Astor Place

Not impressed. We paid a lot of money for this little spot that’s only a few block away from the ocean so we were lucky in that regard. The bartender here was nice and gave us a lot of advice, but that’s about it.
We had a room next to the staircase. Like you open the door and bam! There is a staircase. Which actually helped us with the noise coming from inside the Hotel as they have a club downstairs. As we went down the hallway I was worried we wouldn’t be able to sleep due to the club, but thankfully we were OK with that regard. I feel sorry for all the other in the hallway. However, we the noise outside was not blocked at all. It’s Miami. Lots of drunk people making noise, and we were privy to many strange conversations. Great!
They also don’t offer complimentary breakfast or parking. They will charge you $ 32 bucks for parking and get this! Someone opened up our water bottle and emptied it! What? Yes, someone felt the need to empty it for some reason.
This location looks nice from the outside, but it’s a mess. Plus there were a few guys on the outside hanging out talking about punching someone’s face in and trying to sell their CD’s. I didn’t pay nearly $ 300 bucks for a night of this crap.

If you plan on staying at a hotel with BED BUGS than this is the top #1 place to stay. My girlfriends and I came here for a bachelorette party and we choose this place because the pictures on the site looked really clean and inviting BUT let me tell you, and any smart person would say, is that pictures are very deceiving, in other words «photoshop»
I am so bitter writing this review as I type and scratch my legs in hopes of getting some relief from the damn BED BUG bites I did NOT want to receive as a souvenir coming home. This place is a dump! The rooms had a stintchy odor, more like a dead rat smell, probably lying in between the walls of termite. Luckily, I was able to knock myself out with a few shots to overcome the smell but little did I know I let them blood suckers attack me in my sleep. My friends and I got more than 19 bites all over our bodies.
The staff at this hotel has no clue what they are doing. They are not friendly and are so lazy!!! Why is there a jug of water left out on the counter for customers to consume with no paper cups!!! Really! Go walk your ass in the kitchen and grab some when asked. Instead their answer was they ran out. Why fill the jug for looks! Why have doormen when they don’t even no how to open the door?!! Why have maids when they cant clean?! Why have bartenders when they don’t know how to make a simple green apple martini!!!
Also, the 50 year old 4 person capacity elevator is so dated that it is calling for another lawsuit to happen a long side with it’s friend bed bugs.
I suggest paying that extra money and get yourself a 5 star hotel because your health, hygiene and sanity deserves it.

What an experience! Our first impression of the hotel was a super cute art deco building with some charm to it… well, in the first 2 hours we were there, the ceiling in the bathroom started leaking water all over our floor. On top of that the blowdryer didn’t work, there was no lightbulb in the lamp, the fridge never got cold, the mounted lights eventually went out on us too. I get it, it’s an old hotel but still. Eventually we were upgraded to a king suite, were given 2 free bottles of wine and some potent mojitos. Don’t think I would stay here again.

I picked this hotel out of 100 or so similar sounding ones for our reservation. I think having seen way too movies about Miami, my expectations were way too high and unfortunately, Miami and its people didn’t waste a single opportunity to disappoint, underwhelm and outright piss me off from the first moment at the airport to the last. I will however try to limit my review to our adventures at this particular hotel.
The first few moments I had pulled over in front of the hotel also set the tone for the rest of our stay. There was no valet at the front and after 10 minutes of waiting double-​parked on a major street, a guy came up and after asking how long we would stay (3 days), immediately demanded $ 84 in cash for the valet service. The way he came up and rushed us would make you think it was a mugging and after almost 10 hours of flight, I somehow had the presence of mind to pay him for a single day and get done with it. On to the front desk, we were greeted by the great news that check-​ins were after 4pm. Yes, 4pm but the guy said he’d try to find us something. He did find us a room at the back of the hotel, near the fire-​escape stairs. That might actually have turned out to be the best thing that happened because later on we’d find that it was the only room with neighbors on one side.
As for the rooms; the room could be considered OK in size but it has extremely cheap looking wood floors (no carpets or anything like that), a bare minimum queen bed, a small armchair we couldn’t dare sit because of the variety and color of the spots on it, a very small table and a bathroom with a shower that would flood the rest of the bathroom because there was no real shower door or curtain. Our room also came with bonus 6-​to-​10-​inch holes in the walls that looked like furniture had tried to go thru them. The furniture really didn’t have a hard time because the walls are literally paper thin and we got to experience that during our stay. Now talking about walls, some real genius also came up with the idea that a hotel room in South Beach really needed a stereo/​CD system because there wasn’t enough ambient music coming from the 100s of clubs and discos and nothing would be better than a combination of non-​existent walls, banging stereos and 24-​hour drunken guests. With this, we got to listen to the never ending wrestling match upstairs, the Latin music coming from the next room and the very competitive hip-​hop from somewhere else in the hotel. We could also hear anyone talking in any room or corridor. After the first day, I didn’t even bother calling the front desk because they didn’t, couldn’t or wouldn’t do anything and really didn’t care anyhow.
This brings us to the hotel staff. I’d already talked about the great valet parking, which apparently is not a part of the hotel although they are right in front and use jackets and logos of the hotel but the hotel actually doesn’t take any responsibility for their actions. The way they work would look like street mugging followed by grand theft auto in many parts of the world. They only accept cash, take your car somewhere else and have a habit of taking up to 40 minutes to bring your car back, which again begs the question about where they take your car. On top of it, they are completely unnecessary because there is a public parking lot right next to the hotel (and many other locations within 2 blocks) that most of the time has parking available. In short, do not use the valet for any reason at all.
The front desk is mostly clueless about most of the stuff going on in the hotel. The floor we were on had at one point 5 rooms playing music at maximum volume and 2 fights in the middle of the night and nobody bothered to show up. They also charge you $ 15 for giving you a maximum of 2 towels per day and collapsible chairs that you can take to the beach. The most effective part of the staff was the cleaning crew, which I must say did a really good job but had the downside of using so much Clorox that we wouldn’t be able to breathe in the room for a couple hours after they were done and as you might expect you could only open one of the windows in our room. However, I would still prefer the Clorox over whatever germs might be living in the room.
As for the Art-​Deco part, although I am in no way an expert, the «art-​deconess» of the hotel only goes a total of 6 feet deep from the exterior wall of the hotel to the inside. The hotel does look «art-​deco» from the outside, there are a couple more instances or touches in the lobby and then the rest of the hotel including the rooms, corridors etc. doesn’t have a single thing art-​deco or even style in it. It is basically a bad Motel 6 with a fake exterior wall.
All in all, this review might sound harsh for this particular hotel and I must say I don’t think any of the similar hotels in that are better.

My wife and I stayed here for a couple of nights and I have to say it was a pretty nice hotel. The hotel and our room was very clean and it looked remodeled. We discovered later that many of the units were remodeled and sold to investors. We wanted to buy one, but it was way out of our range.
Anyways, we were there Monday and Tuesday and to our amazement, the Astor happens to be the hip night spot on Tuesdays. Alot of local party goers who look like they just stepped out of a photo shoot. I met some nice locals at the bar who just jump from hotel to hotel. It was just pretty cool to check out.
Funny thing, my wife and I were in the lobby and we walked right by Pauly Shore… omfg…you got to be kidding me. I though this guy was dead or something. Anyways, we tried to be nice and smiled at him… but he gave us some snooty attitude look. I guess they were working on a new show or something. Minus one star to you Astor for inviting a rude hasbeen.
We had reservations to the restaurant downstairs. Very nice and happening. The food was delicious, but pricy. I had a filet mignon and my wife had some chicken. I think our dish with desert and wine came out to be about $ 125+.
Overall, great honeymoon hotel. We got a great deal at about $ 100-​$ 125/​night. can’t recall, but they may have raised their prices since the conversions.
I’ll definitely go back.

This year was my second year in a row staying at the Astor Hotel for Art Basel Miami Beach. The first year I stayed — I thought it was a decent enough place. This year I have to say I realized what a PURE GEM it is. (EXCEPT THEY DON’T HAVE A POOL)
The friendliness of the staff is really great — they take time to learn about you and ask you specifically about your day or experience somewhere.
The people who work at the front desk provide higher and better quality customer service than some of the other fancy hotels in Miami Beach.
The rooms I’ve stayed in were both very good size! — clean, fresh, bright with plenty of room. Bed are comfortable and they have really nice pillow. They also have a great mini bar selection. The mini bar is also well stocked. A small touch I really enjoy is that the television is on a display that can rotate — it can face the bed and then be rotated to face the couch or the desk.
They are also close to the beach and provided chairs and umbrellas for guests. They are nearby many convenience stores and restaurants and shopping and clubs/​bars but not so close that you have to deal with the crowds.
I would definitely recommend close friends to stay there.
Two draw backs on my last visit:
1) They also have a nice restaurant. It was unfortunately closed on my last stay which also meant — no room service which was a drag.
2) They don’t provide a reliable business service. I couldn’t print anything at the hotel (boarding pass, documents from my computer or even attachments from my email.)

We rented the presidential suite for my sister’s bachelorette, along with two other suites for her friends.
First off, great décor and service. Kudos especially to Dominic who gave us the best recommendations for clubs and restaurants.
The location is great, and prices reasonable. Décor was elegant.
Cons: no pool. Breakfast that is inclusive seemed to be mediocre. Showing a box of Frosted Flakes or Cheerios in bulk turned me off.

What I like about this place was the exceptional service at the front desk. We came into Miami early and called the hotel. The person at the front desk bent over backwards to find us a room.
The rooms are well furnished and everything is modern deco. Minimalist at best. The one thing I hated was the water pressure. It had bad water pressure especially for the bath. The shower was okay though.
The carpet was really gross too. I was afraid to walk bare foot around the hotel.
From what I read this place is one of the better hotels in Miami. It wasn’t that great but it wasn’t bad either. Was in a great location and we could walk to everything.

Hotel dining rooms are often tired affairs meant to cater to businessmen and tourists too tired from the day’s activities to venture far for a meal. Astor Place bucks the trend with a very creative kitchen, making it one of South Beach’s top destinations. The cuisine is a combination of Floridian — plenty of seafood — and Caribbean — lots of spice and a touch of the tropics. .. let’s call it Floribbean, for lack of a better phrase. There’s no tequila in the seafood Margarita, but it’s the best starter, a mix of stoned crab claw, shrimp, lobster, and smoked fish crostini bathed in a key lime-​mustard dressing. Follow one up with seared sea bass accompanied by shrimp-​potato-​calabaza hash, or ancho-​cinnamon pork tenderloin served with sweet potato mash and spicy grilled onion rings. No matter what you order, get a side of lobster mashed potatoes, because the two are joined in a wedded bliss you’d never imagine possible. It’s as expensive as it sounds, and worth every cent.