Check out this fantastic place to stay. We also stayed at a Holiday Inn at Marathon which was surpri

The drive up A1A, on the other hand, is enjoyable hotels downtown chicago most of the way to beautiful Amelia Island. There are great places to stay on the Atlantic Coast. I suggest you explore beach and water activities north of Miami.
To begin, a hotel recommendation in Miami Beach: Try the SoBeYou B B in South Beach. It's on a quiet street about 4 blocks from the beach and close to the center of the action. You could stay there without a car and still have access to lots of good restaurants and clubs in SB. You'll have to figure out the transportation from the airport to the hotel. (I understood you to say you're staying only one night in Miami?)
After your stay there, you can rent the car to head to Key West. As one poster mentioned, it's kind of a boring drive, hotels downtown chicago but really not that bad from Miami. I like Key West. The pain is in driving back from Key West to Orlando, IMHO.
We will be arriving in Miami around 3pm on a Wednesday and we are staying 12 nights. We only want to stay in Miami for 1 night at the most. As long as we can spend some time on a beach before the lack of large beaches in the Keys. I was recommended to take a shuttle to the hotel and then rent the car the next day. This could change.
We drove from Tampa to Key West and then back up to Orlando. I loved the drive down the Keys, thought it was fascinating to have ocean on both sides of the car! The Gulf side was also nice but a bit full of ostentatious housing estates for my liking.
Loved Key Largo and would have liked to have more days there, likewise Islamorada. Key West was interesting and well worth the trek down but had so many hawkers.I got a bit sick of everyone wanting my money.
Have you been to the Everglades? If not then I would definitely suggest a night in Homestead so you can check out the gators (and visit Robert is Here fruit stand for the best milkshakes hotels downtown chicago in the entire world!).
On the way back up to Orlando we stayed in Melbourne and visited Cape Canaveral. It was a real highlight. We also went out to the beach directly opposite Patrick Airforce Base. It was lovely and pretty much deserted at sunset.
Be sure to have some water and snacks in the car. We were in Islamarado one time, and friends in our group drove to Key West for the day. There was a bad accident and they were held up on the road for 4 hours in a traffic jam!!
Taking a hotel shuttle for one night in Miami, then the next day taking a taxi to go to a rental car place and then heading through the traffic just doesn't seem like a good way to start the vacation. Too much "logistics". And would you really save that much when all finished compared hotels downtown chicago to just getting your car at the airport and going?
I was really suggesting Priceline hotels downtown chicago for the first night in Key Largo as I had also suggested hotels downtown chicago that a number of times. But they are renting in one place and returning hotels downtown chicago another--I think you can punch that button, but not sure.
We heard from many that checking out South Beach was worth it. That would be the reason for not just heading hotels downtown chicago down to the Keys right away. We are also getting in at about 3...if we headed straight down would this be a great deal of traffic?
South Beach would definitely be worth it--but not with a shuttle and not already having your car rental done, IMO. Consolidate where you can to enjoy the most. Parking for one night vs. shuttle, etc. You do the math.
Check out this fantastic place to stay. We also stayed at a Holiday Inn at Marathon which was surprisingl nice and Dove Creek Lodge ( forgot the name of this place ) We drove from Fort Lauderdale ( after a cruise ) and thought the scenery was great. We also did a great day trip cruise from Marathon which was lovely and we also saw the manatees???
Yes, of course they do. This comment may have been aimed at me since I mentioned that you can't do that though with Priceline -- but I was cautioned that the Priceline recommendation was for hotels, not car rentals.
But do be aware that for years Florida rarely had a drop off charge for rental cars. More recently they have been added by some companies and some locations. So be very careful. Sometimes those drop off fees don't show up until the final contract! Read and check carefully.
We stayed at the Key West Inn in Key Largo and the La Siesta in Islamorada. I found both of them cheaply on Wotif. Both worked well for us because they had a separate hotels downtown chicago bedroom for our son and a kitchen. La Siesta had a lovely pool and included breakfast by the pool. The Key West Inn had seen better days but was comfortable enough.
We rented our car in Tampa and dropped off in Orlando- there were no one way drop off fees in Florida for us but we did buy a SunPass and were glad we had, there seems to be a toll every 5 minutes in the South!
Thank you so much! We are moving across the country soon after the honeymoon and any ways to save while still having a great time are excellent! Good to know about Parrot Key...it looks great but perhaps isn't!
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