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Still More Useful Information when booking a Florida vacation rental house
As far as hotel spas go, my two favorites are at the Mandarin Oriental, Miami and the Ritz-Carlton, Key
Biscayne.
A Florida vacation rental house and The Spa at Mandarin
Oriental is where the likes of Cher, J-Lo, and P. Diddy are pampered with treatments such as the
4-hour Ultimate Spa Indulgence that includes a welcome foot ritual, purifying herbal linen wrap with hot
stones, facial cleanse, body exfoliation, body wrap with fresh algae and nourishing mud, Ayurvedic holistic
massage, heated volcanic stones or oil-pouring Shirodhara, herbal tea, 2-course lunch, aromatherapy facial,
holistic hand and nail treatment, foot and nail treatment, yoga, oriental bath soak, and choice of Thai
massage or Shiatsu. You needn't be a celebrity to experience this spa's stellar treatment.
A Florida vacation rental house and The Ritz-Carlton, Key Biscayne's spa has 20,000 square
feet of space overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It features unheard-of treatments such as the Rum Molasses
Waterfall treatment (a combination massage/hair treatment), the Key Lime Coconut Body Scrub, and the
Everglades Grass Body Wrap.
A Florida vacation rental house and Taxes
A 6% state sales tax (plus 0.5% local tax,
for a total of 6.5% in Miami-Dade County [from Homestead to North Miami Beach]) is added on at the register
for all goods and services purchased in Florida. In addition, most municipalities levy special taxes on
restaurants and hotels. In Surfside, hotel taxes total 10.5%; in Bal Harbour, 9.5%; in Miami Beach
(including South Beach), 11.5%; and in the rest of Dade County, a whopping 12.5%. In Miami Beach, Surfside,
and Bal Harbour, the resort (hotel) tax also applies to hotel restaurants and restaurants with liquor
licenses.
A Florida vacation rental house and Television
The local stations are channel 4,
WFOR (CBS); channel 6, WTVJ (NBC); channel 7, WSVN (FOX); channel 10, WPLG (ABC); channel 17, WLRN (PBS);
channel 23, WLTV (independent); and channel 33, WBFS (independent). Channel 39 is the WB (WBZL) and channel
33 is UPN (WBFS).
A Florida vacation rental house and Time Zone
Miami, like New York, is in the Eastern
Standard Time (EST) zone. Between April and October, daylight saving time is adopted, and clocks are set 1
hour ahead. America's eastern seaboard is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time. To find out what time it is,
call tel. 305/324-8811.
A Florida vacation rental house and Transit Information
For Metrorail or Metromover
schedule information, phone tel. 305/770-3131 or surf over to www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/mdta/.
A Florida vacation rental house and Weather
Hurricane season in Miami runs June
through November. For an up-to-date recording of current weather conditions and forecast reports, call
tel. 305/229-4522. Also see the "When to Go" section in chapter 2 for more information on the weather.
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