The Miami Beach EDITION ★★★★★

A Rat Pack Hotel, Restored Rather Than Replaced

The EDITION occupies the old Seville Beach Hotel, a 1950s resort that once drew the Rat Pack era's biggest names to Collins Avenue and had, by the 2010s, faded into one more ageing Mid-Beach property. Yabu Pushelberg led a 2014 renovation with Ian Schrager's company, and instead of gutting the building, they kept the black-and-white stone lobby floor and the gold mosaic columns intact, building a contemporary 294-room hotel around them rather than over them. The result keeps the Seville's glamour legible under the new layer, which is rarer than it sounds on a strip where most mid-century hotels were demolished outright or stripped down to a blank façade.

Why It Works

We keep coming back for the way the design holds two eras at once: cream, wheat and linen tones throughout the public spaces, paired with the original pool and its 1950s modernist diving tower, now ringed with pink flowers rather than left as a relic. It is a hotel that treats its own history as the main amenity rather than a lobby plaque, and that approach has aged better than a full-gut renovation would have.

Why This Location

The hotel sits at 2901 Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach, a few miles north of the Art Deco crowds around Ocean Drive and considerably quieter after dark. The beach here runs wider and less crowded than South Beach's, and the drive to Bal Harbour's shops or back down to Lincoln Road takes ten to fifteen minutes either way. It is a base for travellers who want proximity to South Beach without living inside its loudest stretch.

Fast Facts

• Price: €€€€ (Luxe)

• Vibe: mid-century glamour, restored rather than replaced, design-led

• Rooms: 294, with cerused oak walls and porcelain tile floors

• Best For: design-minded travellers, couples, anyone who wants Mid-Beach's quieter sand with nightlife on site

• Our Favorite Thing About the Hotel: the original 1950s diving tower still standing over the restored pool

• Dining: Matador Room in the hotel's original sunken dining room, Tropicale Restaurant around the Seville's teak sundial

• Amenities: restored resort pool, The Basement's ice rink and bowling lanes, Sand Box outdoor cinema, pet-friendly rooms

• Attractions: Mid-Beach's beachfront, Bal Harbour Shops, Lincoln Road, the Art Deco Historic District

Matador Room and Tropicale, Two Dining Rooms With Their Own History

The Matador Room keeps the Seville's original sunken dining area and an era-appropriate chandelier overhead, with silk wall panels and leather banquettes that lean into the room's 1950s bones rather than smoothing them away. Tropicale Restaurant takes a different angle, built around the hotel's original teak-wrapped sundial and leaning more casual, suited to a poolside lunch rather than a formal dinner. Between the two, a guest can eat somewhere different for every meal of a stay without once leaving the building, and both rooms make clear that the history on display is structural, not decorative.

The Basement and Sand Box, After Dark

Downstairs, the Basement runs a micro-club alongside an ice-skating rink and a bowling alley with mirrored lanes, an odd-sounding combination that works because none of it tries to be a standard hotel bar. Outside, Sand Box turns a stretch of the grounds into an open-air cinema on select nights, a quieter alternative on an evening when the Basement's energy isn't what a guest is after. Between the two, the EDITION covers more of a night out than most hotels attempt inside their own walls. Rooms carry the same restraint as the public spaces, with cerused oak panelling and porcelain tile floors standing in for a more conventional beach-hotel palette of rattan and pastel. It is a quieter register than the lobby's more theatrical mid-century cues, and it works because it leaves the architecture, not the furniture, to do the talking.