Miami Beach Hotels

Looking for a place to stay in Miami Beach FL? Well in our opinion the closer you can stay to the beach the better. Below is a list of some quality hotels in Miami Beach. We have them listed by proximity to the beach with a couple of hotels we especially recommend. Just click on the links to check prices and availability. Here are some additional maps and pictures of Miami Beach and the surrounding area as well.

Recommended Hotels

Hotel	Miles From Beach	Rating
Crowne Plaza Hotel SOUTH BEACH – Z OCEAN HOTEL	0		Reservations
Hotel Indigo MIAMI SOUTH BEACH	0		Reservations
Holiday Inn MIAMI BEACH-OCEANFRONT	0		Reservations

Other Hotels

Hotel	Miles From Beach
Claridge Hotel	0	Reservations
Fontainebleau Miami Beach	0	Reservations
Catalina Hotel & Beach Club	0	Reservations
Circa 39 Hotel	0	Reservations
Richmond Oceanfront Hotel	0	Reservations
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About Miami Beach

We get the following from the Miami Beach wiki:

“Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The city was incorporated on March 26, 1915. It is located on a barrier island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; the Bay separates Miami Beach from the city center of Miami. The city is often referred to under the umbrella term of “Miami”, despite being a distinct municipality. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 87,933. 55.5% of the population was foreign born. A 2009 population estimate for the city was 88,065. Miami Beach has been one of America’s pre-eminent beach resorts for almost a century. …

South Beach (also known as SoBe, or simply The Beach, the area from 1st street to about 25th street) is one of the more popular areas of Miami Beach. Topless sunbathing is legal on certain designated areas of the beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the area popular, SoBe was under urban blight, with vacant buildings and a high crime rate. Today, it is considered one of the richest commercial areas on the beach, yet poverty and crime still remain in some places near the area.

Miami Beach, particularly Ocean Drive of what is now the Art Deco District, was also featured prominently in the 1983 feature film Scarface and The Birdcage.

The New World Symphony Orchestra is based in Miami Beach, Florida, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

Lincoln Road, running east-west between 16th and 17th Streets, is a nationally known spot for great outdoor dining, bicycling, rollerblading and shopping and features and galleries of well known designers, artists and photographers.”

Local businesses of interest

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Miami Beach Hotels

Well at least a Miami Beach Hotel got mentioned in this fake news

by admin on December 21, 2010

You know how they like to create fake relationships in Hollywood to get cheap news coverage? Well below is a fine example of that. But at least one Miami Beach Hotel got some press in the wake of this fake news.

JUSTIN Bieber and Selena Gomez have denied they are going out, but they most certainly do enjoy each other’s company.

They laughed and joked together as they walked at Miami Beach, before realising they had been spotted.

The pair tried to get to the beach, but turned around and ran when they saw all the paparazzi waiting for them.

Bieber, 16, and Gomez, 18, were staying in a plush Miami hotel ahead of Bieber’s performance at the American Airlines Arena in Miami.

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Fire at a Miami Beach Hotel

by admin on March 17, 2010

There was reportedly a fire recently at a Miami Beach Hotel.

Nothing like being herded onto the street in the middle of the night to improve a vacation…

Here is an excerpt from a recent TV news story on the subject:

Flames destroyed one room and forced all of the guests out on to the streets. Most of the guests are visiting on Spring break. “I actually came from Wisconsin because I’m a student here, but our flight got delayed, so it took all of our day and not a good end to the day,” said the student. “They’re claiming there was a fire in 210, and that’s right next to my room, so I’m pretty worried about my stuff.”

No injuries were reported.

Investigators haven’t said what caused that fire and the guests have not been able to return to the building as of yet.

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Swanky Miami South Beach Hotel Facing Foreclosure

by admin on March 12, 2010

When the economy tanks the travel industry is often on the front lines. A high end South Beach hotel in Miami knows all about that problem with creditors moving to foreclose on the property. We get this from a recent Miami Herald article:

The swank South Beach hotel is still open and charging premium rates but last made a mortgage payment in September. A dismal year walloped the financials at the oceanfront property.

Home to a Robert DeNiro restaurant and a long pedigree of celebrity guests, the Shore Club saw profits collapse last year — down 62 percent as it cleared just $328,000 before taxes and debt payments, according to filings by its operator, Morgans Hotel Group. …

Now forced to fend off foreclosure proceedings over a $126 million loan from 2005, the Shore Club probably qualifies as South Florida’s most high-profile hotel drama. Long a source of gossip-column fodder since its 2001 opening, the Shore Club got hit by the recent hotel downturn just as it faced more competition for a shrinking pool of free-spending vacationers.

“A lot of that high-end boutique South Beach product appealed to the Wall Street crowd — the 38-year-old, 39-year-old executive who got six-figure bonuses,” said hotel broker Dan Carlo, of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler in Coral Gables

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Several Beach Hotels make the Travel and Leisure Mag top 100 list

by admin on December 28, 2009

Travel and Leisure released their list of the top hotels in the world and not surprisingly several on the list are beach hotels. The AP story on the subject included this:

The Grand Del Mar in San Diego, The Setai in Miami Beach, Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, Maine, and The Palazzo in Las Vegas, are among the new properties that made Travel + Leisure magazine’s list of the 500 best hotels in the world.

The list also includes 66 properties that offer rooms for $250 a night or less, including the Inn on the Alameda, Santa Fe, N.M.; Hotel Lucia, Portland, Ore.; and Rockhouse Hotel, Jamaica.

The No. 1 hotel in the U.S., according to the magazine, was the Inn at Palmetto Bluff, in Bluffton, S.C. Other top domestic hotels included the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch, in Beaver Creek, Colo.; the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla.; the Halekulani in Oahu, Hawaii; and The Carlyle in New York.

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