Miami hotels with free shuttles to cruise port?

Recommendations on Miami hotels with free shuttles to the cruise port? Will even consider paying for the shuttle if the hotel is amazing. :)

If they have a shuttle from the airport TO the hotel the day before embarkation that'd be fabulous too!

My recommendation is not to limit yourself to hotels with free shuttles since there are very few.

Taxis and Uber or Lyft are relatively inexpensive.

I would look at a downtown hotel including:

Intercontinental

Marriott Marquis

Hampton Inn

There are many more but this is a start.

Keith

Don't worry about shuttles. Don't understand why this is such a preoccupation of many.

Look at hotels in Downtown Miami or Brickell area. Hampton Inn Brickell is a very popular one.

If you are in Downtown or Brickell there is no need for a shuttle. A taxi will be around $12 an Uber even cheaper. And the ride should be between 5 and 15 minutes to the port.

Agree with Keith.

In Miami, hotels with shuttles are rarely worth it and you are paying for the shuttle in the price and will pay extra. Usually only airport hotels (a few in Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and South Beach have shuttles) have shuttles and the airport is in a crappy area.

Stay downtown.

Budget and dates would help - the $300+ room in Feb can go for under $100 in August heat & humidity.

Doubletree and next door Marriott, plus a couple of others, offers some rooms with a view of the port - a great way to start your cruise.

Taxi from MIA to downtown hotels will run about $25-30 or you can Uber for about half that fare. The port is just a short ride from downtown the morning of your cruise.

Agree with Keith.

 

In Miami, hotels with shuttles are rarely worth it and you are paying for the shuttle in the price and will pay extra. Usually only airport hotels (a few in Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and South Beach have shuttles) have shuttles and the airport is in a crappy area.

 

Stay downtown.

I am glad BlueHerons pointed out that free shuttles are not free. Such use of the word free is just a marketing gimmick.

Don't worry about shuttles. Don't understand why this is such a preoccupation of many.

 

Look at hotels in Downtown Miami or Brickell area. Hampton Inn Brickell is a very popular one.

 

If you are in Downtown or Brickell there is no need for a shuttle. A taxi will be around $12 an Uber even cheaper. And the ride should be between 5 and 15 minutes to the port.

THank you for that information I have found several area hotels even looking at possibility of AIRBNB, was already planning on Uber?lyft to the port on cruise day! :D:D:D:D

Any thoughts on AIRBNB in the area?:)

 

Any thoughts on AIRBNB in the area?:)

Be very careful, Blue Herons and other locals often point out that AirBnB is illegal in many buildings in Miami and Miami Beach. Do lots of homework before booking.

Hotels shuttles aren't worth the time. Consider that you'll be jammed into a van with many others. It will be very likely that there will be stops at several port locations, and if yours is the last its a long ride. As others have said, an UBER or taxi is inexpensive...and its personal. Just you and takes you exactly to where you are going.

Agree with Keith.

 

In Miami, hotels with shuttles are rarely worth it and you are paying for the shuttle in the price and will pay extra. Usually only airport hotels (a few in Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and South Beach have shuttles) have shuttles and the airport is in a crappy area.

 

Stay downtown.

We have a hotel booked by the hotel and after reading this I'm a little concerned. We booked La Quinta inn North and am now wondering if this is a safe place to stay or not. We don't get into FLL till 9:00 pm and have to travel to this hotel. If it isn't going to be safe then I will have to rethink this stay.

Thanks

Arriving late you are better off staying near the FLL airport and making your way from there to POM in the morning - there is no good reason to travel from FLL to a hotel near MIA late at night for a quick, one-night pre-cruise stay. http://www.sunny.org has lots of FLL area hotel info

We booked Marriott Biscayne Bay for night before and night after our cruise. Cab is $12 to port with tip. Hotel looks awesome and we got a King w/ water view for $139 on my corporate discount. Looking forward to seeing our ship come in!