Pros

  • Large pool
  • Dedicated service
  • Excellent food
  • Immaculate property
  • Well-equipped spa and fitness center
  • 24-hour room service
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Cons

  • No nearby beaches
  • Stale, all-business ambiance
  • 5 long blocks from restaurants and shopping
  • Expensive restaurants
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Bottom Line

The Coconut Grove Ritz maintains the same elegant, high-polished marble and prompt, reliable service that made the Ritz brand famous. But the Coconut Grove branch is irritatingly far from the action and lacks the spectacular, luxurious oomph of similarly priced business brands (like the Four Seasons downtown).

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Amenities

  • Cribs
  • Fitness Center
  • Internet
  • Pool
  • Spa

Oyster Hotel Review

The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, Miami

Features

Like the rest of the hotel, the well-maintained pool is calm, classy, and a little dull. Impressively, there's 24-hour room service, plus a fitness center and spa.

The beautifully maintained lap pool has updated its previously drab look with more cabanas, plush sofas and a dining pavilion. The view is nothing to write home about, overlooking a few low-rise condo buildings between potted palm trees. It still echoes the same quiet, refined (if not boring), business side of the Ritz, but is a little more inviting.

Tucked behind a few shrubs I found a very tempting Ping-Pong table, but I couldn't figure out where to get some paddles.

Bizcaya, the Ritz's business adaptation of the famed Vizcaya Museum, offers in-room service 24/7 and serves guests anywhere in the hotel (or so the porter promised).

I thought about testing the room-service-anywhere policy by eating an overpriced cheeseburger in the fitness center -- if merely to taunt folks trying to work off their guts. But the Ritz's ubiquitous marble and museum-like environment kept me on my best behavior. (Well, that, and I never saw anyone using the top-notch fitness room or the spa.)

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Service

Service is polite and prompt, but sometimes ill-informed.

It's hard to scrutinize the Ritz's systematic service. The porters were quick to transfer bags and desk attendants were polite, professional, and efficient. Everyone knew the ins and outs of the hotel and was more than willing to provide assistance if I got lost wandering the halls or needed something to eat.

Still, I was a bit disappointed with the "concierge in training" (the only person available at 4 p.m.). She was unable to offer a lunch recommendation aside from Coco Walk, which only offers some chain-food joints like Chili's and Hooters).

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Rooms

The rooms are blissfully boring but comfortable. Deluxe baths are all marble, and the balconies offer a nice dose of fresh air.

Beaming with sedate, standardized comfort -- mahogany furniture, crown molding, diamond-patterned carpets, intricate gilded lamps with mad-looking metal fish at their base -- the Ritz rooms have been lifted from their drab, lifeless perfection with colorful additions to the rooms. The carpets, drapes, paintings, and linens - previously nothing more than sterile whites and gold - have been brought to life with turquoise and pomegranate blankets, pillows and chairs. The upgraded flat-screen TVs and iPod docks are also a welcome change.

The all-marble bathroom with high-polished silver soap dishes, freshly cut orchids, and Bvlgari bath products is fantastic, and explains why the room was so expensive.

The broad, seafoam-toned balconies are a nice touch, even though mine only overlooked some traffic and trees. The balcony appears to get most use as a smoker's spot (I later found black ash from the outdoor table smeared on my elbows).

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Location

Close to the bay, various rooms offer lovely views of sailboats. But the hotel is also a long five blocks from central Coconut Grove.

The Ritz is five long blocks from the central shopping, drinking, dining, dancing, waxing, and shopping (again) hub of Coconut Grove. Walking beside heavy traffic and expansive banking centers certainly detracts from the quaint, neighborhood charm.

But being just a few blocks from the bay, the Ritz boasts some impressive views of yachts and sailboats -- especially from the higher floors.

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Cleanliness

From floor to ceiling, the Ritz is spotless.

I relished the opportunity to go white-glove crazy throughout the property. Still, I couldn't find any flaws. The whole place was spotless, even under the ears of a Grecian bust in an obscure, unused corridor.

The rooms were updated with new carpets, drapes, paintings, and linens in 2009, so the minor issues I found in my room -- faint stains on the carpet and torn leather on the writing pad -- have been resolved.

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Things You Should Know About The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, Miami

Also Known As

  • Coconut Grove Ritz Carlton
  • The Ritz Carlton Coconut Grove, Miami
  • Coconut Grove Ritz-Carlton
  • Ritz Coconut Grove
  • Coconut Grove Ritz
  • Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove
  • The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove

Room Types

  • Bayview Room
  • Deluxe Guestroom
  • Executive Suite
  • Presidential Suite

Address

3300 SW 27th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33133-5305, United States

Phone

(305) 644-4680

Website

Oyster Hotel Review

The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, Miami

Features

Like the rest of the hotel, the well-maintained pool is calm, classy, and a little dull. Impressively, there's 24-hour room service, plus a fitness center and spa.

The beautifully maintained lap pool has updated its previously drab look with more cabanas, plush sofas and a dining pavilion. The view is nothing to write home about, overlooking a few low-rise condo buildings between potted palm trees. It still echoes the same quiet, refined (if not boring), business side of the Ritz, but is a little more inviting.

Tucked behind a few shrubs I found a very tempting Ping-Pong table, but I couldn't figure out where to get some paddles.

Bizcaya, the Ritz's business adaptation of the famed Vizcaya Museum, offers in-room service 24/7 and serves guests anywhere in the hotel (or so the porter promised).

I thought about testing the room-service-anywhere policy by eating an overpriced cheeseburger in the fitness center -- if merely to taunt folks trying to work off their guts. But the Ritz's ubiquitous marble and museum-like environment kept me on my best behavior. (Well, that, and I never saw anyone using the top-notch fitness room or the spa.)

See More Features

Service

Service is polite and prompt, but sometimes ill-informed.

It's hard to scrutinize the Ritz's systematic service. The porters were quick to transfer bags and desk attendants were polite, professional, and efficient. Everyone knew the ins and outs of the hotel and was more than willing to provide assistance if I got lost wandering the halls or needed something to eat.

Still, I was a bit disappointed with the "concierge in training" (the only person available at 4 p.m.). She was unable to offer a lunch recommendation aside from Coco Walk, which only offers some chain-food joints like Chili's and Hooters).

See More Service

Rooms

The rooms are blissfully boring but comfortable. Deluxe baths are all marble, and the balconies offer a nice dose of fresh air.

Beaming with sedate, standardized comfort -- mahogany furniture, crown molding, diamond-patterned carpets, intricate gilded lamps with mad-looking metal fish at their base -- the Ritz rooms have been lifted from their drab, lifeless perfection with colorful additions to the rooms. The carpets, drapes, paintings, and linens - previously nothing more than sterile whites and gold - have been brought to life with turquoise and pomegranate blankets, pillows and chairs. The upgraded flat-screen TVs and iPod docks are also a welcome change.

The all-marble bathroom with high-polished silver soap dishes, freshly cut orchids, and Bvlgari bath products is fantastic, and explains why the room was so expensive.

The broad, seafoam-toned balconies are a nice touch, even though mine only overlooked some traffic and trees. The balcony appears to get most use as a smoker's spot (I later found black ash from the outdoor table smeared on my elbows).

See More Rooms

Location

Close to the bay, various rooms offer lovely views of sailboats. But the hotel is also a long five blocks from central Coconut Grove.

The Ritz is five long blocks from the central shopping, drinking, dining, dancing, waxing, and shopping (again) hub of Coconut Grove. Walking beside heavy traffic and expansive banking centers certainly detracts from the quaint, neighborhood charm.

But being just a few blocks from the bay, the Ritz boasts some impressive views of yachts and sailboats -- especially from the higher floors.

See More Location

Cleanliness

From floor to ceiling, the Ritz is spotless.

I relished the opportunity to go white-glove crazy throughout the property. Still, I couldn't find any flaws. The whole place was spotless, even under the ears of a Grecian bust in an obscure, unused corridor.

The rooms were updated with new carpets, drapes, paintings, and linens in 2009, so the minor issues I found in my room -- faint stains on the carpet and torn leather on the writing pad -- have been resolved.

See More Cleanliness

Best Rates

Amenities

  • Air Conditioner

  • Airport Transportation

  • Balcony / Terrace / Patio

  • Basic Television

  • Business Center

  • Cable

  • Concierge

  • Cribs

  • Dry Cleaning

  • Fitness Center

  • Golf Course

  • Internet

  • Kids Allowed

  • Laundry

  • Meeting / Conference Rooms

  • Mini Bar (with liquor)

  • Pool

  • Poolside Drink Service

  • Rental Car Service Desk Onsite

  • Room Service

  • Separate Bedroom / Living Room Space

  • Smoking Rooms Available

  • Spa

  • Swim-Up Bar

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