Florida Travel Experience, COVID-19 Hotel Service Restrictions
A trip from Texas to Florida reveals the current state of the travel and hospitality sectors during the pandemic. Hotel services in Fort Lauderdale are significantly reduced, featuring plastic cups, styrofoam meal trays, and mandatory mask requirements in gyms. Despite the lack of traditional amenities, travel costs are historically low with waived resort fees and discounted airfare on Southwest Airlines.
florida· texas· southwest airlines· fort lauderdale· hospitality industry
00:00 We need cohesion! Adam Curry, John C. DeVora It's Sunday July 12th 2020 this is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media assassination episode 1259 This is no agenda Fully muzzled and broadcasting live from the mouth of the rat in the number one Rona hotspot in the nation In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley, we just missed an eight car Zephyr right on time and we're still trying to figure out what Joe Biden actually says. I'm John C DeVore. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! In the morning... Yay? Well in the morning to you John. In the morning to you and all them in the morning all stripped to see boots of their ground feet in the air subs at the water all the dames and knights out there. Yeah I'm happy to hear that were still stable at an 8-car Zephyr this is good news We do like hearing this
00:53 That's excellent. And I am in Florida What? I'm in Florida and by the way that was spelled W-U-T what very good what yes, I'm in Florida Good yes, I know why it's Tina's birthday yesterday was Tina's birthday you're absolutely right friends and family every well no She well friends and family were supposed to come to us But no one came So I decided, I would surprise her and we hopped on the flight Friday morning and flew down here. And so she is able to see at least one of her friends for her birthday but yeah no one wanted to fly also some some of our family work in the medical field so they have an actual legitimate reason to not necessarily want to come to Texas
01:48 So we decided and by the way, Texas is scaring people off flying and traveling The best deals ever right now. Yeah There's some $39 deals out here get $39 do it equals the that the Airport is fantastic It's like flying private almost It is. And we took, well of course Southwest is pretty much the only airline that you can kind of rely on right now I guess and there would know they have no direct flights to Florida now so he had to go to Dallas and then from Dallas at the Florida but there was a max 40 people on each flight so it was fantastic yeah of course and this is a consistent theme No Service
02:37 There's no service anywhere. So we're in a hotel... No peanuts? No, no peanuts! We're in a hotel and this is the worst it's really so bad It's not a single glass the room has you know just plastic cups there's nothing in the minibar You go down you have breakfast they bring it out in styrofoam trays. You've got disposable cutlery Those would be living in Russia. Room service comes in a brown paper bag, it's really really disappointing how the service sector has to conduct itself just to have some people at all everywhere masks are 100% mandatory including and this is crazy the gym
03:30 So Tina went... You don't really want to be wearing a mask at the gym. She went down to the gym yesterday morning, which she had to reserve there was only one other person there and then- Hold on before this question fades The daily rates at the hotel I assume are lower? Oh my goodness It's like yes considerably lower and of course you get what you pay for it this point but Yeah, it's... So now is the time to travel. Now is the time to travel also not only is the rate lower not only do they give us $50 extra to spend on anything we want every day there's the resort fee is waived
