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Re: A Few Questions
[Re: freedomfighter]
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07/26/2019 12:52 AM
07/26/2019 12:52 AM
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bran
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Thanks for your help Scubaman. Would really like to hear from people from south Florida, who regularly fly out of MIA. Global Entry gets us in the TSA PreCheck line. Flying Business Class gets us priority in ticketing and checking bags. How about it south Florida? Is two hours appropriate? FF. we are regular travelers from MIA to SXM. Global Entry goes fast with TSA pre-check but depends on the day...on both trips, one on Tuesday and one on Friday, both had no lines at all. I always use the Skycap when pulling up outside. tip them $10.00 and saves considerable amount of time. Make sure he puts the priority tag on your bags and gives you the luggage receipts. and with F/C head for the centurion lounge. I like to get there early as this lounge if not busy does some great breakfasts, free drinks, showers massage etc if needed. If lounge not needed 1 hour 20mins to 2 hours is fine. Depends what you want to do. Returning, with GE, just follow the signs.......very straight forward and never had a problem. Caveat though, Does depend on the day you travel, but should be a breeze for you.
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Re: A Few Questions
[Re: freedomfighter]
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07/26/2019 10:45 AM
07/26/2019 10:45 AM
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pixiedust
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Thanks for your help Scubaman. Would really like to hear from people from south Florida, who regularly fly out of MIA. Global Entry gets us in the TSA PreCheck line. Flying Business Class gets us priority in ticketing and checking bags. How about it south Florida? Is two hours appropriate? We fly out of MIA regularly, both domestic and international. It honestly just depends on the day, the time of day, etc. I always give myself a 3-hour buffer, even for domestic flights. Sometimes (like when we flew to SXM last week), we were at the gate in less than 1.5 hours. Other times, it has taken almost every minute of the 3 hours to get to the gate (like when we flew to San Juan over Spring Break a few years ago). Two hours would make me nervous, personally. We don’t have TSA PreCheck, but to be honest, they didn’t move a whole lot faster than the regular line when we flew last week. It probably depends on how many other Pre-Check folks are in the security line the same time as you.
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Re: A Few Questions
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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07/26/2019 01:12 PM
07/26/2019 01:12 PM
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BillDauterive
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Keep in mind that for international travel your bags have to be checked in an hour before departure or bags won't make the flight. A quick, off-topic story, if you don't mind: I was flying from my home airport (in USA) to London (UK) on Air Canada via Toronto. Because there is only one flight per day on AC from this airport, the check-in desk crew doubles as the gate crew. So... I arrived about 58 minutes prior to departure, and by then the desk crew had abandoned their post and headed to the gate. I was therefore unable to check my too-big-to-carry-on bag. Well... I headed to the men's room and dumped anything I could not carry on, and went to TSA. I squeezed the bag thru TSA. The flight to Toronto was on a Canadair (regional) jet, so I said nothing and gate-checked it. At the gate in Toronto, as I was preparing to board the flight to London, the gate agent spied my oversize bag, and insisted that it needs to go under the plane and handled like a checked bag. OK.... so they tagged the bag and told me to drop it at the bottom of the jet bridge. However, I didn't want to be burdened by the wait at baggage claim in London, so I rolled that sucker right into the 787.... and it fit nicely in the overhead bin!!! (I did check it on the way home...) <end of post hijack>
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Re: A Few Questions
[Re: pburke40]
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07/26/2019 02:00 PM
07/26/2019 02:00 PM
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pony600
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Concerning Villa Pizza: the original building is gone. However, they have reopened with basically the same menu up the road. It is now called Villa Rouge. It is located on the opposite side of the street back towards the roundabout at top of a hill. We are on island now and have been there twice in the last three weeks. Thanks! I knew about that restaurant, but didn't know it was the same people. Will definitely check it out!
If life hands you a lemon, just squeeze it on a lobster!
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