The Boca Raton spans three hundred and fifty-six landscaped acres on the Intracoastal Waterway between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Boca, with five distinct hotels (Cloister, Tower, Yacht Club, Bungalows, Beach Club) totalling more than 1,000 rooms, two golf courses, seven pools, thirty tennis courts, and the largest single-resort campus in South Florida.
"Addison Mizner's 1926 Mediterranean dream, three hundred and fifty-six acres, five hotels under one roof. The unambiguous South Florida anchor."
The Boca Raton was commissioned by the Florida architect Addison Mizner in 1926 as the original Cloister Inn, a one-hundred-room Mediterranean Revival landmark on the parcel that now anchors the resort's western flank. The property opened during the late stages of the Florida land boom, survived the collapse and the Depression under multiple ownerships, expanded through the post-war decades into one of the largest single-resort campuses in the United States, and was acquired in 2019 by the current Northview Hotel Group ownership, which has invested approximately two hundred million dollars in a multi-year renovation programme that completed the final phase for the 2024 season.
Five distinct hotels operate on the property under unified management, each with a defined character and price tier. The Cloister, the original Mizner building, holds the heritage envelope and the most architecturally significant rooms. The Tower, added in 1969, holds the high-floor Intracoastal and Atlantic views. The Beach Club is the only oceanfront component, accessible by tunnel under the inlet road. The Yacht Club holds the marina-side suites for the boating week. The Bungalows are the recently completed adults-only component on the central garden parcel. Across the five hotels the room count exceeds one thousand, with approximately one hundred and eighty suites, distributed in a way that allows guests to select the experience separately from the address.
The amenity programme is correspondingly ambitious. Two championship golf courses (the Country Club course on the western parcel and the resort course on the southern parcel), seven pools, thirty tennis courts including six clay, three full gyms, the forty-thousand-square-foot Spa Palmera, a private beach with cabana service, the marina with full guest-vessel docking, eleven food and beverage outlets ranging from Sadelle's casual all-day to the new fine-dining concept by Alex Gaeta, and the on-property kids club operation that holds federal pre-school accreditation. Service across the campus runs to the standard expected of the South Florida five-star tier.
The Boca Raton is the unambiguous luxury anchor of South Florida between Miami and Palm Beach and the only resort in the region that combines the heritage of the Mizner architecture with the contemporary expectations of a Forbes Five-Star property. The scale (356 acres, five hotels, eleven outlets) is the appeal for some guests and the deterrent for others; the property is large enough that a first-time guest needs the property map and the golf cart shuttle. For a multi-generational family, an extended wellness stay, a corporate off-site, or a milestone anniversary where the address itself is the point, the Boca Raton remains the unambiguous answer.
The Boca Raton is one of a handful of US resorts with the scale to absorb a multi-generational family without anyone tripping over anyone else: connecting rooms in the Cloister for the grandparents, the Beach Club for the parents and the older kids, the on-property accredited kids club for the youngest, and seven pools to spread the group across the day. Few US family-resort addresses match this completeness.
The forty-thousand-square-foot Spa Palmera is one of the largest hotel spas in the Southeast and operates a full multi-day programme including the Watsu pool, the Hammam, the Mizner-courtyard treatment villas, and a clinical wellness component on the upper floor. Stay in the Bungalows adults-only component and the wellness week runs uninterrupted.
For a milestone anniversary the Tower oceanview suites or the Cloister heritage rooms with their Mizner architectural detail are the obvious choice. The Flamingo Grill in the main building and the new Alex Gaeta concept on the Beach Club deck both handle the celebration dinner; the resort concierge will arrange the boat tour, the helicopter to the Bahamas, the in-suite cake, the orchid arrival, whatever the occasion requires.
501 East Camino Real
Boca Raton, FL, 33432
United States
East Boca Raton, Camino Real
1,047 rooms guest rooms and 183 suites
From $399/night
5-Star Resort
Rated 4.7/5 across 3,612 reviews
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Original Cloister Inn opened 1926; designed by Addison Mizner
Current ownership: Northview Hotel Group (2019)
Open year-round
Five distinct hotels on 356 acres
Two championship golf courses
Seven pools and 30 tennis courts
40,000 sq ft Spa Palmera
Private beachfront (Beach Club)
Marina with full guest-vessel docking
Eleven food and beverage outlets
Accredited on-property kids club
Free WiFi throughout
Forbes Five-Star
From $399/night for Cloister entry rooms; oceanfront Beach Club rooms from $785/night; Bungalows adults-only suites from $895/night. Peak winter weeks (Christmas, Presidents' Day, March break) book six months ahead.
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