Fort Lauderdale Sunset Boat Trip Prices: What You Pay and Why

Different boats mean different price points, and the spread is wider than it looks at first glance. The cheapest ticket and the most expensive shared ticket are $99 apart, and that gap tracks almost exactly with duration and what's poured on board. Here is every option, in order.

These are the prices the listings showed when we checked, and the number that governs is always the one on the booking page at checkout, not the one printed here. Last verified: August 2026.

Duration and Boat Type

Duration and boat class explain a big chunk of the ladder on their own. The Sea Rocket is a fast, narrow-purpose speedboat, one hour, no frills, and the cheapest ticket for exactly that reason. The party boat and the open-deck Venice of America cruise both run two hours for $55 to $59.99, roughly double the Sea Rocket's time for roughly double the price.

The catamaran and the private charter both charge a premium above that, for reasons that go beyond the clock.

What's Poured on Board

The Sea Rocket's $29.99 stays the floor partly because nothing is included to drink. The Carrie B's $32 already has a bar built in. The Evening Boat Cruise's $55 bundles BYOB freedom into the ticket, no markup on whatever you bring yourself; more on which boats allow outside drinks and why on the full drinks policy on each boat guide.

The catamaran's $129 includes a champagne toast plus a cash bar at $5 a round, which is real money if you're ordering more than one.

Exclusivity: Sharing the Boat or Owning It

$430 is the biggest number on this page, but it buys the whole boat for your group, not one seat among strangers. Whether that's a bargain or a splurge depends entirely on how many people you bring, which is exactly what the maths below works out.

The Route Itself

The catamaran's premium partly buys the only route on this site that leaves Port Everglades Inlet and raises sail on the open Atlantic, covered in full on the Millionaires Row route guide; everything else stays inside the protected Intracoastal and New River. Departure timing itself shifts across the year too, covered on the best time to go guide, though it doesn't move the ticket price.

$430 buys the whole boat for two hours, not one seat, so the real question for a group is where that number lands once it is divided. Do the math yourself before assuming a private charter is out of reach.

Six is the point where a private charter stops being the pricier option and starts undercutting the top-tier shared boat, without a stranger on deck. There's no maximum group size published for this boat, so confirm capacity at checkout rather than assuming a number. Last verified: August 2026.

Nothing here counts parking or tipping as included on any tour, since neither is published as part of a ticket price on any of these listings. Last verified: August 2026.

The number on the listing is not the number you'll spend. Parking, drinks bought on board, and tipping the crew all sit outside the ticket price, and each one is knowable in advance.

Parking

Operators near Bahia Mar Yachting Center publish their own guidance rather than one shared marina rate. Sea Experience quotes parking at $7 for the first 7 hours; Sea Rocket points guests to the Bahia Mar hotel lot at approximately $10. If you'd rather use city parking, Fort Lauderdale's public garages charge $3.00 per hour, and the North Beach Parking Lot near A1A charges $4.00 per hour for non-residents.

See which boat leaves from which dock for the full breakdown by boat.

Drinks Bought on Board

The catamaran's cash bar charges $5 for beer or wine, each round. The Sea Rocket includes nothing to drink at all, so every drink there is either brought yourself where allowed or skipped. The Carrie B's bar and the Evening Boat Cruise's BYOB policy both cut this cost differently, one by including it, one by letting you bring your own.

Tipping the Crew

None of these listings publish a fixed tip percentage. Treat it the way you'd tip any U.S. boat or tour crew, cash based on the service you got, entirely your call rather than a required line item.

• Parking: $3.00 to $10 depending on which lot you choose near the beach marinas
• Drinks bought on board: from $5 a round on the catamaran's cash bar
• Tipping the crew: no fixed rate published, entirely discretionary

Not really, but it's a narrower deal than it first looks. The Sea Rocket at $29.99 and the Carrie B at $32 are only $2.01 apart, and for that $2.01 the Carrie B adds 30 extra minutes, a bar on board, and roughly ten times the review count (2,205 versus 185). Judged purely on value per dollar, the Carrie B usually wins that comparison.

The Sea Rocket still makes sense on its own terms, though, for anyone with a genuinely short window, cruise-ship passengers on a tight re-boarding time, or a traveler who wants the view without committing 90 minutes to it. Cheap here doesn't mean worse, it means built for a narrower use case.

None of these tactics involve downgrading to a worse experience, just spending on purpose instead of by accident.

• Compare per-hour value, not just the ticket: $32 for 90 minutes on the Carrie B works out to about 35.5 cents a minute, against roughly 50 cents a minute on the Sea Rocket's single hour at $29.99
• Park in a City of Fort Lauderdale public garage at $3.00 an hour instead of the roughly $7 to $10 the marina-adjacent lots quote
• If you already plan to bring your own drinks, book the boat built for it, the $55 Evening Boat Cruise, instead of paying $5 a round on a cash-bar boat
• Add people to a private charter rather than shrinking the group: $430 splits to $71.67 each at six, cheaper per head than the $129 catamaran seat
• Book early and let free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure do the work: lock in the pricier boat now, downgrade later at no cost if plans change

None of the prices on this page is a bad one on its own; the mistake is booking on ticket price alone without checking what's actually included. A $29.99 hour with nothing poured and a $32, 90-minute trip with a bar attached are not really competing for the same evening, and neither is the $430 private charter once you've done the math for your group size. Match the price to what you actually want from the evening, not the other way around, and compare Fort Lauderdale evening boat trips to see the current lineup side by side before you book.