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W South Beach Gets Its First Review

Where: 2201 Collins Ave [map], Miami Beach, FL, United States, 33139

We're sick of seeing renderings of the W South Beach. Got a real snapshot of the new hotel? Send it to us.

As we'd been highly (highly) anticipating for a very long time now, W South Beach is now open. Glorious! And after its inaugural weekend, the place has gotten its very first review on TripAdvisor. Even more glorious.

Not so glorious: it's not very good.

Okay, yes, so it's the very first review on TripAdvisor — we understand that one person's experience does not necessarily represent the quality and performance of a brand new hotel (nor is the quality and performance of a brand new hotel necessarily representative of how the hotel's going to operate later on), but it's worth taking a look at only because it's the very first review.

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1, 2, 3 Pretty Good Reviews of Gloria Estefan's New Hotel

Where: 3244 Ocean Drive [map], Vero Beach, FL, United States, 32963

We dropped in on our trusty pal TripAdvisor to check in on Gloria Estefan's new Vero Beach hotel, Costa D'Este, now that it's been open for a few weeks.

And the verdict? All three guest reviews have given the hotel four out of five stars. Guests were satisfied with the location (rooms "20 feet from the pool and 50 yards from the ocean"), the rooms and even the green attributes like "green flushing instructions."

There were, of course, a few service-related kinks that needed to be worked out, but that's to be expected of a brand new hotel (though still unacceptable) - but user goldring suggested maybe the staff should go to the Ritz for training (ooooh, burn!)

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