Sunny Isles Beach, Florida offers visitors some of the best attractions and activities that South Florida has to offer. Known as The City of Sun and Sea, this small community is located on a barrier island in the northeast corner of Miami-Dade County, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on the west. Golden Beach, Florida lies just to the north Sunny Isles Beach, and Bal Harbour and Haulover Park are immediately to the south.
While travelers who choose to spend all or part of their vacation in Sunny Isles Beach want to spend some time by the seashore, they also have the benefit of enjoying the restaurants, hotels, sporting events, entertainment, attractions and other recreational activities of two of Florida’s largest metropolitan areas. Sunny Isles Beach is midway between downtown Miami and Fort Lauderdale; residents and visitors can fly into either Miami International or Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International airports, or cruise into the Port of Miami or Port Everglades and be in Sunny Isles Beach within 20 to 30 minutes so this will be an ideal location for your Sunny Isles Hotels Miami vacation
Almost one million vacationers visit Sunny Isles Beach annually to enjoy the 2 ½ mile-long fine sand beach and recreational activities such as water sports, boating, fishing, and tennis. The upscale resorts on Sunny Isles Beach have so many amenities that some guests might not even bother to venture beyond the resort grounds, but exploring Sunny Isles Beach is worth the effort. The landmark fishing pier, built in 1936, is a local favorite while the beautiful Samson Oceanfront Park provides a children’s play area and space to relax.
While the area now known as Sunny Isles Beach has been a tourist destination since the Florida land boom of the 1920s, development in Sunny Isles Beach did not accelerate until after World War II, when single family housing was established in nearby Golden Shores. During the 1950′s and 1960′s more than 30 motels were built along the main thoroughfare along Collins Avenue. These structures included the Ocean Palm; the first two-story motel in the U.S. The residents of Sunny Isles Beach finally voted to incorporate the community into its own municipality in 1997.
Today, the post-World World II era hotels, motels and motor lodges in what used to be called “Motel Row” are now being torn down to accommodate luxury residential condominium construction. According to the Sunny Isles Beach home page, “Much of the residential construction is not for year-round occupancy, however the statistics show a steady growth in young families who desire to be near the ocean.”
