jenna reimonenq

Review of Beacon Hotel South Beach

Ok let me clear some things up about this hotel. T...

Ok let me clear some things up about this hotel. This NOT a bad hotel but it is different from what you may be used to especially if you have been staying at 'brand name' hotels like Hilton, Marriott etc. The rooms are SMALL but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you are like us, and work the majority of your trips, or plan on spending very little time in your hotel room this is fine, My personal favorite thing about this room is that there was a ceiling fan and an AC unit. Sometimes A/C's tend to make the room feel humid especially if it's hot as all get out outside. The fan was clean (dust free) and cooled down the room without turning it into an icebox. The hotel has plenty of amenities HOWEVER, they are not as blatant about advertising them as you might hope. They provide a free breakfast which you will need to stop at the front desk to receive a voucher for, and they have a coffee and tea available (anytime) in the upstairs part of the lobby (I was confused when I didn't see any in my room). You can literally walk across the street onto the beach, and they provide complimentary beach towels (awesome bc we forgot ours in Georgia & were dreading the idea of paying 29.00 for a new one, yes that's the going price for a beach towel in South Beach) There's free Wifi & the room attendants are REALLY good about making sure you don't need cleaning, or extra towels or anything. The only thing that kinda sucked was there's no microwave in the rooms. Again, they are not as obvious about some things so it's possible there is a microwave somewhere but definitely not in the actual hotel room so there's no saving your food for later. There was some construction going on next door when we stayed so, between about 10:00AM and 6:00 PM it was a little noisy. The other sucky thing is that you will have to pay for parking 25.00 per day & valeting is hard bc of how crowded Ocean Drive is. With that being said our stay was nice! It was just a little different that what we were used to. Hope this helps someone :)