The Last Word On Travel: Miami
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For the last word on travel, Sarah Slattery from thetravelexpert.ie is going to tell us all about Miami in Florida, where she recently was. Sarah, thank you very much for joining us. Now, I suspect there's lots of people listening who have been to Orlando, mainly tourists. because of things like Disney World and Universal Studios, something I've done myself with my own family. But why did you decide instead to go to Miami?
I was actually over at a travel conference in Fort Lauderdale and I'd never been to Miami.
What makes Miami a unique travel destination?
And it's literally, it was 20 minutes in a taxi down. So I literally kind of last minute booked a two nights day just to see it. And I really, really liked it. I don't know what I was expecting. Obviously, I knew it was going to be kind of glitz and glamour and expensive and all those kind of cliches or things that you know about Miami. But I actually really liked exploring it. Very, very easy to get around. And I think it actually would be a great add-on to somebody who is going to Orlando to go for it. You'd actually see so much in a short space of time, like two or three nights. It's also really, really popular with cruisers. Miami is, if not the biggest cruise port in the world, it's certainly one of them.
And for Irish holidaymakers cruising the Caribbean, you can't fly directly in and just go on the ship. You need to overnight anyway, the way the flights operate. So I think sometimes people just tended to overnight for one, you know, stay somewhere at the airport and get on the cruise the next day. But I definitely would recommend staying an extra night or two and just explore Miami and just soaking up the atmosphere. It's really, really quite a cool place to visit.
You know, do you need a lot of money? Is it not very expensive? I mean, you say about the glitz and the glamour, other people would suggest maybe that's cheap and tacky, but whatever way, does it not require a lot of dollars to spend?
Well, funny, I expected it to be. I had heard eating out and that it was one of the most expensive cities, but I certainly didn't find it as expensive as Vegas. I would even say from a dining point of view, I found some really great value places to eat cheaper than New York. So I didn't actually see that.
Why should travelers consider Miami over Orlando?
Although, you know, I know Time magazine and lots of places would say it is the most expensive place. I suppose if you're kind of going to the top clubs and the top, you know, you know, restaurants, maybe, yes, you will pay an awful lot of money. But there are really, particularly for people on a short break, like a cruise stay for a couple of nights, you can get around with free public transport. Like it's really, really cheap to get around and really, really easy to see everywhere. Like we booked the hop on, hop off bus tour and there was only nine stops, you know, which kind of threw me a bit, you know, to go through all the different neighbourhoods. Like it's a big city, you know, but it doesn't feel that way.
And you can actually see a lot and get around quite cheaply. And there are, I found, kind of maybe more cheap eats than you'd get in some of the other American cities. That was my experience anyway.
OK, let's go through some of the things that you saw and did. Start with South Beach and Ocean Drive for me, please.
Yeah, that's, I suppose, the iconic place you have to go. In fact, I'd say if you can afford it, it's probably the cool place to stay as well, because I kind of thought it was just the beach area. But it's actually you've got Miami Beach is one big, long nine mile barrier kind of island and you've got South Beach, North Beach and Mid-Beach. But South Beach is where kind of all the cool restaurants are. You've got Ocean Drive, then the lines, that whole strip of the beach with all the gorgeous Art Deco buildings. And it's just very, very cool place to hang out. Now, interestingly, you said tacky earlier. Like it does have, you know, some of these kind of happy hour bars.
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