Best Luxury Hotels in Miami

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Why Choose a Staycation in Miami

Miami is home to many luxury hotels known for oceanfront views, stylish design, and exceptional service. From elegant beachfront properties to modern high-rise hotels with rooftop pools, the city offers upscale accommodations for every type of traveler. Whether you’re planning a relaxing staycation or a luxury getaway, Miami hotels provide premium amenities including spas, fine dining, and spectacular coastal views.

Best Areas for Luxury Hotels in Miami

These Miami neighborhoods host many of the city’s most luxurious hotels, offering upscale accommodations close to beaches, nightlife, and major attractions.

01

South Beach

South Beach features several iconic luxury hotels offering oceanfront views, rooftop pools, and easy access to Miami’s famous nightlife and restaurants.

The Setai, Miami Beach

Understated five-star calm

Amid South Beach's noise, the Setai stays a whisper: teak, granite, and candlelit courtyards, with service drawn from the great Asian luxury houses. The Sunday jazz brunch is a Miami institution. For travelers who define luxury as restraint, this is the city's benchmark.

1 Hotel South Beach

Eco-luxury, rooftop pool

1 Hotel built its luxury from driftwood, living walls, and a 600-foot stretch of beachfront, topped by an adults-only rooftop pool with the best elevated ocean view in South Beach. Rooms feel like sunlit beach houses. Barefoot luxury, literally encouraged.

02

Brickell

Brickell is Miami’s modern luxury district, known for upscale high-rise hotels, rooftop lounges, and vibrant dining experiences.

Four Seasons Hotel Miami

Brickell tower, pool terrace

The Four Seasons occupies Brickell's classiest tower, with a seventh-floor, two-acre pool terrace that floats above the financial district and bay views from the upper floors. Edge Steak & Bar anchors dinner. The polished base for a city-side Miami weekend.

JW Marriott Marquis Miami

Downtown amenities stack

The Marquis packs a NBA-regulation basketball court, virtual golf, and a 19th-floor pool into downtown's core, with db Bistro Moderne downstairs. It's the luxury pick when your Miami weekend is about restaurants, Kaseya Center events, and Brickell nightlife rather than sand.

03

Bal Harbour

Bal Harbour is one of Miami’s most prestigious coastal neighborhoods, offering elegant luxury hotels near upscale shopping and beautiful beaches.

The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort

Butler service, shops across

Bal Harbour's flagship pairs every-room ocean balconies with the brand's butler rituals and a spa that takes the full afternoon. The Shops — Chanel to Zegna — sit directly across Collins. Miami's most complete traditional-luxury address.

The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami

Boutique-scale polish

With far fewer rooms than most beachfront Ritz-Carltons, Bal Harbour operates like a private club: staff learn names fast, the pool never feels fought-over, and oceanfront suites run deep and quiet. Understated luxury on Miami's calmest beach block.

04

Mid-Beach

Mid-Beach hosts many sophisticated luxury hotels with expansive pools, spa amenities, and quieter beachfront settings.

Faena Hotel Miami Beach

Maximalist showpiece

Faena's crimson-and-gold interiors, Rojo cabaret dinners, and art-strewn grounds make it the maximalist pole of Miami luxury — the counterargument to every minimalist hotel in town. Even the beach umbrellas are theatrical. Stay once just to have seen it.

The Miami Beach EDITION

Ice rink, nightclub, sleek rooms

Ian Schrager's EDITION hides a nightclub, bowling lanes, and an actual ice-skating rink beneath its lobby's marble calm, with two pools and a sandbox of a beach out back. Rooms are warm white minimalism. Mid-Beach's slickest all-in-one luxury playground.

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