Well, we've done it. Or, we should say, you've done it. Out of the 22 General Managers we started off with last week, representing a range of hotels around the world, you helped us pick a winner. And though there were many worthy contestants, in the endafter nearly 1,000 votesit...
December 07, 2012
You might dread the idea of visiting Miami in the summer, but thanks to annual promotions like Miami Spa Month, which kicks off on Sunday, it's actually not as bad as you might think. (Miami Spice, the restaurant version, starts on August 1). Throughout July and August, Miami's best spas--most...
June 29, 2012
Posh beach boutique hotel Acqualina Resort & Spa already has that classic Miami amenity: an Italian restaurant, Il Mulino. Now it gets the perfect casual accompaniment: a new restaurant serving pizza and gelato. This is music to our ears. Il Mulino is your typical old-world Italian restaurant--heavy on the pasta...
March 13, 2012
Need a little beach action in your day? The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau will serve it straight to your laptop screen, courtesy of webcams on its newly revamped website MiamiBoutiqueHotels.com. To help promote Miami as a hot destination, especially now that 'the season' is officially over, the GMCVB...
May 12, 2011
For hotels perched along South Florida's coast, a Killer View is essential. For the rooms facing west, many hotels tout their not-quite-killer-but-pretty views of the Intracoastal instead. Super posh Acqualina Resort & Spa in Sunny Isles is one of them--but when we dropped by the hotel last week we found...
April 05, 2011
The posh Acqualina Resort in Sunny Isles, FL is going green by, er, going blue. Instead of throwing a bunch of brochures and pamphlets into your guestroom every day, the resort has launched a Bluetooth messaging system that delivers daily hotel news and offerings straight to your mobile device....
April 21, 2009
It's official. Rosewood Resorts will no longer be managing the Acqualina Resort in Sunny Beach Isles, Florida.On Monday, we got word that RR was pulling out and today we got our hands on the official press release, issued by the Acqualina resort itself. It says:Acqualina informed Rosewood Hotels and Resorts...
October 24, 2007
A regular guest of the Acqualina Resort in Florida wrote into us saddened to hear that Rosewood Resorts was ending its management of the hotel. The hotel's website still states that it is a Rosewood Resort so this is not official news. But we thought we'd investigate anyways. So we...
October 22, 2007
If your New Year's Resolution is to crank up the romance in your life, then you need to know what about.com's Susane Breslow Sardone considers to be 2007's Best New Hotels for Romance. With tips spread from downtown New York (luckily this time avoiding the yet-to-open Downtown Hotel) to Rio...
January 03, 2007
Hey guys---you've heard of the four c's when it comes to buying an engagement ring, right? Er, you know, color, cut, clarity and carat. Right? Never mind, because now, thanks to Acqualina (a Rosewood Resort) there are five c's---the fifth one being concierge. Huh? That's right, the swank Sunny Isles...
October 02, 2006
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