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Yet Another Hotel Delay: Regency Bal Harbour

Where: 10295 Collins Ave [map], Bal Harbour , FL, United States, 33154

Never, ever plan your vacation around a hotel that promises it's going to open right at the start of said vacation. Our experience here tells us more and more that very few hotels hit their opening day. We've been excited about the Regent Bal Harbour having a New Year debut for a few months now--anticipating just how relaxing that Guerlain Spa was going to feel--and dumbly believing that their promised January 2 open date would take place.

Alas, January 2 has now come and gone, and you can no longer make online reservations for January. These days the website says (in small print, after you try to make a booking) that the Regent Bal Harbour is now accepting reservations for arrivals from February 1, 2008. Let's hope they didn't make a small typo and mean 2009. Because we don't want to have to rely on these hotel photos with weird airbrushed clouds in the windows for much longer.

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