(not human translation from the original italian version)

The more comfortable and practical means in order to travel in Florida are sure the car, as it concurs independently to manage own routes through the region, moreover equipped of optimal practicability.

If you have intention to only remain to South Beach we advice against, it instead, because the parkings are expensive, make fines a lot easy and in short on foot, in bici or with the rolley, you will be able to enjoy Miami Beach without stress fully.

However, near all the airports, in particular those International of Miamiand in all best hotels are present the main agencies of car rental. To Miami Beach, there is the Avis in Collins Avenue to approximately 30 minuteren on foot from Lincoln Road.

Be aware from the small private companies. They have better prices but they are without attendance and the insurance cover often too much is limited. We advice against to them. If there is possible it is more economic to reserve the motor vehicle from the city in which you live.

In order not to have been strange on the credit card, consegnatela after to have filled up and premunitevi to make to find it from the attache’ to he gives back. If the car to the airport of Miami given back, tried to arrive with wide advance payment, is thousands of restitutions to every hour.

All the companies areas offer free Shuttle to the departures of the Miami International Airport. Fairies attention to come down to the reception of your airline. You ask attendance the driver for the Shuttle.

The roads are wide and very estates, incredibly straight for the lack of reliefs, and form an excellent net of communication through all the State.

It can be distinguished between easy simple Highways superhighways be them indicated from numbers and Interstates, free freeways of great communication that connect between they all the last States of the Federazione.Quest’ are indicated with a number preceded from I (for Florida I-95, the 75, I-10).

Roads of great sliding are famous Turnpike Florida (to payment) that it cross-sectionally connects the north and the south of the State, passing in the inside, and the Tamiami Trail (US 41, to payment) that it cuts the southern tip of the peninsula from Miami to Naples and beyond, crossing I’Everglades in a landscape of great suggestion.

This species of freeways, is always paid to the income.

US 1, perhaps one of beautifulst to the world, covers all longitudinally Florida costeggiando I’Atlantico, in order to reach, with a sulI’oceano spectacular distance, till Key West, the more southern extremity of the continental USA.

Beyond this point there is only the ocean and the Island of Cuba.

In order to travel in Florida the driver’s license is sufficient nearly all the countries, comprised those Europeans even if, international one could turn out useful that.

The cars are all equipped of automatic gearshift. Not there is the pedal of the clutch. And extremely useful, if not essential, to fortify itself of street papers it is of the State that of the cities, as it can turn out difficult to orient itself at sight.

The identifying one is decidedly less clear and complete than that European: the trusts direction pointers are more little ones and in position not always very visible for who guide.

Generally flowing but intense traffic and, in proximity of Miami and of the large city centers. The speed limits are of 55 mph (miles hour) on the state roads them (approximately 90 km/h), 55-65 mph on the freeways and the Turnpike, 30 mph in the zones inhabited and the cities.

The speed limits are highly compulsory: it is lively advised to respect them as the patrolling of the police is much assets and the pains for the rather strict trasgressori.

The benzine distributors are less frequent that in Europe, above all on the freeways, for which and advisable always controlling the level of the fuel. The Anglo-Saxon use is remembered second that the benzine, always without lead (unleaded), comes measured, in gallons (a galione = liters 3,785): a gallon costs approximately $ 1,5.

To the distributors us servants by themselves, what not much simple one, also because the instructions are alone in English and Spanish in the zone of Miami Beach: the first times convene, species if it has not prati us of the language, are made to help from someone; the payment is made directly to the manager in the inner cabins the little ones generally shop.

Wandering in train

The railway lines managed from the Amtrak, connect all from each other the main cities of Florida, with services efficient expresses and, always in timetable. The ticket “All aboard” a species of subscription railway to time, and extremely convenient for who means to travel in train through the State (puo to obtain near all the offices delI’Amtrak).

Wandering in bus

The Greyhound/Trailways connects all from each other the main cities of Florida and also many smaller localities. The buses comfortable, reliable and are equipped of conditioned air (for infor- mazioni and timetables to contact the several local centers).

Wandering by airplane

The services airplane in the USA are much efficient and frequent, in relation to the great user due to the distances alI’interno of the Country. All the main cities and citizens of Florida are equipped of airport for assured national and local connections from the greater companies, like Delta, American Airlines, Continental, Northwest United, etc

It is remembered that on the flights it is forbidden to smoke. Absolutely necessary and advised to the reaffirmation (also telephone) of the flights, or local that national and international, at least two days before the departure in order to avoid episodes of overbooking.

Wandering in Miami and Miami Beach

The Great Miami remembers a P2o the immense Los Angeles for the extension and the congestion of the traffic. The car is sure the more comfortable means in order to more visit the zones put off center of the metropoli and its outskirtses.

We however lively advice against to turn in motor vehicle to Miami.

It is necessary to have a detailed paper of the city for being able itself to orient in the great number of roads and highways they cross that it from north to south and east to the west. In with, with a minimum of practical, it is however enough easy to orient itself: avenues and the courts they run from north to south, the streets, terraces and ways from east to the west, the roads are instead diagonal, from nordovest to sudest.

The roads generally are numbered, some have also a name, others lack the numerical designation, as an example the Brickell Avenue and the Biscayne Boulevard.

The county of Miami-Dade and the majority of its localities follow the system of numeration of Miami. Wide viadotti (causeways) they join Miami to the before islands. In the center of the city it is difficult to park, especially during the week days, when all the offices are opened: the parking is always to timetable with parchimetro; there are then many covered parkings, to silos or basements (to payment): and it is absolutely essential to take of the field and the plan famous in which the car is parked, as it is much easy one to mistake themselves and to turn for hours without to find it.

For the center city and who it prefers to avoid I’uso of the car exist optimal services of public transit, managed from Meter Transit Agency. They consist in more than 450 buses on 74 lines with approximately 21 miles of transport sopraelevato express.

Tried however of farvi helping in the first times, is not the own easiest one to find the bus for where it is necessary to go.

Train exists also the line of Metrorail (sopraelevato express) that it goes from downtown Miami towards north to Hialeah and south, along LAST the 1, with race every 7 minuteren in the hours of tip and every 15-30 minuteren in the others.

II Metromover completes two rings around the avveneristica downtown Miami to thirty meters of height, touching all the greater hotels, offices and centers trade them that they animate ii heart of the city.

II train, completely automated, offers to an evocative vision daII’alto of the center city, running in the middle of the skyscrapers and over the more important roads. Race every 2 minuteren approximately. We advise also like tourist choice.

II bus service publics instead, covers all the city area, with various frequencies. The stopped ones are indicated from blue trusts and greens that indicate also the distances (puo to be useful to procure a timetable on the distances that interest).

Taxi service at last, also being enough efficient and comfortable (is beyond 2000 public cars in the entire county of Dade), is rather expensive; the cars are equipped of taximeter and some sovrattassa for baggages or passengers in more is not previewed.

It is advised however to use the less possible taxis, above all if very one has not prati us of the practicability, as often taxi drivers try to be useful for the insufficient familiarità of the tourists with the city distances, going around longer of the goose of the necessary one.

You take always famous of the of identification code of the driver on the right dashboard. Please, never not abandoned the taxi with baggages inside in order to see hotels, to enter in stores or other.

There are then to numerous Miami and Miami Beach companies that they carry out tours guided in bus through the more interesting points of the city: Old Town Trolley of Miami: tours of ninety minuteren in Miami or Miami Beach with departure from the Bayside Marketplace every half hour, between the 10 and the 16.

There is moreover the possibility of wonderful panoramic flights in helicopter of the duration of eight minuteren or more with the Gold Coast Helicopters, 15101 Biscayne Blvd., tel. 305/940-1009 (is advisable to reserve).

From the docks of Marine Bayside boats leave every day that carry out the turn of the Biscayne Bay (duration approximately two hours or) and small cruises more long the coast, while from docks of Bayside the Place Market boats leave that approximately complete tour of the port of Miami of the duration of an hour and means.

As in all the metropoli also to Miami take place episodes of violence and teppismo, than moreover they can be avoided trying to comply with the elementary norms of precaution, like not taking risks themselves in known or little thought zones to risk, above all of night, not leaving (also in car) values, money or photographic equipments incustoditi, not to pause in places blocks too much, not to accept alcunché from disowned persons, preferibilmente to travel with little cash, preferring traveller’s cheques and credit card. Never all together in pocket.

To always hold an alert behavior. We advice against Miami during the night.

Miami Beach is instead sure in Ocean Drive, Collins Avenue and Washington Avenue between before and the Lincoln Road also until to late night.

Please, girls alone always in taxi in order to return to house the night. You ask the driver to attend until to when you have crossed the portone. He is advisable to have with if always a cellular one.

Like many times over said in our pages, the number for every emergency is the 911.

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