10/10 Exceptional
Amazing stay at Kasa El Paseo
This hotel is amazing and I highly recommend it.
First, location is absolutely perfect. It is in the core of south beach, next to public transportation (going to airport or downtown in about 25 min), two corners away from the beach, directly next to the best restaurants with highest reviews of all south beach.
Despite the fact it is so close to everything, the rooms are surprizingly quiet, probably because many face some kind of inner courtyard, so you don't hear much from the street. Price are really low compared to the other hotels and this is probably because they removed all unnecessary things that are costly: you don't have a person in the lobby 24 /7, they don't have room service, housekeeping etc. However, if you need anything, they are incredible and will help you - they answer emails within the hour, when you arrive it takes less than 2 min to have the door open to check in, and there are plently of little things that make the stay perfect - you will have earplugs by the bed, all toileteries necessary, access to yoga mats, beach towels, etc. You can go change towels or get extra shampoo and other things yourself. They even give you a card that give you 15% off a dozen of restaurants on Espanola way. I even had a birthday cake in the room upon arrival!!! So their service is still amazing and personalised despite a virtual lobby.
The only thing to know is that their beach club is actually run by another company, and the hotel arranged that you will have two chairs at the beach, but it does not include the umbrella. We did not know this and came with no money to the beach, and because we did not have 20$ to rent the umbrella, the guy from beach club removed the umbrella where we sat, so it was annoying and we would have wanted to know before. It can also become pricey if you just want to spent like one hour in morning and one in the afternoon and do activities in between to have to pay for shade (which is necessary for my poor canadian skin at +40 degrees celcius). Other than that (and beach club is actually run by another company) the stay was absolutely perfect. I recommend this hotel 100% and if i ever come back to Miami beach, it will be at Kasa El Paseo. Thank you for everything!