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Mid-Beach
Faena Hotel Miami Beach
The theatrical heart of the Faena District on Collins Avenue, with a gilded mammoth, the Damien Hirst-adorned Tree of Life, and the cabaret-led Living Room.
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For the whole group
A villa, a chef's kitchen, and a gentle beach.
Calm, reef-protected swimming, multi-bedroom residences with real kitchens, and resort programming when you want it.
Design This Trip1 Hotel South Beach is a strong family anchor: spacious residences and suites, four pools, and a nature-forward setting steps from the sand. For the calmest water, base days around Crandon Park on Key Biscayne, a barrier-island beach with a shallow, reef-protected lagoon made for young swimmers.
Days that work for every age
Fill days with a gentle Everglades airboat ride at Everglades Safari Park, mangrove paddling with the Virginia Key Outdoor Center, and a climb up the Cape Florida lighthouse, then bring a private chef to the residence so dinner with tired kids never becomes a logistics problem.
A residence means private dinners in without giving up the resort's spa and pools. We arrange the cribs, the car seats, the grocery pre-stock, and the activities that flex around nap time.
What’s inside
- Multi-bedroom residences with full kitchens
- Calm, reef-protected Crandon Park lagoon
- An Everglades airboat ride and mangrove paddling
- A private chef for easy nights in
- Grocery pre-stock, cribs, and car seats handled
A sample rhythm
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Settle in
Residence check-in, a grocery pre-stock waiting, an easy first beach afternoon.
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Active mornings
An airboat ride, mangrove paddling, or the pools, paced around the youngest.
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Slow afternoons
Naps and shade, then ice cream in the Design District.
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Dinners in
A private chef in the residence, one big night out.
The Miamiwe’d build in
The pieces that fit this trip.
Where to stay
Beachfront flagships and design icons.
From the gilded Faena District to a serene oceanfront sanctuary, these are the stays a Miami trip is built around.
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South Beach
The Setai, Miami Beach
An Art Deco-meets-Asian sanctuary with three temperature-set pools, oceanfront suites, and one of the quietest stretches of South Beach sand.
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Surfside
Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club
A restored 1930s private club in Surfside with two Richard Meier towers, a Le Sirenuse restaurant, and a storied oceanfront cabana lawn.
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South Beach
1 Hotel South Beach
A nature-forward, sustainable-luxury flagship with four pools, a rooftop bar, and reclaimed-wood interiors steps from the sand at 24th Street.
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Brickell Key
Mandarin Oriental, Miami
A serene island address on Brickell Key with a private beach club, an acclaimed spa, and skyline-and-bay views from every room.
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Brickell
Four Seasons Hotel Miami
A polished downtown tower above Brickell Avenue with a seventh-floor pool terrace, the EDGE steakhouse, and quick access to the financial district.
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Airboats, mangroves, and a barrier-island park.
The one-of-a-kind days: gliding the Everglades sawgrass by airboat, paddling Key Biscayne's mangroves, and a lighthouse on the island's tip.
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Everglades
Everglades Safari Park
Private and small-group airboat tours across the River of Grass off the Tamiami Trail, with a wildlife sanctuary and walking trails.
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Everglades
Gator Park Airboat Tours
A long-running Tamiami Trail operator running narrated airboat rides deep into the sawgrass, with resident alligators up close.
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Key Biscayne
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
The barrier island's southern tip, a historic 1825 lighthouse, calm swimming beaches, and seagrass flats to paddle.
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Key Biscayne
Virginia Key Outdoor Center
Guided kayak and paddleboard tours through the protected mangrove tunnels and lagoon between Miami and Key Biscayne.
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Key Biscayne
Crandon Park
A two-mile barrier-island beach with a shallow, reef-protected lagoon, ideal for gentle swimming and a family beach day.
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Everglades
Shark Valley, Everglades National Park
A 15-mile loop into the national park by tram or bike to a panoramic observation tower over the wetlands and wildlife.
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Murals, a Gilded Age villa, and a design district.
Miami's culture sits between an open-air mural museum, a Renaissance-revival bayfront villa, and a luxury design enclave. These are the anchors.
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Coconut Grove
Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
A 1916 Italian Renaissance-style villa on Biscayne Bay with formal gardens and a stone barge, the city's most romantic landmark.
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Wynwood
Wynwood Walls
The outdoor museum that turned a warehouse district into a global street-art destination, ringed by galleries, shops, and restaurants.
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Design District
Miami Design District
A walkable enclave of flagship boutiques, public art, and acclaimed restaurants, anchored by the Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Downtown
Perez Art Museum Miami
Herzog and de Meuron's hanging-garden museum on Biscayne Bay, with a terrace cafe and rotating contemporary collections.
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South Beach
Ocean Drive Art Deco District
The pastel heart of South Beach, the largest concentration of Art Deco architecture anywhere, best seen on a guided morning walk.
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South Beach
South Beach
The wide white-sand stretch behind Ocean Drive, lined with lifeguard stands, cabanas, and the famous Art Deco hotels.
Bluewater
Sailfish, mahi, and flats off Biscayne Bay.
Private charters run year-round from Miami's marinas for Atlantic sailfish, mahi-mahi, and tuna offshore, plus bonefish and tarpon on the flats.
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Haulover
THERAPY-IV Deep Sea Fishing
A long-established 58-foot charter out of Haulover Marina, private offshore trips for sailfish, mahi, tuna, and wahoo.
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Miami Beach Marina
Reward Fishing Fleet
A Miami Beach institution since 1947, with private deep-sea charters and a well-run drift boat out of the marina.
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Miami
Bouncer's Dusky 33
Captain Bouncer Smith's legendary light-tackle and offshore charters, decades of expertise on Biscayne Bay and beyond.
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Stone crab icons and chef's-table tasting rooms.
Miami's dining runs from century-old institutions to a MICHELIN-starred tasting room and Italian-American theater. We hold the hard reservations.
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South Beach
Joe's Stone Crab
The 1913 Miami Beach institution that defined stone crab season, still family-run and famously without reservations for the main dining room.
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South Beach
Stubborn Seed
Chef Jeremy Ford's MICHELIN-starred, ingredient-driven tasting room in South of Fifth, with a counter looking into the open kitchen.
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South Beach
Carbone
The Major Food Group's red-sauce theater, spicy rigatoni vodka and tableside Caesar amid mid-century Italian-American glamour.
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Wynwood
KYU
Wood-fired Asian-inspired plates in the heart of Wynwood, anchored by a beloved smoked-and-roasted cauliflower and a lively bar.
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Little Havana
Versailles Restaurant
The self-styled world's most famous Cuban restaurant on Calle Ocho, an essential ventanita cortadito and a true taste of Little Havana.
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Surfside
Le Sirenuse Miami
The Positano legend's only outpost, refined Amalfi Coast cooking inside the Four Seasons at The Surf Club, with a jewel-box champagne bar.
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Private family villa
Let’s design it around you.
Share what you can already picture. A concierge fills in everything still open and sends back a plan, not a quote.