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Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, and Seminole Classic Casino will reopen to the public at noon under strict new “Safe and Sound” guidelines.
All employees and guests will have to undergo temperature checks. Anyone with a temperature above 100.4 degrees will be turned away.
All guests will have to wear masks or face coverings that meet CDC guidelines. Masks will be provided to guests, as needed.
To help ensure social distancing on the casino floor, thousands of alternating slot machines will be turned off.
New barriers will divide players at table games, poker games, and customer service areas. Aloha party games.
Each casino’s new “Safe and Sound Clean Team” will clean and disinfect surfaces throughout the casino complexes, with special emphasis on high-touch surfaces and common areas.
Hand-sanitizing stations will be available on the casino floors, at the entrances, and throughout the casino complexes.
“We are making sure our resorts and casinos are safe and sound so our guests and team members have peace of mind when they return,” said Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and Chairman of Hard Rock International.
The casinos will be operating at 50 percent capacity.
For the reopening weekend, more than 600 Guitar Hotel guestrooms at the Seminole Hard Rock will be available to book through the Guitar Hotel reservations website. Several restaurants at all three casino complexes will open with social distancing requirements in place.
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On Monday, June 15th, The Big Easy and Gulfstream casinos in Hallandale Beach will open.
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- Broward County officials also moved up the date for all its casinos to reopen by Friday
- A number of safety and social distancing measures will be in place at the Seminole casinos
- Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock and The Pavilion at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek will remain closed until further notice
South Florida will be able to test their luck starting Friday as casinos across the area reopen their doors months after closing due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Hard Rock, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek and Seminole Classic Casino opened at noon. Broward County officials also moved up the date for all its casinos to reopen by Friday.
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Anumber of safety and social distancing measures will be in place at theSeminole casinos. They include:
- Temperaturechecks for all guests and team members prior to entry. Any guest or team memberwith a temperature above CDC guidelines will not be allowed entry.
- Arequirement that all guests wear masks or cloth face coverings that meet CDCguidelines, without exception. Masks will be provided to guests, as needed.Numerous alternating slot machines will be turned off, to help ensure socialdistancing on the casino floor.
- NewPlexiglass barriers will divide players at poker games, customer service areasand most table games.
- Signswill be posted throughout the complex to encourage social distancing and helpensure adherence to Safe + Sound program guidelines.
- Numerousteam members will be part of a new 'Safe + Sound Clean Team' to focuson cleaning and disinfecting surfaces throughout the complex, with specialemphasis on high-touch surfaces and common areas.
- Hand-sanitizingstations will be available on the casino floor, at the entrances and throughoutthe property.
- Constantpurification and disinfecting of the air flowing into the complex through theAtmosAir™ bipolar ionization system designed to destroy virus particles in theair and on surfaces.
- Anoverall 50 percent reduction in guest capacity throughout the property.
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'HardRock and Seminole Gaming have made a tremendous commitment to sanitaryprotocols and a safety-first mentality for both guests and team members,'said Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and Chairman of Hard Rock International.'We are making sure our resorts are Safe + Sound so our guests and teammembers have peace of mind when they return.'
Thoughdining areas will be open, they'll feature limited seating. The Guitar Hotelpool will be open to guests only. Safecracker game online.
HardRock Live at Seminole Hard Rock and The Pavilion at Seminole Casino CoconutCreek will remain closed until further notice.
TheSeminole Tribe of Florida closed all of its casinosin Florida back on March 20. At the time of the closings, the Tribesaid they employed nearly 14,000 people in the state.
Themayor of Hallandale Beach Joy Cooper took a tour and had a city camera with herto show some of the changes expected at some of the local casinos like The BigEasy Casino, including thermal imaging cameras at the entrance.
“Wewant to get back to the new normal and remind everyone that we want to supportour local businesses,” Cooper said. “I'm comfortable here today and am veryimpressed with the measures they’re taking to ensure that everyone can have agreat safe experience.”
DanielAdkins, the president of Gaming at the Big Easy Casino, explained some otherchanges, like the poker tables will have fewer players and sanitizing stations.And every other slot machine will be turned off to space out players.
“We’vedone a lot in here and I think the people are going to be really excited to getback here and see the changes,” Adkins said.