Luxury Gay Miami

Alan Faena's crimson-and-gold reimagining of the 1947 Saxony is Miami's most theatrical five-star: Damien Hirst's gilded woolly mammoth on the pool lawn and a 150-seat opera-house theatre staging TRYST, a burlesque-cirque cabaret that reads pure queer glamour. Travel Gay carries a dedicated listing, and gay luxury operator Out Of Office sells it in its Miami collection.

The W brand has run visible LGBTQ+ marketing for two decades, and its South Beach flagship makes every 2025-26 gay-hotel shortlist — Nomadic Boys: "even the basic studios are beyond fabulous". All-suite rooms with ocean views, the WET Deck infinity-edge pool scene, AWAY Spa, Mr. Chow on site, plus rooftop tennis and basketball courts.

A three-time Michelin Key winner and the luxury stay closest to the rainbow lifeguard tower: walk out of the 1941 L. Murray Dixon landmark and the 12th Street gay beach is three blocks south, Palace's drag brunch four. Family-owned and art-obsessed — a thousand artworks, a writer's room and live jazz nine times a week in the Piano Bar.

Forbes Five-Star for the fourteenth consecutive year — hotel and spa — this 27-storey glass tower spreads over nine oceanfront acres directly across from Bal Harbour Shops, the Chanel-and-Cartier end of a gay shopping weekend. Every suite comes with St. Regis butler service; Out Of Office features it for exactly this quiet-luxury crowd.