Acqualina Resort on the Seashore (Miami, USA)

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August 18, 2022

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

Acqualina Resort & Residences on the Seashore is an award-winning Forbes 5 Star, AAA 5 Diamond property located on 400 toes (120 m) of pristine white sands on Sunny Isles Seashore, an upscale Miami suburb. The resort’s unobstructed views create a singular, sea-level expertise as the luxurious inexperienced gardens effortlessly succumb to the sand. Friends 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 friends as they enter their lodging.

Acqualina Resort options in my high 10 listing of the finest luxurious lodges in Miami.

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On this overview (extra information and images beneath my YouTube video):

PROS & THINGS I LIKE

Acqualina Resort is situated on 4.5 beachfront acres with 400 toes (120 m) of gorgeous Atlantic Ocean shoreline in Sunny Isles Seashore, Florida. Located between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Sunny Isles Seashore is known as Florida’s Riviera for good purpose. Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Intracoastal Waterway to the west, the neighborhood is dwelling to beautiful oceanfront parks, lavish resorts, and two miles of pristine white-sand seashore (3 km). The colourful daytime actions and nightlife of Miami Seashore, South Seashore, 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, friends 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 incorporates a distinctive design that fuses contemporary modern European styling with distinctive Outdated World architectural components. The latter embrace sculpted archways, Baroque fountains and a grand porte-cochere with a domed cupola, giving Acqualina Resort a wonderful Italian aura.

After getting into the constructing from the out of doors arrival piazza, friends 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 some other 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, purple, and aubergine shade palette. The foyer’s vaulted ceiling is roughly 30 toes (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 recent luxurious with traditional furnishings and finishes, every of Acqualina Resort’s 54 visitor rooms and 44 suites current outsized ground plans and personal balconies. Throughout my go to, I used to be upgraded to a powerful one bed room oceanfront suite. Providing an unobstructed ocean view, the suite featured a bed room with a king-size mattress, a separate lounge, a totally outfitted 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 out of doors swimming swimming pools present a haven for leisure and are all designed within the resort’s signature purple hues. The ‘Recreation Pool’ is the biggest pool space and surrounded by dozens of palm bushes; its gradual zero-entry makes it ideally suited for households with toddlers and infants. The ‘Seashore Membership Pool’ provides loads of motion with pool video games and actions solely steps away from the seashore. Lastly, there’s additionally the ‘Grownup Pool’, a haven for friends 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 embrace personalised service and numerous facilities to make the friends’ day within the solar extra pleasing.

Acqualina Resort provides direct entry to a powerful stretch of pristine white-sand seashore. In actual fact, Acqualina Resort is Florida’s solely resort of its type to be constructed fully open to the ocean, with none boundaries between the 51-story tower and its 400 toes (120 m) of glistening Atlantic shoreline. The property operates a seashore membership proper in entrance of the resort, with comfy solar beds, towels and umbrellas out there to all friends (for no further cost). One in all Acqualina’s distinctive format ideas are completely manicured inexperienced lawns underneath the palm bushes alongside the seashore that function a number of lounge seating areas. These complimentary lounge seats can be found for friends’ enjoyment and leisure however must be reserved 24 hours prematurely.

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 each day for lunch and dinner, and in addition serves breakfast and Sunday brunch, all in an intimate indoor/out of doors 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 out of doors seating overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
- Costa Grill, open each day for lunch from 11:00 am to six:00 pm, is the right spot to take pleasure in a beachside lunch or a light-weight snack. As Miami’s solely restaurant that’s fully adjoining to the seashore, Costa Grill delivers a white tablecloth expertise with a Floridian menu with Mediterranean influences in a beautiful setting.
- Situated on the resort’s foyer stage, the Gelato & Espresso Bar provides quite a lot of specialty espresso, superior high quality gelato, custom-made pastries, do-it-yourself chocolate cookies, French Macarons and extra. Friends might take pleasure in a espresso or snack on the run, whereas enjoyable on the resort’s oceanfront swimming pools and seashore or within the consolation of their guestroom or suite.

Situated on the bottom ground, subsequent to the foyer, is an expensive two-story wellness middle. Known as Acqualina Spa, the middle overlooks the glistening Atlantic Ocean and offers friends with a tranquil sanctuary. Acqualina Spa combines one of the best of historical and fashionable therapies with the newest and best skincare advances. The spa consists of 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 phenomenal out of doors terrace full with a spa pool, heated jet pool, and Roman waterfall.

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

Acqualina provides Acqua Experiences, a inventive, curated program stimulating the senses and interesting friends by way of memorable moments each throughout the resort and all through the bigger Miami space. Acqua Experiences are various and actually provide one thing for everybody. Extra adventurous households can sign-up for scuba classes with Squalo Divers, a PADI 5 Star Dive operation, or be taught to swim like a mermaid with Aqua mermaid water courses. Meals lovers will wish to be part of a personal tour of the town’s high 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 kids 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 change into campers and have enjoyable with studying and discovering a brand new appreciation, love and respect for the ocean by way of instructional palms 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 seashore to creating an edible coral polyp, kids are positive to have a blast all whereas studying in regards to the deep blue sea.

CONS & THINGS TO KNOW

Not like most different seashore resorts in Miami, which attempt to wow friends with a minimalist aestethic, Acqualina Resort incorporates 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 friends, the design will really feel trendy, exuding a complicated European ambiance. However some would possibly discover that the Italian-esque decor has a Las Vegas vibe and that the interiors really feel barely outdated in comparison with the modern, excessive design luxurious lodges which have opened in Miami since Acqualina Resort’s debut.

Other than the seashore and the resort’s personal glorious amenities, there’s little to discover on foot across the resort, aside from the retailers and eating places in Sunny Isles Seashore itself (which aren’t notably charming). I assume most friends gained’t be bothered by this lack of fascinating locations close by as they like to remain on the resort itself and make the most of all its world-class amenities. Nonetheless, if you wish to store outdoors of Sunny Isles Seashore, then a cab or Uber shall be essential to go to Bal Harbor, Downtown Miami, Bayside or South Seashore.

Sunny Isles Seashore – which faces the east – is dwelling to dozens of high-rise condos, the vast majority of them constructed because the early 2000s and having gorgeous ocean views. Nonetheless, there’s additionally a draw back to this glamorous surroundings because the skyscrapers throw their shade on the seashore 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 a lot of the seashore was within the shade by 4 pm.

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

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 shall 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
Total expertise: superb 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, each 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 by way of the 12 months but it surely it will get a justifiable share of rains from June to November. June has torrential downpours which will be because of the impact of Caribbean climate. August is the most popular month the place hovering temperatures and a great deal of humidity. September to November is the hurricane season and visiting throughout this time generally is a little difficult, however the seashores are least crowded and lodges can be found at an incredible deal. December to April are the driest months with least rainfall and nice climate. One of the best 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.