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Miami for Teens

Blasius Erlinger The author's sisters at Loews Miami Beach, a South Beach hotel where kids rule.

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Welcome to round-the-clock thrills—suntanned, G-string-wearing rollerbladers, wild clubs, and celebrity-packed parties. Wait. For 16-year-olds there are no nightclubs, no celebrity bashes, and no G-strings, and instead Miami is all about great beaches and pools, adventure (ultralight flight, anyone?), and the American ideal—a true melting-pot city.

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7 Hotels 3 Restaurants 9 Activities

Destinations: Fort Lauderdale · Miami · Miami Beach · Key Biscayne · Coral Gables · Sunrise · Downtown · Little Havana · South Beach · Watson Island

Themes: Beaches + Islands · Family · Hotels + Resorts

Inspired by: Miami, Fla. — by Lily Erlinger, Published Sep. 2005

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Hotels (7)

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    Fontainebleau Resort & Spa Miami Beach

    Miami Beach | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

    This crescent-shaped landmark hotel has a longstanding reputation for grandeur. Recently, more than $200 million was poured into an elaborate renov

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    Mandarin Oriental, Miami

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    Downtown | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

    Besides the Mandarin's trademark luxury Asian touches, the reason to stay here is the view of the downtown Miami skyline and Biscayne Bay. Of cours

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    Ritz-Carlton, Key Biscayne

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    Key Biscayne | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

    Hands down, the Ritz-Carlton is Miami's best full-service resort, with tropical gardens, a tennis center, a 20,000-square-foot spa, kids' programs,

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    Loews Miami Beach

    South Beach | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Four Seasons Miami

    Miami | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida

    Twelve floors of a sleek 70-story glass-and-granite edifice in the heart of Miami's business district—with a cosmopolitan air, thanks to details li

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    The Raleigh

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    South Beach | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

    A 1940 Art Deco masterpiece that served as a backdrop for many Esther Williams films, this hotel delivers the grace and pure fantasy of old-line Mi

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    Biltmore Hotel

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    Coral Gables | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

    This 1926 Mediterranean-style historic landmark that anchors Coral Gables still feels very Old Florida. The palm-adorned central courtyard's gurgli

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    Taverna Opa

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    Miami Beach | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Versailles

    Little Havana | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Frieze

    Miami Beach | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Parrot Jungle Island

    Watson Island | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Venetian Pool

    Coral Gables | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Miami Design Preservation League

    Miami | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida

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    Sawgrass Mills

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    Fort Lauderdale | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida

    Florida's most extensive designer outlet mall, with some 300 shops (David Yurman, Coach, Kate Spade, Theory), atop Wannado City, an interactive pla

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    Books & Books

    Miami Beach | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

    The great independent bookstore has moved to a stylish new space on Lincoln Road, keeping its popular outdoor café.

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    Wannado City

    Sunrise | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Miami Children's Museum

    Watson Island | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    El Credito Cigars

    Little Havana | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Miami Seaplane Tours

    Key Biscayne | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | Florida | Miami

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    Sophisticated Miami

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    The Best of Miami

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    Beach-Hopping in Florida

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    Attending Art Basel Miami Beach

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    Miami was founded on the fun-above-all principle of nightclubs, and the idea that the august Swiss art fair would pick the city as its sole satellite has a certain loopy logic. Despite the fair’s f

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    Tour of Miami's Hot Restaurants du Jour

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