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A snowbird I am not, but when New York City’s frigid temps became too much (or too little, I should say) this January, my sister and I jetted off to Miami for a weekend of warmth—and to see Unrivaled, the WNBA’s off-season three-on-three league. When I put a call out on Instagram for a chic place to stay, the answers were almost unanimous: Esmé Hotel Miami Beach. We booked it immediately.
Photo by Hote Esmé
First things first: Esmé is in South Beach, but not on the beach, which wasn’t a deal-breaker, considering the ocean is less than a five minute walk away (and the hotel guarantees all guests a chair on the sand). The real selling point, and the one that drew me to the boutique space, is that it doesn’t feel like a hotel at all—the 145 guest rooms are spread out among eight Spanish-Mediterranean style buildings constructed in the 1920s to be a bohemian artist’s colony. (The inspiration? New York’s Greenwich Village.)
