B Street Cruise Ship Terminal at the B Street Pier Cruise Ship Terminal
Drop-off directions, parking info, check-in tips, and ships sailing from B Street Cruise Ship Terminal at Port of San Diego.
What is the address of B Street Cruise Ship Terminal?
Tell your GPS: 1140 North Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101
The Port prints 1140 North Harbor Drive on three separate pages, so this one is settled. Aim the car at the pier gate rather than at the Harbor Drive curb: the Port's instruction is to be dropped off beyond the gate, on the pier. A second 1140 North Harbor Drive exists as a bare address point in Little Italy about two thirds of a mile north, so if your map lands you among apartment blocks with no water in front of you, you have the wrong one.
Address published by portofsandiego.org — Cruise, checked 2026-08-17.
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Drop-Off & Parking
Parking
There is none here to buy. The Port of San Diego states plainly that it does not own or operate cruise parking, and that long-term parking is not available at the cruise terminals. What it publishes instead is a referral list of independent operators, and of the six on it only two print a rate on a live page: San Diego's Park, Shuttle & Fly at a regular rate of $24.95 a day with a 24/7 shuttle, and Aladdin Airport & Cruise Ship Parking at $21 a day rooftop, $23 indoor and $30 for quick valet. Ace Parking's BRIC South garage is across the street from the pier and quotes only by phone.
Drop-Off
The Port's instruction is short and worth following exactly: have your ride drop you off beyond the gate, on the pier. That means the car goes through the gate at 1140 North Harbor Drive and stops alongside the terminal, not at the Harbor Drive curb outside it. The Port also asks that you print and staple your luggage tags before you arrive, and that you do not arrive before 10 a.m. even if your hotel checkout leaves you early.
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Check-In Tips
- Bring your picture ID, your ship boarding document, and your passport or birth certificate, because the Port states you need all three to get into the cruise ship terminal and through check-in.
- A passport is not optional on a Mexico itinerary. The Port publishes that flatly, and Baja and Mexican Riviera sailings are most of what leaves this pier.
- Arrive at the boarding time your cruise line assigned you, and not before 10 a.m. The Port asks for both, and on a two-ship day the pier has good reason to.
- Complete your cruise line's online check-in before you travel and finish whatever its own app asks of you. Fifteen lines call here across a season and each runs boarding its own way, so follow your own line's instructions rather than a neighbor's.
- If anyone in your party needs mobility assistance, arrange it with the cruise line before you leave home. The Port's own guidance is that this is a call you make in advance, not a request you make at the door.
- Read your cruise line's prohibited-items list while you are still packing. The Port points at the line's list rather than publishing one of its own, so the rule that catches you out will be your line's.
B Street is the bigger of San Diego's two cruise piers and the one most sailings use. The Port describes it as 120,000 square feet of terminal on a pier 1,000 feet long and 400 feet wide, with two berths, shore power for vessels lying either way round, a mobile boarding bridge on the north berth, and federal inspection facilities on site. It sits 2.4 miles from San Diego International Airport, which is close enough that the drive is shorter than the walk from the terminal door to your muster station. Two things about this pier are worth knowing before you plan anything. The first is that the Port does not tell you in advance which pier you are sailing from. The second is that it does not sell parking. Neither is a gap in this guide; both are the actual situation, and the rest of this page is about what to do given them.
Where do I get dropped off at the B Street Pier?
On the pier, past the gate. The Port's navigating-our-terminals page puts it in six words: "Have your ride drop you off beyond the gate, on the pier." Its embarkation guide says the same thing a second way, telling drivers to simply navigate onto the pier to drop off. That is not how most people's instinct works at a downtown waterfront, where the natural move is to pull over on the boulevard and walk in. Do not do that here. North Harbor Drive is a working four-lane road with a bike path and a promenade between it and the water, and the terminal gate is the point at which a car stops being a nuisance and starts being useful. The other half of the Port's arrival guidance is about timing. It asks passengers to arrive at the boarding time the cruise line assigned, and separately not to arrive before 10 a.m. On a day when B Street has two ships alongside, both halves matter more than usual.
- Address for the gate: 1140 North Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101. The Port prints this on three separate pages.
- Drop off beyond the gate, on the pier, rather than on the North Harbor Drive curb.
- Do not arrive before 10 a.m., and otherwise arrive at your assigned boarding time.
- Print and staple your luggage tags before you leave the hotel. The Port asks for this explicitly.
- Bring your picture ID, your boarding document, and your passport or birth certificate; the Port states all three are needed to enter the terminal and check in.
- Mobility assistance is arranged with the cruise line before you travel, not at the pier.
- Left something behind? The Port publishes 619.400.4744 for lost items.
Drop-off, arrival timing, documents, luggage tags and mobility assistance from the Port of San Diego's "Navigating our cruise terminals" page and its embarkation guide, both read 2026-08-17. Pier dimensions, berth count, shore power, boarding bridge and airport distance from the Port's cruise facilities page, read the same day.
Where do I park for a cruise from the B Street Pier?
Not at the pier, because there is nothing there to park in. The Port of San Diego publishes two sentences that decide this whole section: it does not own or operate cruise parking, and long-term parking is not available at the cruise terminals. Every option below belongs to somebody else, and the Port's role is limited to listing them. That list is six operators long and only two of them publish a price. This is the part that catches people out, because search results are full of confident San Diego cruise parking rates and almost none of them come from the company that would be taking your keys. The parking guide works through all six; what follows is the short version for this pier.
- San Diego's Park, Shuttle & Fly, Lot A at 3405 Pacific Highway and Lot B at 3275 Pacific Highway, publishes a regular rate of $24.95 a day and runs a shuttle around the clock to the airport and the cruise terminals. Its advertised $18.95 is a coupon rate, and the same page says the coupon is not valid for cruise passengers.
- Aladdin Airport & Cruise Ship Parking, 2548 Kettner Boulevard, publishes $21 a day rooftop, $23 indoor and $30 quick valet, with a free shuttle to the cruise terminals and a 6 feet 9 inch height clearance.
- Ace Parking's BRIC South garage, 901 Bayfront Court, is directly across the street from the terminal, which makes it the only walk-not-shuttle option. It publishes no rate on its own site; you call 800.925.7275 or email for one.
- ABM's Campus at Horton Garage at 800 4th Avenue is covered and open around the clock with no in-and-out access, and its surface lots 1043 and 1090 are 0.6 miles out with no shuttle. No rate is printed on the pages we read.
- San Diego International Airport's own long-term parking at 3501 N Harbor Drive appears on the Port's cruise list, with covered parking, express checkout and electric vehicle charging.
- Best Western Plus Bayside Inn publishes a Park & Cruise package that includes the room plus seven nights in its covered lot. It prints no price, and its own inclusion list names no shuttle, so do not count on one.
The Port's position and the operator list from portofsandiego.org's long-term cruise parking page. Rates from each operator's own site: sdparkshuttlefly.com and aladdinparking.com. Facility details for Ace and ABM from the Port's list and from cruiseshipparksandiego.com. All read 2026-08-17. Where an operator prints no rate, none is stated here.
How do I get to the B Street Pier from the airport or downtown?
The pier is 2.4 miles from San Diego International Airport by the Port's own measure, which makes this one of the shortest airport-to-ship hops of any homeport on this site. The airport describes the cruise terminal as roughly two miles east of it on North Harbor Drive, and the two figures are close enough that either way of saying it is fair. There is also a genuine bus answer here, which is unusual. MTS Route 992 is titled "Downtown San Diego / via Cruise Ship Terminal / Harbor Drive" and names the Cruise Ship Terminal among its published destinations. Read the transfers list below for what each option actually costs and where it picks up.
Driving & Parking Near the Piers
There is no port-run lot to aim for. The Port of San Diego does not own or operate cruise parking, so every car ends up with a private operator, and the Port publishes a referral list rather than a price list. The names on it are San Diego's Park, Shuttle & Fly, with two lots on Pacific Highway and a shuttle the Port describes as running 24/7 to and from the cruise ship terminals; Aladdin Airport & Cruise Ship Parking on Kettner Boulevard, with a free shuttle and live tracking; Ace Parking at the Wyndham, BRIC North and BRIC South; and ABM Parking on Harbor Island, in two surface lots and at the Campus at Horton Garage downtown. Only the first two publish a figure you can read before you call.
Cost: $24.95 a day at San Diego's Park, Shuttle & Fly, which is the regular rate — the $18.95 you see advertised is a coupon rate the same page bars cruise patrons from using. Aladdin publishes $21 a day on the rooftop, $23 a day indoors and $30 a day for Quick-Valet, all three framed as airport rates. Ace Parking and ABM Parking publish no rate on the pages we read; both quote by phone or email instead, and Ace's cruise line is staffed weekdays only.
From San Diego International Airport (SAN)
The airport is unusually close to the ships. Its own ground transportation page puts the Cruise Ship Terminal approximately two miles east on N. Harbor Drive, and the Port measures 2.4 miles to the B Street Pier and 2.7 miles to the Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier. Ground transportation of every kind leaves from the Transportation Plazas in front of Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, so the first decision after baggage claim is which lane you want rather than which road. Neither the Port nor the airport publishes a drive time for the trip; on 2.4 miles of Harbor Drive our own allowance is 10-15 min, and more than that on a morning when the piers are turning around three ships.
Cost: Not published by the airport. San.org lists where each mode picks up and prints no fare for taxi or rideshare, and the city page that once carried taxicab rates now returns a 404. The one published fare on this route is transit: MTS Route 992 is $2.50 for an adult one-way and $1.25 reduced.
MTS Route 992, the Airport Bus
Route 992's own timetable is titled "Downtown San Diego / via Cruise Ship Terminal / Harbor Drive", and the Cruise Ship Terminal is one of its published destinations alongside the Embarcadero and Waterfront Park. It connects to the trolley at America Plaza, Santa Fe Depot and Courthouse. The airport describes the route as serving Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 every day from 4:15 a.m. to midnight, roughly every 15 minutes, on wheelchair-accessible buses, and MTS puts the run between the airport and Santa Fe Depot at about 15 minutes.
Cost: $2.50 for an adult one-way and $1.25 for seniors, riders with disabilities, Medicare recipients and youth. A day pass is $6.00 adult and $3.00 reduced.
Amtrak and the Santa Fe Depot
Trains arrive downtown at Santa Fe Depot, on Kettner Boulevard, which is the closest rail arrival to the piers and the same station MTS Route 992 uses as its downtown anchor. The trolley meets the depot as well, so a rail arrival lands you on the right side of downtown for the waterfront without a transfer through the airport.
Cost: Fares vary by origin and are sold by Amtrak, so there is no flat figure to quote here. The onward leg is the cheap part: Route 992 and the trolley both serve Santa Fe Depot, at $2.50 for an adult one-way and $1.25 reduced.
Taxi & Rideshare
Both leave from the Transportation Plazas in front of Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 at San Diego International Airport, and rideshare pickup is specifically in the second lane of the Transportation Plaza. From downtown the piers are close enough that a cab is a short hop rather than a journey: the Port measures 2.4 miles to the B Street Pier and 2.7 miles to the Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier.
Cost: We publish no figure. The airport prints ground transportation locations rather than fares, and the city's taxicab rate page returns a 404, so every dollar amount circulating for this trip is a third-party estimate rather than a published fare.
Distances from the Port of San Diego's cruise facilities page and san.org's ground transportation page. Route 992's title, destinations and connections from the MTS timetable effective June 07, 2026. All read 2026-08-17.
Pier questions travelers ask before sailing
Which pier will my ship sail from, B Street or Broadway?
The Port does not publish that per sailing, and neither will we. Its own cruise schedule lists a date, a ship, a line and an itinerary, with no berth or terminal column. What the Port does state is the rule behind the assignment: most ships dock at B Street, the larger of the two piers, and the Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier serves as a terminal when B Street already has two ships and a third needs a berth. Your cruise line's documents are the place that will name your pier.
How much is parking at the B Street Pier cruise terminal?
Nothing, because there is no parking at the pier to buy. The Port of San Diego states that it does not own or operate cruise parking and that long-term parking is not available at the cruise terminals. The nearest published rate is San Diego's Park, Shuttle & Fly at a regular $24.95 a day with a shuttle, and Aladdin's $21 to $30 a day depending on where in its structure you leave the car. The parking guide compares all six operators the Port refers people to.
Can I walk to a parking garage from the B Street Pier?
Yes, and it is the one genuinely convenient option here. Ace Parking's BRIC South garage at 901 Bayfront Court describes itself as directly across the street from the San Diego cruise ship terminal, and it is reached on foot rather than by shuttle. The catch is the price: Ace publishes no rate on its own site for this facility, and you have to call 800.925.7275 or email for a quote. It also requires a printed reservation voucher to get the car out.
What documents do I need to get into the cruise terminal?
The Port lists three and says you need them to enter the terminal and to check in: your picture ID, your ship boarding document, and your passport or birth certificate. It adds one hard rule on top of that, which is that passports are required for Mexico cruises. Since Baja and Mexican Riviera itineraries are the majority of what sails from San Diego, treat the passport as the default rather than the exception.
What time should I arrive at the B Street Pier?
At the boarding time your cruise line assigned you, and not before 10 a.m. Those are the Port's own two instructions and they are worth taking literally, because the pier has two berths and can be turning around two ships on the same morning. Arriving early does not get you aboard early; it puts you in a queue outside a terminal that is still emptying the previous voyage.
Is there a bus to the San Diego cruise terminal from the airport?
MTS Route 992 runs along Harbor Drive between the airport and downtown, is titled "via Cruise Ship Terminal", and lists the Cruise Ship Terminal among its published destinations. The adult one-way fare is $2.50 and it connects with the trolley at America Plaza and Santa Fe Depot. One honest caveat: the terminal is not one of the timetable's four published timepoints, so the route passes it but no scheduled time for it is published.
Plan the rest of your cruise day
San Diego cruise parking
All six operators the Port refers people to, and which two publish a rate.
Airport shuttle lots vs downtown garages
The one parking decision worth thinking about at this port.
The Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier
The other pier, and when the Port uses it.
Hotels near the San Diego cruise piers
What is genuinely walkable from the Embarcadero.
The San Diego port guide
Restaurants, things to do, and the rest of the day.
Where these facts come from
- portofsandiego.org — Cruise — checked 2026-08-17
- portofsandiego.org — Navigating our cruise terminals — checked 2026-08-17
- portofsandiego.org — Plan your cruise — checked 2026-08-17
- portofsandiego.org — How to cruise through embarkation like a pro — checked 2026-08-17
- portofsandiego.org — Long-term cruise parking — checked 2026-08-17
- sdparkshuttlefly.com — Cruise parking — checked 2026-08-17
- aladdinparking.com — Reservations and rates — checked 2026-08-17
- cruiseshipparksandiego.com — Ace Parking BRIC South — checked 2026-08-17
- san.org — Ground transportation — checked 2026-08-17
- sdmts.com — Route 992 timetable, effective June 07, 2026 — checked 2026-08-17
Official terminal rates, hours, and rules change without notice. We date every fact we take from the operator so you can tell how fresh it is — reconfirm anything time-sensitive before you travel.
Current sailing dates are temporarily unavailable. Use the terminal, parking, hotel, and local guidance below, and confirm your itinerary with the cruise line.
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Last-Minute Needs
Downtown San Diego is thinner on late-night errands than its skyline suggests. The nearest CVS is at 510 C Street, about a mile inland, and the earliest door downtown is the CVS at 645 Market Street, open from 6 a.m. For a real grocery run with a pharmacy and a beer aisle under one roof, Albertsons at 655 14th Street opens at 6 a.m. daily. There is no Target and no Walgreens inside the 92101 ZIP code, per each chain's own store locator read on 2026-08-17, so do not plan on either.
Nearby Restaurants
The Fish Market
Seafood market and restaurant on North Harbor Drive, seven minutes' walk from the pier
Price not published · 7 min walk south along Harbor Drive
Crack Taco Shop
Tri-tip tacos in Seaport Village, with the doors open from 7am every day
Price not published · 14 min walk to Seaport Village
Grant Grill at THE US GRANT
The breakfast option — 7am on weekdays, in a Broadway hotel dining room
Price not published · 16 min walk, or about 5 min by car
Queenstown Public House
New Zealand cooking in Little Italy, with a kids menu it publishes on its own page
Price not published · In Little Italy, a walk or a short ride up from the piers
Local Tip
The B Street Pier is the larger of San Diego's two cruise terminals and the one the Port says most ships use: 120,000 square feet of terminal on a 1,000 by 400 foot pier with two berths and federal inspection facilities on site. It is 2.4 miles from San Diego International Airport. The Port's drop-off instruction is to be dropped off beyond the gate, on the pier, at 1140 North Harbor Drive, and its arrival instruction is not before 10 a.m. There is no parking at the pier: the Port of San Diego does not own or operate cruise parking, and Ace Parking's BRIC South garage across the street is the nearest thing to a walk-on option.
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