The Most Romantic Hotels in Florida, USA
Young hearts run free on the beach-trimmed shores of the Sunshine State, where these fanciful places to stay set the tone with smart restaurants and rooftop bars.
Whether it’s a romantic weekend, an anniversary celebration or a blow-the-budget honeymoon, Florida is a sensation when you’re with your special someone. Think moonlit walks on the beach, gazing up at Disney’s fireworks and strolling down Old Florida streets in the cutest historic towns. Check in at one (or more) of these romantic hotels in Florida, all bookable with Culture Trip, and get ready to swoon.
1. The Ritz-Carlton, Fort Lauderdale
Chain Hotel, Hotel, Luxury
The Ritz-Carlton brand is synonymous with class, and its Fort Lauderdale outpost is as luxurious as they come: a beachfront beauty in the yachting capital of the world. Guest rooms and suites have ocean or Intracoastal Waterway views. Decor is as zingy-fresh and life’s a beach with a spa treatment on the sand, before punchy cocktails and seafood at the Burlock Coast restaurant. End the night on your balcony overlooking the water, utterly in love.
2. The Setai
Resort, Hotel, Luxury
Check in to a bubble of pure Asian style beside the ocean in the Art Deco District of South Beach, Miami. The hotel occupies a classic 1930s building, which spreads into a contemporary tower, ensuring a perfect pairing of heritage style and modern spark. Black-granite showers and sliding doors make for romantic rooms – which you’ll want to leave to dine together in-house at Indian-accented Jaya, where the menu sizzles and steams its way through thali platters and prawn curries – a very spicy space.
4. Mandarin Oriental, Miami
Independent Hotel, Hotel
5. B Ocean Resort
Resort
With a heritage rooted in the 1960s, this Fort Lauderdale icon has had a glittery cast over the decades: you’ll walk the same halls as Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Robert De Niro. The signature Blissful Beds were made to waylay romantics – but be sure to head out to the resort’s Wreck Bar. The mermaid show is a wow, as sirens of the sea cavort beyond underwater windows. Add two pools and private beach access and it’s an A+ romantic getaway.
6. Carillon Miami Wellness Resort
Spa Hotel
Passions will be fully ignited at Miami Beach’s most exclusive spa and shore club. So reinvigorating are the treatments – salt float gravity therapy, cryotherapy and Botox-alternative Jeuveau – it’ll be as if you’re meeting again for the very first time. Don’t worry – if all you need is a little vitamin sea, you’re welcome to skip more than 20 fitness classes and spend your days relaxing on the beach together. It’s a fabulous stretch, too, with skies fiery at sunset.
7. Cheeca Lodge & Spa
Spa Hotel, Hotel
This laid-back lodge in Islamorada, in the Keys, attracts romantics for good reason. There are adults-only pools and a spa ready to pamper you. There’s also 27 acres (11ha) of verdant gardens to sneak off into together, too. If this is the kind of romantic break you couldn’t leave the kids behind for, no problem – drop them at Camp Cheeca (ages five to 12) to learn about sand and shells, while the two of you order another round at the Oceanfront Tiki Bar.
8. Sunset Key Cottages
Boutique Hotel, Resort, Cottages
Romantic getaways aren’t always aided by right-royal surrounds – you might just want a cozy getaway with porch rockers by the ocean. Enter Sunset Key Cottages, in Key West, a retreat as carefree as sand between toes – with just a beach and a bar to vie for your attention. Although it’s made for lovers, there are larger cottages sleeping up to nine guests. But we say do it à deux, with spa sessions and memorable dinners of scallops and Key West pink-shrimp carbonara.
If you want to find out more, read our guide to the most romantic honeymoon destinations in Florida, or these top hotels for every traveler, bookable through Culture Trip.
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