Stay at the Mondrian South Beach. It's right near the 395 Causeway (where the cruise will leave from) and if you get a bay view room you should see some nice performance boats running back and forth through the cut. It's close enough to walk to Lincoln road and all the shops and restaurants. You can also walk down to the beach side Ocean Drive, Collins ave and Washington ave. Its also close to Montys raw bar, lots of nice boats ane eye candy. Everything is right there. You don't want to stay in Coconut Grove, you will be bored in 2 hours. You definitely don't want to stay in Deerfield Beach, that's like going to NYC and staying in Yonkers.

South Beach,

Check out
1. Delano
2. Mondrian
3. Fountainbleu.

Go to Monti's at the miami beach marina on friday night for happy hour, then walk up the sidewalk to Smith & Wollenskyies for a dinner on the water, at their outside bar

I like that analogy, ya got the Cove(now 2 Georges) in deerfield, but thats about it.

I can remember when The Cove would have 500+ people out on the outside patio/dock and the boats would be 3-4 deep on the dock on Friday nights about 12-15 years ago. Then the fire marshall decided that was too crowded and they cordoned off part of the dock to cut down the number of patrons it slowly died off from there!

You had to d@mn near park on Hillsboro to get anywhere near the place on a busy night!

That was before my time, but I have heard about it. Still good place, but if I am going to 2 georges, prefer Boynton.

Thanks again for all the help. Never been down there wanna try to hit all the waterfront bars I can.

You got a phuckin problem with people from
Ney York??

You can also stay downtown at the Epic hotel, they have a few good restaurants there that have a excellent food and great scenery, Zuma is one of the best restaurants in Miami. Nice view of the port and key biscayne from there also. Expensive shopping is Bal Harbour or Merrick Park, regular mall dadeland or aventura, outlet mall dolphin or sawgrass, you'll need a car to get to any of them. If you stay on the beach near lincoln road there is also shopping, eating and scenery there. W, Setai are nice hotels on the beach, fountainbleau can be kind of a clusterf*** on the weekends.