Luggage storageFort Lauderdale

Luggage storage across Fort Lauderdale

Plenty of visitors to Fort Lauderdale arrive hours before a rental is ready or with time to kill after a flight, and a beach day is easier without a suitcase in tow.

The airport’s own storage desks can take bags in three terminals, while the Amtrak/Tri-Rail station offers none at all, and several venues around the city ban large bags outright. The city sits directly on Florida's southeast coast. Its 165 miles of inland waterways are why Fort Lauderdale is called the Venice of America. Cruise passengers often pass through Fort Lauderdale because Port Everglades is the world's third-largest cruise port. Port Everglades is only about a 10-minute drive from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The Riverwalk Arts & Entertainment District downtown is home to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and the Museum of Discovery and Science. With Stasher, you can store bags from $2.49 per bag per day.

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Luggage storage at the station and airport

Public baggage storage is available at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Terminals 1, 2, and 3, so if you're flying in or out with a layover, the airport's own facility can hold your bags. The Fort Lauderdale Amtrak/Tri-Rail station does not offer official checked baggage storage, which leaves rail passengers without an on-site option there. Brightline, the higher-speed rail service connecting Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach and Orlando, does things differently: it offers checked baggage service for a fee, and any bag larger than a carry-on must be checked in. For getting between the Brightline station and the airport, Brightline runs an airport connector shuttle costing $12 per guest plus a $3 fuel surcharge.

Bag rules at Fort Lauderdale attractions

The Au-René Theater at the Broward Center prohibits large backpacks, duffles, and luggage, and it does not provide storage for those items—so a big bag means finding somewhere else to leave it before the show. Bonnet House Museum & Gardens likewise bans large bags, backpacks, suitcases, and garment bags, a rule in place to protect the collection.

The Parker theater takes the same line, prohibiting large backpacks, duffles, and luggage altogether.

Getting around Fort Lauderdale with luggage

On Tri-Rail, you may carry up to three pieces of standard size luggage, as long as they don't block seats or aisles, which makes the regional rail a workable option with a modest amount of baggage.

Broward County Transit's TOPS! paratransit service is stricter: small packages only, and they must fit on your lap or in the space in front of you, with riders expected to carry everything at once without driver help.

For a walkable stretch between downtown and the beach, Las Olas Boulevard runs about two miles from the city centre to the shore. Hugh Taylor Birch State Park sits between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, a short walk from Fort Lauderdale Beach, so it's reachable on foot from the sand if you're not hauling much. The Brightline airport connector shuttle runs daily from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM, departing the train station 10 minutes after train arrivals and picking up at the airport twice per hour.