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Entering from the MDR you could smell it some but there was enough air flow. So much so that if you had a dress and you were walking through, watch out or you could Marilyn Monroe yourself. Not so much air flow on the non-smoking side. It also felt like there was a good split of action on each side. Looking forward to go on Utopia where it has a separate non smoking casino. Icon is still my favorite casino.

I have had great success with Royal at the FLL and Miami terminal to bring me to the airport. It was $30 from MIA to FLL and $20 from FLL to FLL both took place this year.

2 weeks ago, the airport shuttles were for 9:15 as stated above, but they called them to go around 8 if you wanted to. I was out and sitting on the bus at 8:30, but the bus did not leave until 9:45. Pending any issues with customs it should be around 6:30/7:00.

But they could open up early for breakfast! One more venue being using full time.

I’ll be on the next group cruise in December! Let’s go!!!

I had a thought today at work when a teammate brought in a breakfast pizza. Has Sorrento’s ever done breakfast pizza in the morning? It would be an awesome addition!

My hand pay last week was $9000 (9 $1000) and the rest (~$1800) in cash. They said I could use to play on the ship, but I took them to the cage and cashed out about 3 minutes later. I will say on the last night they were running out of $100 bills and game me $50s for a $500+ ticket. Not sure if that had something to do with it or if they want you to play that much more. I personally would like to do cashless and have the unused amounts or cash out attached to my sea pass card and then I can tap and enter in my pin to “withdraw” from the balance. Cashing out on the last day vs having cash around all week.

As others have stated, this has no impact to current services. The launch was to add more satellites for capacity. The satellites do need to be replaced after some time as well.

Correct 3% by default, but I then book travel with it and I get a 50% bonus so 4.5% rate of return.

I am booked on the September 1st sailing. I will update what I get/find.

Chase Sapphire Reserve. Offers 3% cash back on travel and a 50% bonus if redeemed for travel in the Chase Travel portal. I just booked a flight with some of the points. The price was the same if I paid directly or using points. It does have an annually fee but it is somewhat offset with credits.

This is actually how I pay and turn some credit cards points. I will pull out $500 and play through $250, counting the spins needed to hit that mark and then cash out. I get 4.5% cash back on Royal. Now sometimes I go overboard (no pun intended) and pay through more, but it is a good time to walk away if you are not making money on the slot machine.

Booked on this cruise with 7 others! Excited!

I started out strong and then got side tracked. Remind me in December to keep up with it.

My new favorite machine on Icon!