Class B VFR

I'm hoping to make my long VFR cross-country for my commercial license
this afternoon and evening (to get both day and night into one flight).
I'm tentatively planning to fly into CAK which is class bravo
airspace. As I was planning the flight today, I realized that I haven't
flown VFR into class B in I can't remember when. I've flow IFR almost
exclusively since getting the rating 14 years ago.

I know that clearance is required to enter class B, but IFR this was
taken care of. I assume that the approach controllers routinely issue
this clearance when your destination is field in their area, but I
wanted to be sure. My plan is to request the clearance if I have
received it prior to entering class B, but I'm wondering what the SOP is
these days for VFR into class B.


Matt