Soho Beach House

"Any decent hotel is in a dialogue with its location; obviously what works in central London would be absurd in South Beach. But the Soho House concept has proved to be eminently adaptable, even while it retains its core appeal — for an illustration you couldn’t do much better than Soho Beach House Miami. It’s set right on Collins Avenue, surrounded by hotels of every size and style, but none of them are quite like this one, a private members’ club whose highly covetable services and facilities are the reason for the lodging’s existence." - Mark Fedeli

"Soho Beach House has all the exclusive Miami Beach amenities with an intimate footprint. The Beach House features a 100-foot private pool with loungers, and a private beach with beds that come with fully-stocked coolers of Evian, coconut water, and fruit." - Travel + Leisure Editors

"Most of the parties happening this week will be stretching long into the night and not happening at the local watering holes, but behind the velvet ropes of hotels and private clubs. Soho Beach House has been home in years past to some of the most talked about events of Basels of yore. Get ahead of it this time by securing your name on the list or uppering your own home-city membership for access this time around to Miami’s outpost."

"This addition to the portfolio of British private club Soho House has given Miami the whiff of exclusivity it’s been missing of late—and it has every conceivable amenity required for a decadent seaside weekend, right down to a hair-straightening iron in guest rooms. A rework of the Art Deco Sovereign Hotel with a new 16-story tower, the 50-room hotel is in what’s been dubbed "Mid-Beach," and attracts Miami’s media and music heavy hitters, plus a considerable Brit contingent. Interiors mix retro Latino with the eclectic Anglo look for which the group is known: Rooms have Cuban-style tiled floors, leather armchairs, raw concrete beams, Mad Men–esque wet bars (complete with a lemon and a lime), and family-size showers stocked with products from the hotel’s spa. Blue-and-white towels cover wide loungers on the strip of private beach (complete with red iceboxes and watering cans to rinse feet) and daybeds by the large downstairs pool, and cabanas flank the eighth-floor plunge pool and cocktail bar. There are two more bars—a Latin-themed lounge serving punchy caipirinhas and a tiki bar abutting the beach—and the lively Cecconi’s restaurant does pricey but pitch-perfect steaks and pizzas. The labyrinthine Cowshed Spa takes its name to heart with rough-hewn wooden walls. There’s even a small screening room should the weather turn inclement."

"Soho Beach House: if you don't have a membership, you can still go to Cecconi's, they'll be there."