For Art Basel you should try to stay at The Sagamore Hotels on South Beach if your really into Art, the hotel is beautiful and a true gem but the owners are some of the biggest art collectors in Miami and the place is always great, also a cool local scene as well on the weekends and a fun restaurant downstairs.

The Ritz Hotel in SOBE is also nice on the beach….
The best hotels are probably sold out because of Art Basel, if you are lucky and find rooms then we would suggest:
Setai,
Tides,
Victor,
W Hotel
Gansevoort.
Shaun as well and Fontainbleau is good.

If the beach is very full, there is always the Viceroy on Brickell.

Delano Hotels is real good too.

During the Art Basel in Miami, there are a lot of cocktails and parties in the Design District!
Art works everywhere in Miami Beach!

So, try to find a room in South Beach and move without car!

Here the Hotels Page to check rates in South Beach

Best Restaurants we suggest in this period:

Nobu at Shore Club, Casa Tua (Best Italian Ever), Blue Door, and Touch.
All are with walking distance in South Beach Art Decò District.

A great place (and one of the most popular in Miami Beach) to go for dinner is Prime 112.
It’s a steak house that’s always packed with people and has a great vibe.
But make sure to reserve in advance. It’s always full.
We advice that sometime even with reservations you´ll have to wait a lot,

Also Rose Bar at Delano is always a scene.

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Comments and Advices from our Guests:

Miami is a place that has fun 7 days a week. But you have to know that each place has there own day. But during weekends almost every place is fun, also you have to understand that you are coming to Miami few days before the Art Basel, so its will be crazy here, but most people who you will meet will be tourists.

Most Miami people will live the city during this weekend. So I can advice to you next places:

Friday - Evening you can go for drinks to Gansevoort roof top, its one of the latest places. Delano is also not bad place to be on this day. Night: Mint Club, Set Club and Luis Club.

Saturday – Sunday is a day of Fontainebleau hotel all day long. You can start with a pool there, for have a place near the pool, you have to get in touch with managers from pool aria and reserve places. Then u can go to the lounge aria at the same hotel, they have more then 10 restaurants and beautiful lounges inside and outside. Finally – Live Club at the same hotel, the best spot for Saturday night.

Sunday - You can start with a Shore club pool, it’s the most fun pool for young people. Its guest list only, so you have to go not from the mane entrance but from the side entrance, and say that you are going to the Jason promoter, but in this case you have to come with girls, one girl – for one boy, or you can try to buy a bottles there.
After there is not so much to do… You can go again to Shore Club for drinks, and later they have a club there – Red Room. Or you can check Set Club.

Restaurants: My first chose: Prime112, Devito, Nobu sushi, D’Azure and BartonG.
All this restaurant need reservation, specially the last one!

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Comments and Tips from our Guests:

1) Prime 112
2) Joe’s Stone Crab
3) Barton G.
4) Azul
5) Nobu
6) China Grill
7) Casa Casuarina
8) Nemo
9) Meat Market
10) Osteria Del Teatro

Try also:
The Forge
Sushi Samba
Capital Grille
La Dorada (best paella)
Ortanique
Talua
Il Gabbiano
Casa Tua
Quattro
Chocolate Fashion in Coral Gables
Shorty’s BBQ in the financial district of Kendall..not the fanciest place, but great ribs and baked beans
Whisk in Coral Gables is a tiny place near Merrick Park that is really great..the menu changes.

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Something that is always present in South Beach are food and music.

The main streets are Ocean Drive, Collins Avenue, Lincoln Road and Espanola Way. In Ocean Drive one will usually eat fish, in restaurants fronting the street. However, the trendiest and fanciest restaurants are found in Collins Avenue.

They don’t have an outside view, so their strong points are more in the design, preciousness and dish style departments.

Espanola Way and Lincoln Road are the most romantic streets.

You can find famous Italian Restaurants in these streets. Off-limits for cars and full of people, you’ll dine by candle light, breath inside a magic, light atmosphere, made up of a thousand colours and lights.

There is music, table chatter, which means a lot of ways of socializing. Everybody feels like they’re on holiday in SoBe and they are much more inclined to smiling and chatting.

Meeting people is quite easy.

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