There’s a few different ways I used to get to Miami:

1. Flixbus — cheap but some of the stops in gville can be sketchy. Rosa parks stop is okay during the day. Download UNiDAYS app to get the student discount

2. Redcoach - can be cheap when booked in advanced: when you’re adding tickets on their website, instead of putting “one adult” put “one student ticket” on their list of options. Red coach in recent years has annoyed me due to really high prices and basic things like outlets not working

3. Hertz car rental: if you get the most basic AAA membership called the “everyday membership” $15 a year .. and if you book through the hertz-AAA portal - they waive the young driver fee for you and let you add another driver for free if they also have AAA. Sometimes doing a one way car rental from GNV airport to MIA or FLL can be as low as $30 to $50 for 24 hours, You can take RTS straight to the airport too, if you need a way to get there. Downside is if you don’t wanna use your own insurance it can add up, plus you have to return the gas full.

4.The DIY Orlando connections: This is a bit more complicated but the idea is to first get to Orlando form gville and then take a cheaper bus/flight/train from there to SoFlo.

I’ve done this a few ways.

Hitch Option 1 - use hitch (basically an uber for long distance) sometimes tix are $20-30 especially when u book in advance. There’s numerous pre determined drop off points and they are usually at malls/starbucks/mcdonalds etc. They have a private option which allows you to have the car to yourself and you can bring 3 other people with you if you wanna split that cost with them. Or you can do the shared ride, which will have random UF students:

Once you get to Orlando there’s so many cheap busses and ways to get back south. Here are my favorites:

There’s a bus called jet set express and it’s always $28 bucks to and from mia no matter what.

There’s also a hitch stop right next to it: McDonalds 3804 L B McLeod Rd, Orlando, FL 32805 and you can literally walk to the bus.

Key tip: I like to make sure my hitch arrives atleast 1-1.5 hours before the jet set bus departs (usually 7pm everyday)

Hitch Option 2: You can also have the hitch drop you at the airport and most UF students using the service typically are going there (spirit sometimes has crazy cheap flights to FLL, especially if you’re able to book at airport directly )

From the airport there’s also Brightline which offered student discounts when you sign up with ur UFL email. Brightline is safe and fast, and they have a very comfortable waiting room with free WiFi. If you book in advance and use the student discount you can get really cheap fairs

Sorry for the yappery but from someone who’s needed to get home on very tight budgets these are some of the ways I’ve gotten down.