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The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort
Bal Harbour, Florida, United States · St. Regis · Grand Luxury
The St. Regis Bal Harbour opened in 2012 as a 27-story oceanfront house on 9.5 acres with 600 feet of beach, facing the 1965 Bal Harbour Shops. Qatar's ARTIC bought the resort from Starwood for $213 million in January 2014, among South Florida's largest hotel sales, then funded further suites and lobby work. Forbes Five-Star and AAA Five Diamond recognition have held through 2026.
- 213 rooms
- Opened 2012
- Rooms from 650 sq ft (60 m²)
- Architect: Morris Lapidus
- Interiors: Yabu Pushelberg
About The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort
- Opened in 2012 on a 9.5-acre oceanfront site with about 600 feet of Atlantic frontage in Bal Harbour Village.
- Sits directly across Collins Avenue from Bal Harbour Shops, the 1965 luxury mall that set the village's retail tone.
- Al Rayyan Tourism Investment Company bought the resort from Starwood in January 2014 for $213 million.
- In 2016 ARTIC committed about $35 million for a restaurant, three four-bedroom suites, and a renovated lobby.
- A 2014 partnership named the resort Qatar Airways' preferred Miami hotel as the airline added Miami flights.
History
The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort occupies the last undeveloped oceanfront parcel in Bal Harbour Village, a sliver of barrier island north of Miami Beach that was platted in the late 1940s as one of the most exclusive incorporated communities in the United States. The village has never permitted a honky-tonk strip, never tolerated billboards, and has enforced zoning so rigorously that its skyline remained low and serene for decades. When the tower at 9703 Collins Avenue rose to completion and opened in 2012, it became the defining statement of what Bal Harbour could be at the luxury apex: a full-service St. Regis address with direct Atlantic-beach access and an address directly across the street from the 1965 Bal Harbour Shops, the first enclosed luxury shopping mall in the United States.
The Bal Harbour Shops, which opened in 1965 under the vision of Stanley Whitman, set the tone for the entire neighborhood. Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus anchored it from the start, and the collection of boutiques — Prada, Chanel, Gucci, Cartier — made the intersection of Collins and 96th one of the highest-producing retail addresses in the world by almost any per-square-foot measure. The St. Regis opened facing this landmark, giving guests the only five-star ocean address in a village whose chief competitor for luxury retail supremacy is Beverly Hills.
The resort's 213 rooms and suites are arranged across a slim high-rise that maximizes the Atlantic panorama, most rooms furnished with private balconies. The St. Regis butler tradition — originating at the flagship on Fifth Avenue in 1904 — operates here in full: the evening champagne sabrage, the signature South Beach Mary served at the St. Regis Bar, and the hyper-personalized service that the brand's founder John Jacob Astor IV built into its DNA. The Atlantikos restaurant brings coastal Spanish cuisine and sweeping ocean views to a dining room that has become one of the most talked-about on the Miami–Palm Beach corridor.
For fourteen consecutive years through 2026, the St. Regis Bal Harbour has held both Forbes Five-Star and AAA Five Diamond status — the longest unbroken dual-rating streak of any hotel on Miami Beach or in Bal Harbour, a distinction that underscores the property's standing as the standard-bearer for oceanfront luxury on Florida's Gold Coast.
The setting
The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort commands the oceanfront at 9703 Collins Avenue, directly opposite Bal Harbour Shops — the 1965 open-air mall that became America's benchmark for luxury retail, housing the first U.S. outposts of Cartier, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, and Prada. The hotel rises on the former Hotel Americana site, a Bal Harbour landmark imploded in 2007 to make way for this St. Regis, preserving an address in continuous use as a premier hotel since the village's 1946 incorporation on land once leased to the U.S. Air Corps. Haulover Park's Atlantic beach is twelve minutes by transit; North Beach Oceanside Park is sixteen minutes. 11 miles from Downtown Miami.
Restaurants and bars
- Atlantikos — Restaurant · Spanish
- The St. Regis Bar — Bar
Amenities
- Full-service spa
- Oceanfront pool
- 750 ft of private Atlantic beachfront
- St. Regis Butler Service for all guests
- Private beach cabanas
- Adjacent to Bal Harbour Shops
- 24-hour fitness center
- Hot tub
- Wine cellar
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star (2026)
- AAA Five Diamond (2012)
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