Up the Federal Highway past Lake George to the Hume, then north. Door-to-door from any Captains Flat address to whichever terminal your ship uses, with room for cruise luggage and a departure time planned to your boarding window rather than the ship’s.
| Overseas Passenger Terminal | Serviced |
| White Bay, Rozelle | Serviced |
| Cruise-sized luggage | Carried |
| Timed to boarding | Yes |
| Groups up to 11 | One vehicle |
| Fare, 1–2 passengers | From $659 fixed |
Sydney has two cruise terminals and they are nowhere near each other. Your ticket says which one you need, and the difference is the Harbour Bridge: ships too tall to pass under it berth on the city side, the rest go west.
West Circular Quay, in the city centre. East of the Harbour Bridge, so it takes the largest ships - they never have to pass beneath it.
There is no short or long-term parking at the terminal itself. Driving yourself means finding commercial parking in the CBD and paying for every day you are at sea.
Rozelle, about six kilometres west of the city centre. West of the Harbour Bridge, so it takes mid-sized ships - the ones that can pass under it.
Some short-term parking is available off James Craig Road, but it is not built for a fortnight at sea.
If you are not sure yet, book anyway and confirm the terminal closer to the date. The fare is the same booking whichever one is on your ticket - tell us and the driver goes to the right one.
Detail on both is on the cruise transfers page.
The lake climb is the first hour, the Quay approach is the last.
Fog on the descent is routine in the colder months and is already in the margin.
Get a Free Quote →Your cruise line gives you a boarding window, not a departure time, and those are different numbers. The window is usually a few hours wide and often staggered by deck or cabin grade, which is the figure we plan the drive around.
A ship leaving at 6pm may want you aboard by 3pm, and turning up at 5:30 is not the plan you think it is. Send us the window when you book and we work backwards from its start, not its end.
Cases are handed to porters at the terminal door and appear at your cabin later, so what you carry in is small. We unload at the drop-off point rather than a car park, which is the part that matters with four large bags.
The Hume is predictable; the last few kilometres into Circular Quay on a Saturday morning are not. That margin is already inside the pickup time we quote, and it is why we would rather leave early than explain a missed sailing.
From $659 one way — a fixed, published fare for the number of passengers you book. Both terminals are the same fare: White Bay at Rozelle is $659 for one or two passengers, the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay is $659. Tolls, child seats and one suitcase plus one carry-on per passenger are included; extra bags are $5 each.
| Passengers | White Bay, Rozelle | OPT, Circular Quay |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | $659 | $659 |
| 3 | $699 | $699 |
| 4 | $699 | $699 |
| 5 | $759 | $759 |
| 6 | $759 | $759 |
| 7 | $809 | $809 |
| 8 | $809 | $809 |
| 9 | $839 | $839 |
| 10 | $839 | $839 |
| 11 | $839 | $839 |
Return trips are the same fare each way (plus $10 when we collect you from the airport), and booking both legs together is one conversation rather than two. If more people travel than were booked, the fare for the larger group applies.
Town streets are simple; the road is the journey. We drive it with the margin it deserves. Captains Flat is a genuine town with a genuine history — the mine workings, the grand old pub, and a single road in and out that makes it our furthest fringe pickup at $619. The leave-by is early and honest, and the fixed fare means the distance is our problem, not your meter.
Our airport fares are published: Captains Flat to Sydney Airport is $619 for one or two seats, up to $799 for the full eleven. A cruise transfer is a different destination and a different drive, but if you want a sense of the scale, that is the published benchmark — see the Captains Flat airport shuttle page.
The corridor: see the Lake George & Bungendore page for what this route is like at the hours these runs actually leave.
Four sizes, and the fare follows the vehicle rather than the head count — so the price below is what the whole group pays between them, not each. Every one carries free child seats, and tolls and airport charges are already inside the figure.
Sedan or similar
Captains Flat fare from$659
Kia Carnival or similar
Captains Flat fare from$699
LDV G10 or similar
Captains Flat fare from$759
Toyota HiAce or similar
Captains Flat fare from$809
Passenger count picks the vehicle first; luggage settles it. Four adults each with a large case and a carry-on is a People Mover booking in practice, not a Kia Carnival one — tell us what you are carrying and the right vehicle turns up. Full capacities on the fleet page, and every Captains Flat fare from one to eleven seats is in the table above.
Same fixed fare, same pay-after-drop-off — every destination has its own Captains Flat page and published price.
Same booking, same fixed-price-in-writing approach, for the towns either side of Captains Flat.
Your ticket says. The Overseas Passenger Terminal is at West Circular Quay in the city centre, east of the Harbour Bridge, and takes the largest ships. White Bay is at Rozelle about six kilometres west, on the other side of the bridge, for mid-sized ships that can pass beneath it.
From $659 one way for one or two passengers: $659 to White Bay, $659 to the Overseas Passenger Terminal, up to $839 for eleven. Fixed for the passengers booked, tolls and child seats included, and every seat count is in the table on this page.
That is the question most quotes get wrong, so we ask about it up front. Tell us the bag count when you book and we send a vehicle with the boot to match, rather than discovering the problem in your driveway.
We work backwards from your boarding window rather than the ship's departure time, and add the margin the city end actually needs. The exact time comes in writing with the quote.
Yes, and it is a common one - public transport to White Bay is poor, so a private transfer is usually the only sensible way to get there with cruise luggage.
Up to eleven in one vehicle, and multi-address pickups around the district can be quoted as a single job. One fare covers the passengers booked, not each seat.
We are a Goulburn-based operator working the Southern Tablelands. Cruise runs use the same vehicles and the same fixed-price approach as our airport work - the difference is the luggage, and the fact that a ship is far less forgiving than a plane about when you turn up.
Our Sydney Airport fares for every town we service, Captains Flat included, are published on this site. Cruise fares will be too, once there is a real number to publish.
Tell us the terminal, the date and how many of you are travelling. Fixed price in writing, no deposit, nothing charged until after drop-off.
Not sure which option suits you? Ask and we will tell you honestly.
Get a Free Quote →These are our own transfers — the van at the Sydney Airport kerb, a full boot of the group’s suitcases, and customers dropped right at their cruise ship. Not stock photos.
