I was booked at this property as part of a large supplier conference and spent two nights here. The check-in was smooth. The property itself is older as others have stated. However the common areas are well maintained including the lobby, hallways, bathrooms and restaurant bar areas and conference rooms. The room I was in was on main floor, which for me is typically not what I prefer when in a warm climate. Security and bugs being a concern of mine when on main floor.
The hotel room floor is a parquet type with an outside door leading to the pool area. The bed linens were acceptable and the bathroom was also OK. Not quite as rundown as others have noted but clearly their is a face lift needed here in certain areas.
I did have a disturbing experience at 1:30 AM the first night. Although I should mention this is not necessarily a reflection of this property. A palmetto bug (yes cockroach to us northerners) found its way into my bed and on my neck. I awoke startled and turned on all the lights to discover the intruder. It took ten minutes but he is in bug heaven now. I left his remains on the floor so housekeeping could see it. Possibly so more bug spray is required outside the room perimeters, however I am not a Florida bug expert by any means. It was disturbing and disgusting nonetheless. Shula's steakhouse was a hit. I did not have time to get to the workout area or golf unfortunately. Overall this hotel is typical 3 star (or 2.5) older, warm climate 70's style facility. What you see is what you get. I was happy to get back to Chicago and one of my favorite 4.5 star hotels however. My advice... stay on second floor

This place is in a kind of a touristy little alcove set into some busier streets, with its own little walking/driving mall just outside. It's got a Johnny Rockets and some other small jewelry shops, and ColdStonbe Creamery and Victorias shops along the street. Pretty much everything thast used to be in the mall. Alot of them are vacant though.
The rooms are not good though. You have to drag bags up and down 3 or 4 stairs in and out of the lobby area and then quite a walk outswide again and then back into one of the several wings that jut out in different directions to make up the hotel. I would not want to get lost carrying a bunch of luggage and kids in this place.
The WIFI is good in this room, but I dont know about the others.
You can tell they are putting a new dress on an older hotel here. There are still some pretty skanky throw back things around if you look. Old metal door frames and a skinny dark-ish hallway.
They do have new countertops in the bathrooms and some new fixtures which is nice, but the deal breaker for me was the hair on the bathroom floor. I hate hair on the floors of hotels. It just makes it obvious they didn't clean it and I hate that.

The parking and room was good. However, only issue was the bathroom. There seemed to be mole/stains on floor and toilet tissue. I guess from humidity. We had the handicap room. Taking a shower, the water would leak out of shower because the bottom lip was about 1 inch. Understandable for handicap access. Just need to use the garbage can and rest it up againt shower curtain pushing shower curtain to not stick outside of 1 inch lip. Room was large and clean. Comfortable beds with a lot of pillows. It was just the bathroom that had some mole. Checkin was fast and friendly. We received two complimentary drink vouchers from the ladies during checkin. The bar restaurant looked clean. All we had was some drinks, didnt try food. All in all, nice hotel and about 20 minutes away from South Beach.

My husband and I stayed at Shula's Hotel while he was on a business trip. A colleague's secretary recommended we stay here. From looking at the photos and descriptions that are on the website, we were pretty excited. We booked 3 nights in the Signature Room. Well...
The view was of the parking lot and the place only has 3 floors so you're not really on any special limited access area like the website describes.

The bathroom... floor tile, walls, and shower were OBVIOUSLY from the early 90's. Grout was missing, the floor looked dingy. The shower head was about 10 years too old. It had one setting, which was actually quite painful. It felt like a garden spray hose. Every time I tried to adjust the setting, I had to adjust the water temp. The shower curtain was on one of the rounded rods that give you more room, but the curtain kept sliding towards the middle of the rod and water would get all over the bathroom floor. The sink in the shower/toilet room looked like the standard in a military facility with hardware that needed replaced or desperately cleaned.

The pool...small but clean. You have to take your own beach towel or use the towels from your room. There is a thatch roof covered area that probably served food and supplied towels back in the day, but it was run down and deserted. The rooms overlooking the pool are very close. I could hear the conversations of the people sitting on their balcony on the 3rd floor.

Food...we never did get our complimentary continental breakfasts. There was a sign directing us to a room on the third floor, but it was always locked. No one ever did help us figure that one out. Not too big of a deal since the complimentary breakfast included 1 muffin or 1 croissant with coffee or tea.

Staff...they were pleasant enough, I guess. For what we paid per night, we were expecting a little better treatment. I had to call down 2 days to request housekeeping after we had returned to our room and saw that no one had come to freshen it up.

The spa and fitness center...they are across the street from the hotel. Yes, you have to walk outside, go off the premises, cross the street and use the local public facilities. The fitness center is large and is open to the general public. It's like any run of the mill YMCA. Bring your own headset. The spa is Aveda sponsored. Small, decent. The only complaint was that the small, limited seating relaxation area is where the staff stores tea, coffee, water; wash glasses; drop off dirty towels and sheets. If you want to sit outside and relax, you better like tennis because the outdoor seating area backs up directly to the tennis courts.

Shula's steak 2 was the only okay part of the hotel. Even Shula's steakhouse, located off premises, was nice. Pricey, but nice. And if you've read any other reviews on the steakhouse, it does smell musty.
This place is an overpriced, run down, glorified Best Western.