Kimpton Angler's Hotel South Beach

We've stayed several years ago at the Anglers when it was a boutique hotel and then it was... fantastic. French chef, French owner, awesome atmosphere. The move to Kimpton made the Anglers .... just another chain hotel, unfortunately. Our fault we didn't get that when booking thorugh booking.com. Though the new pool on the roof terrace is awesome, it really is. And in general we liked the off-but-still-near Ocean Drive location.

Overpriced breakfast, American fast food style, no espresso. 66 USD for a family is hefty, and then you need to eat from some lounge chairs bowing to reach your plate. Aches a lot. There is also a 30 USD "resort fee" per day you had to pay which wasn't communicated in booking.com, we felt that was overpriced. Also: there was a fire alarm drill over several hours during one day that was so loud you'd gone deaf if you didn't block your ears. Quite annoying with small kids when you want to escape the sun during noon. When it was over we received a letter from the management that there would be fire drills over three days. Funny. Lastly, we were asked to pay a completely different rate than the one we got from booking.com. The difference was 300 USD, and only after intervening we got presented our correct rates. Terrible. Good that we do speak some English to be able to intervene... at least the manager apologized.