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**Dirtyfilthymech** · 24-01-2010, 22:57

I'm going to Miami in May and have yet to book my accommodation. I don't know which area to book so I'm looking for a bit advise, Is it down town or Miami Beach?

Where is all the good night life?

Ta

**AFA06** · 24-01-2010, 23:10

South Beach!!!!!!!!

Just watch 'Burn Notice' and you will see why!!

**CountryGal** · 24-01-2010, 23:18

the news cafe on south beach makes a great place for brekie, and you can people watch at the same time ;o)

we stayed at the blue moon hotel on collins, a short walk from south beach,

Its a great city to visit - enjoy

**Sid447** · 09-02-2010, 15:06

Originally Posted by Dirtyfilthymech

I'm going to Miami in May and have yet to book my accommodation. I don't know which area to book so I'm looking for a bit advise, Is it down town or Miami Beach?
Where is all the good night life?
Ta

I stayed,

at the Holiday Inn. Decent enough. The "Mango Bar" is or was a brilliant night out.

**Miner** · 09-02-2010, 15:12

I thought Miami was a dump when I went there.
The hotel was a shite hole, the city was a shite hole, everyone looked crazy or a drug dealer, I couldn't get a drink anywhere, the women weren't interested in me, & the night life was crap.

Admittedly I was only 11 and it was 1987, but thats besides the point.
Although I did get my hands on some cracking G.I. Joe figures that hadn't come out in the UK yet. :D

**Fronty** · 09-02-2010, 16:25

Not really stopped in Miami, but just kept on going past it to Ft. Lauderdale. Maybe next trip (work) I'll try it and see what happens.

I'll let you know if I find knocking shop cum hotel cum bar cum shooting range in the Miami Dade area.

**Bouillabaisse** · 09-02-2010, 16:44

Originally Posted by Fronty

Not really stopped in Miami, but just kept on going past it to Ft. Lauderdale. Maybe next trip (work) I'll try it and see what happens.

I'll let you know if I find knocking shop cum hotel cum bar cum shooting range in the Miami Dade area.

I believe it's a large outdoor urban simulation range. You'll find it right outside your hotel (if CSI Miami is to be believed)

**Fronty** · 09-02-2010, 17:05

Are guests allowed to carry within this range? Whilst the wife might not agree with it, I'd like to try my hand with one of those "NevrEmpty 3000" pistols that seem to catpult badguys twenty feet in the air on a hit.

**POGscribbler** · 19-02-2010, 14:05

After a fortnight travelling around Florida the other year, Hurricane chasing (or rather they chased us) Mrs Pogs and I decided to splash out for the last few days and stayed at The Colony Hotel in Miami on South Beach, it was brill, also having mentioned I was in the Armed Forces We got upgraded to a swanky apartment so even better!! a short stagger to bars and restaurants and just across the road from the beach.

PoGs

www.pocketcomms.co.uk

**DavidBOC** · 19-02-2010, 14:27

Be sure to visit "Calle Ocho" which is the Cuban district. Name means 8th Avenue, not sure about the spelling. Lots of Cuban restaurants and Cuban pastry shops.

If you get there before May 15th try Stone Crab. Hard shelled crab but worth the work and the price. Joe's Stone Crab at far end of Collins is a bit pricy but very nice. By the way, crabs are not killed! They catch the beasts, take off the claws and throw it back and it grows new claws. You can only buy stone crab from Oct 15- May 15. Lots of good fish restaurants if you like fish.

There is a really nice seafood place in Coconut Grove eating outdoors on a dock. Eat and watch the yachts. I forget the name but if I talk to the the former wife in the next few days I will ask her if she remembers the name. Great place.

If you are going with kids the Miami Zoo is great. A bit of a drive from downtown on site of a former naval air station so they had lots of room building it. I would go to zoo even without kids but I am a bit weird and like that sort of thing.