Cruise transfers are simple in one direction and unpredictable in the other.
Embarkation is a window
Cruise lines assign boarding windows rather than a departure time. Timing the pickup to the start of your window avoids two hours in a terminal queue. Send the ship name and sailing date and we will work back from it.
Luggage is the constraint
A week at sea means large cases. Four passengers with four checked bags is an SUV at minimum, often a Sprinter once duty-free and carry-ons are added. Book by bag count rather than headcount.
Coming home is the harder leg
Disembarkation runs late more often than early. Customs queues vary by ship and by day. Rather than holding you to a pickup time set weeks earlier, we watch the ship's status and adjust.
Flight timing afterwards
Do not book a flight that departs within three hours of scheduled disembarkation. If you already have, tell us, and we will plan the run accordingly.
The ports we serve
Manhattan Cruise Terminal on the West Side, Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, and Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey. Each has its own drop-off rules and gets very busy on embarkation mornings, so your chauffeur plans the approach before the day.
Groups sailing together
Family groups and wedding parties heading to the same ship are almost always better in one Sprinter than in three cars. Everybody arrives at the terminal together, checks in together, and nobody is left circling while the rest of the party queues.
What to send when you book
The ship name, the sailing date, the terminal if you know it, the number of passengers and the number of checked bags. For the return, the ship name and arrival date is enough; we will find the berth and watch the disembarkation status ourselves.
Pre-cruise and post-cruise hotels
Many passengers fly in the day before. A hotel-to-port transfer the following morning is a short, simple job and worth booking at the same time as the airport run, because both legs then sit on one booking with one contact.
Pricing
Cruise transfers are quoted for the specific route, ship and vehicle class. We do not publish a port rate card, because a four-passenger sedan run to Manhattan and a fourteen-passenger Sprinter to Cape Liberty have nothing in common.
