GREAT location - famous busy road & busroute runs paralel with the beach, has many original art deco buildings. The Berkley has rooftop swim-pool & indoor gym with exercise machines. In front of entrance the patio has mature shady trees to protect you from sun, tables & chairs, Its outside eating & drinking here - its not run by the hotel, but letout to a francaise. Its for general public, not connected to the hotel, but it uses the hotel facilities for making all its food; waiter service, not hotel staff, very busy all day & evening with european & USA various foods, breakfasts, snacks, meals, cocktails 2 for one between 5-7 pm. You pay direct to the francaise. Inside the hotel you can eat from Hotels OWN menu, but the outside patio francaise is really the place to buy sit & eat breakfast - outside has a great atmosphere. Across the busy road are the main entrances to two large top-class luxury hotels which have extensive rich private gardens & pools, they face the beach. The Berkley directs you to a shady paved public pathway between the two hotels which leads you to this massive famous beach. The Berkley has a beach concession there, for its own hotel guests, providing sunbed & towel etc, all included in the Berkley Hotel stay. Distances: half hour journey from Miami Int Airport, also half hour from the Hotel to the Cruise Terminal (subject to traffic). I will stay there for 2-3 nights on my next pre-cruise. I am nearly eighty years old - a female SOLO traveller. Ann Adams from Essex England UK. March 2024.

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Location is great, most of places are walking distance. Close to the beach (1 block away), many restaurants and bars around, Walgreens around the corner, liquor store beside the hotel, Ocean dr. and Espanola Way 2 blocks away. Staff was really friendly and helpful. Breakfast was not included however there is a restaurant downstair in the lobby where you can get it for a cost, and it is really good. Although there are a bunch of options along Collins Av as well. The restaurant stays open late and there are tables outside, it looks really nice at night, playlist was cool, really great atmosphere to have a happy hour and some drinks at the end of the day, watching the movement in the street. Waiters are friendly. Pool in the last floor is great. Room was big enough, good pillows, AC worked just fine but the shower was something else though, really good, I loved it. Room was nicely decorated and the finishing like carpet, walls, bathroom floor, sink and walls looked new and nice. Amenities such as shampoo, hair conditioner, liquid soup, tissue and body moisturizer are provided, and they are good quality. Hair drier was not that bad either. Hotel provides 2 chairs at the beach for each room.

Hotel has an ice machine by the pool however it was broken. Gladly I was able to get ice from the restaurant downstairs, the only hassle was to go all the way there to get it from. Gym is too small and there were not too many machines. But those won't prevent me from staying again in this hotel.

location was great, very central to Miami Beach main locations eg. beach, Ocean Drive, Art Deco district plus lots of good shops and shopping opportunities around Lincoln street area. Comfortable large bed, good toiletries provided, good ac etc. Friendly reception staff- especially Nicole... so friendly and smiley and helpful. breakfast staff team were also friendly.

not a pleasant view from my room (313), smaller shower attatchment didn't work, breakfast options were limited (smaller menu if you pre-booked breakkie) eg you could only have a coffee/ tea Or juice, not allowed both

Had a brilliant stay. My room was clean and spacious, shower with good pressure, AC, mini bar and a coffee maker which I cannot do without. The hotel is nice, clean and very central to all the amenities, beach, transport, restaurants, shops, pharmacy etc. The beach is a 5 minute walk, and it's free. There is an on site cafe, where I ended up dining most evenings as the food was consistently fresh and good quality. The hotel can book day trips with pick up, I booked the West Key one and it was absolutely worth it, I had a chance to visit the The Hemingway Home with his 6 toed cats, also Kermit pie shop has key lime pie of all sorts. All the staff at the hotel were super helpful, firendly and polite, Peter at reception is an absolute star and made sure everything would run smoothly. Ocean drive is a short walk away, the whole area felt very safe day and night. There is a bus 3 minutes from the hotel that takes you directlty to MIA airport and you can reach most places of interest on public transports, which are really cheap. Some of my favourite eats were Rosetta Bakery for pastries, Fratelli la Bufala for neapolitan style pizza, and the basque cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory, I also got to try the matcha lavander frappuccino at Starbucks as we don't have those flavours in the UK. I really reccommend picking up some coffee beans from La Coladita Coffee in little Havana, everyone at back home really enjoyed them. I had a great time, was sad to leave and hope to come back very soon.

The location is excellent, nearby all the hottest spots of south beach, walking distance...the Staff amazing, cooperative, friendly, attentive and caring. Rooms are spacious, modern and nice decorated. Soft and comfortable beds and pillows:) The restaurant there Salt, very good and good ambience with hooka service...I love! Very happy with all!

The room at my arrival on first floor facing a parking lot that had a lot of movement...was not good for morning, noisy and people walking that can look inside...I would recommend to the hotel to put a film on the windows, blurry or mirror efect...that you can look out, but nothing is visible from the outside...but standard rooms and premier rooms, cause I switched to a premier :) facing the pool :) very good size and details for me important...spacious nice shower, room decorations, beds and toilet room apart from the room...an important detail for me. Grateful!

We turned up early and they were happy to store our luggage and we went for some food and a drink in the Salt restaurant attached which was very nice before going shopping on the main strip which was a five minute walk away, we returned just after 3 and it was happy hour so we had a few cocktails before checking in, the rooms were on floor 8 so had a good view towards the pool and sea, they were clean and spacious.

The air conditioning was a bit noisy as other people have said so we turned it off and it was fine, not to hot so didn’t really affect us.

The room was very clean. Bed was comfortable and housekeep did a great job with keeping up with changing towels everyday. Balcony had a beautiful view. Was in a great location and close to everything. Walking distance to beach less than 5 minutes. Nice that they give you chairs and towel access on beach. Umbrellas are very overpriced $28 per day is crazy. The hotel pool was refreshing after day on beach

A microwave was not in room and paying $1800 for a week stay and hotel wouldn’t even heat up leftover food for me. Was very frustrating for me being that all you can do is eat out and will have leftovers more than likely. They said fully stocked mini fridge but did not say it was $5-$7 per item in fridge

The staff was amazingly friendly and helpful. Our room was small, but efficient and had everything we needed. Bed was very comfortable. The location was perfect for enjoying South Beach, very walkable! The restaurant leasing the space on the first floor was great! Very fun place to hang out. I have a child living in Miami, so we are there often. I felt this hotel was a great value compared to other hotels we have used in South Beach. We will likely be back for our next stay in Miami.

I wish the pool was heated as I like to exercise in the pool and it was way too cold. To be fair, we were in Miami during an unusually cold and cloudy spell. The location of the pool does not allow for a long period of exposure to the sun, so if it is not hot outside, it stays cool. We are usually in Miami the first week of January, so this would probably not be a problem at all any other time of the year in South Florida!

Clean and had exceptional location

No water supply to use for coffee machine

Second time we stayed at the Berkeley shore hotel very nice hotel clean beautifully located. It’s not a fancy hotel but certainly would recommend it 100% for people that want to be in a great location in a really cute boutique hotel for a great price!

The check in time is 4 o’clock and till we got checked in was probably closer to 5 I would say that’s the only thing that I would have a complaint about other than that everything was great.