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Best Miami Hotel: Traveller Reviews

2.0 of 5
5959 SW 71st St, South Miami, FL 33143-3599
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Best Miami Hotel
Ranked #1 of 1 hotels in South Miami
2.0 of 5 stars 313 Reviews
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What travellers say about this hotel
  • Continental breakfast(4)
  • Shuttle service(4)
  • Air conditioner(4)
  • HOT WATER(3)
  • Very nice(3)
  • Parking garage(3)
  • Bad reviews(3)
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Pataskala, Ohio
2 reviews
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“Won't stay there again”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 February 2012

Called to notify the hotel that I was at the airport for the shuttle to pic me & my friend up, was told next shuttle would be at 3pm & the person on the other end hung up on me. No shuttle by 3:20pm, figured I missed the shuttle so took a taxi. The hotel is old and needs renovated. The staff at check-in & check-out were nice, computer was old in the so called business center. The restaurant that was supposed to be open out back was closed. Beds squeak. It was close to restaurants like it said on the web page. The continental breakfast was very high carb/high sugar if that's what you like. If you want a bar, you will have to walk to one. Looks like they had one a long time ago. Hotel needs a face lift and the pictures look better on the internet than the way the place really looks.

  • Stayed February 2012, travelled with friends
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 2 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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“No Shuttle Service”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 3 February 2012

We booked this hotel just because of the free shuttle service from the airport and from the hotel to the Port of Miami, We called to get the shuttle and was told the shuttle was broke down and we were on our own, we were 4 women in Miami did not know who to trust, so I had made reservations with a shuttle service to take us from the Port of Miami to Airport upon our return, they were great and picked us up at Airport to take us to Best Miami Hotel but cost $60, which the hotel would not pay nothing on. We were told we had shuttle to take us to Port of Miami one day the next there was no shuttle, we did end up getting their shuttle, everyone on the shuttle to Port of Miami complained of the same problem. Safe did not work in room. The best thing was the breakfast and coffee it was good. Room looks nothing like pictures and pool area beware, chairs were falling apart my sister sat on a barstool at pool and it tipped over with her and she just recently had back surgery. Jorge was the only nice one working at the hotel, Manager does not care about anything.

  • Stayed January 2012, travelled with friends
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 3 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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“YOU WOULD BE BETTER OFF SLEEPING IN YOUR CAR!”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 2 February 2012
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I don't even know where to start with this place. In case you can't make it through the list of problems with this hotel...I'll start with the worst.

THE LOCK WAS MISSING FROM THE DOOR! As a single young female traveling alone this was not okay. When I went to the front desk to request a different room I was told the locks had been removed from all of the doors.

NO INTERNET! The hotels own website advertises that they have internet throughout the hotel. This is why I booked since I needed to get online for work. After getting all settled in for the night and setting down to work I was told that you could only use the internet in the lobby.

Add to this list :

MATTRESS SO OLD YOU ARE LAYING ON SPRINGS

TOILET RUNNING EVERY 5 MINUTES KEPT ME UP ALL NIGHT

SHOWER HEAD FLEW OFF AND HIT ME IN THE HEAD DURING SHOWER

SECRET HIDDEN FEES LIKE EXPENSIVE PARKING AND SAFE FEES

,,,and you can start to understand how terrible this hotel is.

You can read all of their bad reviews on all the review websites and see for yourself. I read these reviews before booking and decided to book anyway because of the low price and I know I can handle cheap hotels...but trust me. This is NOT worth it! YOU WOULD BE BETTER OFF STAYING IN YOUR CAR.

  • Stayed January 2012, travelled solo
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
2 reviews
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“Horrible”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 18 January 2012
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This place was the most digusting hotel I have ever seen. Starting with the dirty, filthy, barely running van that picked us up at the airport. We checked in and then got on the dirty elevator to notice huge holes from dryrot in the courtyard. The courtyard area was grimmy and unkept. Once in the room, we spent a whole of 3 minutes and decided not to stay. The walls had dirty streaks running down them and the ceiling was black from where the furnace blew. The comforters on the bed were 20 years old and I couldn't imagine sleeping there. If I did it was with bedbugs! DO NOT STAY HERE they refused to refund my money.

Room Tip: We ended up staying at the Holiday Inn in Coral Gables.
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  • Stayed January 2012, travelled with friends
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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“Grim...”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 11 January 2012

Not a great experience....shabby, grimey, run down, awful breakfast and really not worth any money.

However service and airport shuttle were really good.

  • Stayed January 2012
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
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  • South Miami Best Western
Address: 5959 SW 71st St, South Miami, FL 33143-3599
Price range (per night):* 56 AUD - 921 AUD

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