Trump International Sonesta Beach Resort
PRICE:
Frommer's Recommended
ADDRESS: 18001 Collins Ave
CITY: Miami
STATE: FL
COUNTRY: USA
POSTCODE: 33160
PHONE 1: 800/SONESTA (800/766-3782)
PHONE 2: 305/692-5600
FAX: 305/692-5601
WEBSITE: www.trumpsonesta.com
Donald, Donald, Donald, what were you thinking when you opened this uninspiring 32-story, 390-room beach resort? Yes, the Trump International sits on a prime piece of beachfront property, but I've seen rooms in Holiday Inns that have more personality than these. Completely bland with no style whatsoever, the Trump International is a folly of massive proportions despite a recent renovation that added a pool and increased the beachfront. With a cavernous, blasé lobby in which you can hear a pin drop, a restaurant that looks like a common room ripped out of an old Catskills resort (and not updated), and views of T-shirt shops and Denny's, this hotel is a travesty. That's really all I can say. And it's not made better with the tacky digital sign out front trying to entice people inside.
Maybe, with an emphasis on the
maybe, if there were a casino in here, it would justify a stay. Otherwise, it's just more vanity fare for the egomaniacal developer who seems to think that bigger is always better.
Copyright: Excerpted from
Frommer's South Florida including Miami and Keys, 6th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Miami
, USA