Best Weekend Getaways in Florida

EPIC makes a Miami weekend easy: rooftop pools over the river, balconies with bay views, wine hour in the lobby, and Brickell's restaurants within a ten-minute walk. Well priced for what it delivers, especially in shoulder season.

A Betsy weekend runs on its own rhythm — beach mornings, gallery afternoons, jazz in the lobby at night — with South Beach's scene one block away whenever you want to rejoin it. The rooftop deck and writers' room make it Miami's most civilized quick escape.

The Wave is Orlando without the parks: a glass ribbon of a hotel in Lake Nona's tech district with robot deliveries, a sculpture park, Haven kitchen's produce-driven menus, and access to the sports-performance campus next door. A genuinely different Florida weekend.

The Grand Bohemian stacks a serious art collection, the Bösendorfer piano bar, and a rooftop pool in the middle of downtown Orlando — Dr. Phillips Center shows are across the street. The weekend formula: gallery, dinner, show, nightcap, all on one block.

Tampa's EDITION brought the brand's lobby-as-scene formula to Water Street: nine bars and restaurants including Lilac's Michelin-recognized dining room, a rooftop pool, and the Riverwalk two blocks away. The city's best-dressed weekend base.

Haya folds Ybor City's cigar-era architecture into a relaxed boutique — Cuban coffee at Quiensabe, a leafy courtyard pool, and the neighborhood's century-old restaurants and rooster-crossed streets outside. Tampa's most characterful cheap(ish) weekend.

The Marker's conch-style buildings wrap three pools at the seaport, where the harbor walk's raw bars and charter docks start at your gate and Duval is five minutes on foot. Small enough to feel like yours by Sunday. The easy-mode Key West weekend.

Havana Cabana leans into 1950s Cuba — pastel vintage cars out front, a food truck by the pool, hammocks under the palms — at rates that leave budget for sunset sails. A free Duval shuttle covers the distance from its quieter Roosevelt Boulevard perch.