Miami Flights and Travel Guide

While many travellers on cheap flights to Miami are destined for the theme parks of Orlando, thousands more are flying on to the Caribbean and South America or to cruise liners either in Miami or Fort Lauderdale. It is the gateway to the Americas.

Just 100 years old, Miami offers something for all travellers. Snowbirds flock here to escape harsh Northern winters, Cubans have pitched up here to escape the communist regime back home, business travellers fly here as it is a major corporate city, young revellers come to party and beach goers come for Miami's superb beach-and-climate combo.

South Beach's falling-down Art Deco buildings were converted into stylish boutique hotels in the 1990s and the bigger hotels took notice, many of them setting up on that little island that separates Biscayne Bay from the Atlantic. Fashionistas and artists soon followed and along with the dynamic nightlife helped to turn South Beach into an unmissable destination.

Natural wonders abound in Miami. The Greater Miami area boasts two national parks. The Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the U.S. and Biscayne National Park is the only living tropical reef within the continental U.S.

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Miami Climate

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When to Fly to Miami

Peak Season:
Winter - November to late April - is the most popular time for many travellers to take cheap flights to Miami. Average temperatures are between 15 and 24 degrees Celsius (59-76 degrees Fahrenheit). Humidity levels are low and nights are cool.

Off Season:
The summers - May to October - can be very hot and humid and the heaviest rain falls between September and October.

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Getting Downtown Miami

Once travellers have disembarked their cheap flights to Miami, there are several options for getting downtown. Several rental car companies have desks inside the baggage claim area, on the Arrival/Ground Level of the North and Central Terminal. There's also a rental car phone centre in the South Terminal.

Metro Bus is the local city bus service. There are scheduled services to all parts of Miami-Dade County. The bus station at the airport is on Concourse E. Metro-Rail offers direct, local transportation throughout the county. Metro-Mover is a “Downtown-Specific” fixed-rail service providing transportation to popular locations in the Downtown Miami and Brickell areas.

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Getting Around Miami

Rental-car companies including Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Alamo and Avis have desks at Miami Airport, making for a quick getaway once you've landed on your cheap flights to Miami.

Miami Metrorail runs from Kendall through South Miami, Coral Gables, and downtown Miami; to the Civic Center/Jackson Memorial Hospital area; and to Brownsville, Liberty City, Hialeah, and Medley in northwest Miami-Dade. Connections to Broward and Palm Beach counties can be made at the Tri-Rail/Metrorail transfer station.

Metromover, a free automated people-mover system, serves downtown Miami (from Omni to Brickell) and links with Metrorail at Government Center and Brickell stations. It also runs by most of the major attractions and shopping areas.

Metrobus operates countywide services from Miami Beach to West Miami-Dade and from the Middle Keys to the southern portion of Broward County. Fares are about $2. Ensure you ask for a transfer if you know you will have to change buses.

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Miami Insider Information

• Monkey Jungle is where the humans are caged and the monkeys run wild. Just off U.S. 1 in South Dade, Monkey Jungle is home to about 400 primates, most roaming freely. Not only is it one of the few protected habitats for endangered primates in the U.S., it's the only one that the general public can explore.
• Coral Castle, close to Miami, is a fascinating place. It's a stone structure, built by a Latvian immigrant called Edward Leedskalnin in the 1900s. Jilted by his young lover the day before their wedding, Leedskalnin set about building, mostly from coral rock, a monument to his lost love.
• South of downtown Miami is Coral Gables. Miami residents know it as "The Gables", a district of stately homes, upscale shops and classy eateries mostly in Mediterranean Revival Style. Picking up cheap flights to Miami may allow you to splash out on a visit to the Biltmore, the luxury golf and spa resort, that dominates Coral Gables.
• Outside New York, Miami is the hottest art destination in the U.S. The Rubell is the best private gallery. This is the hottest art destination in America outside New York. The best private gallery is the Rubell. The Bass Museum of Art is located in the Art Deco historic district and Collins Park Cultural Centre, which includes the Miami City Ballet and Miami Beach Public Library. The museum is home to a sumptuous collection of paintings including Renaissance and Baroque paintings by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Rubens, Rococo court painting and English portraiture by Rigaud, Van Loo and Sir Thomas Lawrence, and 19th and 20th-century landscape and history painting by Delacroix.
• Buy: vintage, vintage, vintage. C Madeleine's, on Biscayne Boulevard in North Miami Beach, is one of the very best.

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Miami Airports

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