Grand Beach Hotel Bay Harbor

Forty-room Grand Beach Hotel Bay Harbor sits on Bay Harbor Islands' East Bay Harbor Drive, a residential strip of Biscayne Bay bridges between Miami Beach's Collins Avenue and the mainland — a quiet base for travelers wanting distance from South Beach crowds while staying a ten-minute drive from Lincoln Road.

Rooms face either the bay-side canal or the quieter interior island streets lined with mid-century homes. Bal Harbour Shops and its designer boutiques sit two miles north; Surfside's beach access points are reachable by a short drive across the Broad Causeway.