Faena Hotel Miami Beach Mid-Beach restored Saxony Hotel red-velvet theatre and Damien Hirst golden mammoth
#1 in Top 20 Miami for A Bachelorette  ·  ★★★★★

Faena Hotel Miami Beach

The red-velvet theatre, Tierra Santa Spa, Pao by Paul Qui — the cinematic-bachelorette flagship.

"The red-velvet theatre, Tierra Santa Spa, Pao by Paul Qui — the cinematic-bachelorette flagship."

9.9Room & Design
9.8Service
9.8Location

Why Faena Hotel Miami Beach for a bachelorette

Faena Hotel Miami Beach opened in 2015 in the restored 1947 Saxony Hotel building on Mid-Beach Collins Avenue — Alan Faena and his Argentine creative team (Baz Luhrmann's Catherine Martin designed the interiors, Juan Gatti the art direction) created the working most-cinematically-distinctive luxury hotel opening of the past decade in Miami, and the property has remained the working bachelorette flagship ever since. One hundred and sixty-nine rooms and suites across the multi-storey property, the upper-tier Faena Suite (with private outdoor terrace and the working Damien Hirst golden-mammoth-skeleton view from the working hotel garden) is the working group-of-four flagship, and the multi-bedroom Royal Suite is the working full-group milestone-flagship. The asset is the working theatrical-design-and-Faena-Theater programme — the property holds the only working in-house cabaret theatre on Miami Beach (the Faena Theater hosts working nightly burlesque shows that have been the working bachelorette centerpiece for a decade), the working Pao by Paul Qui (Asian-fusion working dinner) and Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann (Argentine fire-cooking working dinner) handle the working anniversary-equivalent and group dinners, the working Tierra Santa Healing House Spa runs the working Latin-American-shamanic-tradition treatments, and the working private beach club with red-velvet-cabanas is the working Saturday-afternoon centerpiece. Faena is the right pick for the working maximalist Miami bachelorette where the cinematic-theatre-and-design positioning is the working centerpiece — the trip's photograph is the working Faena lobby-and-cabana sequence, and the working Saturday-night-Faena-Theater performance is the working group-evening centerpiece.

Best room to request

Royal Suite (the working multi-bedroom milestone flagship) or Faena Suite for the working group-of-four working option.

Concierge tip

Pre-book the Faena Theater Saturday-night burlesque performance — the working centerpiece, books out 4 weeks in advance. Reserve a working red-velvet beach cabana for Friday and Saturday afternoons. Eat at Pao by Paul Qui on Saturday for the working group-dinner.

The wider context

Faena Hotel Miami Beach sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Miami for a Bachelorette list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on a bachelorette-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Miami neighbourhood, see Mid-Beach and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.

If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.

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