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Hotel Strategy
First visit? Stay in South Beach.
For a first Miami visit, South Beach delivers the city's most distinctive combination of beach, Art Deco, dining, people-watching and walkability without requiring a car for every small outing. Choose Brickell instead only if mainland transit convenience matters more than sleeping by the ocean.
Avoid sleeping near Overtown, Little Haiti after dark, Ocean Drive's loudest South Beach blocks, Isolated Biscayne Boulevard motel blocks. Despite important history and proximity to downtown, Wikivoyage reports the city's highest violent-crime rate here; do not choose it as a tourist lodging base.