We're flying in 2-3 days before to see my folks who live in SoCal...well that's the plan. Now that dad is retired for the 2nd time, they have plans to move to FL--though neither one really wants to move farther away from the grandbaby
However, we are going to stay at a hotel near the port (I see there are some negotiated rates for a couple of places on Page 1. I think the gov't rate may be better but I'll have to check). We'll have a rental car. I just checked and the Crowne Plaza (which used to be a Sheraton as shown on my GPS/mapping system) has an Enterprise desk inside the hotel! I'm not fond of Enterprise BUT their lot is between the hotel and World Cruise Center terminal so we may look into it. The hotel said they will bring the car over so maybe we could just leave it there and take the shuttle to the terminal?
The other major rental locations (Hertz, Advantage etc) all seem to be 6-10 miles away in Lomita, Cypress or Long Beach.