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Get a taste for the sunny snowbird life at Yacht Club at the Boca Raton in the namesake Floridian city. The retreat is the most exclusive part of the Boca Raton complex, the centre of which was created in the 1920s by architect Addison Mizner. There’s serious shopping to be had within the resort (and more up the road at the Mizner Park mall), opulent Mediterranean-revival architecture on every corner and enough restaurants to keep you within the confines for a week, including Big Apple brunch fave Sadelle’s and mezze-dispensing Marisol. The wider resort is also home to a macaron maison, a beach club, six pools and an award-winning spa, plus a surf simulator with the best name since the rapper (FlowRider).
Double rooms from £399.39 ($499), including tax at 13 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional resort fee of $59.89 per room per night on check-out.
More details
Rates usually include a Continental breakfast at Flybridge, but not the daily resort fee ($45 plus tax).
Also
The Yacht Club at the Boca Raton is accessible for disabled guests.
At the hotel
Free WiFi throughout; gym; marina; macaron and chocolat shop; croquet lawn; surf simulator; golf course; watersports; tennis, pickleball, bocce and beach-volleyball courts; boutiques (including an Assouline book shop); Maserati house car for two-mile trips; water-taxis; and bicycles to borrow. In rooms: TVs with streaming capabilities, beach bag and refillable water bottles, free minibar, and Nespresso coffee machine.
Our favourite rooms
The higher the floor, the better the view, so with that in mind, go for an ocean- or lake-facing suite, which are on the upper storeys. Each room has a dedicated butler, a balcony with a view of the water, champagne-enhanced arrivals and access to the adults-only spa pool.
Poolside
There are various pools at the Boca Raton and guests of the Yacht Club have access to the adults-only one at the spa. Swimming hours at each pool are 9am to 7pm. Cabanas are available for lazy days and shade.
Spa
The award-winning Spa Palmera (it has officially been crowned the best resort spa in Florida, by the World Spa Awards) was loosely modeled on Spain’s Alhambra Palace, which means mosaics, arches, pristine gardens and lush courtyards in homage. There are also 44 treatment rooms, whirlpools with waterfalls, and rituals ranging from diamond facials to reiki.
Packing tips
Tennis whites, golfing creams and sailing stripes will put you in good stead around here.
Also
There’s a reason so many tennis players live in Florida and it’s not just because of the Boca Raton’s program, which includes a dedicated concierge, talented coaches and 16 courts to practise on.
Head up to Flybridge at the top of the Yacht Club for the best views of the lake, ocean and beyond.
Dress Code
The smartest of the resort’s restaurants are Flybridge and MB Supper Club – evening attire is required at both.
Hotel restaurant
There are several restaurants and bars within the wider Boca Raton resort and guests of the Yacht Club can access them all. Right here at the Yacht Club is fine-dining Flybridge, which overlooks the ocean from its top-floor setting. MB Supper Club is where the party’s at, with jazz, comedy nights and Motown tributes accompanying the food. Work up an appetite with a round of bocce, before heading inside Japanese Bocce Club for some Far Eastern fare (barbecued ribs, sushi and an impressive Wagyu selection). Continental breakfasts are served at Flybridge, but for an additional charge, Yacht Club residents can have breakfast at NYC import Sadelle’s (of brunch and bagel fame) or Mediterranean-style Marisol. There’s also Italian restaurant Principessa for hand-made pasta and gelato by the waterfront, the Flamingo Grill and more.
Hotel bar
The Palm Court is the hub of the hotel, open from 11.30am until midnight. Along with Hemingway’s favourite cocktail, guests can imbibe locally brewed Barrel of Monks beer, riesling from New York’s Finger Lakes and refreshing cucumber mint mules.
Last orders
Flybridge is open for breakfast 7am–11am and dinner 5.30pm–8.30pm. Japanese Bocce Club, Principessa and the Flamingo Grill all open for dinner, 5.30pm–10pm. MB Supper Club serves dinner Wednesday to Saturday, 6pm–10pm.
Room service
Meals and snacks can be delivered to your room between 11am and midnight.
As the name hints at, Yacht Club at the Boca Raton is in the sunny Floridian city of Boca Raton, in Palm Beach County, just north of Miami.
Planes
Boca Raton has its own airport, or you can touch down at Palm Beach International (35 minutes away by car) or Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International (a 30-minute drive away). Miami International is less than an hour away by car, too.
Trains
There’s a rail station four miles away from the property.
Automobiles
Valet parking at the hotel costs $49 a night. Drive time south along the coast to Miami is 50 minutes or so; to Fort Lauderdale, it’s 40 minutes.
Other
It’s also possible to arrive at the Yacht Club by water-taxi.
Worth getting out of bed for
Seafaring sorts will inevitably find refuge here at the Yacht Club at the Boca Raton, but it’s not just boat trips that are on the agenda, though a sailing from the marina is a must. Golfers can tee off at the resort’s championship course; guests can also play volleyball, tennis or pickleball. Down at the golden beach, there are paddle-boards, pedal (and regular) kayaks, banana boats, catamarans and surfboards to borrow. Outside of the resort, don’t miss Boca’s Mediterranean Revivalarchitecture and art museum, and the Mizner Park mall for more revival architecture. Just slightly further afield, Palm Beach and Miami are both within an hour’s drive from the hotel.
Local restaurants
For Boca’s best surf ‘n’ turf, Chops Lobster Bar serves seafood towers, shrimp cocktails and tuna tartare, along with Wagyu, NY strip and porterhouse steaks. Or for a trip to Europe without leaving Florida, La Nouvelle Maison whisks you to France (with a bakery attached) and Trattoria Romana is a convincing stand-in for Rome. More Italian goodness awaits at Casa d’Angelo and Josephine’s.
Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this harbourside hotel in the United States and unpacked their shopping bags and golf clubs, a full account of their breezy break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Yacht Club at the Boca Raton in Florida…
It’s not just retirees who’ll find a happy place at Yacht Club at the Boca Raton, within a several-hundred-acre complex of golf courses, tennis courts, a super spa and architecture by local legend Addison Mizner. The ornate resort has Mizner’s Cloister at its heart, built in the Twenties and a perfect example of Boca’s Mediterranean Revival architecture that’s helpfully right on your doorstep. The Yacht Club is the most exclusive part of the resort, with fine-dining Flybridge, butler service and its own arrival area for champagne check-ins. In amid the wider resort’s Moorish and Gothic nods, marble floors, colonnades, vaulted ceilings, fountains, palms and stone staircases, there are several restaurants, including NYC import Sadelle’s for brunches straight out of the Big Apple, Marisol for Mediterranean mezze, Principessa for pasta and all-pink pâtisserie Maison Rose. Whatever the season, it’s time to fly south for the winter.
