Let us add, that if coffee and ethnic foods are not to your liking, you can purchase authentic cigars in Little Havana that you don't have to hide from customs. Across the Intercoastal Waterway from Miami, on a barrier island, is Miami Beach. When we first arrived in Miami Beach when I was a child everything ended at the Fontainbleau Hotel. We went in the afternoon to others like the Eden Roc for ice cream sodas around the pool, but there was nothing much past the Fontainbleau. Now, the hotels and apartments just keep going up the coast with great shopping like in Bal Harbor Shopping Center where the two large stores are Saks Fifth Ave. and Neiman Marcus.
South Beach is at the tip of Miami Beach and the main drag here is Ocean Drive.
This is the most photographed street in the area. Although only 100,000 people live in Miami Beach, on certain weekends there can be 1 million people tanning and playing on the island. During the day cafes are full and fashion shoots seem to be every where thanks to the back drops of pastel and vibrant-colored buildings. At night, South Beach comes alive. European and South American in taste, people eat late and then party.