What should Miami Beach do about Spring Break, Holidays? (condo, hotel)

[himain]

Not only that but Social got hit again last night with another incident. It was on Instagram.

Here's video of last night on Ocean Drive

https://wsvn.com/

[Corrie22]

...well at least no one was discriminated against

[Mr. Ryu]

When does Spring Break end? I want to WFH in Miami Beach for a week or so but want to avoid the crowds.

[logybogy]

Originally Posted by elchevere

What did Ft Lauderdale do when it was a major spring break destination decades ago?

They basically went up market. Aggressive code enforcement banning late night drinking and then fining problem businesses out of business.

The cure to South Beach spring break problems is to make it completely unaffordable to college kids. From what I understand, dirt cheap airline fares and hotel rooms/airbnb's are attracting the rif raff. Part of this is COVID related. The cure is $300 and $400 a night hotel rooms. They need to schedule a lot of prestige big money programming during March/April.

[himain]

Originally Posted by Mr. Ryu

When does Spring Break end? I want to WFH in Miami Beach for a week or so but want to avoid the crowds.

I wouldn't touch Sobe any day of the year now...

[himain]

Originally Posted by logybogy

They basically went up market. Aggressive code enforcement banning late night drinking and then fining problem businesses out of business.

The cure to South Beach spring break problems is to make it completely unaffordable to college kids. From what I understand, dirt cheap airline fares and hotel rooms/airbnb's are attracting the rif raff. Part of this is COVID related. The cure is $300 and $400 a night hotel rooms. They need to schedule a lot of prestige big money programming during March/April.

Vegas had the same issue when it opened up after Covid. Same issues as Sobe. The hotels smartened up and starting raising hotel prices very quickly when there was constant shootings, fights, etc on the strip and in the casinos. Wynn is the ONLY hotel that does metal detecting at their doors. After the brawl at Encore, they enforced it immediately.

[himain]

Glad it's shut down. Hopefully longer than 72 hours.

[logybogy]

This south beach video is pretty insane. The people buying those million dollar condos are going to be pissed and crack down on this nonsense.

https://twitter.com/F3lo_Rivera/stat...203162624?s=20

[Ghaati]

Originally Posted by springfieldva

It only lasts for a couple of weeks, doesn't it? None of the locals go near the beaches when the Breakers are there. Last spring there was considerable worry that the Breakers were going to Covid up the beaches and then create a massive wave of Covid across the US. To hear the hand wringers talk, Armageddon was nigh. But, of course, those worries were overblown. That didn't happen.

The hospitality trade needs tourists and the Spring Break crowd helps to bring in revenue. Again, it's only a couple of weeks.

It's spring break in Florida too - students living IN Florida are on spring break. Where do you think they should go, if not to their own beaches, and nightclubs, and social gatherings? Why should businesses have to endure the destruction of property? Why should employees have to clean up the puke and litter and spend days cleaning up the booze-stained carpets and linens in hotel rooms and hallways?

And what kind of parents are they, who raise their children to behave like wild animals let loose from their zoo cages? And what kind of person says "it's only for just a couple of weeks?"

[kidyankee764]

The mayor has dropped the ball and is 100% to blame for the mayhem.