EPIC Hotel - a Kimpton Hotel
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The new EPIC Hotel is the premier luxury hotel in Miami, a sparkling cosmopolitan destination on the bank of the Miami River where it meets Biscayne Bay. A stunning addition to Miami and the latest addition to the collection of Kimpton Hotels, this hotel epitomizes urban design while offering guests an unmatched level of style and service. True to our name, we do everything on a grand scale with an authenticity that attracts travelers from around the globe.
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Hotel Coverage: EPIC Hotel - a Kimpton Hotel
Five Hotel Restaurants We'd Hit Up for Miami Spice
Miami's two-month-long Restaurant Week-style promotion, Miami Spice, kicks off on Monday. Who cares if it's 90 degrees outside when you can score lunches for $22 and dinners for $35 at the city's best restos? Especially this year, when a slate of new hotel restaurants joins in the discounted fun for...
July 28, 2011
Which Hotels Do Miami Locals Love? You Might Be Surprised...
Forget all those fancy, glossy travel magazine awards--don't you want to know the inside scoop on the best hotels from the locals? The Miami New Times has just put out its annual Best of Miami list, and hotels are getting a lot of play. Since much of the dining and...
June 20, 2011
7 Last-Minute Black Friday and Cyber Monday Hotel Deals
The best days of the year are almost here. Forget Thanksgiving and the holidays, we're talking about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It's the most wonderful time of the year for bargain shoppers. We've culled together some last-minute hotel deals that'll ensure your holiday is even merrier. Just get...
November 22, 2010
Are You Ready for Some Football...Packages from Expedia?
It's a dream of ours to hit the road and go to NFL games all around the country--hell, we'd even go and see the Browns play the Bills. In December. So we love that Expedia helps football fans save money on last-minute trips to see their teams. If we...
September 23, 2010
The Latest On The Epic Case Of Legionnaires' Disease At The EPIC
It looks like the poor EPIC Hotel can't quite shake off the effects from last year's Legionnaires' bug. Today's Miami Herald has a report on the Miami-Dade County Health Department's study into the case and it turns out that there was Legionella bacteria found in the hotel's water system. While...
September 01, 2010
Five Miami Hotel Packages For Anyone Who Still Loves LeBron
It all started with the cabana blowout at the W South Beach. Now, the waiting list for Miami Heat season tickets is jammed and every business in town is King-ing up their product in order to cash in on the city's newest resident, LeBron James. Hotels are—of course—chief among them....
July 23, 2010
Miami Hotels Get Into the Miami Spice Restaurant Week Action
Who doesn't love a Restaurant Week? Especially when it's actually for two months and the deals are spread across the hottest hotels in Miami? Yep, it's almost time for Miami Spice, where from August 1—September 30, you can get three-course lunches for $22 and dinners for $35. All the usual...
July 20, 2010
Five Miami Spa Deals Worth Braving The Heat For
The Palms Spa at The Palms Hotel, South Beach You know how it's been over 100 degrees in NYC? The peeps in Miami have to put up with heat like this all the time—but thanks to the quieter summer months we get great promotions like Miami Spa Month, which...
July 07, 2010
Kimpton Offering Third Night Free for InTouch Members This Summer
While you debate the merits of joining a loyalty program for independent hotels, there's a new third night free promotion out this summer from Kimpton Hotels and its InTouch program.Hotel guests who stay two nights at participating hotels this summer will get the third night free. The offer is...
May 25, 2010
The EPIC Hotel is No Longer Waiting to Exhale: The Spa is Now Open
OK, so the buzz down in Miami right now is all Super Bowl, all the time. But if this week of partying is just too much and you need to escape, you can do it without fleeing the city. Just head downtown, where the Exhale MindBody Spa at the EPIC...
February 02, 2010
Where Saints and Colts Fans Can Find Last-Minute Super Bowl Hotel Rooms
Now that the N.F.C. and A.F.C. Champions have been decided (congrats to The Saints and The Colts), you really want to go to the Super Bowl, right? But with just two weeks until the big game, are there any hotel rooms left in Miami? Why, yes! Here are three...
January 24, 2010
The EPIC Hotel Has Reopened to Guests
After two weeks of closure due to a possible connection to Legionnaire's disease (and losing a reported $200,000 a day), The EPIC Hotel has now been given the official go-ahead to reopen to guests. The hotel was initially shut down after three guests became ill with Legionnaire's disease, one...
December 28, 2009
EPIC Is Moving Guests To the Intercontinental and Picking Up the Tab
It's not a very happy holiday for The EPIC Hotel which remains closed while the Miami-Dade Health department and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducts tests on the water system at the hotel. Last week, a press conference was held to clear the hotel in the death...
December 23, 2009
The Sunset Tower Hotel Won't Tolerate Drunk Make-Up Artists
Drunk Make-up artists! Table8 Closes at Cooper Square! Jimmy Buffett's Buffet Hotel! Miley's Barely There Shorts! It always seems that no matter how much Celebrity Scoop we write about in a given week, there's also lots more that we didn't have time to get to. So from now on,...
December 18, 2009
The EPIC Hotel is Not Responsible for Legionnaire's Disease Death
Despite the initial reports, it looks like the EPIC Hotel and Residencesin Miami has been cleared by the Miami-Dade Health Department in the case of the guest who died from Legionaire's Disease.We listened in on a press conference held late yesterday by the Miami-Dade Health Department and they were...
December 17, 2009
Avoid Hotel Disease in Miami by Heading North to Bal Harbour
Heading south for the winter but not so keen on contracting Legionnaire’s Disease? Obviously, you’ll want to steer clear of downtown Miami—despite its “hot new ’hood” tag, that’s where one guest died and two others fell ill with the Medieval-sounding sickness at the EPIC Hotel. But on the other...
December 15, 2009
Hotel Guest Dies After Contracting Legionnaire's Disease at The EPIC Hotel
A guestroom at the EPIC Hotel in downtown Miami.One guest has died and two others are still ill after contracting Legionnaire's Disease at The EPIC Hotel in Miami earlier this fall. The EPIC, a Kimpton Hotel, has currently stopped accepting new guests and have relocated current guests to different hotels....
December 13, 2009
Miami Hotels Love Art All Year Round, Not Just During Art Basel
Boy, that Miami is an arty town, huh? With Art Basel approaching next month, loads of hotels are coming out of the woodwork to remind us that they are art-oriented year round. We’ve already covered the art-collector owners of the W South Beach and the Riviera South Beach, and...
November 12, 2009
Miami's Epic Encourages Guests to Read With Wine
Plenty of hotels are pushing books onto guests these days, adding in-room libraries, Kindles or Sony eReaders to their list of amenities. We’re quite fond of reading by the fire or the pool at hotels but book club events, which are also on the rise, sound a little, well,...
October 08, 2009
Need Fashion Tape or Tweezers? Consult The EPIC Hotel's 'Forgot It? We've Got It' List
As more and more airlines start charging more and more money to check passenger bags, the chances that you forgot to pack some very-necessary toiletries into that quart-sized plastic bag to stuff into your carry-on suitcase, so you can avoid the ridiculous $20 fees, are probably going to increase...
August 26, 2009
Pitbull Films 'Hotel Room Service' Video at Miami's EPIC Hotel
Oh lordy. If you've been shopping in Forever21 lately, then you've probably heard the annoying new song from the rapper Pitbull called "Hotel Room Service." The song is just about doing it in a hotel room. Seriously. And Pitbull will get his girl whatever he wants--sort of redefining the definition...
August 13, 2009
Inside the EPIC Hotel (Home of that Rooftop Pool)
Yes, indeedy, those pools from yesterday’s Guess The Hotel game are on the 16th-floor terrace of the EPIC Hotel in downtown Miami. Last week, we had the chance to see if all those good reviews for the EPIC were warranted and we have to say, the EPIC hotel does...
August 12, 2009
Epic Hotel's 'Virtual Nightstand' Does Not Seem Particularly Epic
Huh. Yeah. So we got excited about Amazon Kindles at the Algonquin. And yes, we even got excited enough to put down our poolside go-to literature (Us Weekly, let's be real with each other here) when we heard about the sunshine-friendly Sony Readers offered by the Gansevoort. But for...
July 07, 2009
Have an EPIC Cabana Party With Yo' Momma on Mother's Day
Alright, Mother's Day is coming up very, very soon and you need to start getting your game up and figuring out what you're going to do for the Matriarch of your fam. Does your Lady of the House dig the whole chill-by-the-pool scene? Pamper her and make this Mother's...
April 27, 2009
Staying at the Epic Will Earn You an Epic Return to Miami
We have determined that the Epic Hotel & Residences in Miami, Kimpton's newest and one of its luxe-est, is kind of Epic EPIC. The reviews so far have been stellar. We want to stay there — like, really want to stay there — especially since we know it does...
April 08, 2009
Kimpton's Epic Hotel May Earn the All-Caps Name It Wants
Despite our distaste for the all-capital letters Kimpton's new Epic Hotel and Residence in Miami insists on using for its name (yes, EPIC, they shout), we were still pretty excited about its opening at the end of last year. Now that the Epic's been running almost three months, we...
March 05, 2009
What We Saw On Our Miami Hotel Drive-By
Our time is precious and during our quick visit to Miami today, we only had time to do a drive-by tour of some hotels. This saddens us because we'd really like some time off to actually walk through and perhaps grab a drink at some of the new Miami...
February 24, 2009
South Beach Starting to Sizzle for the Season
Some bite-sized Miami Hotel Mambo info for ya!While the Epic Hotel managed to open on time today, the Riviera South Beach has pushed back its date again. This time we've been told the hotel will open up just "days before" New Year's Eve. We are taking reservations for New Year's...
December 15, 2008
An Epic Year for Miami Ends With the Opening of Epic Hotel
2008 has been pretty big for the Miami hotel scene: the Mondrian and who could forget the much-hyped reopening of the Fontainebleau?And today, another one for the books: the first property in Miami for Kimpton Hotels, The Epic Hotel & Residences opens in Biscayne Bay on this oh-so-epic Monday. The...
December 15, 2008
Three Hot Hotels Still Opening This Month in Miami
Today was supposed to be a day of reckoning--hotel opening-style--in Miami but it's been kind of a bust so far. Here's an update on three hotels set to open this month in Miami--two of which were to open today. 1. MONDRIAN SOUTH BEACH:The word on the street is that the...
December 01, 2008
The Epic Hotel Will Open Dec. 15th
We just got word that the Epic Hotel in Miami will officially open its doors to guests on December 15. And even better, guests can make reservations online now for stays starting then. (Previously, only online reservations were being taken for January.) Another bonus? The room rate we found for...
November 17, 2008
Kimpton's Epic Miami Hotel Will Open Next Month
This season is a big one for Miami as a slew of hotels are opening in the next few months. We already have the Mondrian and the Riviera opening on the same day on Dec. 1st and the long-awaited Fontainebleau is opening this weekend.Now comes the first property in Miami...
November 13, 2008
Kimpton Gets Set for Epic (Second?) Debut in Florida
December 2008 is sure to be a momentous month for Kimpton Hotels, as a new pet-loving, quirky child of theirs is set to be born in Miami. Get ready for The Epic Hotel and Residences, a 414-room (!) property with two swimming pools, 11,000 square feet of meeting space,...
July 28, 2008
Partner Reviews: EPIC Hotel - a Kimpton Hotel
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Happy Hour between 5 and 6 p.m. with free wine. -
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Spring for the larger cabana, and make a long day of it. They don't mind if you camp out all night. -
get set up in a cozy 2 seater mini cabana bed....out of the wind!
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