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Shore Club Miami
- Style
- Miami meets Marrakech
- Setting
- South Beach shore
Maintaining its reputation as the party hotel on South Beach, the Shore Club Miami is the place to see and be seen. Home to Nobu, Skybar and a luxurious poolside area, the art deco hotel is a nocturnal playground for grown-ups.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 309, including 67 suites.
- Rates
- Low season, US$505-US$8,000; high season, US$695–US$15,000. Prices do not include taxes. Breakfast is an additional US$35 a person.
- Check-out
- Midday, though this is flexible for an extra half-day rate. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Facilities
- Gym, spa/treatment rooms, gardenslaundry, Pipino hair salon, on-site shops, valet parking, in-room beauty treatments, WiFi. In rooms: king- or queen-size beds, flatscreen TV, iPod sound-dock, air conditioning, minibar, Agua by Korres toiletries.
- Poolside
- Shore Club Miami’s two elevated infinity-edged pools and hot tub are surrounded by enormous daybeds, piled with bright Moroccan cushions. The luxurious tropical poolside setting provides easy access to the beach.
- Children
- Baby cots are available free of charge and extra beds can be put into rooms for US$25 a night. The hotel also provides a babysitting service using local nannies, for approximately US$20 an hour. There’s no children’s menu in either restaurant.
- Eco-friendly
- Awarded the First Green Hotel in Miami Beach, the Shore Club certainly does its bit for the environment – it’s involved in a beach cleanup scheme and is heavily into recycling.
- Also
- For those who fill their Chanel handbag with Chihuahuas, pets are welcome to stay at the Shore Club Miami for a non-refundable fee of $100. But a pre-holiday diet may be required, as those over 25 pounds will be turned away.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The sparsely decorated rooms, furnished with Mexican sandstone floors and offset with splashes of tropical colour, are loaded with hi-tech amenities. We love the Beach House, where the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio have sought refuge in the past. With its private pool, outdoor dining and lounge area, this could make for one seriously indulgent slumber party.
- Packing tips
- Bring a big wardrobe – with the throng of fashionistas parading nearby, this isn’t the kind of place to wear the same thing twice.
- Also
- Smoking is permitted in the Redroom, restaurant and terraces, as well as in designated smoking rooms.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- The Miami offshoot of phenomenally successful LA establishment Ago, the Shore Club’s restaurant was opened last year by chef Agostino Sciandri and partner Robert DeNiro. Trendy and casual during the day, it adopts a more sophisticated tone by night, serving excellent Italian trattoria-style cuisine – tagliatelle ai Carciofi – and regional wines. The other restaurant is a branch of the world-famous Nobu, serving up high-end Japanese dishes such as black cod and yellowtail sashimi.
- Dress code
- From pool to party.
- Top table
- For romance, dine al fresco by the infinity pool.
- Last orders
- Both restaurants close at midnight Monday to Thursday, at 1am on Friday and Saturday, and 11pm on Sunday. The bars stay open till 3am.
- Room service
- 24 hours.
- Hotel bar
- Skybar is Shore Club’s main night-time attraction. The Redroom has both an indoor section and a garden. Inside, the den-like space is styled with sumptuous Moroccan furnishings and dim, sexy red lighting, while outdoors, the cobalt blue hues of the lantern-lit lounge area are reminiscent of the Matisse-inspired palette of Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech. The hotel’s two other bars, Rumbar and Sandbar, are situated outside and provide the ideal venues for poolside posing. Surrounded by white sheer curtains, Rumbar serves 75 different rums while Sandbar is a smaller, beachside haunt, reserved for exclusive, private parties.
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Local restaurants
Mr Chow (+1 305 938 3000) is coming to the soon-to-be-opened W Hotel in summer ‘09. The legendary Chinese restaurant already has locations in New York, Beverly Hills and London, and the South Beach restaurant will add to the already bustling Miami scene. Blue Door at the Delano (+1 305 674 6400) is one of the area’s star-studded venues, providing French-Brazilian fusion food in a glamorous setting that extends out around the pool. The popular Blue Sea sushi restaurant can also be found here, located in a stylish alcove off the lobby. Asia de Cuba spills out onto the lobby at the Mondrian Miami (+1 305 514 1500), fusing Asian and Latin cuisine to create wonderfully intensely-flavoured dishes, such as calamari salad with chayote, palm hearts, banana with cashews, and tuna tartare with olives and almonds.
Local bars
Strictly for open-minded souls who prefer intimate clubs with no big-name DJs, the Laundry Bar (+1 305 531 7700) at 721 Lincoln Lane North is where you’ll hear plenty of groove-ridden underground sounds spun next to the bar – and the fully operational washers and dryers (from 7am). The Florida Room at Delano (+1 305 674 6152) is a modern-day piano lounge inspired by a classic period of South Floridian glamour. The Lucite grand piano played by music legends such as Lenny Kravitz and Jamie Foxx sits sparkling beneath the smoky-bronze mirrored ceiling and custom-designed chandeliers. Expect speciality Cuban cocktails and an intimate ambience. From the Skybar/Florida Room team, Sunset Lounge (+1 305 514 1941) offers fine fushion cuisine and a Brazilian bar with exotic cocktails, such as lychee-elderflower, ginger-pear and peach-lemongrass caipirinhas.
Local cafes
French café and bistro A la Folie (+1 305 538 4484) at 516 Espanola Way is a local favourite with lots of character – just like its sociable owner.
Worth getting out of bed for
If you’re interested in brushing up on the local culture, the Art Deco Museum (1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach; +1 305 672 2014; www.mdpl.org) is worth a visit. If midnight skinny-dipping’s more your scene, then the ocean at night has cool phosphorescent fish that glow around you while you swim.
