Best Resorts in Miami
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Miami is one of the best destinations in the United States for resort-style stays, offering beautiful beachfront properties, luxury pools, spa experiences, and vibrant nightlife. Many Miami resorts feature ocean views, private beach access, and world-class dining, making them ideal for relaxing staycations or weekend getaways. Whether you want a lively resort along South Beach or a quieter waterfront escape, Miami offers a variety of resort experiences.
These Miami areas are known for resort-style hotels offering beachfront views, relaxing pools, and easy access to restaurants, nightlife, and coastal attractions.
South Beach is home to many of Miami’s most famous beachfront resorts, offering ocean views, vibrant nightlife, luxury pools, and walkable access to restaurants and entertainment.
The Setai's three infinity pools — each held at a different temperature — line up between an Art Deco tower and the sand, framed in black granite and bamboo. The courtyard's Asian-minimalist calm is unlike anything else on Collins Avenue. South Beach's most serene resort footprint.
Loews is South Beach's big, capable all-rounder: direct beach access with full service on the sand, a palm-lined pool with a kids' zone, and a Miami-sized spa. It absorbs families without losing polish, and Lincoln Road is a ten-minute walk. The easy pick for mixed groups.
Mid-Beach features upscale resort hotels known for beautiful beachfront locations, large pool decks, and a more relaxed atmosphere than South Beach.
Morris Lapidus' curved 1954 icon is still the resort by which Miami Beach measures itself: eleven pools, LIV nightclub, Hakkasan and Scarpetta, and a beachfront that hosted Sinatra and Elvis. It's enormous, glamorous, and self-contained — the original staycation machine.
Faena is Miami as staged by an impresario: a gold-leafed mammoth skeleton by Damien Hirst in the garden, red-velvet interiors by Baz Luhrmann's design partners, and a cabaret theater in-house. The beach and pool service match the drama. Nothing else in Mid-Beach comes close for spectacle.
Bal Harbour offers luxury resort-style hotels near pristine beaches, upscale shopping, and a quieter coastal setting north of Miami Beach.
The St. Regis rises over Bal Harbour's calmer stretch of beach with butler service, oceanfront balconies in every room, and the Bal Harbour Shops' designer row across the street. It's repeatedly Forbes five-starred, and it earns the rating quietly. Grown-up beach luxury.
Smaller than its Bal Harbour neighbor, the Ritz-Carlton trades scale for intimacy — an adults-leaning pool deck, oceanfront studios with deep balconies, and a boutique feel rare at this service level. For couples who want Bal Harbour's beach without a big-resort footprint.
Sunny Isles Beach features several modern beachfront resorts with spacious suites, ocean views, and resort amenities along a beautiful stretch of coastline.
Acqualina's Mediterranean-villa architecture, three oceanfront pools, and a beachfront lawn that hosts full-service dining make Sunny Isles feel like the Riviera. It routinely tops national resort rankings, and families are treated as first-class citizens. Worth the drive north.
This Sunny Isles tower delivers a genuine resort setup — a grotto-style pool with waterfall, beachfront cabanas, kids' club — at rates well under the marquee names to the south. Oceanview balconies are standard. A practical beach-resort weekend with money left for dinner.
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