The Top 29 Hotels in Miami Beach
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Alan Faena has imported his Buenos Aires ethos of theatrical glamour and architectural ambition to Collins Avenue, where the hotel functions less as a refuge than as a neighborhood unto itself. The Faena doesn't whisper; it commands the block with the confidence of someone who has already remade a city once before.
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The Setai operates at a pitch of luxury so extreme that even Miami Beach's glittering excess seems restrained by comparison. Three pools, three restaurants, and a design vocabulary borrowed from Asian temples suggest a property less interested in subtlety than in the sheer accumulation of beauty.
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A hotel where reclaimed wood and recycled materials replace the usual Miami excess, 1 South Beach courts a new breed of traveler who equates restraint with luxury. The eco-conscious design reads less like penance than permission to indulge without guilt.
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Ian Schrager's Miami Beach EDITION brings the nightclub-inflected sensibility that defined Studio 54 to a new resort hotel, where the lobby functions as social theater and the poolside hums with the energy of a carefully curated scene. The design speaks to Schrager's three-decade track record of collapsing boundaries between hotel, gallery, and club.
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A Morris Lapidus landmark restored to gleaming form, mixing Art Deco whispers with crisp contemporary geometry on Lincoln Road. The Ritz-Carlton achieves what few Miami Beach hotels manage: genuine tranquility amid the surrounding commotion.
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Rank 6. The Betsy Hotel
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While South Beach roars with neon and velvet rope, the Betsy stands apart—a 1942 Florida-Georgian structure that whispers rather than shouts, its art-forward restraint a deliberate rebuke to the poolside theatrics next door. The result is a place where you can inhabit the neighborhood's energy without surrendering to its noise.
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A block inland from Collins Avenue's glitter, Esmé Miami Beach wraps you in Spanish-Mediterranean warmth and bohemian luxury that has nothing to do with the usual mid-century Miami cliché. The interiors settle into a subtly retro mood that rewards the traveler who wants boutique grandeur without the see-and-be-seen performance.
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The 1930s Art Deco shell of this Collins Avenue landmark has been gutted and remade as a sanctuary of cream tones and living plants, its hushed lobby a deliberate reprieve from South Beach's frenzy. What emerges is a contemporary boutique hotel that honors its architectural bones while refusing any nostalgia for the thing itself.
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Fontainebleau's 1,500 rooms and sprawling spa anchor a self-contained resort where conventioneers mingle with nightlife seekers at LIV and poolside lounges. The contemporary design and abundance of bars make it a see-and-be-seen affair, though Collins Avenue's quieter surroundings feel disconnected from the city.
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An Art Deco boutique hotel where Fernando Santangelo's restoration marries vintage furnishings with Miami Beach's glossy visual grammar—all checkered tiles, coral lounges, and a cheeky indoor tiki bar anchoring the courtyard. The poolside cabanas and freestanding tubs suggest a place more interested in conjuring a mood than chasing trends.
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The National Hotel sits among South Beach's architectural heavyweights, a 1939 Art Deco structure that recently emerged from a twelve-million-dollar refresh. Its centerpiece is the longest infinity pool on the strip, a statement of competitive grandeur that anchors the lobby's restored glamour.
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The Gale sits on Collins Avenue as an Art Deco envelope holding retro glamour, a cocktail bar with real ambition, and a rooftop pool where the beautiful arrange themselves like a living still life. It doesn't reinvent South Beach hospitality so much as execute the formula without apology or excess.
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The Hyatt Centric South Beach channels modernist restraint through its lobbies and rooms, all clean lines and strategic color that stops short of costume. It positions itself between the aspirational and the accessible—a boutique sensibility at chain-hotel efficiency, for travelers who've outgrown predictable comfort.
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A modernist tower grafted onto a Mediterranean Revival shell creates an unlikely sanctuary steps from South Beach's bustle, where 132 rooms open onto a quiet courtyard pool ringed in bougainvillea. The contradiction—contemporary luxury housed in historical bones—feels less like compromise and more like permission to exhale.
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The Kimpton Hotel Palomar sits quietly on Collins Canal in Sunset Harbour, its restrained design refusing the usual South Beach swagger. Like other properties in the chain, it prioritizes ease over ostentation, letting the waterfront location and understated interiors speak for themselves.
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Stripped of South Beach's typical gloss, this Standard trades flamboyance for a quieter luxury that feels almost defiant among the neighborhood's gilded competitors. The restraint works—a corrective to the area's excesses that lets the hotel's architecture and spa speak for themselves.
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The Versace mansion, now reborn as a ten-suite hotel, remains a baroque monument to excess, all marble and gilt and architectural swagger. Staying here means sleeping inside a museum of your own conspicuous consumption, which is precisely the point.
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A 287-room waterfront resort in South Beach's quieter reaches, anchored by a restored 1940s Art Deco tower and three connected buildings that eschew the minimalist playbook for mid-century warmth. The lobby reads like a period room—all brass fixtures and vintage furnishings—but the bones are thoroughly contemporary, making it feel neither retro pastiche nor corporate luxury.
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A Spanish colonial structure from 1930 anchors Casa Faena, where art deco geometry and tango-era glamour resist the chrome-and-velvet excess that defines Miami Beach. The place trades nostalgia for authenticity, offering respite in a landscape that has largely surrendered to spectacle.
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A modest retreat one block from Collins Avenue's frenzy, Donatella wraps guests in warm textures and unhurried design that asks nothing of you but rest. Spacious suites with terraces and continental breakfast create the rare Miami hotel that doesn't demand you perform leisure.
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A private members' club on Collins Avenue that treats its hotel rooms as an afterthought to the real draw—access to a world calibrated for those who belong nowhere but everywhere. The service and design hum with the confidence of a place that doesn't need to convince you of anything.
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An Art Deco structure on Collins Avenue that resists the false choice between grandeur and intimacy, the Surfcomber marries vintage Miami charm with contemporary comfort in a way that feels earned rather than manufactured. The result is a hotel that lets you inhabit the place's actual history instead of performing it.
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A midcentury Collins Avenue landmark where Art Deco glamour meets the restrained modernism of Morris Lapidus, now revived under its latest name. The hotel's long arc of renovation suggests a place perpetually renewing itself while remaining tethered to old Hollywood's ghost.
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The W South Beach arrived on Collins Avenue with the fanfare of a place that somehow felt inevitable to Miami, its scale and swagger so aligned with the neighborhood's temperament that absence now seems impossible. A monument to the city's appetite for reinvention, it announces itself as less a hotel than a statement about what South Beach has become.
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A sprawling Art Deco resort built around a 1939 original, the Loews Miami Beach anchors Collins Avenue with nearly eight hundred rooms, multiple restaurants, and an Exhale Spa outpost. The 2017 renovation preserved the building's period charm while adding the infrastructure of a modern convention hotel—a formula that appeals equally to families and business travelers.
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A Morris Lapidus masterwork where mid-century modern architecture frames oceanfront repose rather than nightlife spectacle, Eden Roc stages its guests against vintage Hollywood backdrop and contemporary ease. Frozen cocktails from shaded daybeds and a sprawling spa suffuse the place with the air of refinement Miami Beach once promised and mostly abandoned.
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A European hostel brand claims its first American foothold in this restored Art Deco building on Collins Avenue, offering bunks and private rooms with spartan, functional design. The stripped-down aesthetic—numbered beds, minimal decoration, shared facilities—caters to travelers who prefer affordability and social proximity over solitude.
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A bayfront hotel where the enormous pool—ringed with lemon-yellow loungers—functions as both refuge and stage, drawing Art Basel crowds and reality-TV fixtures into its deliberately unhurried orbit. The spa's hammam and eucalyptus steam room promise the kind of restorative silence that only a place this visibly stylish can afford to offer.
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Rank 25. Freehand Miami
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A former South Beach hotel reclaimed as a budget hostel, Freehand Miami anchors itself around Broken Shaker, a patio bar that traffics in inventive cocktails and draws locals who'd otherwise avoid the neighborhood. The place trades exclusivity for accessibility, offering travelers affordable beds and a social atmosphere that feels genuinely rooted rather than designed.