Around the property
Steps from the sand and the Broadwalk, midway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
The Guitar Hotel at night. Photo: Rob Olivera, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
You're steps from the Broadwalk, a trolley ride from downtown Hollywood, and midway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale for easy day trips either way.
At your door
The Hollywood Beach Broadwalk runs 2.2 miles right past our buildings, a brick-paved promenade that Travel + Leisure magazine ranked as one of America's Best Beach Boardwalks. It's built for walking, jogging, cycling and rollerblading, with restaurants and cafes the whole way. From most of our hotels you're on it in a few steps.
On foot, mostly
Once you're here, most of it is a short walk. For the rest:
Day trips
Hollywood Beach sits midway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Either city is an easy day trip, and you come home to the same fair-priced room each night. Base yourself here, explore both, and keep your budget for the fun part.
After dark
The Broadwalk stays busy after dark: restaurants and bars along it, and free live music at the Hollywood Beach Theatre, Wednesday to Sunday, 7 to 9pm. Downtown Hollywood and the ArtsPark are about 1.5 miles away, the Guitar Hotel about 5, Las Olas about 7.
On the Broadwalk at Johnson Street, a walk from every building · Free
The city bandshell on the Broadwalk: free live music Wednesday to Sunday evenings, 7 to 9pm. Bring a chair or sit on the wall.
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About 5 miles, 12 minutes by car · Casino open 24 hours
The Guitar Hotel: a 24-hour casino, Hard Rock Live concerts, and a strip of restaurants and bars.
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About 4 miles, 10 minutes by car · Racing December to April
Thoroughbred racing in season, a casino floor, and the shops and restaurants of Gulfstream Village.
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About 1.5 miles, the trolley or a short drive · Park free, open 7am to 10pm
Harrison Street's restaurants and bars around Young Circle, with the ArtsPark amphitheater and its rare baobab trees in the middle.
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About 7 miles, 15 minutes by car · Free to stroll
Fort Lauderdale's tree-lined boulevard of galleries, shops and fifty-odd restaurants, with the drawbridge opening for yachts.
Photo: Rob Olivera, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Within ten miles
Most of these are a short drive from the front desk, and a few are a walk along the Broadwalk. Distances are from 1915 North Ocean Drive.
Nature and open water within a few miles of the sand.
About 1.5 miles · Exhibit hall free
A 68-foot observation tower over 1,500 acres of mangrove wetland, a 3,500-gallon aquarium, and canoe and kayak trails through the mangroves.
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About 3 miles, 9 minutes by car · $2 to walk, $3 to fish
A 974-foot pier over open water, open from 5am to midnight. Walk it for the view, or drop a line.
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About 3 miles, 8 minutes by car · $6 per vehicle
One of the last undeveloped beaches in Broward County. Swim, kayak the mangrove trails, or fish the jetty.
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About 8 miles, 15 minutes by car · Parking $7 to $10
A wide Miami-Dade beach with a marina, boat and jet-ski rentals, and kayaking on the Intracoastal side.
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About 9 miles, 18 minutes by car · $8 per vehicle
Florida's largest urban park: kayak through mangrove tunnels, bike the trails, or fish for tarpon and snook.
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Rainy-afternoon and full-day options that families come back for.
On the Broadwalk, a few minutes' walk · Free
The beach playground and splash fountain on the Broadwalk, with picnic pavilions. The quick one when the kids need a break from the sand.
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About 9 miles, 18 minutes by car · $24 adults, $17 ages 3 to 11
Botanical gardens and a wildlife sanctuary in Davie, with narrated tram tours and daily animal shows.
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About 11 miles, 20 minutes by car · $16 to $19
Fort Lauderdale's hands-on science museum with an IMAX theater. The rainy-afternoon answer.
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About 12 miles, 23 minutes by car · $41.99 adults, $29.99 ages 3 to 11
One-hour guided airboat rides into the Everglades, and live alligator shows.
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An afternoon indoors, or a night at a show.
About 2 miles, downtown · $7 adults, free on the third Sunday
Contemporary exhibitions, film and workshops in a 1924 building on Harrison Street.
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About 1.5 miles · Free, first Sunday of the month
The 1935 Hammerstein House and the story of Joseph Young's 1920s dream city, which this beach is part of.
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About 9 miles, 18 minutes by car · $30 adults, $8 ages 6 to 17
A 1920s artist's estate on Fort Lauderdale beach: murals, tropical gardens and squirrel monkeys in the trees.
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About 7 miles, 15 minutes by car · $16 adults, free first Thursday evening
A modernist museum at the foot of Las Olas with more than 7,500 works, including the country's largest William Glackens collection.
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About 8 miles, 15 minutes by car · $12 adults
Broward's oldest surviving building, a 1901 trading post on the New River, by guided tour.
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About 8 miles, 15 minutes by car · $10 adults, $5 ages 5 to 12
A replica 1920s Packard showroom holding the largest Packard collection in the country.
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Further afield
Miami one way, Fort Lauderdale the other, the Everglades behind you. Go for the day and come home to the same fair-priced room.
Worth the drive, or the boat.
About 12 miles to the main dock · All-day pass; $15 after 5pm
Hop-on, hop-off boats through the Venice of America: downtown, Las Olas and the mansions along the canals.
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About 9 miles, 15 minutes by car · Priced by event
The Dolphins from September to January, Inter Miami in season, and stadium tours on quiet days.
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About 18 miles, 25 minutes by car · About $18 to $25, under 6 free
Miami's outdoor museum of large-scale murals, in the middle of the Wynwood arts district.
Photo: Phillip Pessar from Miami, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About 22 miles, 30 minutes by car · Free to walk; museum $7
Ocean Drive's pastel 1930s hotels, the welcome center's walking tours, and the beach at the end of every street.
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About 23 miles, 35 minutes by car · $20 adults, closed Tuesdays
A 1916 Italian Renaissance villa on Biscayne Bay with ten acres of formal gardens.
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About 20 miles, 30 minutes by car · $8 per vehicle; lighthouse tours free
The 1825 lighthouse at the tip of Key Biscayne and two miles of quiet beach.
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About 20 miles, 25 minutes by car · $32.50 adults, $22.50 ages 3 to 11
An 80,000-square-foot screened aviary in Coconut Creek with more than 80 butterfly species and lorikeet encounters.
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About 53 miles, an hour by car · Park entry $30 per vehicle; tram $36
The two-hour tram into the River of Grass, alligators along the road and a 65-foot tower at the far end.
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Mark the calendar
Recurring events guests ask us about. Dates move a little each year; the official pages carry the current ones.
Hours, prices and schedules belong to the venues and change without notice. We link to their official pages so you can check before you go. Photos of places we do not own are credited to their photographers under Creative Commons licences.
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