Catalina Express San Pedro Car Service

No, and this is the one worth getting right before you set off. The Catalina Express sails from the Catalina Sea and Air Terminal at Berth 95, at Swinford Street and Harbor Boulevard. The cruise ships leave from the World Cruise Center at Berths 91 to 93, a few hundred metres away at 100 Swinford. They are close enough to be confused and far enough apart to matter with a sailing time to make. Tell us you are going to Catalina and we take you to Berth 95.

About an hour and fifteen minutes from San Pedro, against roughly an hour from Long Beach. Avalon is 22 miles offshore either way. Catalina Express runs up to 30 departures a day across all its ports, year round, so the choice of port is usually about which one you can get to comfortably rather than which boat exists.

Yes, and that is a genuine difference from Long Beach. San Pedro allows in and out access, and the first hour is free. So if you are dropping someone off, or waiting for a returning sailing, you are not paying for a whole day to sit still. We say so plainly because you would find out anyway, and because the reason to be driven here is not the parking.

The ticket window opens an hour before the first boat of the day, and that is the sensible arrival for anyone who still needs to collect tickets or check a bag. Your chauffeur sets the pickup against that rather than against the sailing time, so you are not the party jogging along the quay.

Because the parking was never the whole reason. San Pedro is a working port and Berth 95 sits inside it, so the last mile is signage, gates and a terminal that shares a street with the cruise center. Being driven means somebody else solves that at seven in the morning, nobody pays for a day of parking, and no car sits at the harbour while you are on an island it cannot reach. Six passengers and six bags fit in the newer Cadillac Escalade ESV or Chevy Suburban.

Yes. Give us the group size and the departure and we will put the right number of vehicles at the terminal for it. Catalina Express offers group rates at 20 or more adults, so it is worth asking them when you book the crossing itself. The price is agreed before you travel and it does not move, with no surge pricing and no meter. CPUC regulated, TCP #45621-A.

Yes. Curbside Rides is a licensed black car and chauffeur service, TCP #45621-A. Every ride is pre-booked with a professional chauffeur, and your driver and car are confirmed the night before.