| The Overpriced, the Still Available and The Unknown Deals |
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Lords South Beach Hotel, 1120 Collins, a hotel that accepts everyone but is especially gay friendly. Rooms available at $350 to $467 for the penthouse, two weeks before Art Basel.
The New Yorker Boutique Hotel, above, at $119 to $136 for a deluxe room with King bed, and it comes with breakfast. 6500 Biscayne Boulevard. Miami. Three rooms left.
The Dream Hotel, a few rooms left at prices from $400 a night to $2,000 a night for a king duplex. 1119 Collins. The Dream combines two older Art Deco hotels and it's brand new this year. They seem to have hired the only hotel staff in Miami Beach at this level who care about customers. It’s a block off Ocean Drive, and close to Espanola Way, the Webster and the Wolfsonian.
The Epic, a Kimpton Hotel, has city view rooms, right downtown and on the Miami River, for $440 and water view rooms for $480. Across the road from DB Bistro Moderne. Great restaurants. Great pool area and bar.
A smattering of rooms available at one of the sponsors, JW Marriott Marquis. in Downtown Miami, opposite the Epic. Rooms from $439 to $523.
If the Marriott Marquis is booked up, try the boutique hotel that takes up the top four floors of the Marriott, the Beaux Arts, which has high-tech rooms available for $550 a night to $850 a night for a king suite with bay view and whirlpool. The Beaux Arts has its own check in desk, concierge, private lounge. Your friends will be amazed.
Mandarin Oriental, super luxury, not far from downtown. Rooms from $523 a night to $2,065 a night for suite with water views.
And finally, a hotel in a great location, right on the Miami side of the MacArthur Causeway, close to the Design District, 15 minutes from the beach, 15 minutes from the Convention Center. But no one can find it (because it's hidden in the top of a new building) and no one has heard of it. It's a RockResort, the Tempo, where a deluxe King is only $247 a night,
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