Door to ship at the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal, Pinkenba. Fixed fares from every suburb we serve — with ship arrivals tracked and a name board waiting on disembarkation day.
Get your fixed priceAbout 10 minutes by road. Fixed fare per vehicle, GST and tolls included — and no cruise surcharge on this run, because the terminal is on the airport side of the river.
Flying in to join a ship is the shortest transfer we run: your chauffeur meets you inside arrivals with a name board, your flight is tracked so a late landing moves the pick-up rather than costing you anything, and the terminal is a ten-minute run from the domestic and international terminals alike. The same fixed fare applies the other way on disembarkation day, terminal to airport.
| Vehicle | Fare |
|---|---|
| Sedan | $95 |
| SUV | $105 |
| People Mover | $110 |
| Luxury Sedan | $120 |
| Luxury Minivan | $125 |
| Mercedes Sprinter 10-Seater | $180 |
| Mercedes Sprinter 14-Seater | $255 |
| Mercedes Sprinter 18-Seater | Quoted per job |
Book Brisbane Airport to the terminal · Book the terminal to Brisbane Airport. Book both legs in one booking and the pair is 10% off.
About 50 to 85 minutes via the M1 and the Gateway, depending on your suburb — allow 90 minutes or more on embarkation morning.
A Brisbane sailing from a Gold Coast hotel or home is one of our most common cruise runs. The fare is fixed door to ship, so a slow M1 on embarkation morning costs you time, never money, and the same price brings you home when the ship comes back in.
| From | Sedan | SUV | People Mover | Sprinter 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coomera | $220 | $235 | $245 | $410 |
| Helensvale | $235 | $250 | $260 | $445 |
| Southport | $260 | $270 | $280 | $465 |
| Surfers Paradise | $270 | $285 | $295 | $510 |
| Broadbeach | $270 | $285 | $295 | $510 |
| Burleigh Heads | $280 | $295 | $305 | $510 |
| Coolangatta | $305 | $320 | $335 | $555 |
Every other Gold Coast suburb is priced too — choose it in the booking form for its exact fare.
The cruise terminal sits at Pinkenba, a few minutes from Brisbane Airport on the same side of the river. Every fare is fixed per vehicle, with GST and tolls included and no surge pricing. Select Brisbane Cruise Terminal in the booking form and your price comes back instantly.
Choose your suburb in the table below and the booking form opens with that trip already priced.
| From | Sedan fare |
|---|---|
| Brisbane Airport | $95 |
| Hamilton | $110 |
| Brisbane CBD | $120 |
| New Farm | $120 |
| Indooroopilly | $140 |
| Redland Bay | $155 |
| Coomera / Ormeau / Pimpama | $220 |
| Helensvale / Hope Island | $235 |
| Surfers Paradise | $270 |
| Coolangatta | $305 |
Sedan fares. Every suburb we serve is priced to the terminal — choose it as your drop-off in the booking form for an instant price. Larger vehicles are available on every route: a minivan from Surfers Paradise is $315, a Sprinter 14-seater $510. Larger parties: our 18-seater is quoted per job — ask on the charter page.
Cruise terminals work to a boarding window rather than a departure time, and the queue at the start of that window is long. We would rather put you there in the back half of it, bags handled, than have you stand in the sun for ninety minutes to get on a ship that is not going anywhere for another four hours.
Tell us your boarding window when you book and we will recommend a pick-up time against it. We also wrote up the four ways to get here from the airport, and what each one costs. Cruise luggage is also bulkier than flight luggage — two people on a fourteen-night sailing routinely exceed a sedan's two-bag allowance, so an SUV or the $30 luggage trailer is usually the honest call rather than an upsell. Groups of eight or more are better off in a minibus, which carries eleven or fifteen bags.
Coming off is the leg that goes wrong more often. Ships clear customs in groups, the terminal empties in waves, and thousands of people want a car in the same two hours.
We track ship arrivals the way we track flights, and your chauffeur meets you inside the terminal with a name board rather than texting you from a car park. If your group is released late, the booking moves with it — and the fare does not change, because there is no surge on any route we run. On a morning when every rideshare on the river is priced at a multiple, that is the whole point.
Flying out the same day? The airport is minutes from the terminal, so a disembarkation-to-BNE run is short — but build in real margin. Customs clearance times are not something either of us controls, and a same-day flight before about 1pm is tighter than it looks on paper.
Yes, from the Gold Coast and Brisbane, with a luggage trailer available for $30. Cruise transfers start from $95 from Brisbane Airport.
Yes, with a name board, and you will have your chauffeur's name and mobile number in advance. That matters more at a cruise terminal than an airport, because the pick-up areas are large and the crowd comes out all at once.
One Sprinter takes up to 14 passengers with 15 bags on a single booking and a single fare. For cruise groups that is usually cheaper and considerably less stressful than four cars trying to leave together.
We adjust to it. Ship arrivals are tracked and dispatch moves the pick-up without you having to call, in the same way flight tracking works on an airport transfer.
Yes — it is a common run. Surfers Paradise to the cruise terminal is $270 in a sedan, and the whole Gold Coast is published. Allow 90 minutes or more on embarkation morning.
Embarkation and disembarkation priced up front, ship arrivals tracked, and free to change up to 24 hours before pick-up.
Book a cruise terminal transfer Or call +61 481 437 772 — 24 hours, 7 days.