Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 223.

One of the most popular cruise ports to take a Royal Caribbean cruise from is Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Port Everglades is home to some of Royal Caribbean's most prolific cruise ships, and this week, we are discussing getting to your Port Everglades cruise. We'll discuss how to get to the terminal, parking, and everything you should know if you're

cruising from Fort Lauderdale.

Here we go.

Royal Caribbean operates 24 ships these days, and some of its premier ships sell out of

a place called Port Everglades, Florida, located in Fort Lauderdale.

And this week we want to talk about going on a cruise out of Fort Lauderdale, what to expect, how to get there, and some of the nuances, if you will, about Port Everglades.

And Port Everglades, as I mentioned, is in Fort Lauderdale.

It is literally across the street from the Fort Lauderdale International Airport, so it's very convenient for a lot of folks.

It is located in South Florida.

And when we talk about taking cruises out of Fort Lauderdale, oftentimes you're talking about some of Royal Cremain's biggest ships.

When Royal Caribbean first debuted, it's Oasis Class ships.

That's where they sailed out of Oasis of the seas and O'Rour of the Seas. Now, since then, Oasis has moved up to Port Canaveral, and Allure still remains in Fort Lauderdale for the time being, as well as Harmony of the Seas.

Although next year in 2018, Allure will move down to the new terminal, Royal Cremneys is building in Miami, along with the soon-to-be-arriving Symphony of the Seas. the seas. But regardless of which ships happen to be selling out of Port Everglades or not,

this information I think will be fairly evergreen in that regard because there's a,

it's very popular cruise ports among the busiest in the world. In fact, Port Canaveral and Port

Everglades and Port of Miami go back and forth quite often in terms to which is the largest

port or which does the most traffic. But regardless, it's a pretty popular cruise port to get to.

Now, as I mentioned, getting to the cruise port, if you're flying into Port Everglades, there's a lot

of different choices. The most obvious choices are there, too. Fort Lauderdale Airport and the

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