Review

Receive a free Hg2 guide when you book a room online

With 70 floors, the Four Seasons hotel and Towers building is the tallest on the Miami skyline and is visible from South Beach. Many of the Four Seasons’ guests are on business, but at weekends a good proportion book in on vacation. Like the Ritz Carlton, guests know pretty much what to expect – except at this Four Seasons, giant Buddha-like statues stand in the building’s main lobby as well as in the hotel’s lobby, alongside paintings of Latin American artists.

The rooms all include king-size beds, as one would expect, but also feature padded windowsills so that guests can look over Biscayne Bay and beyond in comfort. There are 221 rooms, including 39 suites in the hotel, and the pool area occupies two acres in which the guests can recline and sip on a cocktail.

The resident Italian restaurant Acqua is well rated, but the biggest plus point for this hotel is the Bahia Bar, which lures in the fashionable crowd and gives a predominately business-like atmosphere a kick up the ass.