Help me choose an hotel on a beach at/near Miami

[Sue's Mom]

We disembark our ship in Fort Lauderdale on October 16, and plan to hire a car for 24 hours to go to Miami from where we fly out at 1.30pm the following day. I love hotels on the ocean but have only stayed in Sunny Isles before. We are looking for a pleasant, clean friendly hotel on a beach that is not expensive. Hopefully that is not a tall order. Any recommendations for a one night stay would be really appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

[eandj]

Try Courtyard by Marriott Oceanside. Is located right on the beach and board walk. Average hotel , but great for outdoor lunches and drinks and walking on the boardwalk for blocks and blocks. Can cab it to South Beach easily. Check it out on Tripadvisor.com

[honeymooners10]

We booked this hotel for our August stay.. looks good and not too far away from anything.. we are flying into Ft Lauderdale 2 days prior to our cruise out of Miami

COURTYARD MIAMI BCH OCEANFRONT

3925 COLLINS AVENUE

MIAMI BEACH FL 33140

305-538-3373

[Sue's Mom]

Thank you very much. I will check those out when I am at home.

[pe4all]

We stayed at this hotel 3 days post-cruise in December. Nice hotel, rooms comfortable, pool nice (was hard to get a lounge - people camp out all day- use the lounge for an hour here or there, left towels on to "hold" the lounge - felt like I was on a cruise with the "chair hogs". Beach was very nice - we walked all the way to SB on the boardwalk! They will charge you for chair/lounges/umbrellas on the beach. Nice tiki bar - had music, and pretty good food/happy hours there. We would stay there again.

[Sue's Mom]

We stayed at this hotel 3 days post-cruise in December. Nice hotel, rooms comfortable, pool nice (was hard to get a lounge - people camp out all day- use the lounge for an hour here or there, left towels on to "hold" the lounge - felt like I was on a cruise with the "chair hogs". Beach was very nice - we walked all the way to SB on the boardwalk! They will charge you for chair/lounges/umbrellas on the beach. Nice tiki bar - had music, and pretty good food/happy hours there. We would stay there again.

 

That helps - kind of. It does not get a good write-up on Tripadvisor, though.