Cruise Terminal B carries the highest cruise parking rate Miami-Dade County prints
Cruise Terminal B at PortMiami is Norwegian Cruise Line’s terminal, and Miami-Dade County prices its garage at $35 per vehicle, per space, per day. A three night sailing bills four days at $148.40 with tax, a seven night sailing eight days at $296.80, and a fourteen night sailing fifteen days at $556.50.
Most parking questions at a cruise port have an answer that moves with the driver. This one does not move at all. The county pairs Cruise Terminal B with Multi-Level Garage B on its northside list, prices that garage at $35 per day, and prices Garages C, D, F, G and Surface Lot E at $25. Whoever booked Norwegian booked the higher line.
The gap is small by the day and large by the sailing. Eight billed days at $35 reach $280.00 before tax against $200.00 at the $25 line, and at the 6% general rate named in PortMiami Terminal Tariff No. 010 those totals become $296.80 and $212.00. Same water, same week, $84.80 apart.
What follows is what Miami-Dade County and Norwegian Cruise Line each publish about that garage, the routes to Cruise Terminal B that never enter it, and the ones that look like alternatives and are not. Every figure below was read from the issuer’s own page in September 2026.
| Way of reaching Cruise Terminal B | What the issuer publishes about it | Cost for two adults on a seven night sailing | Issuer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Level Garage B, 1756 N Cruise Blvd. | $35 per vehicle, per space, per day, effective January 1, 2025 | $296.80 with 6% sales tax | Miami-Dade County |
| Surface Lot E oversized spaces, 625 Florida Way | $25 per space, per day, and $50 per day if two spaces are used | $212.00 with 6% sales tax for one space | Miami-Dade County |
| Brightline package sold alongside a Norwegian sailing | Round trip from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach “for as low as $20 per person” | $40.00 for two, no tax treatment stated | Norwegian Cruise Line |
| Taxi between Miami International Airport and the port | “Approximately $20”, with fares described as subject to change | $40.00 for two trips, no county flat fare published | Norwegian Cruise Line |
| Drop-off at the terminal door with no parking | Passengers “should also be dropped off at the terminal, if possible” | $0.00 in parking, one driver required | Miami-Dade County |
| Multi-Level Garages C, D or G on the $25 line | No county pairing with Cruise Terminal B and no garage to terminal shuttle | n/a | Miami-Dade County |
One row costs $296.80. Three of the others cost $40.00 or less.
Norwegian says it owns Garage B and Miami-Dade County is the one that prices it
Norwegian Cruise Line publishes a single sentence about parking at the Port of Miami on its driving directions page, and the sentence claims the building. All Norwegian guests are advised to park in Garage B, described there as property of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, with readers sent to miamidade.gov for further parking information and a disclaimer that the line accepts no responsibility for damage or loss from using the facility.
Set that beside the county’s own explanation of the blank next door. Terminal Tariff No. 010 accounts for the missing Garage A figure by saying that parking facilities which are privately owned, “such as the Cruise Terminal A parking garage, may apply different rates”, which is why the terminal one letter away from Norwegian’s carries a link instead of a number. The Royal Caribbean building is the port’s unpriced garage; the Norwegian building is its most expensive priced one.
So ownership is not what decides whether Miami-Dade County prints a rate. A cruise line says it owns Multi-Level Garage B, and the county publishes $35 for it anyway, on the same page and in the same table where the other line’s garage gets a hyperlink. How the letters are handed out across the port, and why garage letters and terminal letters stop matching, is set out in the way Miami-Dade County letters its ten cruise terminals and pairs each one with a facility.
Its terminal list describes the building at 190,000 square feet, nicknamed The Pearl of Miami, LEED Gold certified, with large waiting areas and check-in and information desks near the boarding areas. It carries no opening year, while Cruise Terminal AA is dated to 2025 and Cruise Terminal A to 2018.
The nickname is published. The year is not.
What the Garage B rate block contains, and the five lines it does not
The Garage B entry on the PortMiami parking schedule holds exactly one rate: “Effective January 1, 2025, the parking rate will be $35 per vehicle, per space, per day.” Beneath it sit a booking link, an email address and a telephone number on 800-392-1899. That is the whole block, still written in the future tense on a page read twenty months after the date it names.
The cheaper block is six lines deep. Garages C, D, F, G and Surface Lot E carry a short term rate of $10 per day marked no overnight, a long term rate of $25 for overnight or greater, a high density long term line at the same $25, special events at no less than $15, a lost ticket charge described as equivalent to an 11-day cruise “for a maximum of $275”, and Crew Member Parking at $50.00 per week. Multi-Level Garage AA carries two rate lines and a clearance note.
Four of those protections have no Garage B equivalent in print. A Norwegian passenger who loses a ticket has no published ceiling, a Norwegian passenger stopping for three hours has no published short stay rate, and neither the special events floor nor the crew week applies to a garage that is not named in those lines. The full schedule, block by block, is worked through in the PortMiami rate schedule read garage by garage against Tariff No. 010.
The dearest garage at the port is also the thinnest entry on the page.
Eight billed days at $35, measured against the $25 line at the same port
Item 710 of PortMiami Terminal Tariff No. 010, effective October 1, 2025, applies established parking rates “to the day a vehicle enters the parking lot and to each succeeding day it remains on the lot”. Entry day plus each following day is nights plus one, so a Saturday to Saturday Norwegian sailing bills eight days at Multi-Level Garage B and not seven. That is $280.00 before tax, or $140.00 a head for two adults.
The same tariff states that its rates and charges are exclusive of any sales tax and gives the Florida general rate as 6%, which lifts the eight days to $296.80 and the per adult share to $148.40. The identical stay at Cruise Terminal C or Cruise Terminal E reaches $212.00 and $106.00. Nothing separates the two totals except which line the ship belongs to.
Sailing length decides how much that costs. On a three night Norwegian cruise the four billed days run $148.40 against $106.00, a spread of $42.40 that most parties would swallow. On the seven night sailing the spread is $84.80. On a fourteen night itinerary the fifteen billed days reach $556.50 against $397.50, and the $159.00 difference is now three quarters of a whole eight day bill at a $25 terminal.
Arriving the night before adds a ninth billed day at $35, taking the pre-tax total to $315.00 and the taxed total to $333.90. Whether a room with parking included beats that number is a separate calculation, run against these same thresholds in what a Miami park and cruise bundle has to beat at each terminal.
Long itineraries punish the letter B hardest.
Every published way to reach Cruise Terminal B without paying $35 a day
Six routes to Cruise Terminal B carry a published figure, and only one of them is Multi-Level Garage B. The premises stay fixed across the table: two adults, one seven night Norwegian sailing, one vehicle, and the 6% general rate named in the tariff applied wherever Miami-Dade County is the issuer.
| Route to Cruise Terminal B | Published cost and issuer | Two adults, seven nights | Limitation the issuer states | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Level Garage B, 1756 N Cruise Blvd. | $35 per vehicle, per space, per day, Miami-Dade County | $296.80 with 6% tax | Clearance of 7 feet 6 inches; no short term or lost ticket line published | A car that has to sit at the port |
| Surface Lot E oversized spaces, 625 Florida Way | $25 per space, per day, Miami-Dade County | $212.00 with 6% tax for one space | Open lot with no overhead clearance; the county pairs Surface Lot E with Cruise Terminal E | Oversized vans, recreational vehicles and vehicles with trailers |
| Brightline round trip sold with a Norwegian sailing | “As low as $20 per person”, Norwegian Cruise Line | $40.00 for two, tax not stated | Published only from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach | Two adults starting north of Miami-Dade County |
| Taxi from Miami International Airport | Approximately $20 per trip, Norwegian Cruise Line | $40.00 for an arrival and a departure | An estimate carried by the cruise line; Miami-Dade County publishes no flat fare for the leg | A party flying in and out of Miami International |
| Drop-off at Cruise Terminal B | $0.00 in parking, Miami-Dade County | $0.00 | Requires a driver who leaves; luggage is dropped before parking where possible | Anyone with somebody driving the car home |
| Florida disabled veteran plate at Multi-Level Garage B | Free parking under Florida Statute 320.084, Miami-Dade County | $0.00 | The veteran must be in the vehicle when parked, with ticket, licence and registration shown at the exit | Florida plated disabled veterans |
The winner changes with where the party starts. For two adults flying into Miami International the pair of taxi trips Norwegian estimates at roughly $40.00 beats the garage by about $256.80, and the criterion is simply that no vehicle stays behind. For two adults driving down from Broward or Palm Beach, the line’s own Brightline package at $20 per person wins on the same criterion and adds a round trip Lyft ride to the port and a checked bag to the fare.
For the party whose car has to stay, the county’s schedule leaves one strange door open. Surface Lot E is priced at $25 per space, per day for oversized vans, recreational vehicles and vehicles with trailers, and the parking page states as a port-wide fact that oversized vehicles are accommodated there at special rates rather than restricting the lot by terminal. On a seven night sailing that is $212.00 against $296.80 at Garage B. The cheapest published way for a Norwegian passenger to park at PortMiami is to arrive in a vehicle too tall to fit in the garage assigned to them.
What the $35 buys back is headroom. Among the garages the county prices, Multi-Level Garage B is the one that holds its published clearance, at 7 feet 6 inches on the first floor and 7 feet 6 inches on the floors above, while Garage C falls from 9 feet to 6 feet 10 inches, Garage D from 8 feet 2 inches to 6 feet 8 inches and Garage G from 9 feet 6 inches to 6 feet 11 inches. A roof box that clears the ramp at a $25 garage may not clear the second deck.
Height is the one column where the expensive garage wins outright.
The $25 garages are not an alternative and the shuttle answer is why
Multi-Level Garages C, D and G sit on the same northside as Cruise Terminal B and cost $10 less per day, and none of them is reachable from a Norwegian booking. That pairing is published as a fixed list: Garage C serves Cruise Terminal C, Garage D and Surface Lot D serve Cruise Terminal D, and Garage G absorbs Cruise Terminals F, G and V between them. No line in that list attaches a $25 facility to Cruise Terminal B. The rest of the county rate sheet does not help either: oversized vehicles pay $25 per space per day, crew parking runs $50 per week, special events are billed at no less than $15, and a lost ticket is capped at $275, which the county equates to an 11 day cruise. None of those lines is available to a passenger who simply wants to leave a car for eight days.
The obvious workaround dies on the county’s own FAQ. Free shuttle service at PortMiami runs “between terminals only when a ship departs from one terminal and returns to a different terminal”, and the example Miami-Dade County chooses is a departure from Terminal G with a post-cruise arrival at Terminal B. That is a service for ships that swap berths mid-voyage, not a bus from a cheaper garage to a Norwegian check-in desk. The parking page adds only that the free shuttle runs on cruise days.
Two further doors are shut for different reasons. Multi-Level Garage F is priced at $25 and appears nowhere else on the page, with no terminal assigned, no street address and no clearance published, so it cannot be selected by anyone who wants to find it. Multi-Level Garages J and K sit on the southside at 1122 and 1124 Caribbean Way, carry no county rate at all, and are on the wrong side of the water from Cruise Terminal B.
The line’s other Florida homeport works on the opposite principle, where one flat rate covers every berth the line uses and the question is which berth, not which price. That contrast is traced in the two Port Canaveral berths Norwegian loads from and the flat rate that covers both.
At PortMiami the garage is not a choice. It is an assignment.
Norwegian and Miami-Dade County point at each other, and one link is dead
The Garage B block on the county parking page sends reservations and rate enquiries to an outside booking partner, ParkWhiz, on a page named for the Norwegian cruise terminal in Miami. The cruise line’s driving directions send readers the other way, to miamidade.gov, for additional parking information. Each issuer names the other as the place to look, and only one of the two prints $35. A telephone number for the garage does appear on the county page, 800-392-1899, and dates the rate to 1 January 2025; Norwegian prints neither the figure nor the date.
The referral back to the county does not land. The address Norwegian publishes for that page, miamidade.gov/portmiami/parking-transportation.asp, returned HTTP 404 when requested in September 2026, while the live schedule sits at miamidade.gov/portmiami/parking-information.page. A driver following the cruise line’s own link reaches nothing, and the rate that link was meant to reveal is the highest one at the port.
Two county pages then disagree about whether that space can be held in advance. The PortMiami FAQ answers the question flatly, stating that there is no reserved parking and that ample parking is available, while the parking page offers reservations for Garage B through the outside partner. Read together, the honest version is that Miami-Dade County sells no reservation at its own booths and the two garages it does not run itself sell their own.
Payment rules split the same way. The FAQ says cash and all major credit cards are accepted; the parking page lists cash, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover or a major United States traveller’s cheque, and states that debit cards are not accepted. Payment happens on the way out, since parking lot users pay upon exiting the facilities.
A debit card refused at the exit booth is not a rare surprise. It is a published rule on the page fewer people read.
Details a Cruise Terminal B driver only finds on somebody else’s page
- Norwegian names the island, not the building. Its directions give the port as South America Way, Dodge Island, Downtown Miami, Miami, FL 33132 and end by telling drivers to follow the signs to the corresponding terminal, while Miami-Dade County gives Multi-Level Garage B its own street number at 1756 N Cruise Blvd.
- Three issuers publish three distances to the airport. Norwegian states 10 miles and about 20 minutes to Miami International, PortMiami states 7.1 miles, and Miami International states about 9 miles. The spread between the outer two is 2.9 miles on a trip that never leaves Miami-Dade County.
- The cruise line routes over the bridge, the county advertises the tunnel. Norwegian sends drivers off Biscayne Boulevard onto Port Boulevard and across the port bridge, while Miami-Dade County promotes a dedicated toll-free route connecting PortMiami to I-395 and the MacArthur Causeway.
- Attendants keep hours. All garages are open and staffed by a parking attendant from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. on cruise days, and for non-cruise days the county publishes a telephone number, 305-347-4800, instead of an opening time.
- A disabled parking permit is not a waiver here. County ordinance requires standard rates with two hours of complimentary parking, and full exemption is limited to vehicles with ramps, lifts or foot or hand controls, a Florida Toll Exemption permit, or a Florida disabled veterans plate.
- The line lets the guest pick the hour. Guests select an arrival time during online check-in, and those who have not checked in online are told to reach the terminal after 12 p.m. and at least two hours before the scheduled departure time.
- No rental desk waits at the pier. PortMiami has no on-site car rental agencies, and the county notes that some companies shuttle from the port to their own offices instead.
Five ways a Norwegian sailing out of Miami misprices its own parking
Budgeting the $10 line is the first error and the largest. That rate belongs to Garages C, D, F, G and Surface Lot E, carries the words no overnight beside it, and has no Garage B equivalent at all. A Norwegian passenger who plans around it is out by $25 a day and $200.00 across the stay.
Taking a headline PortMiami rate as the port’s rate is the second. Miami-Dade County publishes $25 and $35 on the same schedule, and quoting the port without the terminal letter quotes a range as though it were a price. A Pearl of Miami sailing always sits on the upper figure.
Counting nights rather than days is the third. Item 710 charges the entry day and each succeeding day, so seven nights bill eight days and the extra day costs $35.00 at Garage B against $25.00 elsewhere. The rule lives in the tariff and not on the parking page.
Reading $280.00 as the amount on the card is the fourth. The tariff states that its rates exclude sales tax and names the general Florida rate at 6%, which makes the eight day total $296.80. The pre-tax figure is a floor.
Planning to park cheap and ride across is the fifth. That free shuttle exists for ships returning to a different terminal, not for drivers moving between a $25 garage and Cruise Terminal B, and no published service closes that gap.
The month behind every Cruise Terminal B figure above
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Read strictly, the 6% reaches what the tariff prices. Item 710 prints $25.00 as its only long term rate and says the tariff’s rates exclude sales tax; the $35 line lives on the county’s parking page, so a total built on $35 plus 6% adds a tariff clause to a rate the tariff does not carry. Parking rates usually change in January, shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.
What Norwegian passengers ask before leaving a car at PortMiami
The six answers below use the Miami-Dade County parking schedule, the PortMiami cruise FAQ, item 710 of Terminal Tariff No. 010 and Norwegian Cruise Line’s own driving directions, all read in September 2026, with totals calculated at the published $35 and the 6% general rate the tariff names.
Miami-Dade County publishes $35 per vehicle, per space, per day for Multi-Level Garage B, the garage it pairs with Cruise Terminal B, effective January 1, 2025. A seven night sailing bills eight days under item 710 of Terminal Tariff No. 010, so the total is $280.00 before tax and $296.80 at the 6% general rate.
Cruise Terminal B, which Miami-Dade County lists at 190,000 square feet, nicknames The Pearl of Miami and describes as LEED Gold certified. The county pairs it with Multi-Level Garage B at 1756 N Cruise Blvd. on the northside, and Norwegian’s own directions describe that garage as property of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.
Because the rate belongs to the facility. The $35 per day on Multi-Level Garage B, set against the Garages C, D, F, G and Surface Lot E group at $25, then assigns each terminal a facility in advance. Carnival sails from Cruise Terminals D and E, which draw on the $25 line.
No published service does that. Every cruise terminal is paired with a named facility, and none of the $25 garages is paired with Cruise Terminal B. Its FAQ states that free shuttle service runs between terminals only when a ship departs from one terminal and returns to a different one.
Two Miami-Dade County pages answer differently. The PortMiami FAQ states there is no reserved parking and that ample parking is available, while the Garage B block on the parking page directs reservations and rate enquiries to an outside booking partner and a telephone line on 800-392-1899.
Miami-Dade County publishes 7 feet 6 inches on the first floor and 7 feet 6 inches on the remaining floors, the tallest figure that holds on every floor of a priced PortMiami garage. Garage C drops to 6 feet 10 inches above the ground floor, Garage D to 6 feet 8 inches and Garage G to 6 feet 11 inches.
The most expensive garage at PortMiami is the one with the least in writing
Every safeguard printed on the PortMiami parking schedule belongs to the cheaper facilities. The $275 ceiling on a lost ticket, the $15 floor for special events, the $10 short stay, the $50 crew week: all four sit in the block covering Garages C, D, F, G and Surface Lot E. Multi-Level Garage B carries one line, and that line is $35.
Which inverts how a premium rate usually reads. The extra $84.80 on a seven night sailing, which is $10.60 for each of the eight days the county bills, does not buy a longer list of terms. It buys 7 feet 6 inches of headroom on every deck and a booking link to a company Miami-Dade County does not run, on a page a cruise line points at through a dead address. Norwegian passengers at PortMiami are not paying for more port. They are paying for less of it in writing.
Related guides
- The PortMiami rate schedule read garage by garage, with the eight day count
- PortMiami cruise terminals, the northside and southside split and their garages
- Which Port Canaveral berths Norwegian Cruise Line actually loads from
- What a Miami park and cruise bundle has to beat at each PortMiami terminal