Palm Garage

$20 per day gets you Palm Garage right in the main complex

Palm Garage sits in the core on-airport stack at FLL, pairing best with Terminals 1 and 2 if you value staying on property over shaving a few dollars off at an off-site lot. Daily long-term max is $20, with the meter running at $2 per 20 minutes until you hit that cap. You’re parking in a covered garage, not a field lot, and walking inside the connected structures instead of waiting curbside for shuttles.

County rates split Palm Garage into long-term vs short-term: long-term tops out at $20 per day, while short-term climbs to a higher $36 daily cap using the same $2 per 20 minutes clock. There’s no price premium for Palm compared with Hibiscus or Cypress; they all share the same published structure. For a three-day trip using long-term pricing, budget around $60 plus any tax or fees.

Payment is straightforward: Broward County confirms you can use SunPass Plus at Palm Garage, so Florida drivers with transponders just roll through the exit without pulling a ticket or tapping a credit card. Regulars like this setup because it trims a few minutes off their exit during the evening bank when multiple flights from Terminals 1–2 land at once. If you don’t have SunPass, standard ticket-and-booth payment still works.

FlyerTalk locals call FLL parking “horrible” mostly due to garages and long-term lots filling up, not because Palm Garage is worse than the others. Threads mention major holiday weekends where both garage and long-term areas go full and drivers get pushed to overflow dirt or grass lots that turn sloppy in South Florida rain. Off-airport spots like Park ‘N Fly and Park ‘N Go get name-checked as backups when this happens.

Watch the calendar: regulars say major holiday weekends (think Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring break) are when Palm Garage and its neighbors are most likely to post “full” signs. If you’re flying early on one of those peak days from Terminal 1 or 2, aim to hit the garage at least 30–45 minutes earlier than normal; if Palm is closed, you’ll still have time to reroute to an off-airport lot and catch a shuttle.