Miami Car Rental and Miami Beach Overview

Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County that you can visit with your Miami car rental. It was incorporated in 1915 and has been one oftenest beach resorts for a century.

Get artsy

Miami has an Art Deco Historic District that you can visit with your Miami car rental, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and includes hundreds of hotels, apartments, and other structures built between 1923 and 1943. It is bound by the Atlantic Ocean, Lenox County, 6th Street, and Dade Boulevard.

Get on down to the beach

South Beach is one of the most famous places in Miami that you can visit with your Miami car rental. Before the TV show Miami Vice, there was a state of disrepair and poverty in the area, with a high crime rate. Since then, it has become one of the richest commercial areas on the beach, particularly Ocean Drive. South Beach started as farm land in the 1870s for coconut farms. In 1912, single dwelling homes began to appear until a land boom in 1920. Several millionaires built homes on Miami Beach and interest in the area increased. Today there are hundreds of nightclubs, restaurants, boutiques, and hotels in the area and is popular with tourists. Portions of the beach allow topless sunbathing.

Drive around

Ocean Drive is another popular area of Miami Beach that you can visit with your Miami car rental. This is a street in South Beach that is part of the Art Deco District.

See blue

The Fontainebleau Miami Beach is one of the most historically and architecturally significant hotels in Miami Beach that you can see with your Miami car rental. It was once considered the most luxurious hotels on the beach when it opened and is in the heart of Millionaire's Row. It is famous for its landmark court case (and victory) that would allow another hotel to build an expansion that would block sunlight to the pool. It has been featured in several films including Goldfinger, A Hole in the Head, and The Bellboy.

Get to be one with nature

The Miami Beach Botanical Garden is a 4.5 acre garden that you can visit with your Miami car rental to see dozens of varieties of subtropical palms, bromeliads, Japanese garden, topiary, and orchids. It is open for free from Tuesday to Sunday during business hours.

Miami Beach is a great place to visit with your Miami car rental. From shopping to eating to sunbathing, you will find it all here.