We spent 1 niight at The Beacon and we do recommend it! The weather was rainy and hotel provided complimentary umbrellas. We got a great deal on hotwire and the hotel includes breakfast at "The Place" resataraunt. Be sure to get voucher at front desk before you order as they provide different limited menu, but still a good deal! Located in the heart of South Beach we were steps away from lots of restaraunts and clubs. Night life was a blast! Music playing in the streets, party city and this was only Wednesday! We rented Segways for 2 hrs and LOVED IT! Very easy to navigate and covered a lot of area in 2 hours. Bathrooms were small and outdated. No noise complaints here. Very clean hotel.

The Beacon is one of the original Art Nouveau hotels. It is located on Ocean Drive across the road from the beach. It is right in the middle of the South Beach action, and has one of the better restaurants on the strip downstairs. The hotel takes it's Art Nouveau status very seriously, with funky white furniture in the foyer and an immaculate facade.

The rooms are about the same size as a cruise ship cabin, so you need to organize yourself, particularly as regards cupboard space. But who cares? It is comfortable and clean and the price is right. You get a free breakfast at the restaurant each morning, not a huge selection but really excellent food beautifully presented. Breakfast starts at 9, so you can forget about it if you need to start your day early.

If you ask for a quiet room as we did, you get one, surprisingly enough as the strip is LOUD! No ocean view in a quiet room, however.

The staff were attentive and really helpful and friendly. We like the fact that there is coffee and tea for most of the day in the second floor lounge.

We loved the place and will be back.

This is a pretty decent hotel for the Ocean Drive strip of Miami Beach (for those not familiar, Ocean Drive is littered with innumerable hotels). We were pleasantly surprised at check-in to find out we would be getting free Wi-Fi and full breakfast every day of our stay. The hotel also came with a 24-hour gym and provided tea and coffee throughout the day. The rooms were also very pleasant, definitely large enough to move around comfortably. The bathroom, as other reviewers have noted, were outdated but again this was not a huge issue. The beds were not wonderful either, being far too soft for our tastes. The location is okay-we were in the backside so we didn't hear any noise from Ocean Drive. However, we were a distance away from the major restaurants/bars of Miami (at least 10-12 blocks away). But our major issue lay in the fact that the shower drain had not been cleaned; as a result, the room flooded the third night of our stay, with water leaking all the way out to the hallway. As soon as we notified the front desk, this was taken care of but we were definitely displeased that given the small wall between the shower and the rest of the bathroom, management didn't take more care to clean the drain. Management also did not do anything about our clothes that had gotten soaked by the flooding. This is probably a idiosyncratic issue that many reviewers probably will not experience but it did color our stay somewhat-if not for this, I would have given the hotel four stars.

The Beacon Hotel is wonderful. First of all i arrived at 10 am from a cruise. Thought i would have to wait but Victor and Christian checked if my room was ready and allowed an early check in. The Hotel is located in the heart of South Beach and central to everything. Pleasant and inviting staff...must stay again !!!!