{"id":253803,"date":"2026-05-01T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253803\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:34:07","slug":"miami-train-prices-hiked-to-151-for-world-cup-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253803\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Train Prices Hiked to $151 for World Cup Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tickets for Miami’s Brightline railway<\/a> will be up to six times the usual price for FIFA World Cup fans.<\/p>\n

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A round trip between downtown Miami and Aventura, the Brightline station closest to the Hard Rock Stadium, typically costs $24. On days when it hosts World Cup games<\/a>, the price ranges from $76 to $151, Business Insider found when visiting Brightline’s website.<\/p>\n

That makes it the most expensive transit system of all 16 cities hosting games during the tournament, which starts June 11.<\/p>\n

The two stations are about 13 miles apart \u2014 or 17 minutes on a Brightline train.<\/p>\n

Brightline’s booking site shows a $151 round-trip for June 24, when Scotland plays Brazil. It also costs $76 for the first game in Miami \u2014 Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay \u2014 and $141 for the city’s other five matches. The same ticket on other days in June and July costs $24.<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade County is organizing free shuttle buses for ticket holders to the stadium from the Aventura station, about a 20-minute drive, a spokesperson previously told The Athletic.<\/p>\n

It’s also running buses from a commuter rail station, a Metrorail station, and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel, they added.<\/p>\n

Brightline did not reply to requests for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n

In addition to four group-stage games, Miami is scheduled to host a round-of-32 game, a quarter-final, and the third-place playoff.<\/p>\n

Miami joins New Jersey and Boston in hiking prices<\/p>\n

New Jersey Transit<\/a> faced criticism earlier this month when it announced $150 tickets for a round-trip journey between Manhattan’s Penn Station and MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. That’s more than 11-times as expensive as the $12.90 it usually costs. The two stations are about six miles apart, as the crow flies.<\/p>\n

And in Boston, soccer fans will pay $80 for a round-trip train ticket or $95 for a coach ticket to travel the 20 miles between downtown and Gillette Stadium. The train ride usually costs $20 for a round trip during NFL gamedays, or $8.75 on a normal day.<\/p>\n

None of the other 13 host cities has raised transit prices<\/a> during the World Cup. In Philadelphia, it is set to be $2.90, or half the usual price, because fans get a free metro ride returning from games.<\/p>\n

In Atlanta and Houston, metro tickets will cost $2.50 for a round-trip. Dallas said it would introduce free shuttle buses between the AT&T Stadium and the nearest train station, while Kansas City is launching a $15 shuttle bus service.<\/p>\n

This year’s World Cup<\/a> is set to be hugely expensive for fans, in part because FIFA has introduced dynamic pricing for match tickets.<\/p>\n

Group-stage tickets have ranged from $60, available to the most loyal fans, to over $4,000 for the US’s first game, against Paraguay, when FIFA released “last-minute” tickets last week.<\/p>\n

Four nations are debuting at this year’s tournament, too, aided by its expansion from 32 to 48 teams: Cape Verde, Cura\u00e7ao, Jordan, and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n

Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, and Uruguay are scheduled to play in Miami during the group stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tickets for Miami’s Brightline railway will be up to six times the usual price for FIFA World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20179,56349,99189,187,19188,110599,916,6693,123,125,124,2340,14161,110598,13228,4182,110597],"class_list":["post-253803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-brightline","tag-business-insider","tag-cape-verde","tag-city","tag-fan","tag-free-shuttle-bus","tag-game","tag-june","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mile","tag-price","tag-round-trip","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-ticket","tag-world-cup-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}