It was another nice day and so I decided to go on a long walk down Ocean Avenue and Collins from the marina to the Fontainebleau Hotel where I will be returning for the Miami boat show in March. The 3 1/2 mile trek was too far to walk for Matt so we made arrangements to meet at the restaurant by the pool, Le Cote, for lunch at noon. The Fontainebleau opened in 1954 and is considered one of the most architecturally significant hotels Miami Beach. They have since added two new towers which I thought spoiled the charm and the pool was filled with 20-somethings as it was clearly the place to be with electronic music reverberating throughout the pool area. I guess this proves I’m getting old.
After lunch we hurried back for our private tour of South Beach in a 1959 Buick Skylark through a tour operator called American Dreams I had read about on Trip Advisor. The driver was quite the character and provided lots of interesting facts about the history of Miami Beach and South Beach in particular.
After a busy day, we had an easy dinner at the busy Monty’s Restaurant right at the marina and just a few steps from the boat.
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Our final day began with a trip back (north) on the Intercoastal to Dania Beach, FL, a city just south of Ft. Lauderdale, where the largest Beneteau dealer in FL has one of their offices and where we will leave the boat for sale. We left early so I could both finish packing and meet the photographer the broker hired to photograph the boat.
I was able to finish packing up just before the photographer arrived and by 3:00 was in an Uber XL on my way back to the U-Haul to store the final boxes. With everything packed up on the boat, we decided to spend our final night in a Holiday Inn Express a mile from the Ft. Lauderdale airport. Fortunately there was a decent restaurant, Dockers, a short walk from the hotel. It was an early night with our flight departing at 7:30 the next morning.
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