Transportation to the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show
For five days every fall, South Florida becomes the center of the yacht world. The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS) spreads across seven waterfront venues — Bahia Mar, Pier Sixty-Six, Las Olas Marina, Hall of Fame Marina, the Broward County Convention Center, and Superyacht Village among them — and getting between any two of them by car is nothing like a normal week in Fort Lauderdale.
ApexBCS runs show week for the people who can’t afford to be late to it: yacht builders and brokerages moving teams and clients between venues, exhibitors coordinating a full week of arrivals, and Windward VIP ticket holders whose premium experience shouldn’t start with a fight for parking. We know which marina gates open early, which credential lines move and which don’t, and how to get a client from Bahia Mar to Pier Sixty-Six without losing an hour to show traffic.
Local knowledge for boat show week
The 2026 show runs October 28 through November 1, with each venue on its own hours and its own access rules. We track all seven at once and build your routing around them:
- Venue-specific access and credential lines at Bahia Mar, Pier Sixty-Six, Las Olas Marina, Hall of Fame Marina, and Superyacht Village
- Windward VIP early-entry windows — Wednesday from 11am, Thursday through Sunday from 9am
- Parking that fills at every venue well before the gates open
- A primary route and a backup route between venues, planned before the week’s crowds settle in
What we handle during boat show week
Yacht builder and exhibitor shuttles
Scheduled runs for your team and clients between your booth, your hotel, and the marina where your boats are docked — timed to your show hours, not a single fixed pickup.
Yacht broker client transfers
A private vehicle on call to move you and a client from one showing to the next across any of the seven venues, so a good conversation on the dock doesn’t end because the car isn’t there.
Windward VIP arrivals
Door-to-door service timed to Windward’s early-entry hours, so a VIP ticket gets the VIP arrival to match — no parking, no walk from a garage, no waiting in a public entry line.
Multi-venue routing
A matched fleet and a single point of contact for moving between Bahia Mar, Pier Sixty-Six, Las Olas Marina, Hall of Fame Marina, and Superyacht Village, without leaving anyone to find their own way between venues.
Multi-day, multi-vehicle programs
Boat show week often means a full team on the ground for all five days. We staff and schedule the whole run as one program, not five separate bookings.
A dedicated show-week chauffeur
One chauffeur, on call for your group for the run of the show, instead of a different driver — and a different set of directions — every day.
A single point of contact for your whole program
Yacht builders, brokerages, and corporate accounts bringing a group to the show trust us to run it end to end — one dedicated contact managing every vehicle, every pickup, and every last-minute change, so nothing gets lost between your client and the dock. Vehicles arrive in fleet-matched condition, chauffeurs are briefed on your program in advance, and billing rolls up into a single invoice, not a stack of receipts from a dozen different drivers.
Boat show week is one of the most in-demand booking windows on our calendar, alongside Grand Prix weekend and Art Basel. We recommend confirming your vehicles and routes 4–6 weeks out. Check out our South Florida event calendar for the other events we help with year-round.
Booking for boat show week?
Send us your dates, your venues, and your headcount — whether you’re booking as an exhibitor, a brokerage, or a Windward VIP ticket holder — and we’ll have your show week routing planned before the docks fill in.