LGANightOwl

...if we bring our own car seat and rent a car...

Not sure if you knew or not, but if you have AAA and use their code when you make a reservation, Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty will give you a free car seat. Hertz won't show a charge on your reservation. Dollar/Thrifty will show the charge but will take it off at the rental counter. I figured to throw this out there so you won't have to lug your car seat...

So... My cruise on RCCL is in early November when hotel rates around FLL are high. I eventually found out that there's a boat show that I'm sailing out of that's driving prices to $350+ per night. So, to save money, we're renting a car and we found a hotel in Plantation that is reasonable for 2 rooms. A couple of questions:

1) We are landing the day before the cruise in FLL and renting a car from the Rental Facility to get to the hotel. We will return the car at the FLL Rental Facility the morning of the cruise. My research tells me that there's a free shuttle bus from the Rental Facility to Port Everglades (can anyone confirm this?), but I fear that lines will be long. Since I will have my elderly parents (77yo and 72yo) and my child (5yo) in tow, the alternate option is to take a taxi but I didn't want to drag everybody on the shuttle bus back to a Terminal to catch one. Are taxis available at the Rental Facility to get to Port Everglades?

2) The path to our hotel in Plantation maps us onto I595. I am trying to avoid renting a SunPass from the car rental company, if possible, because they charge a hefty sum to use their SunPass. Is this a toll road? If it is, I can always take the local roads.

Thanks for helping out this uninformed New Yorker! :-)