Several extravagant accommodations are just opening in South Florida. They want to wow you with food stuff, spas and lots much more.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Dozens of new motels are opening all across South Florida this 12 months — prepared for the day that pandemic-averse vacationers choose to take all those extended-awaited holidays.

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Kelsey Lanier sweeps the balcony of a area at the Hotel Maren Fort Lauderdale Beach on January 21, 2021.

The surge of new lodges is happening around the airports, alongside the beach locations and in downtown areas. Most of the hotels fly the flags of big nationwide makes these types of as Hilton, Marriott and Holiday getaway Inn.

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Broward and Palm Beach front counties are seeing a mixed two dozen motels coming online this calendar year — and Miami-Dade’s quantities virtually match them the two, in accordance to Colliers Worldwide knowledge.

These planning hotel stays should not expect popular savings: As extended as COVID-19 suppresses the public’s prepandemic motivation to vacation, it’ll maintain depressing hotel revenues industrywide, analysts say. What vacationers can anticipate are resort staffs eager to woo them with extravagant eating places, spas, fitness facilities and commitments to continue to keep them safe and sound from the coronavirus.

“I believe the customers will benefit from deals in this article and there, but there is not a large amount of discounting,” explained Wealthy Lillis, director of Colliers Resorts United states, an arm of the Colliers Intercontinental genuine estate products and services business.

“It will suggest more recent merchandise and a lot more of a assortment of offerings,” Lillis claimed of the new openings. “We assume the new resorts are heading to outperform the more mature types just because consumers will gravitate toward that.”

Right here are samples of some of the new offerings, in accordance to lists supplied by the Larger Fort Lauderdale People and Conference Bureau and Explore The Palm Seashores:

Giving beachside views

Between the 1st out of the box this 12 months is the 141-place Maren Fort Lauderdale Seaside, Curio by Hilton, at 525 Ocean Blvd. The hotel opened its doorways Friday.

“The drinking water views are our claim to fame,” mentioned Matthew Lois, the hotel’s profits manager. “Ocean sights. Intracoastal sights. The vast majority of our rooms have balconies.”

He’s also counting on a cafe run by a “Top Chef” celeb as a attract. Riviera by Fabio Viviani, a 200-seat coastal Italian eatery begun working this weekend.

“We’re wanting for anybody who needs to be near the seaside but doesn’t want a massive box assets,” Lois claimed of the clientele the lodge hopes to develop.

Prices are in the mid-$300s for each night, which Lois identified as “competitive” with other resorts up and down the shoreline.

Lois said he expects most of the Maren’s guests to be from Florida, as has been the scenario for most resorts because the pandemic broke out past March.

“I assume the Southeast is a large component,” he explained. “Right now, there are restricted flights from Canada” because of to national vacation constraints imposed by the Ottawa authorities. Generally, Canadians would be “a massive ingredient coming into Fort Lauderdale” this time of yr.

“I consider appropriate now we’re however viewing the drive marketplace, at the very least to Fort Lauderdale seashore,” Lois claimed. “Business travelers are coming, as well, but their quantities are negligible.”

“We are viewing some business enterprise travel coming back again that we haven’t viewed in the very last handful of months,” he mentioned.

Other seaside area motels just opened or set to open consist of:

The 104-space Cambria Lodge Fort Lauderdale Beach, at 2231 N. Ocean Blvd., which opened Jan. 13. It has oceanfront sights, spa-fashion bathrooms with Bluetooth mirrors, multi-operate meeting area and onsite dining and health middle.

An AC Inns by Marriott Fort Lauderdale Seashore, with 171 rooms opens this spring, all with drinking water views of the ocean or Intracoastal Waterway.

The 96-home Gale Boutique Hotel & Residences, a transformation of the historic Escape Resort in Fort Lauderdale’s Central Beach region, which is set to open on an unspecified day.

Making the most of downtown

Individuals who’d relatively be closer to numerous downtown stores and places to eat will have new choices aplenty.

The Courtyard Fort Lauderdale Downtown, which also opens this month, has 137 rooms. It’ll be by the trendy, arts-oriented Flagler Village portion of downtown Fort Lauderdale. Options involve a state-of-the-art lobby, two assembly rooms with a overall of 2,300 square toes of adaptable conference area and an indoor pool.

The Ray in Delray Beach is scheduled to open in July, situated two blocks north of downtown’s Atlantic Avenue in the artsy local community of Pineapple Grove. Its 141 rooms have balconies.

And guests will have entry to a 20,000-square-foot pool deck with four food and beverage solutions, a rooftop venue, a signature cafe and a community espresso store.

Numerous non-public function areas, together with the Rooftop and the Dice, also will be obtainable.

Dwelling in luxury

After various decades of stops and begins, the 4 Seasons Fort Lauderdale Hotel & Residences is projecting a December opening.

The 22-story task, which has 148 hotel rooms and 83 private residences, will give company access to à-la-carte expert services managed by 4 Seasons, together with a condition-of-the-artwork exercise middle, two pools with luxury cabanas, beach butler services and spa and yachting providers.

In Boca Raton, the second Mandarin Oriental in Florida is also scheduled to open up at year’s close.

Located on East Camino Real, it is a close by neighbor of the venerable Boca Raton Resort & Club and only the seventh Mandarin in the U.S.

The hotel will characteristic two rooftop pools wonderful eating places to eat and bars, which includes Mandarin Oriental’s signature MO Bar + Lounge, on the rooftop with an out of doors terrace and a Mandarin Oriental cake shop.

The Spa at Mandarin Oriental will present holistic rejuvenation and rest, and a state-of-the art conditioning center. A spokeswoman for the Mandarin declined to talk about the opening.

In West Palm Seashore, the Banyan Cay Resort & Golf will open its luxury lodge with 150 boutique rooms and suites, two swimming pools, dining solutions, a 5,000-sq.-foot rest and wellness center.

Being shut to the airport

A few motels are poised to open up in the Dania Seashore spot south of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport, located in a area of explosive residential and commercial development.

They incorporate the 196-place Marriott at Dania Pointe, the 154-place AC Inns by Marriott at Dania Pointe, and the 100-space Avid Dania Seaside.

A 100-place Dolce Hotels & Resorts is owing to open in Hollywood in April, as is yet another 100-area lodge, a Getaway Inn Categorical & Suites, in Miramar.