Miami - port transportation & times

[terrybsw]

We are traveling on the Wonder out of Miami this Spring. First time not using Port Canaveral.
What amount of time should we leave in order to catch our return flight? We are using Disney arranged transportation.
Any recommendations for hotels near the airport?

Thanks!

 

[Saamh]

We left the Magic Wednesday. We did express walk off (did not put our luggage out the night before). We left our stateroom at 8:15am and took the Alamo car rental shuttle to the Miami airport and were in our rental car at 9:00am. If you put luggage out to claim, they have luggage carousels that can only handle a certain number of groups at a time. They started calling the first luggage tags to disembark at 7:30am and still had not called our group at 8:15 when we carried our bags off. So, if you are pressed for time, I would recommend doing express walk off. Otherwise you may not be at the airport until 10:00am (reports of the last groups being called after 9am from other guests on our sailing).