Fontainebleau Miami Beach

A beachfront resort of more than 1,500 rooms and suites at 4441 Collins Avenue, in the Mid-Beach stretch the hotel calls Millionaire’s Row. It opened in 1954, designed by Morris Lapidus for the hotelier Ben Novack, and its own account calls it America’s first luxury resort. Google Hotels files it as a 5-star hotel.

The property is 4 towers, Chateau, Versailles, Sorrento and Trésor, with 10 pools, 7 restaurants, Lapis Spa, the nightclub LIV and a convention centre opened in 2024. It has had the same owner since 2005, the developer behind Fontainebleau Development, which opened Fontainebleau Las Vegas in 2023; the 2 are separate hotels with separate websites.

The official list has 23 room and suite types, plus accessible versions of the Deluxe; 3 more suites have pages of their own. Guestrooms run from 28 to 37 m², with a king or 2 queen beds, and differ by view, bay or ocean, and by balcony. Junior suites, 46 to 59 m², add a sitting area and sofa bed; those in the Trésor and Sorrento towers have a kitchenette.

One and 2-bedroom suites go from 70 to 123 m², several with a full kitchen and a washer and dryer. Above them come 6 specialty suites, up to the 5-bedroom Sorrento Penthouse with its own pool. Standard rooms sleep 4 at most, all are non-smoking, and the hotel’s terms forbid bringing outside food or drink into them.

On the ocean side of Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach, north of South Beach’s Art Deco streets. Google’s card describes the neighbourhood as condominium towers and Miami Modern hotels, with the Faena District a walk to the south, 1,248 metres on our route.

The avenue outside is residential and calmer than South Beach; the noise is the resort’s own. With a nightclub open until 5am, pool parties and conventions, reviews mention loud music by the pools and in the lobby, neighbours coming back late and, in 2026, building work by the pools.

From Miami International, 22.5 km and about 28 minutes by road with no traffic, on routes calculated with OpenStreetMap; from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, 41.4 km and about 38 minutes. Google’s card gives 11.8 miles to Miami airport.

The hotel’s transport page prints 11 minutes for Miami and 30 for Fort Lauderdale, which no route we measured supports for Miami. Its FAQ puts a taxi to or from Miami airport at around $50, and the concierge arranges private transfers on request; there is no hotel shuttle on the pages we read.

Valet only. The accessibility page states that the resort does not offer self-parking, and the FAQ prices valet for hotel guests at $58 to $73 a night plus tax, with re-entry included and higher prices during special events.

Visitors pay $40 to $53 plus tax for up to 5 hours, after which the overnight rate applies; restaurant guests pay $16 plus tax with a validated ticket, and the spa sells its own parking at $15 for up to 5 hours. Google’s card lists «Parking» without a price. Some offers, such as the residents’ rate, include valet for one car.

Yes: the grounds end at the boardwalk and the sand. The beach page lists a towel hut at the hotel’s beach entrance, open 10am to 6pm, water sports from 10am to 5pm (wave runners, paddle boards, kayaks) and a beach menu, food from 11am to 4:30pm and drinks until 5:30pm.

A beach chair for each registered guest is part of the $59 resort fee; umbrellas, additional loungers and daybeds are rented at the hut. The boardwalk is open to everyone: La Côte’s page welcomes «boardwalk visitors», and the nearest public access, Indian Beach Park, is 641 metres north.

The hotel counts 10 pools between the towers and the beach: the bow-tie-shaped main pool, the quieter Oasis Pool, shallow children’s pools with a waterslide and the pool of Arkadia, the adults-only day club. Its wedding brochure speaks of «eight bodies of water» and Booking.com of 6 outdoor pools, so the count depends on what is counted.

Access needs a room key and a wristband. According to the pool guidelines, each guest has one lounger, first come, first served; outside food and drink are not allowed; infants and toddlers must wear swim nappies, given out free at the towel hut; and pets stay off the deck. Daybeds and cabanas are paid: the hotel’s same-day vouchers are worth $100 towards a bed and $300 towards a cabana.

That is the official picture, and in 2026 it is incomplete. In the latest 443 Google reviews, 8 written between June and October 2026 report building work on the deck: the floor replaced section by section in June, the adults’ pool and the children’s pools closed in August, the slide shut in September, half the pool grounds a site on 5 October. One guest understood it would end in 2027; the hotel publishes no date.

The pool deck opens every day from 6:30am to sunset, all year; no page we read announces a seasonal closure. The official pages do not say whether the outdoor pools are heated or give a water temperature.

The only temperatures the hotel publishes are in the spa: its menu keeps the mineral pool at 92°F, about 33°C, and the jet bath at 104°F, 40°C. Those are for spa guests aged 18 and over.

Guests fill part of the gap: in January and February 2026, 2 reviews call the outdoor pools warm or heated, and 7 of the latest 443 write that the pools close at about 6pm or 7pm, in summer too.

The restaurant list names 7 places. Hakkasan, modern Cantonese and in the MICHELIN Guide, and the steakhouse Prime 54 open for dinner from 6pm to 10pm, an hour later at weekends. Vida serves American cooking from breakfast at 7am until 10pm; La Côte, by the pool, French Mediterranean from 11am to 5pm; Arkadia Grill pizza and burgers until 10pm or 11pm; Fresh, light lunches; and Chez Bon Bon coffee and pastries from 6am.

Menus add a 20% service charge and tax; Hakkasan has a set menu at $65 a head from Sunday to Thursday, for tables of 2 or more. 2 restaurants in the hotel’s list of event venues, the Italian Mirabella and the sushi bar Blade, are missing from the restaurant list read on 8 October 2026, and Mirabella’s page no longer loads; a guest writing in August 2026 says it has closed. Google’s card still mentions «an Italian eatery».

Not in the standard rate. Vida serves a breakfast buffet from 7am to noon on weekdays and to 1pm at weekends, at $48 for adults and $25 for children of 10 and under on the menu read on 8 October 2026, plus service and tax. Chez Bon Bon opens at 6am for coffee and pastries.

There is no half board or all-inclusive plan. Breakfast comes with certain offers: the suite package includes the buffet for 2 each morning, and the rate for residents of Florida and 4 nearby states includes breakfast at Vida and valet. In-room dining adds a $5.50 delivery fee to the 20% service charge.

A 2-level spa «modeled after the world-renowned hammams of Marrakech», in the words of the wellness page. Its water circuit is shared by men and women: a 75-foot jetted mineral pool, a mineral jet bath, the Bleau Rain Room with jets of warm and cool water, a eucalyptus steam room and hammam benches.

Around it are treatment rooms, an oceanfront suite for couples, a salon, an IV drip lounge and, next door, the gym. Robes, slippers, lockers and toiletries are provided; phones and cameras are not allowed, and swimwear is required in the water. The spa’s own pages give no floor area and list no sauna; the hotel’s wedding brochure for 2026 does mention an infrared sauna and a Himalayan salt room.

The gym is in the resort fee; the spa is not. The spa’s guidelines say that every guest must buy a treatment or package of at least 50 minutes to use the facilities, that salon services do not count, and that hotel guests without an appointment «can enjoy the facilities for an additional fee», which the page does not price.

Visitors who are not staying can book treatments, and the spa has its own parking rate for them; no day pass for outside guests is published. The shortest way in on the menu is the Celestial Waters Passport, 30 minutes in the 3 water rooms. Everyone must be 18 or over.

Lapis Spa opens every day from 9:30am to 6pm; the salon from 10am to 6pm, 9am on Saturdays. The fitness centre opens from 6am to 8pm on weekdays and 7am to 6pm at weekends, for adults of 18 and over, with free circuit training on the Ocean Lawn from Wednesday to Sunday, 6:30am to 8:30am.

Treatments are booked ahead, online or by phone. The spa asks guests to arrive 30 minutes early, an hour to use the water rooms first; a late arrival shortens the treatment at full price, and a change or cancellation with less than 24 hours’ notice is charged in full.

The treatment list covers massages of 50, 80 or 100 minutes (Swedish, deep tissue, hot stones), facials including a device-led MediSpa facial, Ayurvedic rituals, body scrubs and wraps, couples’ rituals in the oceanfront suite and manicures and pedicures in the salon. Massage for pregnant guests is offered in the second and third trimesters only.

Prices are not printed on the website or in the PDF menu: they appear in the online booking system for the chosen day. What the hotel does state is that listed prices exclude a 20% service charge and tax.

For pools and beach, yes: the family page describes shallow pools and a waterslide, family cabanas and the sand a few steps away. Children of 17 and under stay free in existing beds, cots are free and a rollaway bed costs $60 a day plus tax, according to the hotel’s terms and FAQ. The salon does hair and nails for children with an adult.

There is no children’s club: the page says the FB Kids Club is no longer available, and childcare is private and paid, through Itavi, 7 days a week. The spa, the gym and Arkadia are for adults, and the person checking in must be 18. Families who want a kitchen should look at the Trésor and Sorrento suites.

Check the pools before booking for children: guests in August and September 2026 found the children’s pools and the slide closed for the works on the deck. The resort also has a nightclub open until 5am and pool parties, with the loud music the reviews mention.

Yes. The terms allow dogs in every room and suite, up to 50 pounds each and 2 to a room, and the pets page adds a dog tag and an oceanside dog park. Dogs are not allowed on the pool deck, and the hotel may ask a guest whose dog is noisy to leave.

The fee is a non-refundable $100 cleaning charge, according to the hotel’s terms and pets page, read on 15 October 2026.

Besides pools, beach, spa and restaurants: a gym with pool views, Pilates classes, a salon, boutiques from swimwear to designer fashion, bicycles, a car hire desk, yacht charters, the live music stage BleauLive and the Coastal Convention Center, 45,000 square feet on 5 floors with a 16,500 square foot ballroom, according to the convention page.

Wi-Fi in rooms and by the pools is covered by the resort fee. Housekeeping is daily, a doctor can be called through SkyDoc at any hour, and packages sent ahead are accepted for a handling fee from $7. Smoking is allowed only outdoors in marked areas.

Several, on the offers page read on 8 October 2026. Fall for Bleau, for stays between 3 September and 30 November 2026, gives up to 15% off and a $100 resort credit for 2 nights, up to 20% and $150 for 3, up to 25% and $200 for 4 or more. Pre-Pay & Save discounts a non-refundable stay of 2 nights or more: up to 27% on the offers page, 15% on the room pages.

Suites carry their own: a dining credit per night, or the Suite Life package with private check-in, breakfast for 2 and a $150 credit. Residents of Florida, Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas have a rate with breakfast and valet. Every offer still adds the $59 fee and tax.

Yes, and at almost any size. The wedding brochure for 2026 sets a ceremony fee of $1,200 for up to 100 guests, $2,400 for 101 to 249 and $3,600 from 250, and 3 reception packages from $275, $295 and $395 a guest, each with a 5-hour bar, canapés, a 3-course dinner and the cake.

Venues range from the Ocean Lawn beside the beach, for 400 seated or 700 standing, to the Pearl Ballroom, for up to 800 in the brochure, and the Sparkle Ballroom for 2,300, on the hotel’s venue list. The team is certified for Orthodox Jewish and South Asian weddings, and wedding guests pay $30 a day for valet.

New Year’s Eve here is a concert: the hotel’s FAQ sends guests to BleauLive, its poolside stage, whose page shows New Year’s Eve photographs labelled 2024, with Calvin Harris and Cardi B on stage. On 8 October 2026 that page carried no line-up, ticket price or dinner menu for 31 December 2026.

What can be read is the room: Google Hotels showed $1,488 for the night of 31 December 2026 and $1,322 for 1 January 2027. The restaurants keep their usual hours unless a special menu is announced.

No. The resort has no golf course, and none of the offers or pages read on 8 October 2026 mentions a golf package or green fees; the concierge books outside activities on request.

It is open all year. The official pages read on 8 October 2026 carry no notice of a closure or of works, although guests describe building work around the pools in 2026. The busiest dates show on the hotel’s owners’ page, which blocks owner stays on days when it expects to sell out, among them 18 to 20 October, 9 to 11 November and 7 to 10 December 2026.

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November, by the US National Hurricane Center’s definition. The hotel publishes no storm policy of its own: the standard terms let you cancel without penalty up to 72 hours before arrival, and pre-paid rates are non-refundable.

Google Hotels, on 8 October 2026, showed for 2 adults and one night, resort fee included and taxes not, as the sellers’ links show: $322 for 9 October, $266 for 11 October, $316 for 1 November, $302 for 25 November, $327 for 15 December and $372 for 24 January 2027. Some nights cost several times more: $1,630 for 19 October, $1,502 for 10 November, $1,459 for 5 December, during Art Basel Miami Beach, and $1,488 for New Year’s Eve.

These are the day’s lowest prices from any seller, with no room named. The sellers’ links in the same reading show what they contain: the room and the $59 resort fee, before taxes. Booking.com’s link for 9 October, for instance, carried 522.09 in total against 458 on the card, or 14% more. Of the 115 nights read to 31 January 2027, 114 had a price; 18 October had none.

3 things. The resort fee, $59 a room a day plus tax, which the terms tie to the gym, Wi-Fi, bicycles for 2 hours a day, a beach chair per guest and the Refresh Lounge, a locker room with showers; some offer terms add 30 minutes of kayak or paddleboard a day. Taxes, which the hotel does not state as a percentage: in the seller links we read they came to 14% of room and fee.

And the extras: valet at $58 to $73 a night plus tax, a 20% service charge in restaurants, bars and the spa, $40 a day for a fridge or a microwave. The hotel takes the first night and tax as a deposit when you book and authorises $200 a day at check-in.

Check-in is from 4pm and check-out by 11am. You can register on arrival and leave bags with the bell desk until the room is ready, and the FAQ guarantees rooms only after 4pm; a late check-out depends on the day and is charged at half or a full day’s rate.

The guest checking in must be 18 or older, with photo ID and a chip credit card. Cancelling later than 72 hours before arrival costs the first night and tax, a stay cannot exceed 29 days, and smoking in a room is penalised: $443 in the terms, a night’s room and tax in the FAQ.

Not automatically. The FAQ says that admission to LIV is not guaranteed, that an entry fee and an upscale dress code apply, and that the club may close for private events. It opens from 11pm to 5am, Thursday to Sunday, in 18,000 square feet with 4 bars.

For a drink without the queue there are Glow Bar by the pools, 10am to 7pm, and Bleau Bar off the lobby, from noon to 2am on the hotel’s list of bars; the bar’s own page closes it at 1am from Monday to Wednesday.

On 8 October 2026 Google showed 4.1 out of 5 from 17,204 ratings, Tripadvisor 4.2 from 21,576 and Booking.com 7.5 out of 10 from 2,106. Of the latest 443 Google reviews with text, 214 give 5 stars.

Praise goes to the beach, the pools, the lobby, Hakkasan and La Côte, and to individual members of staff, often by name. There are waits for the lifts, above all in the Trésor tower, at check-in and at the valet; extras come on top of the rate, from the resort fee to the 20% service charge, and since mid-2026 there has been building work on the pool deck. Guests describe older furnishings, small bathrooms and rooms without a fridge or coffee machine.