Historic buildings in the Art Deco district
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With miles and miles of beautiful beachfront from South Beach all the way up to Fort Lauderdale, you’d be hard-pressed to find a hotel without great seaside access and a chic pool deck. If you’re not a poolside paperback kind of holidaymaker, then there are plenty of things to do. Explore the biggest Art Deco district in the world, or inspect the quality of contemporary art galleries, from the Wolfsonian to the Bass. Shop in reinvigorated Lincoln Road, or the achingly upmarket Bal Harbour.
Between South Beach and Miami Beach, the city is perfectly walkable – grab your boardshorts and get on the boardwalk. Hail an Uber to take you to Wynwood. If it’s a fly drive holiday you’re after, then our daily flights to Miami and car hire options allow the flexibility to do things your way. Kick the dust and drive through the leafy Everglades or trickle down to the Florida Keys.
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There are no shortage of hotels here, so how do you make sure you’ve found the best for your holiday? Our list of carefully selected hotels has something to suit all budgets. For a boutique hotel for couples, stay at The Plymouth, which has a great sushi restaurant as well as a quiet location set back from the beach.
If you're looking for South Beach hotels The Clinton offers fantastic value just five minutes from the seafront. Grand Beach Miami is a bright, white four star with cavernous rooms and ocean views. W South Beach is the ultimate five-star accommodation; contemporary and sleek, it lets the beachfront views do the talking.
If you’re spending all that time on the beach, a simple three-star hotel in Downtown Miami, Brickell, or near to Miami Beach will meet all your needs. Find somewhere to relax between the party on Saturday and brunch on Sunday.
If your budget won’t stretch to five star, stress not: we have lovely four-star hotels with everything from beach views and boutique-feel décor to Art Deco facades and outdoor pools.
Celebrities love Miami, and you will, too – when you pick one of the city’s upmarket five stars. Outrageous nightclubs, citadel-sized subterranean spas and poolside glamour will be yours when you book one of these carefully-selected hotels.
Yotel Miami
£641pp
The Plymouth Hotel, South Beach
£653pp
Boulan South Beach
£660pp
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Tips for how to master Miami
This can be an expensive place to stay, if you have expensive tastes. But in this big hot city there are plenty of things to do without waving your wallet around. Once you get to know your way around, you’ll realise that most people aren’t millionaires, and they have their own cool scene. Decide whether you want the five-star experience or the hidden gems, then plan accordingly.
Miami Beach has some of the most glamorous beachfront real estate in Florida– The Confidante is luxurious, decorated to perfection and sits on ample beach front.
Everybody wants a slice of South Beach– hotels here are easy to come by, and many look out onto the sand. The area is defined by its original art deco beachfront strip. The SoBe hotels might not all be ‘deco’, but they are all decadent.
Downtown Miami is the city’s business district, and Brickell its up-and-coming neighbour. With more and more Miamians moving here, it’s increasingly residential. There are hip, young hotels here to suit those who are happy to travel the short distance to the beach. Try the Mandarin Oriental at Brickell Key.
The glamorous beachfront stretches north to Aventura, where golfers will love Turnberry Isle and shoppers will zone in on upmarket Aventura Mall. If you head south, Key Biscayne offers a leafy city escape with its own swanky Ritz-Carlton, just south of South Beach.
Outside the city, Coral Gables hotels have more space, plus all the quirky features of the area. It’s residential and less ‘happening’, but comfortable with its reputation. Anyone who skips it by is missing out on great shopping and quirky cafes. Stay at the famous Biltmore.
A lot of the best restaurants are attached to hotels: like the Basque and Spanish dishes at Bazaar, the James Beard-approved restaurant at SLS South Beach. Little Haiti is slowly gentrifying, and the excellent Mandolin Aegean Bistro is a recent hotspot in the area. For a true romantic spectacular, dine at The Villa Casa Casuarina – the old Versace mansion has turned its courtyard into an intimate, iconic, but seriously pricy restaurant.
That’s not heat you’re feeling, that’s humidity. Miami sits only two degrees above the tropic of Cancer, firmly in tropical climes, with an average temperature of 24 degrees. Crowds flock in spring and summer, though it can get quite humid by July. Summer rainfall might be heavy, but it’s usually over quickly – and might even feel quite refreshing once it clears the air. Go early in March for a light breeze, pleasant temperature and less humidity. Hurricane season (June to November) isn’t usually a problem for tourists and autumn is a nice, warm time to visit. In winter, the 'Magic City' is quieter and you can get some great rates on hotel rooms.
Miami may be most known as aplayground for young adults, butit’s a great family destination too