About us
About Attractions in Miami
Two cities either side of one bay, eight neighbourhoods that refuse to blend into each other, and two national parks — one of them almost entirely underwater — within an hour of downtown.
Attractions in Miami is an independent guide to Miami. We are a small editorial team, not a tourism board, not a booking agency and not the operator of anything you will read about here. We publish 32 places, 24 category guides and 10 long-form guides about one destination, and nothing else — which is the whole point.
Miami and Miami Beach are two different cities, and nearly every mistake a first-time visitor makes begins with not knowing it. Miami is on the mainland: downtown, Brickell, Little Havana, Wynwood, Coconut Grove, the airport. Miami Beach is a barrier island across Biscayne Bay, reached by causeways, and South Beach is a neighbourhood of Miami Beach rather than of Miami. The bay between them is not scenery. It is the reason a drive from Wynwood to Ocean Drive takes fifteen minutes or fifty depending on which causeway is moving. On the mainland the street grid counts outward from Flagler Street and Miami Avenue in four quadrants, which is why an address here is useless without its NW or SW.
- 32Places covered
- 24Category guides
- 10Long-form guides
- 8news posts
Why this exists
What an aggregator cannot tell you
Search almost any destination and you get the same four kinds of page: a booking platform's auto-generated list, a content farm rewriting that list, a hotel chain selling you a room, and a forum thread from 2016. All four can tell you that Miami has beaches. None of them can tell you which car park fills first on a Saturday, which crossing is unpleasant on a bike, which much-recommended attraction is not worth the drive, or which month the water is actually warm enough to swim in.
That is the gap this site is built to fill. Everything here is written to be useful to someone with a specific decision to make — which beach, which morning, which boat, with which people — and we would rather publish a page that tells you not to bother than one that is enthusiastic about everything.
One destination, in depth
We do not cover the world. Every page on this domain is about Miami, which is why we can afford to check things that a hundred-destination site never could.
No page per listing
We deliberately do not generate a page for every bookable tour. It would be duplicate content, it would cannibalise our own guides, and it would put a pointless click between you and the booking. Tours appear on the pages that explain them.
Downsides in writing
Crowds, parking fees, seasonal closures, biting insects, the hour the traffic turns. A guide that only says nice things is an advert, and you can already tell the difference.
Free things get the same effort
Public beaches, town parks and free trails earn us nothing and are researched exactly as hard as the things that do. It is the simplest test of whether any of the rest of this is true.
How it is made
How this guide is researched
How we work
How this guide is researched
Every page on Attractions in Miami starts from a primary source — the agency that runs the land, the operator that runs the boat, the ordinance that governs the parking — and not from another guide's summary of it. Where a fact is volatile, we date it and tell you to check. Where we could not confirm something, we say that instead of guessing, because a confident wrong answer about a closing time costs you an afternoon.
Disclosure
Our news is machine-written. We label it.
The news feed on Attractions in Miami is generated by software from sources we have already verified, not typed by a reporter. Every factual claim in a generated article is traced back to a named source before it publishes, an editor can override or delete any of it, and each article says on its face how it was written. Our guides, category pages and attraction write-ups are a different thing entirely: those are written and edited by the people on our masthead.
The money
How Attractions in Miami is paid
Affiliate disclosure. Attractions in Miami makes money when you book a tour or activity through one of our links to Viator. The price you pay is identical either way, and a commission never buys a recommendation, a badge or a higher position on a page.
The masthead
Who writes it
Every guide and every article on Attractions in Miami is signed. These are the bylines you will see.
Camila Rojas
Senior Editor
Camila runs this guide and holds the line on the distinction everything else depends on: Miami and Miami Beach are separate cities. She edits the practical coverage — causeways, parking, seasons, storms and what a booking actually includes — and she will cut a sentence that…
Andre Beaumont
Outdoors & Water Editor
Andre covers the bay, the reef and the two national parks most visitors never realise are an hour away. He worked on charter boats out of Biscayne before he wrote about them, he can tell you which airboat trips are inside a park boundary and which are not, and he checks the…
Yvette Charles
Culture & Food Editor
Yvette writes the neighbourhoods: Little Havana and Little Haiti, Wynwood and the Design District, the Grove and the Gables. She covers ventanitas, griot, gallery nights and the last Friday of the month on Calle Ocho, names the places she recommends, and checks they are still…
Straight answers
What we are not
Not the operator, and not the merchant
We do not run tours, take bookings, hold your money or issue refunds. When you book, your contract is with the operator through our booking partner, and their terms are the ones that apply. If something goes wrong on a trip, they are who you need — though we would still like to hear about it.
Not a review site
We publish no user reviews and we have never written a fake one. Star ratings you see on a tour come from our booking partner's verified bookings and are labelled as theirs. Our own verdicts are signed by an editor and argued for in writing.
Not official, and not affiliated
We are not connected to any tourism authority, chamber of commerce, park service or local government in Miami. We read what they publish and we link to it; nobody approves a page before it goes out.
Not infallible
Prices move, operators sell up, a free lot starts charging. Every page carries a visible last-updated date so you can weigh it, and a correction takes about a minute to send.
Who we are and how we work
- Editorial standards
How we research, verify, label and correct what we publish.
- How we make money
The affiliate relationship, stated plainly.
- Our writers
The bylines on this site, and what each of them covers.
- Contact
Corrections, questions and press enquiries.
Prefer to start reading rather than reading about us? The Miami homepage is where most people begin, and the attractions directory has everything we cover in one filterable list.