Each sampled night the same 23 Miami Beach, Brickell and Downtown Miami hotels are priced, from Xotelo (TripAdvisor partner rates), for 2 adults, 1 night, taking each hotel's lowest rate before taxes and resort fees. A hotel with no rate that night counts as sold out, and as dearer than any room still on sale. The index is the median of the 23. The baseline is the average of 2 quiet midweek nights ($597).
What each number is
- Typical room: the median of the lowest nightly rate at each of the same 23 hotels, 2 adults, 1 night, before taxes and resort fees. Sold-out hotels are ranked above every rate on sale, so a night where the dearest hotels are full reads higher, not lower.
- At least: when half or more of the hotels are sold out, the middle of the list is a sold-out hotel and has no price. We then show the dearest rate still on sale and mark it "at least". No night in this edition is marked this way yet.
- Hotels sold out: how many of the 23 had no rate for that night. A lookup that failed is left out rather than counted as sold out; a night is only published once three quarters of the hotels answered.
- vs quiet night: that median divided by the baseline: the average of Wednesday, 9 December 2026 and Wednesday, 13 January 2027 ($597), midweek nights with no big event.
- What's on: every dated event in the What's On Miami calendar running that night: festivals, art fairs, shows, sports, holidays and conventions.
- Totals only: we publish the median and the sold-out count for each night, never a single hotel's price.
The 23 hotels
The same hotels every night, chosen once and never swapped for cheaper ones: South Beach (Loews Miami Beach, The Setai, Delano, The Betsy, Kimpton Surfcomber, 1 Hotel South Beach, Moxy Miami South Beach, The Ritz-Carlton South Beach); Mid-Beach (Fontainebleau, Faena, Nobu Hotel Miami Beach, Andaz Miami Beach, The Miami Beach EDITION, Freehand Miami); North Beach (Hilton Cabana Miami Beach); Brickell (Four Seasons Hotel Miami, EAST Miami, citizenM Miami Brickell, SLS LUX Brickell); Downtown (JW Marriott Marquis Miami, InterContinental Miami, Kimpton EPIC, Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay). Pricing the same hotels every night, with the full ones counted as the dearest, keeps the median from falling just when demand rises: a list of whatever is still on sale drops the dearest hotels first. Hotels closed for renovation or rebuilding are left out until they reopen.
Where it can mislead
- A sample, not every night. 14 nights are checked: the big event nights, some of the nights around them and quiet nights to compare. Nights in between aren't priced.
- 23 well-known hotels, not every hotel. Holiday rentals, budget motels, the airport and Fort Lauderdale aren't in the list, so the typical room is a Miami Beach or central Miami hotel room.
- Partner rates. Rates come from TripAdvisor's booking partners. A hotel's own site or a member rate can be lower, and a hotel shown as sold out may still have rooms on its own site.
- Before taxes and resort fees. Many Miami Beach hotels add a daily resort fee, and hotel taxes come on top; both apply on quiet and peak nights alike, so the ratios hold.
- One moment in time. Every price was checked on 9 November 2026. Rates for far-off nights usually rise as the date gets closer, and more hotels sell out.
Sources: Xotelo (TripAdvisor partner rates), collected by What's On Miami (whatsonmiami.com); events from miamiandbeaches.com, miamibeachconvention.com and the organisers' own sites. Data: JSON, CSV, CC BY 4.0. Back to the Miami Hotel Price Index.