Port Everglades Cruise Port: 8 Terminals, Garages and Gate Rules

Eight numbered terminals at Port Everglades, ten cruise lines, and seven names that join them

Broward County publishes a street address, a total square footage, a baggage laydown area, a passenger waiting area and a check in station count for all eight Port Everglades cruise terminals, plus a berth for six of them. Its cruise line directory lists ten companies, each with a phone number and none with a terminal.

Port Everglades is the Broward County seaport at 1850 Eller Drive, Fort Lauderdale, with eight numbered cruise terminals and over 5,500 parking spaces 1.8 miles from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The county calls it 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.

That is a port measured to the square foot and filed in the wrong drawer. A traveler can learn that Cruise Terminal 18 has 90 check in stations, a 1,648 foot berth and six elevators without learning, anywhere on that page, whose ships use it. The answer does exist, and it sits inside the interactive parking map, where Broward County names a cruise line for seven of the eight. The asymmetry is the shape of the whole site, and it runs in both directions: the eight terminal pages carry almost no cruise line names, and the cruise line page carries no terminal numbers at all.

Everything below was read from Port Everglades and Broward County pages in September 2026 and read again on October 7, 2026, and where the port publishes nothing the sentence says so rather than borrowing a figure from a cruise line.

The dossier Broward County prints for every Port Everglades cruise terminal

Every terminal page follows the same template, and the template is unusually complete for a cruise port. The eight buildings add up to 1,036,317 square feet of terminal floor, 307,841 square feet of baggage laydown and 371 check in stations, none of which Port Everglades totals anywhere on its own site.

Terminal at Port Everglades	Street address as Port Everglades prints it	Total square footage	Check in stations	Berth length and depth	Parking the terminal page names
Cruise Terminal 2	1801 SE 20th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316	85,504 sq. ft.	30 stations	1,602 ft. long, 31 ft. deep	Heron Parking Garage, 1,818 spaces, reached by an elevated bridge
Cruise Terminal 4	1800 SE 20th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316	104,162 sq. ft.	28 stations	Not published by Port Everglades	Heron Parking Garage, 1,818 spaces
Cruise Terminal 18	1901 SE 32nd St., Hollywood, Florida 33316	259,370 sq. ft.	90 stations	1,648 ft. long, 38 ft. deep	Parking Lot C at 600 spaces and Parking Lot B at 400 spaces
Cruise Terminal 19	2019 Eller Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316	95,000 sq. ft.	50 stations	1,300 ft. long, 38 ft. deep	Parking Lot B at 400 spaces or Palm Parking Garage at 1,966 spaces
Cruise Terminal 21	2021 Eller Dr., Hollywood, Florida 33316	138,700 sq. ft.	50 stations	1,475 ft. long, 38 ft. deep	Palm Parking Garage, 1,966 spaces, next to the terminal
Cruise Terminal 25	2025 Eller Dr., Hollywood, Florida 33316	157,800 sq. ft.	48 stations	Not published by Port Everglades	Palm Parking Garage, 1,966 spaces
Cruise Terminal 26	2026 Eller Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316	115,581 sq. ft.	25 stations	1,337 ft. long, 40 ft. deep	Palm Parking Garage, 1,966 spaces
Cruise Terminal 29	2200 SE 35th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316	80,200 sq. ft.	50 stations	800 ft. long, 40 ft. deep	Palm Parking Garage, 1,966 spaces, with a shuttle

Floor area and desk count come apart in the middle of that table. At 115,581 square feet, Cruise Terminal 26 posts 25 check in stations, while Cruise Terminal 29 posts 50 of them across 80,200 square feet. One building is roughly 44% larger than the other and offers half the desks, which is the single most useful line in the whole dossier for anyone choosing an arrival hour.

The share of a terminal given over to seated passengers moves just as widely. Seven of the eight pages print a passenger waiting area, and dividing it by the total floor gives 29% at Cruise Terminal 18, 24% at both Cruise Terminal 2 and Cruise Terminal 29, 19% at Cruise Terminal 19, 18% at Cruise Terminal 26, 11% at Cruise Terminal 21 and 8% at Cruise Terminal 25. The odd page out is Cruise Terminal 4, which labels its 27,314 square feet a passenger embarkation area instead.

Vertical circulation is printed too, and it does not track size either. Six elevators and seven escalators serve the 90 desks of Cruise Terminal 18, while two elevators and one escalator serve the 50 desks of Cruise Terminal 29. Only Cruise Terminal 29 omits, from its feature list, the phrase simultaneous embark and debark that the other seven carry.

Ten cruise lines in the Port Everglades directory, and the map that ties seven to a building

The directory is a phone book. Ten companies appear with a toll free number and a website, in alphabetical order, and the column that would hold a terminal number does not exist on the page. The county fills that column elsewhere, on the parking map, and the four lines it still leaves blank there are Crystal, Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, Silversea Cruises and Viking.

Line in the Port Everglades directory	Phone number the port publishes	Terminal the port attaches on its parking map
Balearia Caribbean	866-699-6988	Cruise Terminal 21, shared with two other lines
Celebrity Cruises	800-647-2251	Cruise Terminals 25 and 29, both as primary user
Crystal	888-616-5291	None published by Port Everglades
Disney Cruise Line	800-951-3532	Cruise Terminal 4, named as the Disney terminal
Holland America Line	877-932-4259	Cruise Terminals 26 and 21
Princess Cruises	800-774-6237	Cruise Terminals 2 and 21
Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection	833-999-7292	None published by Port Everglades
Royal Caribbean International	866-562-7625	Cruise Terminals 18 and 29
Silversea Cruises	888-978-4070	None published by Port Everglades
Viking	844-928-3156	None published by Port Everglades

The two the terminal pages also name are recent buildings. Cruise Terminal 4 at 1800 SE 20th Street opened in Fall 2023 as the Disney Cruise Line terminal with a Finding Nemo theme, 104,162 square feet and 28 check in stations. Cruise Terminal 25 at 2025 Eller Dr. is described as primarily used by the most innovative ships of Celebrity Cruises, and the port names two of them, Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Xcel.

A third page comes close without arriving. The Cruise Terminal 2 amenities line offers the Ocean Medallion service of Carnival Corporation, a wearable technology, which identifies a corporate parent rather than the operator of any particular sailing. Reading a brand into that line is how a driver ends up at 1801 SE 20th Street with a boarding pass for another building.

Those two exceptions carry a second, stranger cost. Cruise Terminal 4 and Cruise Terminal 25 are the only two of the eight whose pages omit a berth length and a berth depth altogether. The two terminals whose own pages Broward County is willing to attach to a cruise line are precisely the two it declines to measure at the waterline, so the dossier and the directory contradict each other’s strengths. Miami-Dade County runs the trade the other way, naming an operator for seven of its ten lettered buildings, a habit visible across the ten lettered cruise terminals and garages of PortMiami.

Where the ship to terminal assignment actually appears at Port Everglades

It appears in three places, and only one of them is inside the gate. The easiest is the interactive parking map, the only one of the three arranged by terminal rather than by ship, which carries a cruise line for seven of the eight buildings. A public vessel traffic board runs at pevvesseltraffic.broward.org, a PortControl installation titled Port of Everglades – Public View that opens with no login and lists arrivals and departures roughly 36 days ahead, berth by berth. The arriving and departing page tells passengers to follow the signs, and describes colorful digital wayfinding featuring Florida native plants and animals that will appear with ship names and terminal assignments. The screen inside the gate is the fallback for anyone who did not look. The board is the artifact that answers the question at home, with the catch that it is organised by berth and vessel rather than by cruise line, so a passenger has to know the ship’s name and read the berth number as the terminal number.

The clock works the same way. No opening hour and no check in cutoff appears on any of the eight terminal pages or in the cruise FAQ. What Port Everglades prints instead is an instruction to follow the cruise line’s assigned check in time, with the added line that passengers should not arrive prior to that assigned time to alleviate delays. Port Canaveral publishes a hard rule that its terminals do not open before 10 AM; Broward County publishes a deferral.

The FAQ makes the split explicit if you count it. Nineteen questions run down the page, and six of them route the answer to the cruise line: prohibited items, travel documents, luggage tags, lost and found, back to back transfers and hurricane announcements. Not one of the nineteen names a terminal by number.

Three outcomes follow, and the spread is wide. In the favorable case the sailing is a Disney departure or a Celebrity Edge departure, the terminal is on the port’s own pages, and the drive is planned at home. In the normal case the boarding document names the building, the driver looks up which garage that terminal page lists, and the wayfinding screen only confirms it. In the unfavorable case a passenger books an Eller Drive hotel on the assumption that a line keeps a building, and Cruise Terminal 18 in Hollywood turns out to be the address on the ticket.

The winner is not close, and it is not the port. Boarding documents beat the terminal pages, the cruise line page and the wayfinding screens, because they are the only source tied to a sailing date. Everything Broward County publishes describes the port as it stands, which is also the finding that drives the tariff by tariff comparison of Port Everglades and PortMiami.

Which garage or lot each Port Everglades terminal sends a driver to

Two garages and, in the words of the Arriving and Departing page, three gated surface lots hold the over 5,500 spaces the port advertises. The parking page read on October 7, 2026 lists four lots, and its six published capacities add up to 6,408. The Heron Parking Garage holds 1,818 spaces at a 7-foot clearance and serves Cruise Terminals 2 and 4. The Palm Parking Garage holds 1,966 spaces at the same 7-foot clearance and serves Cruise Terminals 19, 21, 25, 26 and 29.

Signage does the sorting, and the port color codes it. Orange directional signs featuring a flying heron lead to the Heron Garage from any of the port’s entrances, and green signs featuring a palm frond lead to the Palm Garage. An air conditioned elevated passenger bridge with moving sidewalks reaches Cruise Terminal 2 from the 5th floor of the Heron Garage, and a shuttle covers the gap between the Palm Garage and Cruise Terminal 29, which the Cruise Terminal 29 page describes as free shuttle service while the parking page prints no fare.

Two facilities go missing between pages. Parking Lot A holds 770 spaces with its entrance at 2000 Eller Drive, and the parking page places it near Cruise Terminals 19 and 26, yet neither the Cruise Terminal 19 page nor the Cruise Terminal 26 page names Lot A at all. Parking Lot D, 850 spaces adjacent to Cruise Terminal 18 to the north, appears on the parking page and on no terminal page or map record, and the Cruise Terminal 18 page still names only Lots B and C. Parking Lot B is counted at 404 spaces on the parking page and at 400 on the terminal pages that use it. The two largest surface lots at Port Everglades are therefore invisible to a passenger who starts at a terminal page and never opens the parking page.

Price is the one number that does not vary by building. Across both garages and all four lots the daily cap is $25.00 since October 1, 2026, Item 1135 of Port Everglades Tariff No. 12 states that all parking fees include sales taxes, and the parking page states that the port does not accept reservations or pre-payment for parking. Rates begin when the ticket comes out of the machine rather than at midnight, which is the opposite of the entry day counting behind the garage rate each PortMiami terminal arrives with.

Three gated entrances and the identity check ahead of every Port Everglades terminal

Three entrances lead into Port Everglades and every one of them is a checkpoint. They sit at SE 17th St. at Eisenhower Blvd., at State Road 84 just east of U.S. 1 at Spangler Blvd., and at I-595 East on Eller Dr. Each requires a government-issued photo ID from everyone aged 18 and older plus cruise documents, vehicles are subject to search, and no weapons are allowed on port property under Florida State Statute 311.12(3b).

Highway access funnels almost everyone through the same road. The driving instructions of Port Everglades send I-95 southbound to Exit #26, I-95 northbound to Exit #24, I-75 to Exit #19 and Florida’s Turnpike to Exit #54, and all four exits feed I-595 East. Drivers already inside Fort Lauderdale are pointed at the SE 17th St. or State Road 84 gates instead.

Airport proximity is the headline claim Port Everglades makes about itself, as the only port in the nation located adjacent to an airport, with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport 1.8 miles away, Miami International Airport 27 miles south and Palm Beach International Airport, renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT) in July 2026, 50 miles north. The cruise FAQ asks for 45 minutes to one hour from FLL, two to three hours from MIA and three to four hours from PBI, and it itemizes what the 45 minutes covers, down to clearing the checkpoint at the port entrance and filling out forms inside the terminal. The equivalent run out of the same Broward airport toward the other county is priced in the two taxi fares published for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Free cell phone waiting lots close the loop on the return morning. Broward County names two of them, one at the Port Administration Building at 1850 Eller Drive just past the security checkpoint and one north of Cruise Terminal 18, and says passengers typically debark between 7 and 9AM.

Details on the Port Everglades pages that change embarkation morning

Each item below sits on a Port Everglades or Broward County page read in September 2026 and again on October 7, 2026, and none of them appears on the terminal page a passenger is most likely to open first.

• Taxi pricing inside the port is regulated, not negotiated. The alternative transportation pages state that taxis run on metered rate only and that flat rates are not allowed, with the single exception of the $8 flat rate for a taxi transfer between two Port Everglades terminals on a back to back booking. The same pages estimate $80 to $159 for a metered taxi to Miami International Airport, 27 miles away.
• Each terminal has its own transportation page with walking directions written for that building. The Cruise Terminal 2 page, for example, sends a returning passenger back up the ramp to the loading pavilion and to a gray and blue booth for van on demand service, priced at $45 per person to Palm Beach International Airport for parties of 3 passengers or more and marked as not available on all sailing days.
• Oversized vehicles are handled by telephone rather than by schedule. The parking page offers special limited parking for RVs and trailers up to a maximum of 24 feet, at a $35 daily maximum on that page against $30.00 in item 1135 of the tariff, and sends drivers to the parking management team on 954-468-3680.
• Nothing can be left behind on the pier. Due to security regulations, luggage cannot be left or stored at the port, and the cruise FAQ says every vehicle must leave the parking area once debarkation activities conclude, because the facilities are not staffed 24/7 or on non-cruise days, while item 1135 now permits cruise parking through one week after the final debarkation date.
• Local bus service exists and stops outside the terminals. The Northport section of Port Everglades on SE 17th St. carries a Broward County Transit stop, just north of the Greater Fort Lauderdale and Broward County Convention Center, with schedules on 954-357-8400.
• Lost property is not the port’s. Items left on a ship or in a cruise terminal are stored by the individual cruise lines rather than by Port Everglades, so the phone number that matters is the one in the ten line directory.
• The return flight has its own ceiling. Airlines at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport may only be able to check bags up to two hours before a scheduled flight, Broward County warns, which caps how early a 7AM debarkation turns into an early departure.
• Some 4.4 million cruise guests are expected in 2025 on the port’s own terminals page, and art marks its buildings better than branding does. The Public Art and Design Program of Broward County puts a Dale Chihuly glass wall into the 104,162 square feet of Cruise Terminal 4, a Michele Oka Doner terrazzo floor in Cruise Terminal 18 and an Alice Aycock road sculpture at Cruise Terminal 25, while Xavier Cortada’s Starfish Shuffle appears twice, as tile in Cruise Terminal 19 and as digital tapestry in Cruise Terminal 29.

Where the Port Everglades paperwork sends a driver to the wrong place

Typing the terminal address into a phone without reading the city is the first mistake. Three of the eight Port Everglades terminal pages, for Cruise Terminals 18, 21 and 25, print a Hollywood address while carrying the same 33316 ZIP code as the Fort Lauderdale ones, and Cruise Terminal 18 sits on SE 32nd St. rather than on Eller Drive with its neighbors. At 259,370 square feet, 90 check in stations and a berth of 1,648 ft., it is also the building a wrong turn costs the most time to leave.

Treating a cruise line as the owner of a building is the second. Broward County writes that Cruise Terminal 25 is primarily used by Celebrity Cruises, which is a description of habit and not a guarantee, and it repeats that same hedge on its parking map for six of the seven buildings it names there. Only Cruise Terminal 4 is written flat, as Disney Cruise Line. A primary user is a description of habit rather than a booking, so the boarding document still settles which door opens on the morning. The single building the county leaves unnamed on every page it publishes is Cruise Terminal 19, and the two that the terminal pages do name, at 157,800 square feet and 104,162 square feet, are also the two the county leaves without a berth depth.

Planning around a terminal opening time is the third, because Port Everglades publishes none. The instruction is to follow the assigned check in time from the cruise line and not to turn up before it, so a driver who arrives at 07:00 for a 13:00 slot is waiting in a car park at a facility that does not promise to be open.

Reading only one airport figure is the fourth. The Getting Here page calls Miami International Airport 30 to 45 minutes south of Port Everglades via I-95, and the cruise FAQ on the same site asks for two to three hours from the same airport. One figure measures driving and the other measures the whole process from baggage claim to the terminal door, and only the FAQ says which it is counting. The same FAQ allows 45 minutes to one hour from an airport 1.8 miles away and three to four hours from one 50 miles away.

Budgeting from the terminal pages alone is the fifth. They carry no parking rate, no tax treatment and no mention of Parking Lot A or Parking Lot D, so a driver who never opens the parking page misses the $25.00 daily maximum, the sentence in Item 1135 putting sales taxes inside it, and 1,620 of the port’s 6,408 spaces.

How the Port Everglades figures in this guide 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.

Questions cruise passengers ask about Port Everglades terminals, parking and entry gates

The six answers below come from Port Everglades and Broward County pages read in September 2026 and again on October 7, 2026, including the eight terminal pages, the cruise lines directory, the parking page, the getting here page and the cruise FAQ.

A port that measures its halls and lets the line name the door

Measuring the buildings was the expensive half of the work, and Port Everglades has done it. Nobody else in Florida prints 1,036,317 square feet of terminal floor, 371 check in stations, berth depths of 31 to 40 feet and 307,841 square feet of baggage laydown, from the 259,370 square feet of Cruise Terminal 18 down to the 80,200 square feet of Cruise Terminal 29, and the county pays for the artwork inside them too. The cheap half, a table with ten rows and one column saying which line uses which number, is the half that never got written.

So the mapping survives on a digital sign past the security gate and on a boarding pass printed by a company the port only lists a phone number for. A passenger who wants the building can have every dimension of it in advance; a passenger who wants the door has to bring the answer with them.

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