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The Standard Review
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The Standard
- Address: 40 Island Ave., Belle Isle, Miami Beach, FL, 33139 | Map It
- Phone: 305/673-1777
- Fax: 305/673-8181
- www.standardhotel.com
- Price range: $
- Location: South Beach/Miami Beach
Fodor's Review:
An extension of André Balazs's trendy, budget hotel chain, the Standard is a Hollywood newcomer that set-up shop a few minutes from South Beach on an island just over the Venetian Causeway. The message: we'll do what we please, and the cool kids will follow. The scene is trendy, 30- and 40-year-olds interested in the hotel's many "do-it-yourself" spa activities, including mud bathing, scrubbing with sea-salts, soaking in hot or arctic-cold waters, and yoga. An 8-foot, 103-degree cascade into a Roman hot tub is typical of the handful of adult pleasures spread around the pool deck. An informal restaurant overlooks the Bay's Mediterranean-style mansions and the cigarette boats that float past. If you choose, you can go kayaking around the island. On the hotel facade you'll see the monumental signage of a bygone occupant, the Lido Spa Hotel, and the much smaller sign of its current occupant, hung, with a wink, upside down. The rooms are small and simple, though they have thoughtful touches like a picnic basket and embroidered fabric covers for the small flat-screen TVs. First-floor rooms have outdoor soaking tubs, but very limited privacy, so few take that plunge. Pros: Interesting island location, free bike and kayak rentals, swank pool scene, great spa, and inexpensive. Cons: Removed from South Beach nightlife, small rooms with no views, outdoor tubs are gimmicks, and mediocre service.
- Hotel Details: 104 rooms, 1 suite
- In-room: safe, refrigerator, DVD, Internet, Wi-Fi.
- In-hotel: restaurant, room service, bars, pool, gym, spa, laundry service, water sports, bicycles, parking (paid), some pets allowed, no kids under 14, no-smoking rooms.
- Credit Cards: AE, D, DC, MC, V
Member Reviews & Ratings:
DO NOT STAY AT THIS HOTEL
Posted by cuda347 from NYC on 6/19/08
I never wrote a review in my life, but was compelled to do so...This is absolutely the worse hotel in Miami...but actually more like a motel. When I checked in I was given the key to their best "Wet room suite" which means it comes with an outdoor soaking tub. The only problem is the tub barely fits one person...not ideal when you expect to -at least fit two people (isn't that the point)...next walk inside and the places stinks of mildew the floor creeaks and the walls look like painted cardboard...
I immediately asked for another room and was given one on the other side of the hotel by the pool. This room was smaller than the first with stronger mildew odor and hideous decor. I then asked the front desk for another room, he said " they are all the same" I then told him I was checking out and going to their sister hotel "the Raleigh" (SEE MY RALEIGH REVIEW - ITS NOT MUCH BETTER)
Any way they charged my card for one night stay even though I didnt stay there and I was extremely inconvenienced as expressed to their managers Juan and Fernando they would not credit my card. Not the best way to treat customers...
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