Chauffeured travel for the December night when lit boats leave the New River and turn up the Intracoastal — dropped at the Las Olas viewing area or a waterfront party before the bridge opens, and driven home after the last boat passes.
Saturday, December 12, 2026, with a 6 p.m. start after a 5:30 p.m. pre-show; the organizers note dates can change without notice.
Every class is operated in house. Pick the one that fits your party, and we quote it for your Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade trip.
The default choice for airport runs, executive travel and dinner reservations across Miami and Miami Beach.
For this event: A couple heading to a parade-night dinner on the water and home again without a drink-driving question.
Extra room for luggage and golf bags, and the fleet standard for families and private aviation transfers.
For this event: A family with children, blankets and coats delivered to the Las Olas viewing gates.
A private-cabin van with lounge seating — the small-group option when a second SUV would split the party.
For this event: Two families or a group of friends kept together across the bridge before it opens.
Captain-style seating for corporate teams, wedding parties and conference shuttles that travel together.
For this event: A client holiday evening moved from a downtown office to a riverside venue as one party.
A step up from a Sprinter for hotel shuttles, group arrivals and event transport around Miami-Dade.
For this event: A company holiday party or a club outing coached in from across Broward and returned after the last boats.
Moves a full wedding, a corporate offsite or a convention group in a single vehicle rather than a convoy.
For this event: A company holiday party or a club outing coached in from across Broward and returned after the last boats.
Full-size motorcoach for conferences, cruise groups and long-distance charters across South Florida.
For this event: A company holiday party or a club outing coached in from across Broward and returned after the last boats.
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Winterfest is a single December evening with a fixed crossing deadline, so the booking starts from the bridge, not the start time. Tell dispatch where you are watching from and where you are coming from, and the pickup is set to get you across the Las Olas Bridge before it locks open. Groups needing a Sprinter or coach should reserve well before December fills up.
Parade night has one hard deadline, and it is a bridge. The organizers lock the Las Olas Bridge open for the parade and ask guests heading to the Las Olas Intracoastal Promenade Park viewing area to be on its east side by 6 p.m., so anyone coming from a mainland home, a downtown hotel or the airport has to cross before then or face a long detour. Aura Palm plans the pickup back from that time rather than forward from the start, so on a busy December Saturday the car is usually rolling well ahead of the crossing deadline. Parking beside the park is very limited that night and the organizers point arrivals to a drop-off lane next to the public lot, which is where a chauffeured car sets a party down and where it returns once the boats have gone by. Because the boats take about two and a half hours to pass any single point, the return can be timed to when your group actually wants to leave, not to a rush at the end. Parties watching from elsewhere on the route — a waterfront restaurant, The Riverside Hotel on the New River, a private dock up the Intracoastal — are dropped at the door the same way.
From a home, a hotel or FLL, set back from the 6 p.m. Las Olas Bridge cut-off rather than the parade start.
Over the Intracoastal to the east side ahead of the bridge closing to road traffic.
At the drop-off lane by the viewing park, or at the door of a riverside venue or private dock.
Collected at the same agreed point when your party is ready, then driven home through the late traffic.
Planning your Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade trip?
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The town, the airport and the services that carry the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade.
Yes — Aura Palm Limo drives families, couples, office parties and large groups to Winterfest viewing spots in Fort Lauderdale and takes them home afterwards.
The parade is scheduled for Saturday, December 12, 2026, starting at 6 p.m. after a 5:30 p.m. pre-show, though the organizers say dates can change without notice.
Boats leave the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale, head east to the Intracoastal Waterway and then north to Lake Santa Barbara in Pompano Beach.
The ticketed viewing area is Las Olas Intracoastal Promenade Park at the southeast corner of Las Olas Boulevard and the Intracoastal Waterway.
The bridge is locked open for the parade, so guests bound for the Las Olas viewing area are asked to be east of it by 6 p.m. and we time the pickup to make that cut-off.
Yes; parking beside the park is very limited that night, so the car uses the drop-off lane by the public lot and returns there for the pickup.
Yes, a 23-, 40- or 55-seat coach can bring the whole party to a waterfront venue on the route and carry everyone back once the boats have passed.
No — Aura Palm is an independent chauffeur company with no tie to Winterfest, Inc., the parade or any of its sponsors.
The organizers say the boats take roughly two and a half hours to pass any single viewing location, which is why we schedule the return to your chosen leaving time.
A December Saturday is a high-demand date, so reserve Sprinters and coaches for parade night four to six weeks ahead.
Aura Palm Limo provides chauffeured transportation for the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade, the holiday parade of illuminated boats that leaves the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale and travels up the Intracoastal Waterway toward Pompano Beach each December. Aura Palm operates independently of Winterfest, Inc. and its sponsors; what it handles is the trip on either side of the parade — a family dropped at the Las Olas viewing area, an office holiday party brought by coach to a waterfront restaurant, guests flown into Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International (FLL) for the weekend. Parade-night cars can be booked at any hour on +1 (786) 574-3081, for Fort Lauderdale and the Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties around it.
Winterfest is one of the few South Florida events where the spectators stay put and the show moves. Lit boats stage on the New River docks west of Stranahan House as far as the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, set off at 6 p.m., run east to the Intracoastal and then north for roughly 12 miles to Lake Santa Barbara in Pompano Beach. For anyone driving, the critical detail is not the route itself but the Las Olas Bridge, which is locked open while the boats go through. A chauffeur who knows that plans the whole evening around getting your party across in time.
Parade-night travel comes in a few familiar shapes. A family with young children wants to reach the viewing area early, with coats and blankets in the car and no hunt for a space. A company or a club treating its people to a holiday evening wants everyone on one coach to a riverside restaurant or a hired terrace. A host throwing a dockside party on the Intracoastal wants guests delivered to the gate and collected at a set hour. Aura Palm sizes each of those differently, from a sedan for two to a 55-seat coach, and keeps the drop-off and pickup at the same agreed point so nobody is searching in the dark.
Plenty of parade guests are visiting relatives or friends flying in for a December weekend, and Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International is the obvious gateway, a short drive from downtown Fort Lauderdale. A tracked pickup brings them to the house or the hotel on Friday, the same booking can cover the trip to the Intracoastal on Saturday, and dispatch is open through the night for a late return. To arrange Winterfest transport, call +1 (786) 574-3081 or email [email protected] with your viewing spot and the size of your party.
Every quote is written for your exact route by a person — never an automated fare. Dispatch is staffed 24 hours a day.