Best 5-Star Hotels in Miami

Forbes has kept the Setai on its five-star list for years, and the formula shows no strain: three temperature-graded pools, a courtyard restaurant under the stars, and rooms in muted teak-and-cream that reset your pulse on arrival. The reference point for five-star South Beach.

Every room at W South Beach is a suite with a balcony, most facing the ocean across a garden dotted with a Basquiat-level art collection. The Wet pool deck and Mr Chow keep the scene on property. Five-star bones under a party-forward brand.

Champagne sabering at dusk, butlers who unpack, a two-story spa, and ocean-facing balconies from every room: the St. Regis runs the complete five-star playbook on Bal Harbour's quiet sand. If the trip is a once-a-year splurge, spend it here.

Bal Harbour's second five-star runs barely a hundred rooms, which buys what the big resorts can't: an uncrowded pool, staff who know your coffee order by day two, and oceanfront suites with real quiet. The connoisseur's pick on the block.

The EDITION's five-star case is modern: flawless minimalist rooms, Jean-Georges dining in Matador Room, and an entertainment basement — club, bowling, ice rink — no other luxury hotel in America can match. Mid-Beach location keeps the chaos at a distance.

The Fontainebleau's scale is the point: a lobby built for entrances, eleven pools, marquee restaurants, and six decades of showbiz history in the walls. Choose the Sorrento or Chateau towers for the quietest rooms. Old-school five-star glamour, Miami edition.

EPIC's sixteenth-floor pool deck hangs over the mouth of the Miami River with a straight shot down Biscayne Bay — one of the best sunrise swims in the city. Area 31 serves seafood at the same altitude. Near-five-star experience at a Brickell-sensible rate.

EAST crowns Brickell City Centre with Sugar, the rooftop garden bar that remains one of Miami's best sunset decks, plus four pools and direct access to the mall's dining floor below. Hong Kong polish at a rate the beach hotels can't touch.