Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club

Just a few miles up the road from Miami Beach proper, in the upscale enclave of Surfside, is the legendary Surf Club, an ornate Jazz Age gem whose doors first opened in 1930. Today the original club remains, augmented by modern structures containing residences and the Four Seasons Hotel — a typically luxe and uncommonly stylish luxury hotel, complete with beachside cabanas and a lavish spa, from the venerable hospitality brand. The atmosphere is insular, more luxe hideaway than social nexus, though the restaurants, the Italian-flavored Lido Restaurant and Terrace and Thomas Keller’s Surf Club Restaurant, are destinations unto themselves.