Broward County names a cruise line for seven of the eight Port Everglades terminals
Port Everglades attaches a cruise line to seven of its eight cruise terminals, on the interactive parking map it links from the Cruise menu as Port Parking. Only Cruise Terminal 19 is left as used by various cruise lines. The eight terminal pages themselves name a line on two.
A Port Everglades cruise terminal assignment is the numbered building a sailing uses among eight, and Broward County publishes one for seven of them in September 2026. The place it publishes them is not the place the question gets asked. No terminal page carries a cruise line except Cruise Terminal 4 and Cruise Terminal 25, and the port’s cruise line directory, ten companies deep, has no column for a building at all.
The eight records sit inside the parking map on porteverglades.net, and the page builds them with JavaScript, so they show up in the page source rather than in the rendered text. The map header reads “Select a terminal to see information on parking and luggage drop off. Be sure to check back the day of your cruise, as parking assignments may change.” Digital wayfinding inside the port carries ship names and terminal assignments as well, but that is a second answer for a driver already through the gate.
Every figure here was read in September 2026 from the issuer that publishes it, every Broward County figure was read again on October 7, 2026, and where a company publishes nothing the row says so instead of borrowing a number from a third party.
Disney Cruise Line publishes three Port Everglades addresses and two garage opening times
Disney Cruise Line runs a terminal information page for Fort Lauderdale that goes a step past the parking map. It names Port Everglades Cruise Terminal 4 at 1800 SE 20th Street, Cruise Terminal 2 at 1801 SE 20th Street and Cruise Terminal 26 at 2026 Eller Drive, and it ties ships and dates to each one.
The line lists Disney Destiny at Cruise Terminal 4 for sailings through September 3, 2027. Its sister ship Disney Dream sails mostly from the same building, and Disney publishes a set of dated exceptions that move individual sailings to Cruise Terminal 2 and to Cruise Terminal 26. That is a ship level, date level assignment published months ahead on a public page, which is what the county’s own vessel traffic board publishes by berth and vessel rather than by cruise line.
The second thing on that Disney page has no equivalent anywhere in Broward County’s cruise section. The same page publishes an opening time for the garages: the Heron Parking Garage opens at 10:45 AM and serves Cruise Terminals 2 and 4, and the Palm Parking Garage opens at 10:30 AM for Cruise Terminal 26. No Port Everglades page prints an opening hour for a garage, a lot or a terminal, and the county’s only timing instruction is to follow the cruise line’s assigned check in time. The one clock on a Port Everglades building in September 2026 belongs to a cruise line.
The line declines exactly one thing, and it is the thing the county does publish. Its page sends readers to the Port Everglades website for current parking rates rather than printing a dollar figure, which is why the numbers in the Broward County tariff behind every Port Everglades parking rate stay authoritative even for a Disney passenger.
Holland America Line prints Cruise Terminals 26, 19 and 21 and counts the port at three
Holland America Line keeps a Fort Lauderdale port details page with three street numbers on it: Port Everglades Terminal 26 at 2026 Eller Dr., Terminal 19 at 2019 Eller Dr. and Terminal 21 at 2021 Eller Dr., Hollywood, FL 33316. All three match the addresses Broward County prints on its own terminal pages, down to the Hollywood city line that Cruise Terminal 21 carries under a Fort Lauderdale ZIP code.
One sentence on that page is wrong about the port and useful about the line. The page 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 rather than the seaport. Read as a rotation it is the most specific thing any of the ten companies publishes short of Disney’s dated list.
Holland America Line also names the Palm Parking Garage by name and sends readers to porteverglades.net for the rate, gives the airport gap as approximately 3 miles and 10 minutes with fares from $20 USD, and states that there is no luggage storage at the pier. It is the only one of the ten to point at Broward County Transit, whose local bus stops in the Northport section of Port Everglades on SE 17th St.
What all ten cruise lines in the Port Everglades directory publish about their building
The directory read on porteverglades.net in September 2026 is alphabetical and identical in shape for every company, so the differences come entirely from what each line chose to put on its own website. The parking map supplies the other half of every row, naming six of those ten companies across seven buildings.
| Line as Port Everglades lists it | Terminal Broward County’s parking map gives it | Terminal the cruise line publishes | Issuer holding the row up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balearia Caribbean | Cruise Terminal 21, primarily used | Not verified for this guide | Broward County only |
| Celebrity Cruises | Cruise Terminals 25 and 29, primarily used | None published | Broward County only |
| Crystal | None published | Not verified for this guide | No issuer |
| Disney Cruise Line | Cruise Terminal 4, the only record with no hedge | Cruise Terminals 4, 2 and 26 with dates | Both, and the line is more specific |
| Holland America Line | Cruise Terminals 26 and 21, primarily used | Cruise Terminals 26, 19 and 21 | Both, and the line adds 19 |
| Princess Cruises | Cruise Terminals 2 and 21, primarily used | None published, pier notified later | Broward County only |
| Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection | None published | Not verified for this guide | No issuer |
| Royal Caribbean International | Cruise Terminals 18 and 29, primarily used | None published, signs at the gate | Broward County only |
| Silversea Cruises | None published | Not verified for this guide | No issuer |
| Viking | None published | Not verified for this guide | No issuer |
Five rows in that table say not verified for this guide, and that is a limit of this check rather than a finding about the companies. The websites of Balearia Caribbean, Crystal, Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, Silversea Cruises and Viking were not read here, so nothing is claimed either way about what they publish. Four of those five get nothing from the county either, which leaves them with a phone number, a website and no building. The exception is Balearia Caribbean, which the parking map names at Cruise Terminal 21 alongside Princess Cruises and Holland America Line.
Counting only what an issuer will stand behind, seven of the eight buildings close: 2, 4, 18, 21, 25, 26 and 29, together 941,317 square feet of the 1,036,317 square feet the county measures, and 321 of its 371 check in stations. The one that stays open is Cruise Terminal 19 at 2019 Eller Drive, 95,000 square feet behind 50 check in stations. The full county dossier for all eight, with square footage, berth depth and check in station counts, sits in the Port Everglades terminal by terminal reference.
Royal Caribbean and Princess Cruises hand the terminal question back to the boarding pass
Royal Caribbean International answers the question with an address and an instruction. Its Port Everglades page gives 1850 Eller Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316, routes drivers off I-595 East to the port security entrance, and then says to follow the directional signs for your designated ship’s pier terminal. No terminal number appears anywhere on that page, and Broward County has already published two for the line: Cruise Terminal 18, and Cruise Terminal 29 shared with Celebrity Cruises.
Princess Cruises is more explicit about the deferral, and states it twice. Its Fort Lauderdale departure page opens with the line that you will be notified as to which pier your cruise from Fort Lauderdale will dock, and repeats further down that you will be notified of your specific pier assignment closer to your sail date. The word terminal does not appear on the page at all, and Princess says it operates a fleet of 12 ships from the port. The county’s parking map names Princess Cruises at Cruise Terminal 2 and again at Cruise Terminal 21.
Among the ten companies the winner for advance planning is Disney Cruise Line, and the criterion is whether a passenger can finish the arrival at home. One Disney page carries building, street number, ship, date and garage opening hour; Holland America Line publishes building and street number but no dates; Royal Caribbean, Princess and Celebrity publish a port address. The nuance is that a passenger on any of the other nine lines does better with Broward County than with the line, because the parking map names a building where the cruise line names a gate, and that is what decides whether a room booked through a hotel near the Port Everglades cruise terminals is near the right one.
Celebrity Cruises numbers three Port Canaveral terminals and none at Port Everglades
Celebrity Cruises is the strangest row in the table, because the port names two buildings for Celebrity and Celebrity names none. The Cruise Terminal 25 page at 2025 Eller Dr. describes the building as primarily used by the line and even names two ships, Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Xcel, and the parking map adds Cruise Terminal 29 at 2200 SE 35th Street, shared with Royal Caribbean International. Celebrity’s own port and terminal information page prints the Port Everglades address at 1850 Eller Drive and stops there.
The same Celebrity page proves the omission is a choice rather than a policy. For Port Canaveral it lists Cruise Terminal #1 at 9050 Discovery Road, Cruise Terminal #5 at 9245 Charles M Rowland Dr and Cruise Terminal #6 at 9241 Charles M Rowland Dr, and tells passengers to check their cruise documents to see which terminal the ship departs from. One Florida port gets three street addresses on that page and the other gets one.
The Celebrity page also carries the clearest stale figure of the five read for this guide. It prints parking at Port Everglades as $15 USD per day for regular vehicles and $19 for oversized vehicles. Item 1135 of Port Everglades Tariff No. 12, reissued effective October 1, 2026, caps a parking day at $25.00 and an oversized vehicle at $30.00, the county parking pages print $35 for the oversized day, and the item states that all parking fees include sales taxes. Celebrity is $10.00 low on the car and $11.00 to $16.00 low on the oversized vehicle. Royal Caribbean printed $20 and $25 when its page was read in September 2026, which matched the tariff then in force and leaves it $5.00 low on the car under the October one.
Four issuers and four distances between the airport and the same Port Everglades gate
Every company that publishes a Fort Lauderdale port page also publishes a distance from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and no two of them agree. The spread is wide enough to change which ground transport a passenger books.
| Issuer | Distance published from FLL to the cruise port | Time or fare published with it |
|---|---|---|
| Port Everglades cruise FAQ | 1.8 miles | Allow 45 minutes to 1 hour |
| Princess Cruises | About 2 miles | No time published |
| Holland America Line | Approximately 3 miles | 10 minutes, fares from $20 USD |
| Royal Caribbean International | 5 miles | No time published |
| Broward County Aviation Department | No distance published | About a 10-minute ride |
The figure to plan with is the port’s own 1.8 miles, and the criterion is that Broward County owns both endpoints of the measurement and prints them on the same site. The nuance matters for anyone reading a cab meter: the port measures to 1850 Eller Drive, the administration building just past the gate, and not to Cruise Terminal 29 at 2200 SE 35th Street or Cruise Terminal 18 at 1901 SE 32nd St. in Hollywood. Royal Caribbean’s 5 miles is the outlier at nearly three times the county’s figure, and its Miami International Airport figure of 30 miles runs 3 miles over the 27 miles the port publishes for the same trip.
Time is where the gap gets expensive. The Broward County Aviation Department calls it about a 10-minute ride, Holland America Line agrees at 10 minutes, and the port’s own FAQ asks for 45 minutes to 1 hour because it is timing the whole process rather than the drive. Both numbers are true about different things, and the same split runs through the side by side comparison of Port Everglades and PortMiami.
Carnival Cruise Line sells Fort Lauderdale sailings the port directory does not list
Carnival Cruise Line does not appear among the ten companies on the Port Everglades cruise line directory. Carnival’s own site keeps a Fort Lauderdale departure page that invites travelers to book a Carnival cruise from Ft. Lauderdale and calls it the second-busiest cruise port in the world. Two issuers, one absence, and no terminal number from either.
That gap is worth naming because a different Carnival string sits on a Port Everglades page and reads like an assignment. The Cruise Terminal 2 amenity list offers the Ocean Medallion service of Carnival Corporation, which is a corporate parent and a wearable device rather than the operator of a sailing. Broward County names Princess Cruises as the primary user of Cruise Terminal 2 at 1801 SE 20th Street, and the only line publishing dated sailings into that building is Disney Cruise Line.
The port also describes itself differently from the way Carnival does. Port Everglades calls itself one of the three busiest cruise homeports in the world and its terminals page still carries a forecast of some 4.4 million cruise guests in 2025. Neither claim carries a terminal number either.
Cruise Terminal 19 is the only Port Everglades building Broward County leaves unnamed
One record out of the eight on the parking map carries no company. Cruise Terminal 19 at 2019 Eller Drive reads “Used by various cruise lines”, and the county measures that building at 95,000 square feet with 50 check in stations and a 1,300 foot berth at 38 feet of depth. It is the one door Port Everglades declines to attach to a brand.
Holland America Line claims it anyway. Its Fort Lauderdale port page lists Terminal 19 at 2019 Eller Dr. among the three buildings it names, and Broward County puts Holland America at the two either side of it, Cruise Terminal 21 and Cruise Terminal 26. On this one building the cruise line is the more specific issuer, which is the reverse of the Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and Princess rows, where the county publishes a number and the line publishes none.
The wording of the other seven records is itself a finding. Six of them open with the phrase primarily used by, which describes a habit rather than a booking, and only Cruise Terminal 4 gets a flat Disney Cruise Line with no hedge on it. Broward County is consistent about that: the Cruise Terminal 4 page names Disney outright and the Cruise Terminal 25 page says primarily used, exactly as the map does.
The overlap that looks like a contradiction is not one. Disney Cruise Line publishes dated Disney Dream sailings out of Cruise Terminal 2 and Cruise Terminal 26, and Broward County calls those same two buildings primarily used by Princess Cruises and Holland America Line. Both statements hold, because the county is describing the usual occupant and Disney is publishing the exceptions to it on named dates. The passenger who needs that distinction is the one sailing on one of those dates.
Size does not track the hedge. The largest hall at Port Everglades, Cruise Terminal 18 at 259,370 square feet with 90 check in stations and a 1,648 foot berth at 38 feet of depth, is listed as primarily used by Royal Caribbean International. The smallest of the eight at 80,200 square feet, and the only one whose feature list omits simultaneous embark and debark, Cruise Terminal 29 is the only record naming exactly two companies, Celebrity Cruises and Royal Caribbean International, while Cruise Terminal 21 names three. Every one of the eight records closes with the same warning: “Check back the day of your cruise for updated parking information. Lot assignments may change.”
Checks a Port Everglades passenger can finish before leaving the house
- Match the terminal number on the boarding document to a garage before driving in: the Heron Parking Garage serves Cruise Terminals 2 and 4, the Palm Parking Garage serves 19, 21, 25, 26 and 29, and Parking Lots B and C serve Cruise Terminal 18, with Parking Lot D beside it on the parking page.
- Passengers on a Disney sailing can plan the hour as well as the building, because the line publishes 10:45 AM for the Heron garage and 10:30 AM for the Palm garage and Broward County publishes neither.
- Passengers booked with Holland America Line can shortlist three buildings, 26, 19 and 21, though Broward County’s map names the line at only two of them, and Cruise Terminal 21 prints a Hollywood address at 2021 Eller Dr. under the same 33316 ZIP code as Fort Lauderdale.
- Budget parking from Item 1135 of Port Everglades Tariff No. 12 at $25.00 a day and $30.00 for oversized vehicles, or the $35 the parking page prints for them, not from the $15 and $19 on the Celebrity Cruises page.
- Both garages post a 7-foot clearance, and the four surface lots publish no height at all, which matters for a rooftop box on any of the 6,408 published spaces.
- Treat the Ocean Medallion line on the Cruise Terminal 2 page as a technology note about Carnival Corporation, not as a terminal assignment for any cruise line sailing that day.
- Open the Port Everglades parking map before the boarding pass arrives, because it names Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Princess Cruises at five buildings between them, which is five more than those three companies publish for Port Everglades on their own websites.
Where a cruise line page sends a Port Everglades driver to the wrong street
The most common failure is treating primarily used as a guarantee. Six of the seven named records on the Port Everglades parking map open with that phrase, and the map header asks readers to check back on the day of the cruise because parking assignments may change. Only Cruise Terminal 4 and Disney Cruise Line appear without the hedge, so a Celebrity passenger who drives to 2025 Eller Dr. on the strength of the phrasing is reading a description of habit as a schedule.
The second failure costs a whole morning. Terminal addresses at Port Everglades are not clustered: Cruise Terminal 2 sits at 1801 SE 20th Street and Cruise Terminal 18 sits at 1901 SE 32nd St. in Hollywood, two different streets under two different city names. Booking a hotel or setting a drop off pin before the number is known can put a family on the wrong side of the port with luggage already out of the car.
The third failure is arithmetic. A passenger who budgets from Celebrity’s $15 a day pays $25.00 at the machine, which is $70.00 more across a seven night sailing, and a passenger who plans a cab from Royal Caribbean’s 5 miles is planning for a trip Broward County measures at 1.8. Neither company is hiding anything: both figures are simply older or looser than the ones the county publishes and updates.
The fourth is reading Holland America Line’s three cruise terminals in Fort Lauderdale as the size of the port. Eight numbered buildings operate at Port Everglades, and a passenger who assumes three is a passenger who will not recognize Cruise Terminal 29 at 2200 SE 35th Street when it appears on a boarding pass.
How these Port Everglades cruise line figures were checked
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.
Six questions about which Port Everglades terminal a cruise line uses
The six answers below were read in September 2026, with the Broward County figures read again on October 7, 2026, from the Port Everglades parking map, from the port cruise line directory and from the Fort Lauderdale port pages of the companies on it, and each one names the issuer behind the terminal number.
Two cruise lines publish terminal numbers on their own websites: Disney Cruise Line and Holland America Line. The Disney pages name Cruise Terminals 4, 2 and 26 with street addresses, and Holland America Line names Cruise Terminals 26, 19 and 21. Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises and Princess Cruises publish the port address at 1850 Eller Drive and no building number.
Yes, on one page. The Port Everglades parking map lists Cruise Terminal 18 and Cruise Terminal 29 as primarily used by Royal Caribbean International. The port cruise line directory gives the line the phone number 866-562-7625, a website and no terminal, and Royal Caribbean’s own directions page names no building at all.
Disney Cruise Line publishes Cruise Terminal 4 at 1800 SE 20th Street as its Port Everglades building, and lists Disney Destiny there for sailings through September 3, 2027. Its sister ship Disney Dream sails mostly from the same terminal, with dated exceptions that Disney lists for Cruise Terminal 2 and Cruise Terminal 26.
The Disney Cruise Line terminal page publishes 10:45 AM for the Heron Parking Garage and 10:30 AM for the Palm Parking Garage. Those two clock times appear on a cruise line website and not on any Port Everglades page, which carries no opening hour for a garage or a terminal anywhere on the cruise section.
Not always. Since October 1, 2026, item 1135 of Port Everglades Tariff No. 12 caps a parking day at $25.00 and an oversized vehicle at $30.00, taxes included. Royal Caribbean printed $20 and $25 in September 2026, the old tariff figures, while Celebrity Cruises printed $15 per day and $19 oversized, now $10.00 and $11.00 low.
Cruise Terminal 19 at 2019 Eller Drive is the only one of the eight, described by Broward County as used by various cruise lines on its parking map. The building holds 95,000 square feet and 50 check in stations, and Holland America Line names it on its own Fort Lauderdale port page.
What a passenger can settle before the terminal number arrives
Broward County answers the terminal question for seven of its eight buildings, on the page it built to sell parking. The record for Cruise Terminal 4, a building that opened in Fall 2023, goes to Disney Cruise Line with no hedge on it, Cruise Terminal 18 and Cruise Terminal 29 to Royal Caribbean International, 25 and 29 to Celebrity Cruises, 2 and 21 to Princess Cruises, 26 and 21 to Holland America Line, and 21 again to Balearia Caribbean. The three lines that publish nothing about their own Port Everglades building, Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Princess Cruises, are exactly the three the county names at five doors between them.
So the preparation worth doing is the part that survives not knowing. Berth depths run from 31 feet to 40 feet on the six terminals that publish one, the parking day caps at $25.00 with the sales tax already inside it, both garages post a 7-foot clearance, and every arrival passes one of three gated checkpoints that ask for photo ID. The building number decides which garage or lot a car ends up in and very little else, and Broward County already prints it inside the page that sells the parking, which is a poor place to file an answer and a good place to look before the boarding pass arrives.