Cruise-Day Shuttle: the $7,820 Line Item

Port Everglades. PortMiami. Cape Canaveral. If your property is within 20 miles of a cruise port, you're leaving money on the table every week.

Here's the math. A 121-room boutique hotel near PortMiami started tracking shuttle bookings through Attenda in February. By June — four months — they'd booked $7,820 in shuttle revenue. Not projected. Not estimated. Actual, trackable, attributable revenue.

How? The shuttle booking form lives inside the guest QR code app. Guests tap 'Transport', pick a time, choose airport or cruise port, and confirm. The request hits the staff dashboard. The driver sees it on their phone. No phone calls. No 'I asked three hours ago'. No missed pickups.

The cruise calendar integration is key. The hotel syncs cruise ship arrival dates — PortMiami publishes them months in advance. When a guest books during a cruise window, the shuttle is already factored into staffing. The hotel doesn't guess how many drivers they need. They know.

Seven thousand, eight hundred and twenty dollars. From one feature, in one property, in four months. No new staff. No new vehicle. Just a QR code and a form that replaces the 'do you have a shuttle?' phone call that happens 40 times a day.