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Fort Lauderdale and Broward County

Fort Lauderdale and Broward County Travel Guide

Collegiates of the 1960s now returning to Fort Lauderdale would be hard pressed to recognize the onetime "Sun and Suds Spring Break Capital of the Universe." Back then, Fort Lauderdale's beachfront was lined with T-shirt shops, and downtown consisted of a lone office tower and dilapidated buildings waiting to be razed. Today, the beach and downtown have exploded with upscale shops, restaurants, and luxury resort hotels equipped with enough high-octane amenities to light up skies all the way to western Broward's Alligator Alley. At risk of losing small-town 45-rpm magic in iPod times—when hotel parking fees alone threaten to eclipse room rates of old—Greater Fort Lauderdale somehow seems to be melding disparate eras into nouveau nirvana, seasoned with a little Gold Coast sand. More »

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