The latest Menin Hotels establishment, the Gale South Beach is the restoration of two historic art deco hotels, connected together and then topped by a large rooftop addition. This party hotel embraces its urbanity by packing a lot of fun into a narrow piece of real estate. Rooms come with doorbells, books scattered about, and citrus trees on the balconies.

The Miami outpost of the James Hotel brand includes two very popular new restaurants, a large, gracious lobby, a wicked-cool modernist grand staircase, and a front lawn/driveway that doubles (or at least they act like it doubles) as an event venue. Do check out the topiary furniture. It's fun. Meanwhile the hotel has an interesting art collection, and the rooms contain custom-made and eclectic built-in furniture.

The decor of the Dream is either supposed to evoke a dreamy state of consciousness, or maybe a hallucinogenic, chemically induced world. Either way, it's an otherworldly party hotel where perfect strangers aren't afraid yell at you to join them in the pool.

The St. Regis, with its two condo towers and one hotel tower, is all about money. In fact, the sheer enormity of sales happening at the Reg have singlehandedly pushed Bal Harbour's average property values up by a whopping 31.4%. Then there's the army of servers, staff, and stewards who will do absolutely everything, from opening a door to chewing your food, for you.

Okay the Freehand Miami is technically a hostel, and the Hotel Heatmap is about hotels, but this place raises the bar for hostels by like a million degrees. Built by the guy that did the Ace Hotels, the Freehand was also designed by Roman & Williams, and has a bar by the hip bar company 'Bar Lab.'

Apparently the Pestana South Beach Hotel is the first Portuguese-owned hotel to open in the United States. The Pestana's 97 rooms and suites fill up four restored art deco buildings clustered around a central pool deck.