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Cardozo

  • Address: 1300 Ocean Dr., South Beach, Miami Beach, FL, 33139 | Map It
  • Phone: 305/535-6500; 800/782-6500
  • Fax: 305/532-3563
  • www.cardozohotel.com

Fodor's Review:

This three-story beauty was one of the first art-deco hotels to be restored on South Beach, chosen for its fine features, like the bold curved corners and niche-like side courtyard. Today you enter the lobby -- where you can watch videos of owner Gloria Estefan on three screens -- -from the courtyard. The Ocean Drive entrance is reserved for the happening Cuban-Chinese restaurant, Oriente. Leopard-print blankets and other artifacts collected on Gloria's world tours, as well as large baths with mosaic-tile sinks and terra-cotta walls, distinguish rooms here. Whether you opt for a room or suite, you'll have space to spread out. The views from the oceanfront rooms, especially 301 and 304, are impressive, and all rooms have CD players, including a good selection of Estefan's albums. Pros: Fair prices and lively Ocean Drive restaurant. Con: No pool.

  • Hotel Details: 43 rooms, 4 suites
  • In-room: safe, DVD (some), Wi-Fi.
  • In-hotel: restaurant, room service, bar, laundry service, parking (paid), some pets allowed, no-smoking rooms.
  • Credit Cards: AE, D, DC, MC, V

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