The best family hotels in Miami Beach
Written October 2026
Nightlife put Miami Beach on the map, and the hotels have worked out that kids want in on the fun too. The Art Deco is pastel, the neon is on and the beach never turns the music down.
South Beach, below about 23rd Street, is the Art Deco strip with Ocean Drive, Lincoln Road and the crowds. Mid-Beach, from the 29th Street Edition up to the Fontainebleau at 44th, is the resort stretch: bigger hotels, bigger pools, a quieter beach and a boardwalk that runs the whole way. Every hotel here is on the sand. Some run a real kids' club with hours, and others an activities desk by the pool.
South Beach
1 Hotel South Beach
23rd and Collins
At the top of South Beach where it starts to calm down, the Seedlings kids' club is nature-themed and one of the four pools is on the roof. The beach is wide here.
- Cribs
- Yes
- Connecting rooms
- Yes
- Suites
- Yes
- Pool
- Yes
- Kids' club
- Yes
Loews Miami Beach Hotel
16th and Collins
The family hotel of South Beach for twenty years, with a lot of shallow edge on the pool, direct beach access and suites with a kitchenette and fridge. Lincoln Road is a block away, and the hotel is enormous.
- Cribs
- Yes
- Connecting rooms
- Yes
- Suites
- Yes
- Fridge
- Yes
- Kitchenette
- Yes
- Pool
- Yes
- Kids' club
- Yes
The Ritz-Carlton South Beach
Lincoln Road and the beach
Lincoln Road meets the sand here, so the shops and restaurants are on foot. The pool is on a deck over the beach, and there's a kids' club with a toy library.
- Connecting rooms
- Yes
- Suites
- Yes
- Pool
- Yes
- Laundry
- Yes
- Kids' activities
- Yes
Kimpton Surfcomber Miami
17th and Collins
A smaller, friendlier Art Deco hotel with daily family games and cooking lessons out on the pool deck. The beach is through the garden and Lincoln Road a block west.
- Suites
- Yes
- Pool
- Yes
- Kids' activities
- Yes
W South Beach
22nd and Collins
Every room has a kitchenette and a balcony, so naps and snacks run on your own schedule, and the big rooms look over the pool and the ocean.
- Fridge
- Yes
- Kitchenette
- Yes
- Pool
- Yes
Mid-Beach
Fontainebleau Miami Beach
44th and Collins
Of its eleven pools, one is a children's poolscape with a waterslide, and there's a lazy river too. It's huge, with a kids' program beside the poolscape and stroller access throughout.
- Suites
- Yes
- Fridge
- Yes
- Kitchenette
- Yes
- Pool
- Yes
- Waterslide
- Yes
- Free breakfast
- No
- Laundry
- Yes
- Kids' activities
- Yes
Eden Roc Miami Beach
45th and Collins
Next door to the Fontainebleau and a size down, with a calmer beach and mid-century glamour that doesn't mind sandy feet. One of the four pools is just for kids, and the BECO club takes ages four to twelve. We'd pick it on this stretch with school-age kids.
- Pool
- Yes
- Kids' club
- Yes
Faena Hotel Miami Beach
32nd and Collins
A theatrical hotel with gold columns and a mammoth skeleton in the garden, which small kids find as thrilling as adults find it absurd. Faena Play keeps children busy by the pool, with the beach straight across the sand.
- Connecting rooms
- Yes
- Pool
- Yes
- Kids' activities
- Yes
The Miami Beach Edition
29th and Collins
There's a bowling alley and an ice rink downstairs, and upstairs a family pool separate from the adult one, with lawns running down to the sand. The design is calm and well made.
- Connecting rooms
- Yes
- Pool
- Family pool and adults-only pool
Photo credits
1 Hotel South Beach: 1hotels.com (Business website) · Loews Miami Beach Hotel: P. Hughes (CC BY-SA 4.0) · The Ritz-Carlton South Beach: P. Hughes (CC BY 4.0) · Kimpton Surfcomber Miami: P. Hughes (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Collins Park, Miami Beach: Infrogmation of New Orleans (CC BY 2.0) · Fontainebleau Miami Beach: Acroterion (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Eden Roc Miami Beach: Acroterion (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Faena Hotel Miami Beach: P. Hughes (CC BY 4.0) · The Miami Beach Edition: P. Hughes (CC BY 4.0)