#1 in Top 20 Miami for A Bachelorette · ★★★★★
Faena Hotel Miami Beach
The red-velvet theatre, Tierra Santa Spa, Pao by Paul Qui, the cinematic-bachelorette flagship.
The red-velvet theatre, Tierra Santa Spa, Pao by Paul Qui, the cinematic-bachelorette flagship.
"The 2015 Alan Faena hotel, gold mammoth, the working Miami Beach design-led bachelor and bachelorette address."
Why this rank, Faena Hotel Miami Beach opened in 2015 on Collins Avenue at 33rd Street, the working Mid-Beach design-led property. 169 rooms and suites; the Imperial Suite at 1,200 sq ft, the Penthouse Faena at 5,000 sq ft, and the multi-bedroom Faena House residences (across the road from the main hotel) are the bachelor and bachelorette group floor plans. The Faena's gold mammoth on the beach (the Damien Hirst sculpture Gone But Not Forgotten) is the most-photographed Instagram backdrop in Miami Beach. The Living Room cocktail bar, the Faena Theater cabaret room (the working post-dinner programme), and Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann anchor the property amenities. The Faena Beach handles the day-party programming with cabana and beach-bed service. The concierge handles VIP coordination at Faena Theater and at the broader Mid-Beach nightclub corridor. Best for the Miami Beach design-led bachelor or bachelorette weekend.
Best room: Penthouse Faena, 5,000 sq ft, ocean view
"The red-velvet theatre, Tierra Santa Spa, Pao by Paul Qui, the cinematic-bachelorette flagship."
Faena Hotel Miami Beach opened in 2015 in the restored 1947 Saxony Hotel building on Mid-Beach Collins Avenue, Alan Faena and his Argentine creative team (Baz Luhrmann's Catherine Martin designed the interiors, Juan Gatti the art direction) created the working most-cinematically-distinctive luxury hotel opening of the past decade in Miami, and the property has remained the working bachelorette flagship ever since. One hundred and sixty-nine rooms and suites across the multi-storey property, the upper-tier Faena Suite (with private outdoor terrace and the working Damien Hirst golden-mammoth-skeleton view from the working hotel garden) is the working group-of-four flagship, and the multi-bedroom Royal Suite is the working full-group milestone-flagship. The asset is the working theatrical-design-and-Faena-Theater programme, the property holds the only working in-house cabaret theatre on Miami Beach (the Faena Theater hosts working nightly burlesque shows that have been the working bachelorette centerpiece for a decade), the working Pao by Paul Qui (Asian-fusion working dinner) and Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann (Argentine fire-cooking working dinner) handle the working anniversary-equivalent and group dinners, the working Tierra Santa Healing House Spa runs the working Latin-American-shamanic-tradition treatments, and the working private beach club with red-velvet-cabanas is the working Saturday-afternoon centerpiece. Faena is the right pick for the working maximalist Miami bachelorette where the cinematic-theatre-and-design positioning is the working centerpiece, the trip's photograph is the working Faena lobby-and-cabana sequence, and the working Saturday-night-Faena-Theater performance is the working group-evening centerpiece.
Royal Suite (the working multi-bedroom milestone flagship) or Faena Suite for the working group-of-four working option.
Pre-book the Faena Theater Saturday-night burlesque performance, the working centerpiece, books out 4 weeks in advance. Reserve a working red-velvet beach cabana for Friday and Saturday afternoons. Eat at Pao by Paul Qui on Saturday for the working group-dinner.
Faena Hotel Miami Beach sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Miami for a Bachelorette list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 across the three editorial criteria, competitive against the field but, on a bachelorette-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Miami neighbourhood, see Mid-Beach and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces, the ones that earn this rank, are typically the first to sell out.
Editorial · #7 on the Top 20 Bachelor and Bachelorette Hotels 2026 list
Faena Hotel Miami Beach's case for the bachelorette weekend is the design-led setting. The Damien Hirst gold mammoth on the beach (Gone But Not Forgotten) is the most-photographed Instagram backdrop in Miami Beach, which is the structural difference from the Fontainebleau or the W South Beach.
For the bachelorette group the Imperial Suite at 1,200 sq ft, the Penthouse Faena at 5,000 sq ft, and the multi-bedroom Faena House residences (across the road from the main hotel) are the core floor plans. The Living Room cocktail bar runs the working pre-dinner programme; the Faena Theater cabaret room runs the post-dinner programme with a Cuban-influenced cabaret show that no other Miami Beach property offers.
Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann handles the dinner anchor. The Faena Beach runs the day-party programming with cabana and beach-bed service. The Mid-Beach Collins-Avenue position is three minutes from the Miami Beach EDITION, five from Fontainebleau, and ten from W South Beach via the beachfront walk, which lets the group access the broader Miami Beach nightclub circuit. The concierge handles VIP coordination at Faena Theater and at the broader Mid-Beach nightclub corridor. Best for the Miami Beach design-led bachelorette weekend.