Brisbane Cruise Terminal transfers

Fixed fares to the terminal

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.

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-seat mini coach is quoted per job — ask on the charter page.

Embarkation day

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. 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.

Disembarkation day

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.

Questions

Do you meet us inside the terminal?

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.

We are a group of twelve off the same ship.

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.

What if the ship docks early or late?

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.

Can you collect us from the Gold Coast for a Brisbane sailing?

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.

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