The Breakers Palm Beach, 534 rooms on 140 oceanfront acres with a private half-mile beach, on the island of Palm Beach, Florida
A week here, month by monthThe Breakers suits families and couples who want 4 pools, 2 golf courses and 10 restaurants and bars at one address: for one night in July and August 2027 the lowest price any seller showed on Google for 2 adults was $695. Anyone after a small, quiet hotel will be happier elsewhere.
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I would ask for a Flagler Club Guest Room with Ocean View: 300 square feet facing the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Courtyard, with breakfast, light lunch and sunset hors d’oeuvres. A guest writing in May 2024 chose the Flagler Club once again.
In the calendar read on 13 October 2026 the lowest week is 28 July–3 August 2027: nights for 2 adults from $695 to $725, before the 12.5% room tax. The dearest week, 27 December 2026–2 January 2027, ran from $1,858 to $2,584.
The room rate is nightly and carries 12.5% tax; meals and drinks carry a 20% service charge and 6.5% tax. Overnight valet parking is complimentary, and a one-night deposit, excluding tax, is due when you book.
Look down at the Seafood Bar: 4 guests who wrote between July 2025 and July 2026 mention fish swimming under the bar top, the glass or the plate.
The Breakers was founded in 1896 by Henry Morrison Flagler and still belongs to his heirs, with no chain behind it. The present building, modelled on the Villa Medici in Rome, opened on 29 December 1926 after 2 fires, and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. It stands on 140 acres between South County Road and the Atlantic: 534 rooms, 72 of them suites, with the 21-room Flagler Club on the top 2 floors.
People come for everything at once. The Beach Club has 4 pools and the beach, the Ocean Course starts beside the main drive, there are 16 courts for tennis, pickleball and padel, a spa of 1,858 m² and a gym above the sea that costs nothing extra. Breakfast is served under the frescoes of The Circle, the evening begins at HMF, and a house car takes you to the hotel’s 2 restaurants in town. Children have their own centre and a pool with a sloping edge.
3 things are worth a look before booking: the room, the bill and the works. The cheapest rooms measure 28 m² and no category has more than a step-out Juliet balcony. Google Hotels showed $839 to $2,594 a night before tax between October 2026 and January 2027, and meals, bungalows, golf and court time are charged on top. Until late November 2026 the Golf & Racquet Clubhouse and Flagler Steakhouse are closed for works, and scaffolding may stand on the South Tower.
Lumina Guide 2027
The Breakers is a 1926 Italian Renaissance-style palace on the ocean in Palm Beach: 534 rooms, about 800 metres of private beach, 4 pools and golf, all in the one resort.
How we choose the hotelsAmong the hotel’s regulars, a guest writing in July 2026 has stayed at least annually for over 22 years and names lunch at the Seafood Bar as a favourite. 3 return for an anniversary; one, writing in May 2024, found that the recent renovations make the standard room feel bigger, and counts the included breakfast every morning a huge perk. Another, writing in June 2024, has stayed many times in 20 years and singles out the spa’s massages and facials and the gym’s classes.
Read: the 775 reviews with text on Google, from February 2023 to October 2026.
What we found reading the hotel’s own pages, one thing at a time.
On the ocean on the island of Palm Beach, 9 km from the airport; Royal Poinciana Way is 14 minutes on foot and Worth Avenue 26, or a ride in the house car.
A 1926 building after the Villa Medici, with painted ceilings by 75 Italian artisans, in the hands of the founder’s family for 130 years.
20 categories from 28 to 158 m², all with marble bathrooms; step-out Juliet balconies only, and the lead-in Deluxe rooms take no rollaway bed.
10 restaurants and bars, from breakfast under The Circle’s frescoes to a wine list of 2,200 labels at HMF; the steakhouse is closed until late November 2026.
A spa of 1,858 m² with 17 treatment rooms, 4 pools, 6 whirlpools and a free gym of 557 m² over the ocean; no sauna or thermal circuit is published.
Google: $839 to $2,594 a night before 12.5% tax; no resort fee, and parking, the gym and the house car are included.
A badge is an experience travellers look for, that is really here and that few hotels in the guide have.
Here: a buffet from 7am to 10.30am in The Circle, the round dining room of 1928 with 8 painted landscapes on its ceiling and arched windows on the sea.
29 of the 30 guests who write about breakfast are pleased. 15 hotels of 335 hold it.
Every hotel with this badgeHere: a 1926 building after the Villa Medici, with painted ceilings by 75 Italian artisans, in the hands of the founder’s family for 130 years.
A history that goes back to at least 1926. 31 hotels of 335 hold it.
Every hotel with this badgeWhat do The Breakers’s guests say? They write it in their reviews, even those who only came for a drink or dinner: we read every one and tell the 5 things that matter, from the location to the bill.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests tell of the ocean in front, the view from the seaward rooms, the grounds and the house cars that run to Worth Avenue.
7 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write about the cleanliness, housekeeping twice a day, chocolates left in the evening and waking to the Atlantic in the oceanfront rooms.
8 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests describe staff who remember names and orders, the concierge, drinks brought to their umbrella on the beach and by the pool, and the complimentary house cars.
Nearly every guest who mentions it is happy with it. Guests single out Sunday brunch in The Circle, the round room with the painted ceiling and windows on the sea, and the morning buffet.
The rate includes valet parking, Wi-Fi, the gym and its classes, with no resort fee; meals, bungalows, golf, court time and the spa are charged on top.
On location it shares first place with The Colony Hotel among the 6 hotels compared in Palm Beach and along its coast.
On breakfast it comes ahead of the 5 other hotels it is compared with in Palm Beach and along its coast.
| What | Score out of 10 | Guests who mention it | Happy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | 8.5 | 123 | 90% |
| Room | 6.8 | 66 | 68% |
| Staff and service | 7.9 | 298 | 79% |
| Breakfast | 8.8 | 30 | 97% |
| Price | – | 72 | 32% |
The scores come from 500 Google reviews with text, left from 26 March 2025 to 8 October 2026. The other hotels are the ones weighed for a stay in Palm Beach and along its coast: for each we read its latest 500 Google reviews with text, or all of them where there are fewer, as of 8 October 2026. The score is the average of what they say, from 0 if they speak of it very badly to 10 if they speak of it very well. Where only a few mention something, the score stays close to the guide’s average: a handful of voices does not make a reputation.
The hotels we weigh it against in Palm Beach and along its coast:
Price: for two on the night of 30 July 2027, from $695 (seen on Google Hotels on 13 October 2026).
Read on 13 October 2026, nights for 2 adults ran from $695 in late July to early September 2027 to $1,135–$2,594 between 24 November 2026 and 6 May 2027; the dearest night shown, 16 November 2026, was $5,490. I would look at 28 July–3 August 2027, when each of its 7 nights cost $695–$725, before the 12.5% room tax.
| Period | Dollars a night |
|---|---|
| 14 Oct. to 23 Nov. 2026 | 813–2,036 |
| 24 Nov. 2026 to 6 May 2027 | 1,135–2,594 |
| 7 May to 25 July 2027 | 695–1,913 |
| 26 July to 7 Sep. 2027 | 695–1,147 |
Lowest seller prices on Google for 2 adults, one night searched alone, read on 13 October 2026; room and meal plan unspecified. The calendar ends on 7 September 2027; 16–17 January, 12–14 February, 26–27 March, 18–20 April, 28–29 May and 3–4 July 2027 have no price. Separate nights: 13 November 2026 at $3,390; 16 November at $5,490.
4 pools on the beach, breakfast in a frescoed rotunda, a spa with its own courtyard, golf from the front lawn and a bar that fills at 6pm.
4 pools along the hotel’s half mile of beach: the Main Pool, a 25-metre Adult Pool for guests aged 21 and over, the zero-entry Active Pool for families and the infinity-edge South Pool, with 6 whirlpools between them. Paddleboards, kayaks, tubes and boogie boards are free on the beach from 10am to 6pm. Only hotel guests and club members get in.
Breakfast every day from 7 to 10.30am, in the round dining room added in 1928 under a 30-foot ceiling with 8 painted landscapes. The buffet costs $55, with à la carte dishes beside it. On Sundays from noon to 3pm the room turns to a brunch at $220 a head, $95 for children of 12 and under, booked ahead.
An indoor-outdoor spa of 20,000 square feet, about 1,858 m², with 17 treatment rooms, 3 lounges and a private courtyard facing the ocean. It opens from 9.30am to 6pm. A custom massage is $250 for 50 minutes and $375 for 80, a Tata Harper facial from $305, with a 20% service charge on every treatment.
The Ocean Course, laid out in 1897 and rebuilt by Rees Jones in 2018, is a par 70 of 5,778 yards beside the main drive; the Rees Jones Course at Breakers West is 17.8 km inland. The racquet club has 12 tennis courts on grass, clay and hard surfaces, 2 for pickleball and 2 for padel, at $45 a person a session.
The hotel’s bar and social club, named after its founder’s initials, in the former Florentine Room off the lobby. It opens at 6pm every day, until 11pm from Sunday to Thursday and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, takes no reservations and asks for cocktail dress. The list runs to more than 2,200 wines.
The hotel has announced works: the Golf & Racquet Clubhouse and Flagler Steakhouse closed until late November 2026, South Tower rooms being refreshed through November, the Family Entertainment Center under reconstruction until spring 2028. Source: thebreakers.com
No room has a full balcony: the oceanfront categories have Juliet balconies behind sliding glass doors. Source: thebreakers.com
On the standard rate breakfast is not included: the buffet in The Circle costs $55 per person, before service and tax. Source: thebreakers.com
Works are under way, on the hotel’s notice dated 4 October 2026: the Golf & Racquet Clubhouse and Flagler Steakhouse are closed until late November 2026, South Tower rooms are being refreshed through November with scaffolding possibly in view, and the Family Entertainment Center is being rebuilt until spring 2028. Between September 2024 and September 2026, 9 Google reviews describe noise from the works, mostly at the pools.
No room has a full balcony. The oceanfront categories have Juliet balconies behind sliding glass doors, and the Deluxe rooms, at 28 m², take no rollaway bed; cots are offered from the Premium category up.
There is no resort fee, and overnight valet parking, Wi-Fi, the gym and its classes are included. Added to the rate: 12.5% tax. Added to meals: a 20% service charge and 6.5% tax. Bungalows, golf, courts and the spa are charged.
After 5pm the hotel asks for what it calls resort chic: beachwear, shorts, hats and flip-flops are discouraged indoors. The Lobby Bar admits only guests of 21 and over after 5pm, HMF after 10pm.
Pets are not permitted, the building is non-smoking and you must be 21 to check in. Visitors of guests may not use the pools or the beach, and staged photography, tripods and drones are banned.
Valet parking is included; between December 2025 and September 2026, 4 Google reviews describe waits or confusion when the car is brought round, in one case because of the works.
By car from Palm Beach’s airport in about a quarter of an hour, or by Brightline train to West Palm Beach across the bridge
| The address | One South County Road, Palm Beach, FL 33480; a palm-lined drive of 1,040 feet, about 317 m, leads from the road to the fountain and the door, says the official fact sheet |
|---|---|
| From Palm Beach airport (PBI) | 9 km, about 14 minutes by car; the hotel’s own figures are 6 miles and 15 minutes |
| From Fort Lauderdale airport (FLL) | 81.6 km, about 1 hour 9 minutes by car; the fact sheet gives 42 miles, which is 68 km |
| From Miami airport (MIA) | 122.2 km, about 1 hour 45 minutes by car; the fact sheet gives 72 miles, which is 116 km |
| By train | The Brightline station of West Palm Beach is 3.2 km away, about 7 minutes by car |
| Parking | Overnight valet parking is complimentary, on the official policies page |
| Without a car | A chauffeured Mercedes-Maybach electric SUV serves as house car at no charge, and a guest shuttle runs to Echo and to Via Flagler; Flagler Club rooms include airport transfers |
Distances and times calculated on OpenStreetMap’s roads on 8 October 2026, from the hotel; a second calculation on the same map gives 15 minutes from Palm Beach’s airport, 1 hour 4 minutes from Fort Lauderdale’s and 1 hour 39 minutes from Miami’s. Traffic on Interstate 95 is not counted.
The hotel on the ocean, the 2 shopping streets of the island, the Flagler Museum, the airport and the station. Tap a place for the distance.
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The buffet in The Circle runs from 7 to 10.30am, in the round dining room added in 1928.
Paddleboards, kayaks, tubes and boogie boards are out on the beach from 10am to 6pm.
The Beach Club serves lunch from 11.30am to 3pm, beside the pools.
Treatments are booked between 9.30am and 6pm, in a spa with a private courtyard facing the ocean.
HMF opens at 6pm, takes no reservations and asks for cocktail dress.
The platforms’ scores, read on 8 October 2026, and what guests say about the staff, the rooms, the beach and the bill.
On 8 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 6,519 ratings, 89% of them 5 stars, Tripadvisor 4.5/5 from 3,037 reviews and Booking.com 9.1/10 from 248. These are accounts of stays we have not checked.
6 stays described on Google between March and October 2026.
GoogleIn October 2026 a couple on a repeat visit wrote on their last morning that the concierge had arranged an early check-in, a room upgrade and a late check-out by text message, which left them time for the spa. They have slept in a Deluxe room, an Executive Suite and the Royal Poinciana Suite, and found each one spotless.
GoogleIn September 2026 a mother who came for a work meeting with her husband and 3 children had feared the dress code. She found a family area by the pools with crafts, a PlayStation lounge, a giant chess set and free ice cream daily, and skipped the restaurants so as not to dress a toddler for dinner. Seaweed fouled the beach on the first day; a storm cleared it.
GoogleA guest staying from 14 to 19 September 2026 gave 2 stars: construction equipment could be heard throughout the stay at the pools and outdoors, and the cold tap in the room ran warm. A few days earlier another guest called the valet chaotic because of the works, and heard the bar’s music in a ground-floor room until after 11pm.
GoogleIn August 2026 a guest praised the architecture, the restaurants and a well-organised beach, then stopped at 3 stars: the mattress dipped in the middle, and the car was slow to come back from the valet every time. At more than $1,000 a night, the review says, comfort should match the looks.
GoogleIn June 2026 guests with more than 10 visits in 9 years described their favourite day: 2 loungers and an umbrella on the beach, lunch fetched from the pool restaurant, and attendants who let them stay on the sand after closing time. Florida has better beaches, they concede, and add that the rocks give this one its character.
GoogleIn March 2026 a guest paying more than $900 a night was refused entry to the lounge in dress shorts, a button-down shirt and flip-flops, while others went in wearing much the same. After the general manager telephoned to apologise the guest raised the rating to 5 stars, and still calls the dress code antiquated.
What travellers ask before choosing The Breakers, answered from the sources read on 8 October 2026.
A large oceanfront resort on the island of Palm Beach, Florida: 534 rooms, 72 of them suites, on 140 acres with a private beach, 2 golf courses and its own shops, according to the official fact sheet. Henry Morrison Flagler founded it in 1896; his heirs still own it through Flagler System, and it belongs to no chain.
The present building is the third. The first 2 burned in 1903 and 1925, and the Italian Renaissance palace that stands today opened on 29 December 1926, on the hotel’s own timeline; it has been open all year since 1971 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
It holds 2 MICHELIN Keys, according to the MICHELIN Guide, read on 15 October 2026; the hotel’s awards page lists One Key for 2024 and 2025. The same page gives AAA Four Diamonds and Forbes Four Stars for 2026, and AAA Five Diamonds for 2024; Google files it as a 4-star hotel.
There are 20 categories on the accommodation pages: 5 guest rooms of 300 to 460 square feet (28 to 43 m²), 11 suites of 500 to 1,700 square feet (46 to 158 m²) and 4 Flagler Club rooms and suites of 300 to 600 square feet. The hotel publishes square feet only; the square metres are our conversion.
Views are sold by name: resort, partial ocean, ocean and oceanfront. None of the pages lists a full balcony or terrace; the oceanfront rooms and most suites have Juliet balconies behind sliding glass doors. Every room has a minibar, a safe, bathrobes and free Wi-Fi, and each suite a personal concierge.
The Flagler Club is a hotel within the hotel: 21 rooms on the sixth and seventh floors with their own lift, a lounge and a roof terrace, where breakfast, a light lunch, evening canapés and a cocktail hour are part of the rate.
At One South County Road, on the ocean side of the island of Palm Beach, set back from the road behind its golf course. Royal Poinciana Way, the island’s old main street, is 1,085 m from the door, about 14 minutes on foot, and Worth Avenue 2 km, measured on OpenStreetMap’s roads.
Google’s description puts the hotel «a 5-minute walk from the Flagler Museum». On the same map the walk is 1,128 m and takes about 15 minutes. West Palm Beach, with the Norton Museum of Art and the railway station, is across the bridge, 3.8 km and 7 minutes by car. The hotel’s own list of things nearby adds the Kravis Center and the Palm Beach Zoo.
Palm Beach International Airport is the close one: 9 km and about 14 minutes by car on OpenStreetMap’s roads, against the 6 miles and 15 minutes of the hotel’s location page. Fort Lauderdale is 81.6 km, about 1 hour 9 minutes, and Miami 122.2 km, about 1 hour 45 minutes, before traffic.
The fact sheet gives 42 miles for Fort Lauderdale and 72 for Miami, 68 and 116 km, shorter than the road distances we measured. Brightline trains stop at West Palm Beach, 3.2 km from the hotel. No page publishes a price for an airport transfer; Flagler Club rooms include it, and stays of more than 30 nights do too.
Yes, and it is included: «overnight valet parking is complimentary», says the guest policies page, and the offers page repeats it among the things that come with every stay. Accessible self-parking is north of the main entrance.
Other sites say otherwise. Google’s listing shows free self-parking and valet parking at an extra charge, and the MICHELIN Guide page lists both «free private parking» and self-service parking with charges. People who are not staying do pay: in Google reviews, visitors report a valet charge of $35 in late 2025 and $50 in August 2026, cancelled when the ticket is stamped after a meal or a purchase in the hotel. A notice to the residents of the hotel’s apartments, dated 15 April 2026, says a utility plant is being rebuilt in the main car park, with most of the work running to November and completion due in early 2027.
The hotel stands on what its pools and beach page calls a private beach, half a mile long on the Beach Club’s fact sheet, about 800 m. Pool and beach are «exclusively reserved for registered hotel guests and club members», says the guest policies page; visitors of guests are not admitted.
No official page puts a price on loungers or umbrellas, and the watersports on the beach are free. What is charged is the bungalow: 25 poolside cabins of 28 to 37 m² for up to 6 people, let by the day from 9am to 6pm, at a rate the hotel gives only by telephone.
On the sand, regulars writing in Google reviews of June 2026 tell of keeping 2 loungers and an umbrella for the whole day, and other guests of drinks brought to their umbrella. In summer sargassum seaweed can wash in: 3 reviews mention it between July and September 2026.
4, all outdoors and all by the ocean, on the Beach Club fact sheet: the Main Pool, the 25-metre Adult Pool with an infinity edge, for guests of 21 and over, the zero-entry Active Pool for families, and the infinity-edge South Pool, where most of the bungalows stand. There are 6 whirlpools.
Pool and whirlpool lifts are listed on the accessibility page. Lunch comes from Ocean House and The Surf Break, between the 2 southern pools. Booking.com counts «4 swimming pools» as well.
The official pages give no water temperature and no opening hours for the pools, and do not say whether they are heated. What they publish is the life around them: watersports from 10am to 6pm, bungalows from 9am to 6pm, The Surf Break from 11am to 7pm.
The hotel is open all year. Its fact sheet describes a subtropical climate with temperatures of 75 to 85°F, which is 24 to 29°C. Google’s listing adds a lifeguard, an adults-only pool and a hot tub.
The hotel counts 10 restaurants and bars on its dining pages; Booking.com lists 9. In the main building: The Circle for breakfast from 7 to 10.30am, the Seafood Bar from 11am to 10pm, 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays, HMF from 6pm and The Lobby Bar from 9am to 9pm.
By the pools, for hotel guests and club members only: the Beach Club, with breakfast from 8am, lunch from 11.30am to 3pm and an Italian dinner from 5.30 to 9pm, Wednesday to Sunday; Ocean House from 11am to 7pm, 8pm at weekends; The Surf Break. In town, by shuttle: Echo, Asian, from 5 to 9.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday, and Henry’s Palm Beach, an American bistro, from 11am to 10pm.
Flagler Steakhouse is closed for the works until late November 2026. From the published menus: the breakfast buffet $55, the catch of the day at the Seafood Bar $65, Sunday brunch $220. In-room dining runs from 6am to 1am, where Google’s listing says 24 hours.
Breakfast is extra on the standard rate: the buffet in The Circle costs $55 a person before service and tax. It comes with the Bed & Breakfast offer, published for stays from 1 June to 30 September 2027, and with bookings through programmes such as American Express Fine Hotels + Resorts and Virtuoso, whose pages on the hotel’s site list a daily breakfast for 2 and a $100 credit.
The hotel sells no half board and no all-inclusive plan. Flagler Club rooms are the exception for food: breakfast, a light lunch, evening canapés, desserts and a cocktail hour are served in the club lounge as part of the rate.
The Spa is indoor-outdoor and faces the ocean: 20,000 square feet, about 1,858 m², with 17 treatment rooms, lounges for women, for men and for both, a hair and nail salon and a private courtyard with a water feature, in the hotel’s own description. A couple’s suite has a steam shower, a chromotherapy bath and a garden terrace.
No official page mentions a sauna, a steam room open to all, a hammam or a thermal circuit. Booking.com lists a sauna and a steam room among the facilities, and Google a hot tub; the 6 whirlpools the hotel describes are outdoors at the Beach Club. Forbes Travel Guide gives the spa Four Stars for 2026, on the hotel’s awards page.
Entry to the lounges and the courtyard comes with a treatment: the hotel asks you to arrive 30 minutes early to use them. It publishes no entrance fee and no day pass. The gym, Ocean Fitness, is free for hotel guests aged 16 and over, classes included.
People who are not staying may book treatments: «local clients are welcome as availability allows», says the spa page. The pools and the beach stay closed to them under the hotel’s visitor rules. Weekends and holidays have little availability.
The Spa opens every day from 9.30am to 6pm, by appointment on (877) 724-3983. Changes within 24 hours cost 50% of the treatment and a missed appointment the full price. Massages and facials are for guests of 18 and over; hair and nails from the age of 6.
Ocean Fitness, 557 m² above the Beach Club with a terrace for cycling and yoga, opens from 6am to 8pm and needs only the room key. The racquet club opens from 7am to 8pm, and courts can be reserved 24 hours ahead.
From the spa menu dated August 2026: custom, maternity and couples massages at $250 for 50 minutes and $375 for 80, per person; Thai massage $395 for 80 minutes; a Tata Harper body scrub $270 and wrap $395; Tata Harper and Guerlain facials $305 for 50 minutes and $405 for 80.
A classic manicure is $65 and a deep-sea pedicure $95; a wash and blow-dry starts at $75. Spa Petite is the menu for guests aged 6 to 17: a manicure $65, an ice-cream manicure and pedicure $140. A 20% service charge is added to everything.
It is built for families. The family page lists a zero-entry pool, watersports, golf and tennis lessons for juniors, film nights, bingo and a children’s menu from in-room dining. While the Family Entertainment Center is rebuilt, until spring 2028, a Seaside centre runs in bungalows 1 to 5 from 8am to 6pm for children of 12 and under, and an arcade opens until 11pm.
Rollaway beds are free in Premium and Atlantic rooms and most suites, and are not permitted in Deluxe rooms or in the Flagler Club; cots are offered in Premium and Atlantic rooms and in suites. The suite pages mention sitters without a price. Children are welcome in the restaurants with an adult, until 10pm at HMF and 5pm at The Lobby Bar; the Adult Pool is for over-21s, the gym for over-16s.
Pets are not permitted anywhere in the resort.
Besides the pools, the spa and the restaurants: two 18-hole golf courses, 16 courts for tennis, pickleball and padel, a gym with free classes, 13 boutiques in the hotel and at Via Flagler, and more than 80,000 square feet of meeting space, 7,432 m², on the fact sheet.
Wi-Fi is free throughout the property and is listed with the amenities of every stay, with the house car, valet parking and the gym. In-room dining runs from 6am to 1am. The hotel asks that visitors leave between 11pm and 7am.
Yes, and it is written down on the policies page. By day the resort is casual: beachwear at the pools and the gym, a cover-up and shoes away from them, robes only in the room and the spa. After 5pm it asks for «resort chic»: dresses, trousers, collared shirts; beachwear, shorts, hats and flip-flops are discouraged.
Each restaurant adds its own line. HMF and Echo ask for cocktail dress, Sunday brunch rules out torn denim, T-shirts and hats, and the Beach Club at dinner recommends a collared shirt for men. No page asks for a jacket or a tie.
3 things, on the hotel’s renovations page dated 4 October 2026. The Golf & Racquet Clubhouse, with Flagler Steakhouse, is closed until late November 2026; golf, racquet sports and the pro shop stay open. Rooms in the oceanfront South Tower are being refreshed through November 2026, and scaffolding and equipment may be visible. The Family Entertainment Center is being rebuilt until spring 2028.
The hotel itself is open, with the Beach Club, the 4 pools, the spa, the gym and the other restaurants running. The holiday dining page takes bookings at Flagler Steakhouse for Thanksgiving, 26 November 2026, which fits a late-November reopening and is the earliest date published.
On the offers page on 8 October 2026 there were 2 dated ones, both for 1 June to 30 September 2027: Bed & Breakfast, with daily breakfast at the Beach Club or The Circle, and a sixth night free on 6 consecutive nights; the 2 can be combined. Stays of more than 30 nights get a resident rate with breakfast and an airport transfer.
No offer was published for the winter season. Until 31 October 2026 Echo and Henry’s serve 3-course dinner menus for the Flavor South Florida promotion.
Yes; weddings are one of its trades. The event showcase speaks of celebrations from 50 to 400 guests and gives each room’s capacity: the Ponce de Leon Ballroom, 15,000 square feet, for 50 to 650; the Venetian Ballroom on the ocean for up to 500; the Mediterranean Ballroom for 225; The Circle for 200; the Gold Room for 200 at a ceremony or 85 at dinner with dancing; the Ocean Lawn for 150 to 300.
No price or package is printed on the pages read: the hotel quotes after an enquiry, on (833) 239-3758. Outside a contracted event, staged wedding, engagement or proposal photography is prohibited on the property.
2 events are on the holiday dining page for 31 December 2026. Flagler Steakhouse serves a 3-course dinner from 5 to 10pm at $425 a person. HMF holds a party from 8.30pm to 12.30am at $1,300 a person, with a chef’s menu, live music, dancing, a balloon drop and Champagne at midnight.
The Circle, Echo, Henry’s, the Seafood Bar, the Beach Club, Ocean House and The Surf Break keep normal hours and menus that night, so neither event is compulsory. Service charge and sales tax are added to both prices. Stays that touch 25 December to 2 January had to be paid in full by 1 October 2026.
Two 18-hole courses, both private to hotel guests and club members, on the golf page: the Ocean Course at the hotel, par 70 and 5,778 yards from the back tees, and the Rees Jones Course at Breakers West, par 72 and 7,104 yards, 17.8 km and about 24 minutes away by car. The hotel says 10 miles.
No green fee and no golf package is printed on the pages read; tee times are booked on (877) 724-3188. Lessons are priced: $200 to $500 an hour at the golf academy, depending on the instructor. The clubhouse is closed until late November 2026, with play continuing.
All year. The hotel was a winter house until 1971, when it began year-round operation, on its timeline; no seasonal closure is announced, and Google Hotels showed prices for 105 of the 115 nights from 9 October 2026 to 31 January 2027.
The pages read do not mention hurricanes or a storm policy. The policies page says only that cancellation terms vary with the time of year, and that the deposit is lost if you do not arrive. Thanksgiving, the festive weeks and Presidents’ Weekend are paid in full in advance.
Google Hotels, read on 13 October 2026 for 2 adults and one night, showed $839 for 21 October, $1,058 for 10 November, $1,147 for 15 December and $1,236 for 12 January 2027. These amounts are before the 12.5% tax, and there is no resort fee.
For 9 October the calendar’s $888 was the price of a reseller; the hotel’s own site was on the same card at $1,025 for a Deluxe Guest Room with resort view, its link carrying the tax separately. For 18 October Tripadvisor’s partners showed the official site at $955 and Agoda at $890, taxes not included, against $870 on Google.
The holidays cost more: $1,858 on Thanksgiving eve, $1,839 on Christmas night and $2,103 on New Year’s Eve. The calendar ran from $839 to $2,594, the latter on 2 December, a night with no event named on the hotel’s pages. Breakfast is not included.
Google gave 4.8/5 from 6,519 ratings when read on 8 October 2026, with 89% at 5 stars. Tripadvisor gave 4.5/5 from 3,037 reviews, with 4.8 for location, 4.6 for service and 3.9 for value, and ranked the hotel third of 12 in Palm Beach; Booking.com gave 9.1/10 from 248 reviews, 9.6 for location.
Of the 500 most recent Google reviews with text, written between 26 March 2025 and 8 October 2026, 79% of those discussing staff and services are positive, as are 90% of those discussing the location. What comes up again and again: staff who remember names and orders, the house cars, the pools, the rooms on the ocean and Sunday brunch in The Circle. Reviews mention the 28 m² entry rooms, rates of $1,000 to $2,500 a night and building noise during 2025 and 2026; meals, bungalows, golf and court time cost extra.
A 12.5% tax on the room rate and nothing else: the hotel states that there is «never a resort fee». On Google’s card for 9 October 2026 the hotel’s own link priced a room at $1,025 with $128.12 of tax, $1,153.12 in all. Meals and drinks carry a 20% service charge and 6.5% tax, spa treatments 20%, and bungalow catering 25%.
A deposit of 1 night, before tax, is taken at booking, on the policies page. Cancellation terms vary by date; a no-show loses the deposit, and so may a stay shortened inside the cancellation period. Check-in is after 4pm and check-out before noon, and the hotel suggests booking the night before or after to be sure of a room outside those hours.
179 rooms on the Mid-Beach sand, with a gilded theatre, Francis Mallmann’s open fires and a 2,044 m² spa
The 1954 Morris Lapidus resort on the Atlantic: more than 1,500 rooms in 4 towers, with pools on the sand, 7 restaurants, Lapis Spa and the nightclub LIV
The 1930 tower on the corner of Central Park, with lift operators, a Rotunda painted in 1967 and Park View rooms between the 34th and 39th floors.
The first St. Regis, opened in 1904 on Fifth Avenue: a butler for every room, rooms redesigned in 2026 and the Red Snapper at the King Cole Bar.
An Aman in the city: a fire in every suite, a spa on 3 floors and a jazz club inside the Crown Building.
The pink 1918 palace on Cheyenne Lake, 3 golf courses and a camp on top of the mountain.
The wooden 1888 Victorian on the beach, 5 neighbourhoods to stay in and pools warm all year.
The monorail back from Magic Kingdom, lagoon views and the Lava Pool; choose hotel rooms and villas separately.
3 ways back from Magic Kingdom, then spa and lagoon-side dining.
Savanna wildlife, pools and dining; buses take you to the parks.
Generous rooms, gardens and golf; Tower Suites changes the entrance, deck and service.
Ocean or forest rooms, warm pools and breakfast; fog remains part of the stay.
This guide is written with Lumina, the marketing system for hotels.
