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Book NowMiami Map: Pelican HotelPelican Hotel Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Address
826 Ocean Dr
Location South Beach
Phone 800/7-PELICAN, 305/673-3373
Fax 305/673-3255
Web site www.pelicanhotel.com
Room Information 30 units
Prices Winter $240-$350 double, $480-$800 oceanfront suite; off season $165-$220 double, $330-$540 oceanfront suite
Credit Cards AE, DC, MC, V
In Room Amenities A/C, TV, stereo/CD player, On Command movies and music, fridge, hair dryer, iron, safe
Parking Valet parking $22

Frommer's Review

Owned by the same creative folks behind the Diesel Jeans company, the fashionable Pelican is South Beach's only self-professed "toy-hotel," in which each of its 30 rooms and suites is decorated as outrageously as some of the area's more colorful drag queens. Each room has been designed daringly and rather wittily by Swedish interior decorator Magnus Ehrland. Countless trips to antiques markets, combined with his wild imagination, have turned room no. 309, for instance, into the "Psychedelic(ate) Girl," room no. 201 into the "Executive Fifties" suite, and no. 209 into the "Love, Peace, and Leafforest" room. But the most popular room is the tough-to-score no. 215, or the "Best Whorehouse," which is said to have made even former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss red with envy. The Ocean Drive location and the hotel's cafe make the Pelican a very popular people-watching spot.

Facilities:
Restaurant; bar; access to area gyms; concierge; business services; room service; same-day laundry service; dry cleaning; complimentary beach chair, towel, and umbrella on the beach, Wi-Fi throughout the hotel

Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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