Review: W South Beach

the one thing i dislike about the W is the lack of coffee makers in the rooms, glad to see this one has one! And i do hope that this is a chain-wide improvement!

The bunny is not random, but the Dutch kids cartoon character Nijntje (or Miffy in English)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miffy

"...as someone who typically doesn't go outside..." LOL

The bunny statue is a Miffy by Tom Sachs. It's relatively well known.

one of the pictures kind of contradicts your statement about balconies being private: /

I'll be staying at the nearby W Ft. Lauderdale in a couple weeks. They just finished a renovation, so it'll be interesting to compare it to the pricier South Beach property!

Zymm, I love both the South Beach and Fort Lauderdale W's, but the one in FLL has incredible service and some great bars. I prefer it to the South Beach one, which I think has a better beach and arguably better pool. Hope you have a great time.

I've stayed at SPG properties all over the world and this W is by far my favorite!

'Now, I’ll be the first to say that I don’t this hotel (or any hotel) is worth $3,000 per night'

Missing a word here Lucky 🙂 Great write up though!

What do you think the top 3 most luxurious W properties worldwide are?

The ex-gf and I sure had lots of fun on the balcony of the W South Beach 😉

Lucky - I'm not familiar with the SPG Amex Stars program that you mention. Have you reported on this before? How does one participate?

I immediately copied this and despite that someone noticed it also, I'll repeat it for my $.02:
"even as someone who doesn’t typically go outside".
Boy, that could be a whole blog post..... cooool...... !

Baked eggs? That's a poor interpretation of the Israeli dish Shakshuka.

@C.I. The Balconies shown in that picture are not the hotel room balconies, but rather the W Residences that you can see while looking down from the balcony of your hotel room. If you have not been to this property, I can understand why that might be confusing.

I'll be in the 4 points Sheraton MB in April 40K spg points 5 nites..$15 United non-stop Air ,$3 MIA shuttle (Uber $20), week Bus pass CHEAP . Love Royal Palm BUT 5 nites better then 2 .Stayed @ Hyatt across street from RP nice but 2 much $$$$ .

Nice,Safe Place,Bugs gone .Breakfast cheap $15 the rest zillion $$, eat off beach good food Cuban ect.

CHEERs

GREAT PHOTOS !!!!!!!!!!

What do you mean you don't go outside? Are you a vampire?

@PointsAreLife: That part of the hotel house the FABULOUS and MEGA suites. The megas are the top floor ones, with private outdoor mini-pools and BBQ (awesome) and the fabulous are all the ones below. Really great rooms with direct ocean view, outdoor showers and so on. The W Residences are not a special part of the hotel like in other Ws (Boston, New York, LA). When you buy a residence in the W SoBe you buy a hotel room, and often rent it back to the hotel when you are not there.

@Zymm: Writing to you from W SoBe now, and just stayed the past two nights in W FLL. The renovation is spectacular. Lobby looks great, there is a new sushi bar in there that serves sushi that even impresses a New Yorker like me. Rooms have great style and awesome features such as USB-outlets by the bed. You can text Whatever Whenever which reminds me of texting the St Regis butler. You are in for a treat!

@Lucky: Was the $3k/night rate for a standard room? That is pretty insane even for this hotel. In general it is possible to score some good cash deals and I have a 100% success rate of SNAs when booking off-peak in Jan, April and June. One of the SNA rooms is an Oasis suite which is huge 1BR suite with a media room containing a sofa bed, so basically a 2BR suite if someone is fine with sleeping on a sofa.

Wow
Everything is free and then a 5 star review.......Any connection?

That's a burrito, not a quesadilla.

Are you a vampire?

I stayed probably a week earlier than you! The room was nice (got Fabulous Suite upgrade as Plat), booked under Amex FHR and breakfast perk was anything. That said, the service at the hotel (check in, late check out - security knocking on door at 2p) was bad and then the fire alarms went off, but not on our floor (fire code ciolation). Manager said she'd check on the issues and get back to me - never did. I've been to so many hotes in SoBe, and though room was one of the better, I wouldn't return here. Tides on Ocean Dr is wonderful (and available with Amex FHR.)

Just stayed here last night for SOBE Fest. The location was great and staying on an AMEX FHR booking we were up graded to the room next to the one you had, 725. Unfortunately the stay went down hill from there. We checked in at 3:54 and had to wait until 4 "their standard check in time to get our keys, so much for the FHR early check in of noon. Then that night the hotel had "club music" cranked up so loud I could hear the base through my ear plugs and that went on until 2 am. When I brought this up during check out I was told that I was lucky it was a week day, on the weekends the club gets really loud and can go until 5 am. The hotel has a lot of positives but that noise level means I won't be going back. The management needs to decide are they a luxury hotel, or a nightclub. You can't be both.

Just stayed at the W in Santiago, Chile. Also a very nice property.

And I love the body butter toiletry. Best skin cream of any hotel.