ocean jewel

i know the heat sux, working in that heat is a night mare.
the pancake house has been suspended as a parking option, at lease for now.
pray for Air conditioning, I do.
later, glen

Just so everyone knows, we moved the poker room into the sports book on deck 6 three weeks ago. it is much nicer than when it was in that [censored] hallway on deck 5.
its not much cooler in there mabey a degree or 2
just so you know, glen

[Atomic]

Oceanjewel - Thanks for the updates - I like these insider tidbits and I'm sure every 2+2er in the Central Florida area apprecieates it also. Better than getting the news from that ocean jewel gripe board.

I'm glad they moved that room out of the closet it was in - very claustraphobic. Now if they engineers can fix the A/C...

Any news on PBCL taking over the operations or has that already happened?

[Etaipo]

Nice, can't wait to see the new poker room.

BTW, how reliable are the shuttles now? I don't think one has left on time on a single trip that I have made there. Are they actually running on time, or close to it?

as you know the shuttles are hit or miss. they were pretty reliable for the last few days. but you never know when one will blow a valve or hit the bridge or run over its own anchor chain.
some how they had the coast guard lift the tide restriction which is really good, so now with two working boats out of johns pass, ideally there is one every hour.
later, glen

i dont know who is in charge anymore. we have had 4 ceo's in 8 months.
there has been lots of restructuring and lay offs this week so mabey the new ceo is with the people you mentioned

[Atomic]

There is a column in the St Petersburg Times today (July 26) about the OJ

Here is a portion that pretty much sums up both the incompetence of our city council and the OJ owners.

Where's the boat?

The Ocean Jewel , that 450-foot, purple floating casino monstrosity in St. Petersburg, appears to have skipped town, not even a year after it finally showed up.

Do not forget how we got here:

(1) Mayor Rick Baker says in late 2002, "Let's turn over the port of St. Petersburg to obvious clowns from New Jersey and elsewhere whom any idiot could see possess all the credibility of Mr. Haney from Green Acres ."

(2) The City Council says at once, "Hey, that sounds keen! In fact, we won't even need to approve the contract. You handle everything."

(3) The company, Titan Cruise Lines, goes through ridiculous ownership and personnel contortions before finally producing a boat and starting its gambling cruises, one year and eight months after the original schedule.

(4) The vessel, originally to be called the Spirit of St. Petersburg , turns out not to be a glamorous Love Boat after all. St. Pete has leased itself out as the parking lot and toilet for offshore gambling.

(5) Oh, yeah, and then the boat soon stops, you know, actually sailing in and out of St. Petersburg. Titan uses shuttles to run gamblers offshore.

(6) Oh, yeah, and the shuttles keep catching on fire and banging into public bridges and stuff.

(7) Under the city's brilliantly drawn, watertight contract, Titan Cruise Lines simply opens up a second operation up the Pinellas County coast, taking passenger revenues away from St. Petersburg.

(8) Now, they have shut down and appear to be on the verge of pulling out. Of course, the city has the threat of a big payback - the $108,000 deposit that Titan had to leave behind. Ooooh, that'll show 'em!

I cannot wait for the mayor and council to explain that everything is just fine, because the city didn't really lose anything. (Other than, you know, degrading the city's character, getting in bed with hucksters and being used as a patsy.) Then everybody will pretend they never did this.

the jewel has had perhaps more problems than other startup businesses, but it is what it is, and that is the only game in town, cept for home games.
that article said we were shutting down, but that is not true. we are just shut doen out of the port, all the jewel traffic is going out of johns pass, which is good i think.
anyway, for the time being I still have a job and will be dealing out there as long as there is a boat out there to deal on, or class 3 gets approved and the hard rock gets no limit.

[hoopsie44]

You changed your mind, I see.

[PhatCasino]

what is the timeframe for Class 3 to be approved so the hard rock can get higher stakes? would this also include dog tracks around florida and such? thanks