Carnival Starts Free Shuttles from Your Cruise Ship to the Airport

Seasoned travelers know that some tourism hot spots have earned global reputations for being horribly overcrowded, poorly managed, and miserable to navigate.

To name a few: Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport between connecting flights. The drop-off zone at LAX. Times Square between Broadway showtimes. The walk to your gate at London's Heathrow.

High on the list of lowly rated transit points is the rat trap of concrete and mislabeled intersections known as PortMiami, Florida's island cruise terminal that can be slammed with as many as 10 cruise ships at the same time. Accidentally take a wrong turn there and you'll be circling for another 20 minutes.

In September, PortMiami logged its 10 millionth passenger of the year, blowing past 2025's record of 8.56 million passengers. The influx of traffic has been so immense that there's a billion-dollar improvement plan afoot to improve capacity there.

Cruise lines keep building ships bigger, but the tunnel that connects Miami's port to the rest of the city has to stay the same size.

Quietly, PortMiami has been collaborating with the cruise lines sailing the most gargantuan ship...