Nash Hotel   

1120 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305-674-7800
www.hotelnash.com

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Nestled in the thick of South Beach's Art Deco district just behind the Versace mansion, the new Hotel Nash -- which opened its doors on the first day of the new millennium, following an $11- million restoration of its historic digs -- manages to be both austere and luxurious at the same time. The clean, stark lines of the 1930s deco-style interior are softened by calming sage and ivory hues, as well as by intricate aromatherapy scents dispersed throughout the building. The hotel complex includes three outdoor pools (filled with fresh, salt and mineral waters), a courtyard garden and a superb in-house restaurant, Mark's. Commanded by renowned South Florida chef Mark Militello, the Nash's restaurant weaves Caribbean, Californian, Mediterranean and Asian influences into its own distinctive cuisine celebrating local ingredients. The Hotel Nash caters to people who demand a little bit extra when it comes to service. To appease such clientele, they offer a hardworking concierge, extensive room service, voice mail and e-mail, laptop rentals and a big basket of private-label botanical bath goodies in every room and suite. Insiders recommend splurging on an upper-level room facing the garden, rather than the standard city-side accommodations offering only dreary roofscape vistas. Several of the rooms also overlook the Versace mansion's functioning observatory. If you really want to go all out and impress your friends and family, opt for the Grand Penthouse Suite to the tune of about $1,300 per night. -- Kim Mattingly