Getting Around: South Beach, Miami, Florida

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Welcome to South Beach! While Miami International Airport is usually your first stop, you have finally arrived in the land of sun and sand. After the exhausting flight and trekking to baggage claim while praying your bags actually arrive intact and without a TSA sticker (meaning everything is still folded and still there), you can say you have “ARRIVED”. Gather your bags and head for a taxi stand. Going to South Beach via taxi can be somewhat expensive, but not as expensive as renting a car and paying for gasoline. You do not need that rental car that you will park in the hotel garage (at exorbitant daily parking rates) and only take out onto the streets one or two times during your stay. After all, you come to South Beach for just that: South Beach! Why would you want to drive anywhere? 

TRANSPORTATION:

Back to the taxi. Rates from the airport to the South Beach (Government Cut to 63 Street) area are a flat rate of $32.00, not including tip. This rate is government mandated and listed on the local government website. Do not get fooled by freelance "town car services" which can be an iffy situation. One of the "freelancers" vehicle was a SUV which may not really have had enough gas to make it to South Beach from the airport. Or else it needed a tune up really bad! Better to go out to the transportation area and hop into a legitimate taxi cab. If you take a taxi anywhere else, rates are:

The rate on Drop/Mileage is $2.50 for the first 1/6 mile; Additional charges are $.40 (forty cents) per 1/6 mile. If you ask the driver to wait it will cost you $24.00 per hour.