Shuttle Info

TRANSPORTATION TO HAWKS CAY

1. RENT A CAR AT EITHER MIAMI OR FT LAUDERDALE AIRPORTS

All South Florida airports offer a variety of rental car agencies to choose from. (In addition, you can rent a car at Marathon Airport, located just a few miles from the resort, for daily excursions on the Keys.)

Hawks Cay is 90 miles by car from Miami, and 130 miles from Fort Lauderdale.

2. TAKE A RIDE ON THE KEYS SHUTTLE VAN

You can book a special-rate, round-trip service on Keys Shuttle (run by Raoul and Marilyn. Their website is www.keysshuttle.com and their number is 305-289-9997)

For our wedding guests, Keys Shuttle is offering a special rate of $70 round trip per person. For some reason they divide it up this way: $69 from Miami International to Hawks Cay and $1 return. It’s $80 round trip from Ft. Lauderdale.

These are not private shuttle buses so other travelers heading to various points on the Keys may share the ride with you. Each van holds between 10 and 12 passengers so if enough of our wedding guests arrive in Florida at the same time, then they will end up on the same van. Raoul said he will add another shuttle bus to accommodate large groups arriving together.

These regularly scheduled shuttles leave every two hours from Ft. Lauderdale and Miami Airports -- 10:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 2:30 PM, 4:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 8:30 PM from Ft. Lauderdale and 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 7:00 PM, and 9:00 PM from Miami International.

Here’s how to arrange for this service.

a. Go to keysshuttle.com

b. Click on “Pricing & Reservations”

c. You’ll be taken to the “Reservation & Fare Quote System” page.

d. At the bottom of page, find the space for entering our “group ID.”

e. Type in the name Coate

f. You’ll now be directed to the page for our wedding party. (Under the van photo, make sure you see “Coate and Allora Wedding.” If you’re traveling between November 6th and November 20th, you’ll get this special rate.

g. Go to “Arrivals” and click on the “ROUNDTRIP” button

h. Add in your arriving flight information and departing flight information

The Keys Shuttle company will check in with you prior to your departure to confirm this information is still accurate.

Remember that you need to put in the name Coate at the bottom of the “Reservation & Fare Quote System” to get this great price.

If you’d rather call them, go ahead and make a reservation that way.

Here’s where you find the shuttle van at the airport: you meet the shuttle at the Miami Airport at ground level (baggage claim) between terminal D & E. You cross over two sets of lanes -- across the first set of taxi lanes, then across the second set of lanes for private vehicles --and look for the sign “Public Bus Terminal.” It will be on your right hand side. Look for the signature white shuttle vans with a Red Stripe that say Keys Shuttle.

From Ft Lauderdale Airport the Shuttle meets you at ground level (baggage claim) outside the terminal of your arriving airline.

3. BOOK CAR SERVICE THROUGH EMERALD TRANSPORTATION

There’s another really great way to get to Hawks Cay. It’s through a private Chauffeur Service: Emerald Transportation. 305-852-1468. The lady in charge is Grace Green.

Her email contact is keysrides@aol.com

For our wedding guests this company is also giving us a discount rate. Grace will set up a database detailing everyone’s inbound and outbound travel information and then create group of people who are arriving around the same time to make sure everyone pays the lowest rate possible.

She’ll let you know two days prior to travel three things: your pick-up time, who else is traveling at the same time as you and how much you can expect to pay based on the number who will be traveling with you.

If you don’t like the rate, you can opt out at this time and sign up for the public shuttle van. (See above info.) This company will then rearrange the groups accordingly.

You will pay $37.37 for a one-way trip if you are in a vehicle with the maximum number of people. (The per-person rate will increase to cover the total charge of the vehicle if less than the maximum number of people is scheduled for any vehicle.)

-- Town car (maximum 4 people)

-- SUV (maximum 5 people)

-- Mini van (maximum 8 people)

-- Large van (maximum 10 people)

As soon as you have finalized your airline reservation, call or email Grace with your information. She will get you into her database.

She will make sure that there are cars available at Hawks Cay for your return trip to the airport. You should plan on leaving Hawks Cay four hours before your departure time.

Let us know if there is anything else we can help you with regarding transportation.