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Following a sweeping $20 million renovation, RIU Hotels & Resorts has transformed the 284-room Hotel Riu Florida Beach into the Hotel Riu Plaza Miami Beach, the company's first city hotel in the U.S.
The renovation touched virtually every area of the newly opened Collins Avenue property, which now features an ambiance and new facilities designed to reflect the needs of today's business travelers.
Those facilities include what RIU calls a Chill Out lounge area; the Capital Take Away in the lobby, for drinks and sandwiches to go; and a poolside snack bar.
The redesigned guestrooms, which are appointed with glass and steel finishes, feature entirely new bathrooms. Wi-Fi is now available throughout the property.
For family-owned RIU, a leading resort operator that traces its roots back to 1953, the Plaza concept is fairly new. It unveiled its first Plaza hotel in Panama in 2010, which was followed by a second in Guadalajara, Mexico. The company will soon open another Plaza property in Berlin, and at the end of this year, a second U.S. Plaza property in New York City, the Riu Plaza New York Times Square at 301 West 46th Street.
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