I sailed Enchantment Feb 17-25, Ask me Anything!

[gatour]

On 3/5/2022 at 3:30 PM, pxy cda said:

We sailed during the riots a few years back. Local told me docks are very safe as it is federal. So criminals stay away as it is penetentiary vs regular jail. Not sure if it's true but we had no issues. 

As a point of clarification most ports in the US are owned/controlled by local port authorities.  They provide most of the "on the ground security".  Mind you the Federal gov't has a say on entry and exit criteria, the port authority provides the personnel.  Would it be a federal crime to enter a port over a fence, most likely yes, but even if the federal crimes laws weren't there the local/state crime laws would still apply.  So I think most criminals would just bypass the cruise port parking lots for easier pickings, like at your local shopping center.

 

As opposed to serving time between a    penitentiary, which I assume you mean a federal one vs a state/local jail from my reading the state/local jails can be "harder" time.

 

Having said that I always park in the port lots more for convivence.  However, outside of Miami I don't hesitate to recommend people park at privately owned lots to save money.

 

For Miami over the years on this board I have heard stories about people returning from a cruise only to find their vehicle broken into, so I always recommend people to use the Port of Miami internal parking options

[death_star]

The biggest thing that helps with security in this lot is that it's only open 2 days a week and there would be no reason for a soul to be there the rest of the time. Makes it a lot easier to monitor than some of these other ports where you have multiple ships pretty much every day of the week.