20 Perfect Summer Getaways

Miami: SPLURGE

Where to Go: Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Distance from Miami: 30 miles north.

Where to Stay: In the heart of the Gold Coast in an old-money town, the one-year-old Hirsch Bedner-designed St. Regis Fort Lauderdale reflects the “elegant era of travel” of the 1940’s, with big hardwood steamer trunks and leather-wrapped desks in guest rooms, as well as public spaces dressed in ivory, pale gold, and dark woods. All 191 guest rooms have decks or patios and views of the Atlantic or the Intracoastal Waterway.)

Price: Doubles from $289. (Summer special in honor of the hotel’s first anniversary: stay two nights and get the third night free, plus complimentary parking and champagne.)

What to Do: After chilling in the green-blue waters or on the white sand beach in front of the hotel, head to the trendy celebrity-magnet restaurant Sublime. Its organic and vegan menu continually wins converts—especially for the piccata with lemon-caper sauce. (Yes, the piccata’s vegan; it’s made with grain-and-vegetable Gardein Veggie Chick’n Breasts.) No one disputes Sublime’s “tanjito” cocktail, a mojito variation made with fresh mint, fresh lime, tangerine juice, sugarcane, and white rum. And who knows, you just might run into Pamela Anderson, Alec Baldwin, or Alicia Silverstone.