{"id":18771,"date":"2018-04-19T21:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T02:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=18771"},"modified":"2018-04-19T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T02:56:30","slug":"miami-marriott-biscayne-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=18771","title":{"rendered":"Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m so grateful for all of my Marriott points. Brian and I got to stay at a very nice hotel in Florida, close to the Port of Miami, before and after our cruise. It didn’t cost us anything since I had enough points to cover both stays. <\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures of the room that we got the night before our cruise. <\/p>\n

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The room itself wasn’t anything fancy but that view was spectacular. <\/p>\n

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We loved the view so much we had to selfie in front of our window.<\/p>\n

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Check out this view!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a view of the marina just outside our hotel.<\/p>\n

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From our window we could see the Venetian Causeway (closest) and MacArthur Causeway (further one) and the Port of Miami. <\/p>\n

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The Venetian Causeway is closest to our hotel and is one of the ways you can get to South Beach. Except, sometimes traffic gets really backed up when the bridge (a double-leaf bascule bridge<\/a>) is open for the larger boats to pass through. <\/p>\n

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Brian and I did some exploring around the hotel on that first day. Here’s a view of the marina from the hotel terrace. <\/p>\n

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Oh, and I found a ping pong table but had no one to play with.<\/p>\n

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We also found a giant connect four game.<\/p>\n

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And a giant chess board.<\/p>\n

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It was a pretty quiet Saturday night at the hotel.<\/p>\n

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Not a soul in sight at the pool.<\/p>\n

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The hotel gym is on the same level as the pool with a nice view of the marina.<\/p>\n

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The next morning we woke up to see our ship at the port.<\/p>\n

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This giant Adirondack chair was on the terrace right outside the hotel restaurant so, of course, we had to take a pic of me in it.<\/p>\n

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Pictures of our yummy pre-cruise breakfast…<\/p>\n

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We took some selfies out on the restaurant patio after breakfast before heading up to our room for a quickie Facebook Live video.<\/p>\n

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We took yet another selfie with our fabulous 31st floor view as the backdrop when we got back to our room. Then we did our Facebook Live. <\/p>\n

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Here’s the quickie FB Live video from that morning. <\/p>\n