Review: Four Seasons Hotel Miami (Brickell’s Best Property)

We recently spent a few nights at the 221-room Four Seasons Miami. While probably not one of Four Seasons’ best properties, it’s still almost certainly the best property in Brickell, and it’s also priced relatively reasonably. I probably wouldn’t vacation here, but if you need to be in Brickell and are looking for the best option, this is the place to stay. It has a great pool complex, and offers the great service you expect from the Four Seasons brand.

Booking the Four Seasons Miami

There are two Four Seasons properties in the Miami area — there’s the Four Seasons Surf Club in Surfside, which I’ve reviewed separately, and then there’s the Four Seasons in Brickell.

The former is an uber-luxury beachfront hotel with cutting edge design, while the latter is more of a corporate hotel located in a high-rise in the heart of Brickell, and it’s also much more affordable.

So we decided to book the Four Seasons for a few nights. When we were staying the rate was $410 per night with a third night free, so in the end we spent about ~$275 per night. It’s also worth noting that the Four Seasons is pet friendly and doesn’t even charge extra for pets, which is rare.

Ford booked our room through the Four Seasons Preferred Partner program, which offers the same rate, but comes with additional perks, and is absolutely the best way to book Four Seasons hotels globally. Note that Four Seasons Preferred Partner is generally combinable with promotions being offered directly through Four Seasons, like a third or fourth night free offer.

For booking through Four Seasons Preferred Partner, we got the following perks for our stay:

• A room upgrade, subject to availability
• A $70 daily breakfast credit, valid either for breakfast in the restaurant or via in-room dining
• A $100 hotel credit to use during our stay

You can’t beat getting all of these extra perks just for booking through an eligible travel agent. Ford and his team are of course more than happy to help anyone book this hotel through Preferred Partner, and can be reached at [email protected].

Four Seasons Miami location

The Four Seasons is located just off Brickell Avenue, in the heart of Brickell. For those of you not familiar with Brickell, this is basically Miami’s business area — there are tons of high rise apartment buildings, offices, and great restaurants.

The Four Seasons is in a 70-story building, and it’s the second tallest building in all of Miami (after Panorama Tower). The building contains offices on most of the bottom floors, then hotel rooms are on floors 20-36, and then the residences are above that.

Four Seasons Miami check-in & lobby

The ground floor of the Four Seasons has plenty of seating, and then several sets of elevators, depending on whether you’re going to the hotel, residences, or offices.

The first set of elevators leads up to the seventh floor, which is where the hotel’s lobby is located.

The lobby was huge and felt spacious. The concierge desk was straight ahead and just inside the lobby, while reception was inside and to the right.

The check-in process was efficient and friendly. as I find to consistently be the case with Four Seasons. Within a few minutes we had keys to our room.

The lobby was pretty elegantly decorated, and had some Botero sculptures.

The elevators between the lobby and the guest rooms were towards the back, so to get from the ground floor to your guest room you had to take two sets of elevators.

Four Seasons Miami bay view room

We were assigned room 2109, which was an upgrade from a city view room to a bay view room. The standard rooms here are advertised as being 500 square feet, so they’re on the large side as far as standard rooms go. The room had an entryway with the bathroom to the left.

The room featured a king size bed (I love Four Seasons beds — the mattresses and sheets are the best of any hotel brand, in my opinion), and across from that was a TV.

Then towards the back of the room was a chair with a side table, a desk with two office chairs (so that it could double as a dining table), and then more seating at the window.

Back near the entrance was a coffee machine, tea kettle, and a minibar.

We were given a lovely welcome amenity consisting of a bottle of champagne and a fruit plate.

The Four Seasons isn’t quite on the water, though we did have a nice bay view.

The bathroom was well appointed, and had a sink, a proper tub, a walk-in shower, and a toilet in a separate room.

Toiletries were from L’Occitane.

Overall we thought the room was great. To be clear, obviously this isn’t the most cutting edge or visually stunning Four Seasons, but it’s priced accordingly. I did think the room was very thoughtfully designed for what it is — for example, I loved the proper desk, the office chair, and that there was even a second office chair, so that we could eat from there.

Wireless internet in the room was fast and free.

Four Seasons Miami EDGE Steak & Bar

EDGE Steak & Bar is the Four Seasons’ signature restaurant, and it’s open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The restaurant is just off the lobby, and has both plenty of indoor and outdoor seating.

We loved sitting outside, and in the evenings there were even heat lamps when needed.

Since we had a $100 hotel credit, we decided to have dinner at EDGE one night, which was excellent. You can find the EDGE dinner menu here. We had dirty martinis to drink.

To start I had a caesar salad, while Ford had a sunchoke salad.

We each had a filet as our main, and then ordered a side of charred brussels sprouts.

It was a very good meal, from the food to the service.

Four Seasons Miami breakfast

For booking through Four Seasons Preferred Partner we received a $70 daily breakfast credit, valid either at EDGE or for in-room dining. You can find the EDGE breakfast menu here. The Lavazza coffee was excellent, both hot and cold.

Over the course of our stay we tried the honey nut granola parfait, avocado toast, smoked salmon bagel, and two eggs any style, all of which we enjoyed.

The service at the restaurant really was top notch — the second day they already remembered our drink and milk preferences, so the attention to detail was appreciated.

Four Seasons Miami pool

I’m not a pool person, but the Four Seasons Miami has a gorgeous tree-lined pool deck, especially for a city hotel. It’s located on the seventh floor and is two acres, with awesome views. I didn’t end up using the pools, so I’ll let the below pictures speak for themselves.

Four Seasons Miami Equinox gym

Four Seasons properties are usually known for having great gyms, though the setup here is a bit different. The Four Seasons has an Equinox on the fourth floor, so hotel guests can use it at no extra cost.

Four Seasons Miami service

Service at the Four Seasons was phenomenal, as I consistently find to be the case at Four Seasons properties around the world. Where do we even start?

• I find Four Seasons employees to be friendly and professional, but not in an overly scripted way, as I often find to be the case at Ritz-Carlton properties in the US (for example, I don’t need to be addressed by name in every single sentence)
• The attention to detail was excellent — that includes them remembering our orders at breakfast, them always picking up within a few rings when we called, the prompt texting service for any requests, etc.
• The mask enforcement was excellent, and everyone in the hotel was wearing their masks correctly; I find that Four Seasons is a brand that’s committed to delivering on its promises, and actually put policies in place to ensure that (in the case of this hotel there was someone at the seventh floor elevator who both took temperatures and kept an eye on masks)

Bottom line

We had an excellent stay at the Four Seasons Miami, and ultimately got a good deal — we paid an average of ~$275 per night, and we got a $70 daily breakfast credit, and an additional $100 credit once during our stay.

It goes without saying that this isn’t the most exciting Four Seasons in the world, as it’s more of a very nice business hotel than anything else. However, the service really feels differentiated compared to most other places in Miami. I’d absolutely consider staying here again.

If you’ve stayed at the Four Seasons Miami, what was your experience like? Anyone else generally as impressed by Four Seasons as I am in terms of the consistency of excellent service?

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