Yes, another great report!

I lived in South Florida and try not to go back. I had to this past weekend for a meeting... I've been involved on the board of a non-profit (so no travel provided for board members but we sometimes get a room block for a discount, not necessarily somewhere convenient). Airfares, somewhat reasonable (I flew Spirit for $100 round trip and as an elite on them I get a free bag)... but hotels are out of control. The other side of the $4k/night St Regis is that even a mediocre-at-best really old Holiday Inn Express is near $250 a night that's 15 miles from the beach. I saw a Hampton Inn by the FLL airport for about $350 a night. Airports are just a disaster this time of year down there. I walk four terminals to the rental cars at FLL versus waiting up to 45 minutes for a shuttle. And MIA especially customs as our colleague here experienced is the entirety of why I first got Global Entry a decade ago. It saved me one three hour wait at MIA customs (back when CBP was saying not enough officers). On the plus side, you know it's all tourists/occasional travelers as when I left Sunday during the exodus, the security line was out onto the curb but precheck/Clear had zero wait (still a bottleneck as a rent-a-guard was forcing everybody of any airline to put a bag in a jetBlue sizer box).