Hotels/Areas to stay in Florida (Miami & orlando)

[Zippee]

We're thinking of going to Florida on honeymoon in Feb next year, staying 4 nights down around Miami/The keys & Everglades, then moving up state to Orlando or thereabouts for another 4 nights.
Does anyone have any recommendations of hotels &/or areas to stay in either region?
Also - any must dos around the state?

[Mr Trophy]

Zippee said:

We're thinking of going to Florida on honeymoon in Feb next year, staying 4 nights down around Miami/The keys & Everglades, then moving up state to Orlando or thereabouts for another 4 nights.
Does anyone have any recommendations of hotels &/or areas to stay in either region?
Also - any must dos around the state?

I would recommended you get a Villa in Orlando. We stayed with famiy and it was the business. Massive places for such a small price.

[fieldl]

The Gardens Hotel in Key West
Tides Hotel in Miami Beach
Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables

We did Miami and Key West earlier this year. All the above are excellent.

[absolutely]

We stayed in Kissimee, its was a fantastic house, palacial we called it. But cockroaches in the house even though it was spotless, armadillos and racoons raiding the trash every night. We saw the spaceshuttle go up, a memorable night.

[ab@]

Contact me through my profile if you would like to stay in a 5 bed/4 bath house with pool/tennis court, backing onto a lake. Kissimmee area.

Other than that, I would recommend the Marriott World Center in Orlando, nice hotel, nice restaurants and bars, stayed there a couple of times. Good atmosphere and well located.

http://www.marriottworldcenter.com/

[Zippee]

fieldl said:

The Gardens Hotel in Key West
Tides Hotel in Miami Beach
Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables

We did Miami and Key West earlier this year. All the above are excellent.

Thanks - they all look fantastic, trouble is they're also a little on the pricey side.
I'll put them to one side for now pending other suggestions.

As for a villa - it would be nice for a normal holiday but as it's a honeymoon we'd rather a hotel and the service associated with that.

[ThunderSpook]

We've just booked two weeks doing a similar thing in December Starting off in Orlando then heading down to Miami and the Keys, back up through the Everglades to Tamp and then back across to Orlando. I have my Stang booked

Haven't figured out all our accomodation yet though, just the first hotel booked with the flights.

Edited by ThunderSpook on Monday 4th August 10:36

[jamoor]

www.tripadvisor.com

although a villa may be rented on a week minimum basis, I got mine off ebay £200 for a week!

[JRM]

We stayed in the Sheraton Vistana Village, which has a number of apartments that are sub-let to visitors (sort of time-shre like), essentially a hotel style, but with much more space.

Ours was the same price as a hotel, but we had a 2 bed apartment, with everything you need. It's got a bit more of a relaxed atmos than a hotel we thought as well and some great pools etc

[Zippee]

ThunderSpook said:

We've just booked two weeks doing a similar thing in December Starting off in Orlando then heading down to Miami and the Keys, back up through the Everglades to Tamp and then back across to Orlando. I have my Stang booked

Haven't figured out all our accomodation yet though, just the first hotel booked with the flights.

Edited by ThunderSpook on Monday 4th August 10:36

How are you going about finding/booking hotels? Recommendations or just chancing it?

[ThunderSpook]

My OH is a big fan of Tripadvisor and spends ages going through the recommendations on there but to be honest I'm just going through Expedia and picking something that not everyone who's been there hates

Quite tempted to stay in a Disney hotel for our last few nights because we're coming home Christmas Eve, anyone know if the cheaper ones like the music one etc are any good? Things like the Polynesian are a little pricey

[ThunderSpook]

She's pointing me towards these two at the moment:

http://www.iveyhouse.com/

http://www.angelinaguesthouse.com/

Apparently they come highly recommended, and I'm being told I have to book them.

[AMCDan]

i did the same thing in June (not a honeymoon though!)

Key West is difficult to get right, we ended up staying in a comfort inn a wee bit too far out. You really do need to be down by the pier in the South for the sunset party etc.

I really can't remember which hotel it was that i would recommend. It was a private owned place - basically a large house, run by an English guy. He was really nice and looked at me and my mate when we enquired about a room and said: "you guys are going to have to make a life decision, because it's only double rooms we do here...."

We left, but it was nice in there.