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Tablet Plus Privileges
Tablet Plus: every stay includes select privileges and/or amenities. View privileges
Tablet Plus privileges for The Setai include:
- Complimentary upgrade upon hotel check-in, based upon availability
- Spa voucher worth $50 US
- Complimentary pastries and/or chocolate or fruit plate, refreshed during the course of stay
- Bottle of champagne or wine in room
- Please note: Complimentary upgrades are not available from the Art Deco building to the Tower building.
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The Setai
2001 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL, USA
Style: Modern Design
Atmosphere: Lively
120 Rooms
This hotel is a favorite of…
Founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality
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The long-awaited opening of the Setai was some of the biggest news to hit the South Beach hotel scene in a while. This is a town that’s not exactly hurting for over-the-top luxury accommodations, but the Setai manages to set itself apart by being even more over-the-top than the competition.
From a distance what you notice is the tower, forty curvaceous stories of aquamarine glass right on the beach, home to the private owners’ suites as well as some of the more excessive hotel suites; like the sky, it’s hard to say whether the tower’s color is a reflection of the sea or some intrinsic property. From the inland side on Collins Avenue, though, you can see that the Setai’s heart lies behind the refurbished facade of the Dempsey Vanderbilt hotel, a classic eight-story Art Deco building dating back to the first golden age of Miami Beach. This is where you’ll find the comparatively more modest studio suites; it’ll quickly become clear, though, that modest isn’t really a word that applies in this case.
Art Deco the exterior may be, but the Setai’s interiors are anything but classic Miami. Forget about white, let alone coral-pink; think dark, as in black brick, black granite, lightened only by rich expanses of polished teak, more a sort of Indonesian volcanic look than anything you’d associate with South Beach.
Even the smallest rooms, in the old Dempsey building, are huge, and the suites in the new tower are truly vast, many with views out to sea from many floors up, a luxury that’s nearly unique in this town. At this level flat-screen televisions, CD/DVD players and in-room espresso machines seem less like luxuries and more like pleasant background; the real surprise is the open-plan bath, with the black terrazzo tub exposed to the room, offering itself for in-room spa treatments.
Spa treatments are of course also available outside of your room: the spa, in keeping with the overall character of the place, is almost overindulgent. Three pools seem rather more than plenty, especially with the Atlantic just steps away. And no big-news luxury hotel would be complete without a deeply impressive restaurant: the Setai’s serves a “Trans-Ethnic” cuisine that is not a fusion but a mixing and matching of any number of very authentic Asian dishes.
The Spa at the Setai
Just as the hotel resets most notions about what a pinnacle Miami experience ought to look like, the spa pulls out all the stops with its own blend of intensely relaxing exoticism. The facility is really more of a shrine than just a place to sit around and soak — one might almost expect a gang of Buddhist monks to stroll though.
Treatment: Pan-Asian, Holistic
Massage Types: Ayurvedic, stone therapy, Balinese, Thai, traditional
Style/Atmosphere: Exotic, luxurious
Open to public: yes
Prices: $180-325/hr. massage
Products: Sundari, Ren, Traditions d’Orient
Tablet Plus benefit: yes
Hair services: no
