Oli looked after me very well.
No kids or vegetarian food ordered or received
The usual excellent service from DialAFlight. We did have a problem with Enterprise car rental who were abysmal. I would give them 1 out of 10 rating.
Marie was amazing with everything and was there for us any time we needed her. Would definitely recommend to others and book again.
Thanks yet again to Dexter for excellent service.
Hotel could have been better. The holiday was good
Thank you Abbie
Double Tree Miami sunny isles I would not recommend to customers. Apart from the amazing views of the beach the hotel was tired and the staff unprofessional. I would highly recommend Naples Bay and Marina resort. It was clean, staff couldn’t do more for you and the shuttle service was excellent! We will definitely be back! Harmony of the Seas was AMAZING. Ultra spacious room superb for our family of 5. The best holiday we have been on!
Always good service
I always depends on you - very impressive as always
Been using DialAFlight for nearly 20 years. Amazing as always. Marcus Nunn such a superstar of an agent too. Will use again very soon
Great job , as usual
Fab flight and cabin crew were very helpful
Thank you Chris Coulter for another brilliant break to the USA. As always a very professional service.
Another fantastic holiday. Simply the best tour operator. Thank you Orlando Spragg
Better information regarding resort fees. as we had to pay when we checked in, these should have been included in the price or told we would have to pay when booking.
Another stress free holiday organised by Ashley. All we had to do was turn up and enjoy ourselves.
Connie is great very time with a good level of detail.
Jordan is amazing- thoughtful and very efficient
Very happy with the service
BA need to improve
Everything went as expected.
Many thanks to Joe Orton and his team.
Megan's customer service and coordination of my trip was excellent.
Good prices, good communication and very helpful staff
Princess did offer transfers that would have been cheaper and less stressful than sorting it out ourselves. Not a problem but useful to know for future customers. Kennedy was brilliant - as always - will definitely continue to book with DialAFlight
Thanks Jamie, everything went smoothly.
The DialAFlight team has been fantastic as always
Thanks to Chris and the team.
Really good support from the team
I remember the first time I went to Miami Beach. It was to film an American version of Trigger Happy TV and I was not really looking forward to it.
I thought it would be a combination of Miami Vice flashiness coupled with theme parks. How wrong I was.
The moment I got out of my cab in South Beach, I was hooked. The heady mix of wonderful weather, glorious Art Deco buildings and a blend of American optimism and Cuban joie de vivre made the place crackle with excitement.
I stayed at The Tides on Ocean Drive and just down from the glitzy hacienda where Gianni Versace lived and died. South Beach was on a resurgence, having almost nosedived into a no-go zone in the 1980s.
One of the opening scenes in the movie Scarface shows a drug deal go terribly wrong by way of a chainsaw, and the dilapidated street this happens on is Ocean Drive.
Then the fashion and music industries started to use it as a location because it was cheap and looked amazing. Everyone else followed.
I'd sit on the terrace of The Tides and watch the glamour pass by. One morning I was joined, at neighbouring tables, first by Mike Tyson and an entourage of eight, followed by the rapper Ja Rule and his pet lion. SOBE, as South Beach is known, had truly arrived.
I hadn't been back for a while and wanted to introduce my family to it. I hoped they'd love it as much as I did.
I opted for an old favourite hotel called The Albion. I'd stayed there while filming another show and it is ideally placed at the top of Lincoln Road Mall, the pedestrianised street that cuts through South Beach and is packed with stores, restaurants and bars.
The Albion has a fabulous bar, Repour, and a pool that is a refuge from the bustle of the city.
We normally breakfasted at News cafe, an Ocean Drive institution where you get some of the best people-watching in the world. Then we'd head off for the day's activity.
One day we visited the Wynwood Walls, a must-see in Miami. Another formerly dilapidated area, it has been transformed by street artists from around the world invited to use the neighbourhood as their canvas. It is now fast becoming gentrified and is packed with hipster stores and cafes along with the extraordinary art.
Cycling is the best way around South Beach. We rented bikes for a couple of days and zoomed around soaking up the street life and never, ever seemed to have to go uphill.
Having reached the southern tip of Miami Beach and wandered out to the end of the pier to get a fabulous boat's-eye view, we would often lunch at Monty's, a relaxed place on the Miami side of the island that's great for sunsets and cocktails.
Or we'd hop in a cab and head to Coral Gables. This ridiculously wealthy community has a little jewel in its crown - The Venetian Pool. It's an oasis, a public swimming pool made from a former coral quarry in the 1920s - the most beautiful swimming pool I've ever been to.
Then it was back to SOBE, gawping at the fabulous seaside properties on Star Island.
Come the evening, we'd normally wander down Lincoln Road Mall to one of our favourite places - Rosinella, an authentic Italian trattoria where we could sit outside and watch the world go by.
For a treat, we'd head south to Jo's Stone Crabs, a SOBE institution. You can't reserve a table so you put your name on a list and then sit down for a drink to wait your turn.
The food is extraordinary. Huge stone crab claws dipped in mustard sauce, wonderful aged steaks that melt in your mouth.
SOBE is the place to be - take it from me. As my daughter Parker put it, it puts you in a 'Sunshine State Of Mind'.
First published in the Mail on Sunday - August 2018
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