Caribbean keeps, and the four Florida entries are not written to the same standard. The Port Everglades answer opens with 1850 Eller Drive, routes a driver from Fort Lauderdale International Airport to the last exit on I-595 East, and finishes with the sentence that this will automatically take you to the Port Everglades security entrance, from where you follow the directional signs for your designated ship’s pier terminal.

Directions answer on royalcaribbean.com	Terminals the page names	Parking figure the page prints	Airport distance the page gives
Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale	None	$20 USD per day, $25 USD oversized, USA Parking on (954) 468-3680	5 miles from FLL, 30 miles from MIA
PortMiami	Cruise Terminal A, Cruise Terminal AA labelled MSC Terminal, Cruise Terminal E	None, refers the reader to the PortMiami website	n/a
Port Canaveral, Orlando	Cruise Terminal #1, Cruise Terminal #5, Cruise Terminal #6	None, refers the reader to portcanaveral.com	n/a
Port of Tampa Bay	Terminal 2 and Terminal 3, with street addresses	Approximately $15 per day at 810 Channelside Drive, (813) 905-7678	10 miles from Tampa International

Port Everglades is the only one of the four where the line withholds the building and the only one of the four where it prints an exact rate. The figure was right when the page was read in September 2026 and is not since October 1, 2026. Item 1135 of Port Everglades Tariff No. 12 then capped a parking day at $20.00 and an oversized vehicle at $25.00, so Royal Caribbean landed on the tariff to the dollar; the reissued item caps them at $25.00 and $30.00, which leaves the same two figures $5.00 low each, while its sister brand Celebrity Cruises printed $15 and $19 for the same port.

One detail on that page has no equivalent anywhere on the county site. The line names USA Parking as the contact for rates and vehicle size restrictions on (954) 468-3680. That identical number appears twice on the county parking page, addressed to our parking management team, with no company name attached. The cruise line identifies the operator that the landlord leaves anonymous.

The Broward County vessel board turns a Royal Caribbean ship name into a berth number

The board Broward County runs sits at pevvesseltraffic.broward.org, a Tidalis PortControl installation titled Port of Everglades Public View, logged in as General_Public with no registration and no password. Every one of the eight terminal pages links to it behind a button reading See Today’s Ship Schedule. Read on 4 September 2026, the Traffic view covered 315 vessel movements to 10 October 2026, of which 123 were cruise movements by 8 vessels across 6 berths.

Two of those vessels sail for Royal Caribbean, and the operator column gives them as Royal Caribbean Cruise, LTD., the registered name rather than the brand. Allure of the Seas logged 10 movements, all at berth 18. Jewel of the Seas logged 22 movements, all at berth 19. Neither ship moved berth once in the sampled window, and the stevedore on both was SSA Cruise, LLC.

Berth on the county board	Royal Caribbean ship recorded there	Building Broward County measures at that number	Car park the terminal page names	Published overhead clearance
Berth 18	Allure of the Seas, 10 movements, 30.51 ft summer draft	Cruise Terminal 18, 259,370 sq ft, 90 check-in stations	600 space Parking Lot C and 400 space Parking Lot B	n/a, no height published for either lot
Berth 19	Jewel of the Seas, 22 movements, 28.32 ft summer draft	Cruise Terminal 19, 95,000 sq ft, 50 check-in stations	400 space Parking Lot B or the 1,966 space Palm Garage	7 feet, in the Palm Garage only

Two cautions travel with that table. A sample of 37 days in low season shows what berthed, not what the port has assigned for a February sailing, and berth 18 is not a cruise-only asset: it took the container ships Newton W and Bridge Mail on 6, 9 and 10 September 2026. Filtering has to run on the Cargo Type column, never on the berth number by itself, and the mechanics of that filter are laid out in the walkthrough of how the Broward County vessel traffic board is read column by column.

Cruise Terminal 18 has no parking garage, and the Royal Caribbean instruction assumes one

The parking paragraph on the Royal Caribbean page reads as a two step sequence: after dropping your checked luggage at the pier terminal with the porters and the cruise line representative, proceed to the appropriate parking garage for that terminal. At berth 18 there is no appropriate garage. The county pairs its two garages, Heron with 1,818 spaces and Palm with 1,966, to Cruise Terminals 2 and 4 and to Cruise Terminals 19, 21, 25, 26 and 29 respectively. For Cruise Terminal 18 the pairing is Parking Lot C with 600 spaces and Parking Lot B with 404 spaces, both of them surface lots, and the parking page now adds Parking Lot D, 850 spaces adjacent to the building to the north, as a third. One of those counts is published twice and differently: the parking page gives Parking Lot B 404 spaces and the Cruise Terminal 18 and 19 pages both give it 400.

That distinction costs money only in one case and costs certainty in another. Both garages post a 7-foot clearance and none of the four surface lots posts any clearance at all, so a roof box or a raised van has a documented answer at Cruise Terminal 19 and no documented answer at Cruise Terminal 18. Port Everglades charges the oversized line at $18.00 for the first five hours and, under item 1135, $30.00 up to 24 hours per entry, against $35 on its parking page, and its published length limits disagree with each other: the filed tariff refuses vehicles over 20 feet and the parking page sets a maximum of 24 feet.

The rate itself does not vary by building. Standard parking runs $5.00 for up to one hour, $10.00 for up to five hours and a $25.00 daily maximum, all daily rates begin when you pull the parking ticket from the machine, and the port takes cash, credit and debit while accepting no reservations and no pre-payment. The full ladder of hourly steps, which the parking page now prints and the rates page still does not, sits in the breakdown of what Broward County charges to park at Port Everglades with the sales tax already inside.

Pricing a seven night Royal Caribbean week at Port Everglades before the building is known

Run the two ways of arriving for two adults on a seven night sailing, and the terminal number changes neither total. Driving and leaving the car fills seven ticket days at the $25.00 daily maximum, which is $175.00 with sales tax already inside it under item 1135. Arriving at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International and taking a metered taxi costs $18 to $21 each way on the figures the county prints for Cruise Terminal 18, so $36 to $42 for the round trip.

The taxi wins by roughly $135 over the week, and the criterion is simply that a parked car is billed for days nobody uses it. The nuance is that the comparison only holds for a passenger who flew in. A driver coming down from Naples or Vero Beach is not choosing between a car and a cab, and for that driver $175.00 for the week in a gated lot beside the terminal is the number to plan against.

Van on Demand shifts the answer in one direction only. Its published price is $11 per person from FLL and $25 per person from Miami International, and Broward County describes it as a traditional ride share for parties of 3 or more that is not available on all sailing days. For a couple it does not exist. For a party of three from Miami International it lands at $75 against a metered taxi range of $80 to $159, so the van wins on the Miami leg and loses on the Fort Lauderdale leg, where three passengers pay $33 for a ride a metered cab does for $18 to $21.

Six things a Royal Caribbean passenger can fix without the terminal number

• Budget the car at $175.00 for seven nights from item 1135 of Port Everglades Tariff No. 12, not from the $15 per day Celebrity Cruises printed for the same port or the $20 Royal Caribbean printed in September 2026.
• Treat 1.8 miles as the distance from the airport, which is what Broward County publishes on its Arriving and Departing page, rather than the 5 miles on the Royal Caribbean page.
• Carry a government-issued photo ID for everyone aged 18 and over, plus the cruise documents, because all three port entrances check both before a vehicle reaches any terminal.
• Check the height of anything on the roof before sailing day, since the only clearance figure Port Everglades publishes anywhere is the 7 feet in the Heron and Palm garages and neither serves Cruise Terminal 18.
• Tell the person collecting you that the free cell phone waiting lots sit at the Port Administration Building, 1850 Eller Drive, and north of Cruise Terminal 18, and that debarkation typically runs between 7 and 9AM.
• Expect a different documentation pattern in Miami, where the county attributes a named building to the same line, as traced in the piece on the Royal Caribbean terminal Miami-Dade County names but declines to price.

Five ways the berth 18 answer gets used wrongly

Reading a berth number as a permanent assignment. Allure of the Seas held berth 18 for all 10 of its movements in the sampled window, which is a record of five weeks and not a lease. A sailing in March sits outside every row the board carried on 4 September 2026, because the last cruise movement in the entire database was 10 October 2026.

Searching the board for the word Royal. The Shipping Line column carries registered names, so Royal Caribbean appears as Royal Caribbean Cruise, LTD., Disney as Magical Cruise Company Ltd and Princess as Princess Cruises, Inc. A text search on a brand finds the ship names and misses the operator field.

Driving to 1850 Eller Drive because that is the address Royal Caribbean prints. It is the Port Administration Building and the address of the port itself. Cruise Terminal 18 is at 1901 SE 32nd St. and Cruise Terminal 19 is at 2019 Eller Drive, which are two different turns once past the gate.

Assuming the Convention Center Connector helps. The elevated bypass road that opened on 20 October 2025 crosses Port Everglades and, in the county’s own words, eliminates the need to pass through port security checkpoints, but it serves the convention center. A car heading for a cruise terminal still passes a checkpoint.

Arriving early to get ahead of the queue. The port publishes no terminal opening hour and instructs passengers to follow the cruise line’s assigned check-in time and not to arrive before it. The only opening hours printed over any Port Everglades building come from Disney Cruise Line, at 10:45 AM for the Heron garage and 10:30 AM for the Palm garage.

Which Royal Caribbean and Broward County pages were read, and on what day

The terminal specifications, parking assignments, rates and entry rules come from porteverglades.net pages for Cruise Terminals 18 and 19, from the cruise parking, cruise lines and Arriving and Departing pages and from item 1135 of Tariff No. 12 in the compilation reissued on 1 October 2026, all read again on 7 October 2026. The berth records come from the Broward County vessel traffic board read on 4 September 2026. The line’s own figures come from the Royal Caribbean directions answers for Port Everglades, PortMiami, Port Canaveral and Tampa, and from its Fort Lauderdale cruise port page, all read in September 2026.

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.

What Royal Caribbean passengers ask about berths 18 and 19 at Port Everglades

The answers below were built from Broward County pages and boards and from royalcaribbean.com, read in September 2026, with the county pages read again on October 7, 2026.

The biggest hall at Port Everglades belongs to the boarding pass

Broward County spent its publishing effort on the parts of Cruise Terminal 18 that never change: 259,370 sq ft, 90 check-in stations, seven escalators, a 1,648 ft berth at 38 ft. It withheld the one line that changes every week and costs a passenger a wrong turn. Royal Caribbean made the mirror choice, printing the parking rate to the cent and the building not at all.

So the largest cruise terminal in Fort Lauderdale carries no name on its door and takes a 225,282 gross ton ship anyway. A passenger can learn the depth of the water, the count of the check-in desks and the price of a week on the barrier months ahead, and still be told which of the eight buildings to walk into by a document the cruise line prints last.

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