Acqualina Resort on the Beach (Miami, USA)

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In the present day: Evaluation of Acqualina Resort & Residences on the Seaside, Miami (Florida, USA)

Acqualina Resort & Residences on the Seaside is an award-winning Forbes 5 Star, AAA 5 Diamond property located on 400 ft (120 m) of pristine white sands on Sunny Isles Seaside, an upscale Miami suburb. The resort’s unobstructed views create a novel, sea-level expertise as the plush inexperienced gardens effortlessly succumb to the sand. Company take pleasure in expansive facilities, together with three oceanfront swimming swimming pools, three eating places, a tranquil spa, and a marine-biology-inspired youngsters’ program. The resort’s opulent design is impressed by the surf and sand, together with the Atlantic Ocean and intracoastal views that captivate company as they enter their lodging.

Acqualina Resort options in my prime 10 record of one of the best luxurious accommodations in Miami.

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On this assessment (extra information and pictures beneath my YouTube video):

PROS & THINGS I LIKE

Acqualina Resort is situated on 4.5 beachfront acres with 400 ft (120 m) of beautiful Atlantic Ocean shoreline in Sunny Isles Seaside, Florida. Located between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Sunny Isles Seaside known as Florida’s Riviera for good motive. Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Intracoastal Waterway to the west, the neighborhood is dwelling to pretty oceanfront parks, lavish resorts, and two miles of pristine white-sand seaside (3 km). The colourful daytime actions and nightlife of Miami Seaside, South Seaside, Wynwood, Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale are a brief drive away. Acqualina Resort is 20 minutes from Fort Lauderdale Worldwide Airport and half-hour from Miami Worldwide Airport.

Acqualina Resort is housed in a 51-story, orange and yellow stucco skyscraper hovering over the Atlantic Ocean on South Florida’s fabled shoreline. Upon arrival on the luxurious property, company are instantly transported from a bustling metropolis scape to an oasis of tranquility. The resort’s stately iron entrance gates usher upwards from Collins Avenue (a busy six-lane highway ) to a Tuscan-style piazza lined by colonnade walkways. The property contains a distinctive design that fuses recent modern European styling with distinctive Previous World architectural parts. The latter embody sculpted archways, Baroque fountains and a grand porte-cochere with a domed cupola, giving Acqualina Resort a wonderful Italian aura.

After coming into the constructing from the outside arrival piazza, company will discover themselves within the opulent foyer the place the check-in desks are situated. Like the outside of the tower, the Italian affect is felt right here greater than another model. The foyer feels extra just like the gallery of a palazzo and options marble flooring, Venetian stucco, and heavy materials similar to brocade and wealthy tones incorporating a gold, crimson, and aubergine coloration palette. The foyer’s vaulted ceiling is roughly 30 ft (9 m) in top. There are Venetian palazzo archways referring to the outside of the constructing which options gentle yellow to tangerine hues. At each ends of the foyer, there are stone archways and separate entrances for the tower’s condominiums and residences.

Designed to supply a way of contemporary luxurious with traditional furnishings and finishes, every of Acqualina Resort’s 54 visitor rooms and 44 suites current outsized flooring plans and personal balconies. Throughout my go to, I used to be upgraded to a formidable one bed room oceanfront suite. Providing an unobstructed ocean view, the suite featured a bed room with a king-size mattress, a separate front room, a totally geared up kitchen (with designer granite counter tops), and a big non-public, furnished balcony. The spacious toilet was outfitted with marble flooring, double sinks, {custom} self-importance space, bathtub tub, glass- enclosed bathe, and ESPA branded bathtub merchandise. The suite additionally featured a convertible den with a writing desk and twin mattress

Acqualina Resort’s three outside swimming swimming pools present a haven for leisure and are all designed within the resort’s signature crimson hues. The ‘Recreation Pool’ is the biggest pool space and surrounded by dozens of palm timber; its gradual zero-entry makes it preferrred for households with toddlers and infants. The ‘Seaside Membership Pool’ provides loads of motion with pool video games and actions solely steps away from the seaside. Lastly, there’s additionally the ‘Grownup Pool’, a haven for company 18 years and older with curated menu choices and a tranquil ambiance. Cabanas can be found in any respect three swimming pools for full-day leases and embody customized service and varied facilities to make the company’ day within the solar extra pleasurable.

Acqualina Resort provides direct entry to an impressive stretch of pristine white-sand seaside. In reality, Acqualina Resort is Florida’s solely resort of its sort to be constructed utterly open to the ocean, with none boundaries between the 51-story tower and its 400 ft (120 m) of glistening Atlantic shoreline. The property operates a seaside membership proper in entrance of the resort, with comfy solar beds, towels and umbrellas obtainable to all company (for no additional cost). Certainly one of Acqualina’s distinctive format ideas are completely manicured inexperienced lawns underneath the palm timber alongside the seaside that function a number of lounge seating areas. These complimentary lounge seats can be found for company’ enjoyment and leisure however must be reserved 24 hours upfront.

Acqualina Resort provides a number of choices for on-site meals and beverage service, along with in-room eating:
- Il Mulino New York – the resort’s signature restaurant – prepares genuine delicacies from Italy’s Abruzzi area every day for lunch and dinner, and in addition serves breakfast and Sunday brunch, all in an intimate indoor/outside setting. Il Mulino is the Florida outpost of the well-known Il Mulino restaurant in New York, which has been ranked the primary Italian restaurant in New York Metropolis by Zagat for an astonishing 20 years.
- With a various and eclectic tapas model menu, Ke-uH serves Japanese fusion delicacies in a sublime and fashionable setting that features indoor and outside seating overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
- Costa Grill, open every day for lunch from 11:00 am to six:00 pm, is the proper spot to take pleasure in a beachside lunch or a lightweight snack. As Miami’s solely restaurant that’s utterly adjoining to the seaside, Costa Grill delivers a white tablecloth expertise with a Floridian menu with Mediterranean influences in a stunning setting.
- Positioned on the resort’s foyer stage, the Gelato & Espresso Bar provides a wide range of specialty espresso, superior high quality gelato, custom-made pastries, home made chocolate cookies, French Macarons and extra. Company might take pleasure in a espresso or snack on the run, whereas enjoyable on the resort’s oceanfront swimming pools and seaside or within the consolation of their guestroom or suite.

Positioned on the bottom flooring, subsequent to the foyer, is an expensive two-story wellness heart. Known as Acqualina Spa, the middle overlooks the glistening Atlantic Ocean and supplies company with a tranquil sanctuary. Acqualina Spa combines one of the best of historical and fashionable therapies with the newest and most interesting skincare advances. The spa contains separate girls’s and males’s leisure lounges that includes Himalayan salt partitions, warmth experiences areas, crystal steam rooms, arctic ice fountains, expertise showers, and Finnish dry warmth saunas. There are 11 multi-functional remedy rooms and an extravagant Royal Spa Suite for 2, in addition to a wonderful outside terrace full with a spa pool, heated jet pool, and Roman waterfall.

For these searching for a extra lively trip, Acqualina provides a state-of-the-art health heart, situated on the Mezzanine Degree. The middle is supplied with the Technogym Artis line, the primary ever totally built-in assortment of cardio, energy and useful merchandise. The Technogym Artis line redefines the train house with seamless design, related experiences, pure motion feeling and the power to scale back, recycle and renew power. There’s a Peloton bike providing dwell and on-demand rides with elite instructors. The resort also can organize watersports only a 5 minute stroll on the seaside in addition to golf and tennis for company at close by golf equipment.

Acqualina provides Acqua Experiences, a artistic, curated program stimulating the senses and fascinating company via memorable moments each throughout the resort and all through the bigger Miami space. Acqua Experiences are various and really provide one thing for everybody. Extra adventurous households can sign-up for scuba classes with Squalo Divers, a PADI 5 Star Dive operation, or study to swim like a mermaid with Aqua mermaid water courses. Meals lovers will need to be a part of a personal tour of town’s prime eating places and meals halls, whereas those that love being on the water will take pleasure in a personal yacht cruise with a day at sea.

AcquaMarine is a complimentary program providing supervised actions for youngsters ages 5-12. Two session are supplied per day for as much as 5 kids in every session (9:30 am to 12:15 pm, and 1 pm to 4 pm). AcquaMarine was designed and impressed by the resort’s ocean setting and all the ocean life inside. Throughout this system, kids turn out to be campers and have enjoyable with studying and discovering a brand new appreciation, love and respect for the ocean via academic arms on actions. Campers make the most of computer systems and iPads to customise their studying expertise inside every theme. From sizing up whales on the seaside to creating an edible coral polyp, kids are certain to have a blast all whereas studying in regards to the deep blue sea.

CONS & THINGS TO KNOW

In contrast to most different seaside resorts in Miami, which attempt to wow company with a minimalist aestethic, Acqualina Resort contains a extra conventional design, primarily interesting to discerning vacationers and beachgoers from the USA. Bedecked with Italian fountains and Baroque-inspired structure, the property options lavish interiors and opulent areas that evoke the Mediterranean, all to cosset the beau monde. Whether or not you’ll just like the resort’s distinctive model or not, will all rely by yourself private style. For many company, the design will really feel fashionable, exuding a classy European ambiance. However some may discover that the Italian-esque decor has a Las Vegas vibe and that the interiors really feel barely outdated in comparison with the glossy, excessive design luxurious accommodations which have opened in Miami since Acqualina Resort’s debut.

Apart from the seaside and the resort’s personal wonderful amenities, there’s little to discover on foot across the resort, apart from the retailers and eating places in Sunny Isles Seaside itself (which aren’t significantly charming). I assume most company received’t be bothered by this lack of fascinating locations close by as they like to remain on the resort itself and reap the benefits of all its world-class amenities. Nevertheless, if you wish to store outdoors of Sunny Isles Seaside, then a cab or Uber can be essential to go to Bal Harbor, Downtown Miami, Bayside or South Seaside.

Sunny Isles Seaside – which faces the east – is dwelling to dozens of high-rise condos, nearly all of them constructed for the reason that early 2000s and having beautiful ocean views. Nevertheless, there’s additionally a draw back to this glamorous surroundings because the skyscrapers throw their shade on the seaside within the late afternoon. For instance, at Acqualine Resort, through the time of my go to in April 2022, the swimming pools had been within the shade by 2 pm and many of the seaside was within the shade by 4 pm.

Room charges at Acqualina Resort are very costly and so are the costs for its onsite companies (e.g. eating places, spa therapies, excursions). Nevertheless, that shouldn’t come as a shock since Acqualina Resort is taken into account among the finest luxurious resorts within the higher Miamia space and its suites are splendidly swish and all not too long ago renovated. Additionally, the resort is beneficiant in some methods, by not charging that pesky resort price so widespread in Florida, and by providing its company complimentary highspeed WiFi, plus entry to its spa amenities and the excellent AcquaMarine program for children.

There may be some intermittent noise emanating from the event on the adjoining constructing lot. I didn’t discover it to be very disturbing throughout my go to, however the building noise is there nonetheless, particularly on the nortern part of the resort (across the aduls pool). The event is on schedule to be completed by subsequent 12 months, after which two 50-story boutique towers can be dwelling to The Estates at Acqualina, an extension of the present Acqualina Resort.

MY VERDICT

Location: 9/10
Design: 8/10
Pool: 9/10
Room: 8/10
Meals: 8/10
Breakfast: 8/10
Spa: 8/10
Service: 9/10
Worth for cash: 7/10
General expertise: excellent 8,6/10

TIPS FOR FUTURE GUESTS & SAVE MONEY

Get monetary savings: get complimentary VIP perks at Acqualina Resort when reserving by way of Virtuoso (e.g. improve, every day breakfast, early check-in, late check-out, and $100 USD spa credit score).

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BEST TIME TO VISIT

Miami has heat climate all via the 12 months but it surely it will get a fair proportion of rains from June to November. June has torrential downpours which might be as a result of impact of Caribbean climate. August is the most well liked month the place hovering temperatures and a great deal of humidity. September to November is the hurricane season and visiting throughout this time could be a little tough, however the seashores are least crowded and accommodations can be found at a terrific deal. December to April are the driest months with least rainfall and nice climate. The most effective time to go to Miami is through the months of March and Might: the vacation season is over, nice spring has arrived, and the temperature is comfy.

HOW TO GET THERE

Acqualina Resort is 20 minutes from Fort Lauderdale Worldwide Airport and half-hour from Miami Worldwide Airport. Click on right here for an inventory of airways that provide direct flights to Fort Lauderdale Worldwide Airport and right here for an inventory of airways that provide direct flights to Miami Worldwide Airport.

PHOTOS

Beneath is a choice of my pictures of Acqualina Resort. To view extra pictures of the resort (together with breakfast and dinner), click on right here.