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The Tides South Beach: No Pool Yet But You Can Use The Hotel Victor's

Where: 1220 Ocean Dr [map], Miami Beach, FL, United States, 33139

The Tides South Beach still hasn't opened their pool area and won't do so until March 15th which is sad because high season is flying by!

A tipster sent in these renovation shots of the back of the hotel which we admit is never a flattering angle. Still the hotel's website does its best to be honest:

We recently debuted our first and most significant phase of a $14 million restoration effort. The pool will not be available until March 15, 2008 and you might experience varying levels of construction noise. We sincerely apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Note: This pool was expected to be done in January.

Fortunately it seems prices have come down. We found rooms for Feb. 25-28th at $399 a night for an oceanfront studio suite. Granted those are weeknights and the following weekend those rooms and those rates weren't available.

So far it doesn't look like the reviews have suffered on TripAdvisor but a few of them seem highly suspicious to us. The only recent one we trusted was the one which mentioned that the hotel has partnered with neighboring Hotel Victor for their pool.

Thus, we wanna know: Has anyone stayed at the Tides in 2008? If so, tell us how it went.