The Road to Havana: Key Biscayne/Miami

Hi All,

This was my very first time in Miami Beach, our first stop on  “The Road to Havana.

It looked pretty much like every other beach except for the plethora of high rise buildings

I was excited to visit the Art Deco Historic District in South Beach and stay at the celebrated Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.  As I began to make reservations at the Fontainebleau, I discovered that the famous hotel was not the small boutique hotel that I imagined.  Rather it was a giant 1500+ room hotel with 12 restaurants and one of the largest hotels in the United States outside of Las Vegas.  So we opted to stay at a much smaller, quieter and more intimate hotel.  We chose The Ritz-Carleton in Key Biscayne, only 25 minutes from Miami.  It seemed fitting that we would prepare ourselves for visiting socialist Cuba by staying at a capitalistic luxury resort in Florida.