And Now, A Roundup Of Great (Free) Hotel Guest Perks

Curbed Miami

by Sean McCaughan

 

Today, we’re looking at some of the most insane, fantastic, or fun free guest perks at hotels around Miami. The Standard is celebrated for its spa, which has a big hamam and lots of fancy treatments. The hotel has a large bayside pool with underwater sound system, and to shower off after your swim, how about a three-inch-thick solid column of water gushing down on you? Or take a bath on your room’s terrace, in a full size bathtub, with only a thin gauzy curtain separating your naked body from every oh, so chic sexy thing walking past your room. Rawr. Finally, like other South Beach hotels, they have bicycles for guests’ use.

  • The J.W. Marriott Marquis has virtual bowling, which is basically like virtual golf but instead of hitting the golf ball at a screen, you throw the bowling ball at a screen. The ball goes up part of a bowling alley, then in a hole, where the machine registers how far the ball would have gonehad you been bowling at a real bowling alley, and a screen shows it too. The hotel also has virtual golf, a convertible indoor basketball court/tennis court, and other indoor sports type stuff.
  • The basketball court at the J.W. Marriott Marquis. This is the same surface that the Miami Heat uses to play on. Somehow they convert this thing into a tennis court with a tennis court surface. Crazy, no?
  • The Viceroy Hotel has the longest infinity pool in Florida, at 300 feet. It also has a really damn huge hot tub, which is the big square thing pool just below the long-ass infinity pool.
  • The Viceroy’s spa, designed by Philippe Starck, is Salvador Dali-surreal.
  • Coral Gables’ fancy-shmancy Biltmore Hotel has high tea every afternoon in its fantastically grand lobby. Note: high tea isn’t actually free, but it should be.
  • At the Acqualina Resort in Sunny Isles Beach, which is HQ for Russian oligarchs in Miami for their winter vacations, delivers complimentary fruit and homemade biscotti to your room, gives you a $40 a day spa credit, complimentary shoe-shine services, and complimentary transportation to Bal Harbour Shops and Aventura Mall.
  • The Epic Hotel, on the Miami River, has yoga mats in every room, and a complimentary wine hour in the lobby. Yoga matts and wine hours seem to be a thing for Kimpton Hotels, because the Surfcomber, also a Kimpton, in South Beach has the exact same amenities. The Epic also has a full service private marina. (which is where the public Miami River Walk is supposed to be, but isn’t, but we digress) The marina is quite popular with the superyacht crowd, and even offers “on-vessel catering”, in case your chef wants to party it up in South Beach, or whatever. Mark Cuban’s yacht Fountainhead, as well as Ronin, which was previously owned by Larry Ellison, were both recently there.

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