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Acqualina

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<p>Sunny Isles is North Miami's rapidly developing answer to South Beach, and Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has stepped into the skyscraping fray with Acqualina, a grand 51-story Mediterranean-inspired tower that mixes touches of Collins Avenue grooviness with old-world nostalgia. Baroque fountains and marble-and–gold leaf columns in the public areas evoke an opulent Venetian palace. In the 97 rooms and suites, all is white-and-earth-toned simplicity, with hipster accents, such as refrigerators stocked with Red Bull and welcome trays of hors d'oeuvres served on banana leaves. </p>

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From Travel + Leisure , AUG 2006

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts (the name behind Cabo's Las Ventanas al Paraíso and Little Dix Bay in the British Virgin Islands) has stepped into the skyscraping fray of Sunny Isles, North Miami's rapidly developing answer to South Beach. Acqualina, with 54 guest rooms and 43 suites housed in a 51-story condominium, mixes touches of Collins Avenue grooviness with old-world resort-life nostalgia....MORE>>

– Tom Austin T+L Reports: Isle Seat

Last updated August 2006