Ship and date
The vessel name and sailing date resolve the terminal and berth. Without them we are guessing at a port that may have five passenger terminals.
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transfers
Port work is timing work. We book against the ship and the berth, not just the city — so the car is at the right terminal on the right side of the dock.
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Why ports are different
"The cruise port" is rarely one place
Big ports are industrial estates with several passenger terminals, one-way security roads and berths that get reassigned days before you sail. A booking that only says the city name is a booking that ends with a phone call from a car park.
So we ask for the ship and the sailing date as well as the port. That is what identifies the terminal and the berth, and it is what lets the chauffeur reach the right gate rather than the right postcode.
- Embarkation — dropped at your terminal at the boarding window on your ticket, not at a general port entrance.
- Disembarkation — collected after your colour or group is called, with waiting time that assumes the process is slow, because it is.
- Port to airport — the run everybody underestimates, quoted with the disembarkation queue built in.
- Crew movements — sign-on and sign-off runs, including the awkward hours they actually happen at.
Coverage
Seaports we quote to
Every large and medium harbour in the World Port Index — 417 ports across 82 countries. Toggle a marker for the port record, or search the full directory.
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Booking it properly
What to give the desk
Your boarding window
Cruise lines stagger boarding. Give us the window printed on your documents and the drop-off is timed to it instead of to opening time.
Party and luggage
Cruise luggage is bulkier than airline luggage. Tell us the real case count — this is the single most common reason a vehicle is undersized.
Flying in the same day? Most cruise lines advise against it, and so do we. If you must, book the airport transfer and the port transfer as one movement so the desk holds the whole chain and can react when the flight slips.