Cardozo Hotel - Miami Beach, USA 

Excellent Stay-First Time in Miami Beach
Posted: Wed, Jul 02 2008
After reading almost all of the reviews for the top 20 hotels in Miami Beach, I decided on the Cardoza because I prefer boutique hotels. The rate was incredible at $126.00 per night and we had an ocean view room. The hotel is located to everything! Shopping, night life, the beach, great restaurants and easy access to the I-95. The room was ready for us even though we arrived before check in. The room was spotless! If you love Lobster Bisque...the restaurant downstairs has the BEST! The Mojitos were perfect! We valet parked the first day, but discovered that right behind the hotel is a public parking garage for only $15.00 per night which the hotel did inform us of at check in. I highly recommend the hotel!

You take your chances with guest neighbours!
Posted: Thu, Jun 19 2008
First of all, there are many good points about this hotel; namely: * the hotel is perfectly located down the quiet end of OceanDrive; * it is right across the street from the beach; * it is conveniently next to a multi-storey car park which isn't too expensive; * the rooms are well decorated and the double beds are huge; However, there are a couple of things to be aware of: * their website obviously isn't working properly as they had no receipt of my reservation. Fortunately I had my copy and they had rooms available but I can assume from the attitude of the Receptionist - namely we must have made a cock up on our reservation NOT that it was their fault - we were lucky they had rooms left. * the walls are PAPER THIN. Seriously! When we first checked in at around 9.30pm, we went to the room and found that the guest next door were making use of the free CD player in their room and BLASTING out Mariah Carey. We went back to Reception, complained and were given another room but on the same side of the hotel. As we had just travelled for 11 hours from the UK, all we wanted to do was get some sleep but at 4am, we could still hear the aforementioned noisy guests as they were now above us. We telephoned Reception and received no apology nor any promise that they would approach guests to turn music down. * the bathroom was tiny. You had to sidestep to actually get on to the toilet as it was so close to the sink!! All this being said, it was a good location and the breakfast in the restaurant was very nice. All I would say is take some earplugs just in case your neighbours are as noisy as ours were!

No chance to find out because this hotel 'bumped' us!
Posted: Thu, Jun 05 2008
We were looking forward to concluding our holiday with a stay at this much praised hotel. Imagine our feelings, therefore, when we returned from Mexico to find an e-mail message saying that our accommodation had been cancelled! We understand that this hotel overbooks and then bumps people. Unfortunately, this big let down occurred at the time when AA was cancelling flights right, left and centre and coincided too with the Spring break. In the end we had to settle for somewhere where we would not normally have wished to stay, but which seemed the only place able to offer us a room. We feel that this is no way in which to treat people. If you make a contract, then you should honour it.