The PortMiami parking rate Virgin Voyages prints sits $3 below the one the county charges
Virgin Voyages tells Sailors that long term cruise parking at PortMiami costs $22 per night, and Miami-Dade County, which sets the rate, publishes $25 per vehicle, per space, per day for Multi-Level Garage G, the facility it pairs with Cruise Terminal V. Eight billed days reach $212.00 with sales tax.
Cruise Terminal V opened in 2022 and stands at 718 N Cruise Blvd, an address Miami-Dade County does not print on its parking page. What Miami-Dade County prints instead is the garage, at 921 N America Way, handed to Cruise Terminal F and to Cruise Terminal G as well.
So the drive to a Virgin Voyages ship is described in halves by two issuers who disagree about the price. The cruise line names the building a driver should aim at and attributes a figure to PortMiami that PortMiami does not publish. The county publishes the figure and never names the cruise line beside it.
What follows is each half set against the other: the rate block the county applies to Garage G, the arithmetic that turns a nightly quote into an eight day bill, the arrival clock Virgin Voyages prints for Terminal V, and the letter on the garage, which belongs to a terminal that broke ground in January 2026. Every figure below was read from the issuer’s own page in September 2026.
| Detail a Cruise Terminal V driver needs | What Miami-Dade County publishes | What Virgin Voyages publishes |
|---|---|---|
| Facility serving Cruise Terminal V | Multi-Level Garage G | “The closest garage to Terminal V is Garage G” |
| Long term parking rate | $25 per vehicle, per space, per day, overnight or greater | “$22 per night” |
| Short term parking rate | $10 per vehicle, per space, per day, marked no overnight | “$8 for short-term parking” |
| Days billed on a seven night sailing | Eight, under item 710 of Terminal Tariff No. 010 | No day count published |
| Terminal street address | Not published on the parking or cruise terminals page | 718 N Cruise Blvd, Miami, FL 33132 |
| Garage street address | 921 N America Way | Not published |
| Vehicle clearance inside the garage | 9 feet 6 inches on the first floor, 6 feet 11 inches above | Not published |
Neither page carries both addresses, and only one of them carries the rate that the exit barrier will take.
Two cruise lines are named on the PortMiami parking page and Virgin Voyages is not one of them
The PortMiami rate schedule labels exactly two of its facilities with a company. One block is headed Garage A (Royal Caribbean) and carries a link instead of a price. The next is headed Garage B (Norwegian Cruise Line) and carries $35 per vehicle, per space, per day, effective January 1, 2025. Every other facility on the page is a letter.
Cruise Terminal V falls into the unlabelled group. Its parking sits inside a block headed Garages C, D, F, G and Surface Lot E, which prices four garages and one open lot together and mentions no ship, no brand and no terminal name. Scanning that page for the word Virgin returns nothing, and scanning it for the letter V returns a single line, in the pairing list, sending Cruise Terminal V to Multi-Level Garage G.
That single line is the whole of the county’s guidance for the drive. Below it runs a list of garage addresses covering Garage AA, A, B, C, D, G, J and K plus three surface lots, and that list omits Garage F entirely even though Garage F is priced further down the same page. The way the port hands out those letters, and why a garage letter and a terminal letter so rarely match, is set out in the northside and southside split that decides which building a PortMiami letter points at.
The cruise line fills the gap from its own side. Its port information page answers the question the county leaves as a table row, in a sentence: the closest garage to Terminal V is Garage G. The line names the building and the county prices it.
Cruise Terminal V stands on N Cruise Blvd and Multi-Level Garage G stands on N America Way
Two streets, two issuers, one drive. Virgin Voyages publishes 718 N Cruise Blvd, Miami, FL 33132 as the address of Terminal V, and repeats it on the press release that opened the building on February 14, 2022. On the other side of the pairing, Miami-Dade County publishes 921 N America Way as the address of Multi-Level Garage G, and no street address at all for any cruise terminal, on either its parking page or its cruise terminals page.
The consequence is small and expensive. A driver who types the address the cruise line publishes arrives at the terminal frontage, where porters take luggage and cars do not stay. A driver who types the address the county publishes arrives at the garage and walks. Nobody publishes the walk, the distance between the two points, or a shuttle between them, and the free service that does exist runs on other terms entirely.
That free service is worth reading exactly. PortMiami provides shuttle service between terminals only when a ship departs from one terminal and returns to a different terminal, and the parking page adds that it operates on cruise days. It moves passengers between berths on a swapped itinerary. It is not a bus from Garage G to a check-in desk.
Garage G also holds the tallest published entrance at the port and one of its lowest upper decks. The county’s clearance table gives it 9 feet 6 inches on the first floor and 6 feet 11 inches on the remaining floors, so a vehicle that clears the entrance can lose up to two feet seven inches of headroom the moment it climbs, the largest fall the county publishes for any PortMiami garage. Oversized vans, recreational vehicles and vehicles with trailers are directed to Surface Lot E instead, at $25 per space, per day and $50 per day if two spaces are used, and the county pairs Surface Lot E with Cruise Terminal E.
Eight billed days at $25 against seven nights at the $22 the cruise line quotes
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 Virgin Voyages sailing bills eight days at Multi-Level Garage G, not seven.
Run both quotes through that rule. At the county’s $25 the eight days come to $200.00, and 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 bill to $212.00, or $106.00 a head for two adults. At the cruise line’s $22 the same eight days would be $176.00, and a Sailor who reads per night as seven nights budgets $154.00. The shortfall at the barrier is $36.00 in the first reading and $58.00 in the second.
Sailing length widens the gap in one direction only. On a four night voyage the five billed days run $132.50 with tax against the $88.00 that four nights of $22 arithmetic suggests, and on an eleven night voyage the twelve billed days run $318.00. The county’s own lost ticket line puts a ceiling on the run: it charges a maximum of $275 for a lost ticket, described as equivalent to an 11-day cruise, and that ceiling is short of a fifteen day stay at $25.
The short term line traps a different reader. Its $10 rate carries the words no overnight beside it, so it never applies to a car left for a voyage, and Virgin Voyages reproduces the same structure with $8. Both issuers publish two rates. Only one of the four numbers is the one a Sailor pays, and the two pages disagree about which. The whole schedule, block by block, is unpicked in what each PortMiami garage costs and which facilities carry no county rate at all.
Six published routes into Cruise Terminal V, priced for two adults on a seven night sailing
The premises stay fixed across the table: two adults, one seven night Virgin Voyages sailing out of Terminal V, one vehicle, and the 6% general rate named in Terminal Tariff No. 010 applied wherever Miami-Dade County is the issuer.
| Route into Cruise Terminal V | Published figure and issuer | Two adults, seven nights | Limitation the issuer publishes | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Level Garage G, 921 N America Way | $25 per vehicle, per space, per day, long term, Miami-Dade County | $212.00 with 6% sales tax across eight billed days | 6 feet 11 inches of clearance above the first floor, and no reserved parking | A car that has to stay at PortMiami for the voyage |
| Multi-Level Garage G short term line | $10 per vehicle, per space, per day, Miami-Dade County | n/a for a sailing | The line is marked no overnight, so it cannot cover a cruise | A driver collecting a disembarking party |
| Drop-off at Cruise Terminal V, 718 N Cruise Blvd | $0.00 in parking, Virgin Voyages | $0.00 | Porters accept luggage from 9 AM and the driver leaves with the car | A party with somebody driving the car home |
| Taxi or rideshare from Miami International Airport | 7.1 miles to PortMiami, Miami-Dade County | No fare published by either issuer | Neither Miami-Dade County nor Virgin Voyages prints a fare or a journey time for the leg | Two adults flying into Miami International |
| Taxi from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport | $86 in the Broward County fare table and about $67 on its cruise passengers page | $172.00 for two trips at the higher figure | Broward County publishes two different fares for the same leg | Two adults flying into Fort Lauderdale |
| Free PortMiami shuttle between terminals | $0.00, Miami-Dade County | $0.00 | Runs only when a ship departs from one terminal and returns to a different one, on cruise days | A voyage that comes back to another berth |
Three of those rows have a declared winner. For a party with a driver who takes the car home, the drop-off row wins outright at $0.00, and the criterion is that no vehicle occupies a space at all. For a party flying into Fort Lauderdale, two Broward County taxi trips at $172.00 beat $212.00 plus the drive south, and the margin grows to $78.00 if the $67 figure on the same county’s cruise passengers page is the one that appears on the meter.
For a party that has to leave a car, Multi-Level Garage G wins by absence of competition. No cheaper facility is paired with Cruise Terminal V by Miami-Dade County, no shuttle to it is published from a cheaper garage, and the reservation links on the page belong to Garage A and Garage B, neither of which serves Terminal V. Its own cruise FAQ states plainly that there is no reserved parking and that ample parking is available.
The Miami International row stays unresolved on purpose. PortMiami publishes 7.1 miles to the airport and 25.7 miles to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, Virgin Voyages states only that Terminal V is reachable from both by taxi, rideshare or shuttle, and neither prints a fare. A row with no published number cannot beat a row that ends at $212.00, and it is the one leg of this trip where the certain figure is the parking.
The clock at Cruise Terminal V belongs to the cruise line and the barrier belongs to the county
The arrival rules for Terminal V come almost entirely from the cruise line. Sailors pick an arrival time slot in the Virgin Voyages app during check-in, luggage is accepted at Terminal V from 9 AM onwards, and anyone who drops bags early is told to return no earlier than 15 minutes before the chosen arrival time. There is no seating outside the terminal, and access is limited to Sailors at their scheduled arrival time.
Two entrances split the frontage. RockStar Sailors use a private entrance at Palm Way on the north side of Terminal V and may check in any time after 1pm, guests with Deep Blue Extras may arrive as early as 1:45 PM through Priority Check-In, and everyone else arrives on the slot the app gave them. Boarding generally begins at 2:15 pm, with the line stating that Sailors must still follow their selected Terminal Arrival Time to complete check-in.
None of that appears on the county’s pages, which carry instead the part the cruise line leaves out. 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 gives a telephone number, 305-347-4800, rather than an opening hour. A 9 AM luggage drop therefore lands three hours inside the attended window, and a late return from a 2:15 pm boarding does not.
Which terminal a given Virgin Voyages ship uses is the one question neither page answers by ship name. Scarlet Lady was announced as calling Terminal V her home year-round, with Valiant Lady joining in the winter of 2022, and the county lists buildings rather than sailings. Working from a booking to a berth is set out in how a booked ship name gets pinned to one PortMiami building.
The Terminal G that lends Garage G its letter broke ground in January 2026
Two starting dates are published by Miami-Dade County for the terminal whose letter sits on the Virgin Voyages garage. Its cruise terminals page states that construction will begin on Royal Caribbean International’s Terminal G on the west end of PortMiami in summer 2025 and that the building is expected to open in 2027. Its own newsroom release, dated January 8, 2026, announces the groundbreaking that day.
The release adds the figures the terminals page omits: a $345 million investment, an opening in late 2027, capacity for up to 7,000 passengers, and use by Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea. It also describes what the site will contain, listing a multi-level parking garage, an intermodal facility and other infrastructure alongside the terminal itself.
That last line changes how the current pairing reads. The terminal called G is being built with a garage of its own, which means the garage called G today is not the garage that will serve Terminal G tomorrow. Until late 2027 the letter on the building at 921 N America Way refers to a construction site, and Virgin Voyages passengers, along with Carnival passengers using Cruise Terminal F, are the only people who actually park there.
The county’s own examples have already absorbed the future building. Its cruise FAQ illustrates the free inter-terminal shuttle with a departure from Terminal G and a post-cruise arrival at Terminal B, an example naming a terminal that cannot dispatch a ship for another year. What the same operator publishes about the Royal Caribbean terminal that does exist today, and the price it declines to print for it, is covered in the one PortMiami garage the county lists with a cruise line name and no rate.
Details about Terminal V that only one of its two issuers publishes
- Two square footage figures come from the same company. The February 14, 2022 opening release calls Terminal V a 132,000 square foot building, while the line’s port page and Miami-Dade County both put it at 100,000 square feet. The three-story count and the 2022 opening are consistent across all three statements.
- A certification appears on the county page and not on the line’s. Its cruise terminals page records LEED Gold Certification for Terminal V and credits a design drawn from Miami’s palm trees, while the opening release credits Arquitectonica for architecture and landscape and Suffolk Construction as builder.
- One lot in the cruise line’s parking answer has no county equivalent. Drivers are sent to 305-347-4800 for access to the garages and Lot #2 on non-cruise days, a name that appears nowhere on the county schedule, which lists Surface Lot C, Surface Lot D and Surface Lot E.
- A prepayment rule appears only on the cruise line’s page. Garage J is pre-paid only, according to Virgin Voyages, with a decal displayed inside the vehicle for the length of the cruise, and all other parking is paid on the way out. Garage J sits on the southside serving Cruise Terminal J, not Terminal V.
- Garage F is priced and otherwise invisible. It appears in the $25 rate block beside Garages C, D and G, then fails to appear in the garage address list, in the clearance table or in the terminal pairing list, where Cruise Terminal F is sent to Garage G.
- Luggage tags arrive 72 hours ahead, emailed by Virgin Voyages as a printable PDF, with spare tags kept at Terminal V, which removes one reason to reach the frontage before the assigned slot.
- No rental desk waits at the pier. There are no on-site car rental agencies at PortMiami, per Miami-Dade County, and some companies run shuttles from the port to their own offices instead.
Where a Virgin Voyages drive to PortMiami goes wrong between the app and the barrier
Budgeting from the cruise line’s own figure is the first error and the one the line creates. Its FAQ attributes $22 per night and $8 short term to PortMiami, and PortMiami publishes $25 and $10. The $22 is not invented: Terminal Tariff No. 010 records it as “the previously established parking rate of $22.00 per vehicle established before FY 2024-2025”, so the cruise line is quoting a county figure the county has since replaced. A Sailor who trusts the attribution is out by $3 for every day the car sits, before the day count and the tax are applied.
Counting nights rather than days is the second. Item 710 charges the entry day and each succeeding day, which makes a seven night voyage an eight day bill, and the word night in the cruise line’s answer points the reader at the wrong unit. That single mismatch is $25.00 on its own.
Treating $200.00 as the amount on the card is the third. Terminal Tariff No. 010 states that its rates exclude sales tax and names the Florida general rate at 6%, taking the eight days to $212.00. The pre-tax figure is a floor, not a total.
Aiming the car at the terminal address is the fourth. The cruise line publishes 718 N Cruise Blvd for Terminal V and the county publishes 921 N America Way for the garage, and only the second address has an exit barrier. Arriving at the first with a car that has to stay means driving the last stretch twice.
Assuming height clears the whole building is the fifth. Multi-Level Garage G opens at 9 feet 6 inches, the tallest first floor the county lists, and drops to 6 feet 11 inches above, so a roof box that clears the entrance may not clear the ramp behind it.
Waiting for a sign with the cruise line’s name on it is the sixth. The county labels only Garage A and Garage B with a company, prices Garage G inside an unnamed block shared with three other facilities, and never writes the words Virgin Voyages anywhere on the schedule that governs the barrier.
Which month each Terminal V and Garage G figure comes from
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Where a figure above is credited to Broward County, it stands as of the month named and no further. That issuer’s site is not among the sources available to this guide, so its own page is the place to confirm it. 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 Virgin Voyages Sailors ask about parking and arriving at Terminal V
The six answers below draw on the Miami-Dade County parking schedule, the PortMiami cruise FAQ, item 710 of Terminal Tariff No. 010 and the Virgin Voyages port information and Miami port pages, all read in September 2026, with totals calculated at the county’s published $25 and the 6% general rate the tariff names.
Multi-Level Garage G at 921 N America Way. Miami-Dade County pairs Cruise Terminal V with that garage on its northside list, and Virgin Voyages confirms from its own side that the closest garage to Terminal V is Garage G. The same garage also serves Cruise Terminal F and the unfinished Cruise Terminal G.
Miami-Dade County publishes $25 per vehicle, per space, per day for long term parking at Multi-Level Garage G, described as overnight or greater. Item 710 of Terminal Tariff No. 010 bills the entry day and each succeeding day, so a seven night voyage is eight days, or $200.00 before tax and $212.00 at the 6% general rate.
Its port information page attributes $22 per night and $8 short term to PortMiami, while the Miami-Dade County schedule that governs the exit barrier publishes $25 and $10. The county sets the rate, so $25 is the figure that bills. Reading the cruise line’s number leaves a seven night budget $36.00 to $58.00 short.
Virgin Voyages accepts luggage at Terminal V from 9 AM onwards, and Sailors who drop bags early are asked to return no earlier than 15 minutes before the arrival time chosen in the app. No seating is provided outside the terminal. Boarding generally begins at 2:15 pm, with RockStar check-in from 1pm.
No. Multi-Level Garage G is open at 921 N America Way and serves Cruise Terminals F, G and V, while Cruise Terminal G is a Royal Caribbean building that Miami-Dade County broke ground on in January 2026, at a $345 million investment, with an opening announced for late 2027 and its own multi-level garage.
Miami-Dade County publishes 9 feet 6 inches on the first floor of Multi-Level Garage G and 6 feet 11 inches on the remaining floors, a fall of 2 feet 7 inches. Oversized vans, recreational vehicles and vehicles with trailers are sent to Surface Lot E instead, at $25 per space, per day.
Sailors pay the county rate and read the cruise line’s number
Every other PortMiami terminal with a strong brand attached gets that brand printed somewhere on the schedule that bills it. Royal Caribbean has its name in a heading with a link where a price should be. Norwegian Cruise Line has its name in a heading with $35 beside it. The Virgin Voyages berth has a letter, shared with a Carnival terminal and with a building that will not open until late 2027, inside a block of four facilities priced together.
So the only page that speaks to a Virgin Voyages driver in the line’s own voice is the one that gets the number wrong by $3 a day, and the page carrying the number Miami-Dade County publishes never mentions the ship. A Sailor who reads both, and applies the eight day count from a 68 page tariff neither page links, arrives at $212.00. A Sailor who reads one arrives at the barrier with the other figure in mind.
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