Miami Marathon 2027: Hotels You Can Walk to the Start From Before the Causeways Close
By Matt Spaulding · November 12, 2026
Photo: P. Hughes, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Of the 22 downtown and Brickell hotels we've published, three are within a 13-minute walk of the Miami Marathon start at Kaseya Center: The Elser at 7 minutes, YVE at 12 and Yotel at 13. On 12 November we tried to book each for Saturday 30 January 2027 alone, the night before the race. The Elser and Yotel had rooms. YVE wouldn't take one night.
All three are in downtown Miami. The marathon and half start together at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday 31 January, on Biscayne Boulevard in front of Kaseya Center at 601 Biscayne Blvd. Start-line access and the corrals open at 5:00 a.m. The wheelchair start is 5:55. The organizer's marathon-course page says the last corral starts at 6:45 and that no one can start after 7:00. The finish is in Bayfront Park, 301 Biscayne Blvd. There is no host hotel. The organizer's lodging partner is HotelPlanner. On 12 November the organizer's course and traffic pages still carried 2026 labels and its transportation page printed no year, so check themiamimarathon.com for the 2027 versions before you book.
Walk times are by street on a normal day, with no race-morning closures counted, to Kaseya Center for the start (we couldn't find corral cross streets on the organizer's pages) and Bayfront Park for the finish. A one-night stay checks out on race morning, and every hotel here except Yotel lists 11 a.m. or noon. Availability is as of 12 November and changes daily.
The Elser is 7 minutes (521 meters) from the start and 9 from the finish. The booking screen at theelserhotel.com showed rooms for Saturday 30 to Sunday 31 January, and the Bay View Studio photo on it looks down on Kaseya Center. Each suite is owned and furnished separately. The resort fee is $59 a night before tax, billed as a daily amenity fee. Self parking is $63 overnight and valet is $84, both plus tax, and self parking comes with in and out privileges. Check-out is 11 a.m., and late check-out is on request. Start at 6:00 and take five hours, and you reach Bayfront Park at 11:00, check-out time, still 9 minutes from your room on foot.
From YVE it's 5 minutes back from the finish at Bayfront Park and 12 minutes (901 meters) out to the start. It wouldn't take Saturday alone: the calendar flagged a minimum length of stay, and Friday 29 to Sunday 31 came back with an error code and no rooms. Saturday to Monday 1 February had rooms, and so did Friday to Monday. Every stay it took when we tried ran to Monday, so you'd pay for Sunday night too. The amenities fee is $28.25 a night, tax included according to the hotel, and parking is valet only at $67.10 a night, with no self-parking published. The building is slated for demolition. No closing date had been announced when we last checked, on 2 September.
Yotel has no parking of its own. It sends drivers to Bayfront Parking at 255 NE 1st St, where self-parking with validation is from $35 plus tax and there's no in and out. It's 13 minutes (955 meters) to the start and 6 back from the finish, and Hilton's search had rooms there for 30 to 31 January. The mandatory facility fee is $39 a night plus 13% tax, $44.07 all in. Yotel's website says check-out is before 11 a.m. and its listing data says 9 a.m., so confirm it. The website also lists a late check-out fee schedule.
Ten hotels 16 to 24 minutes out
On 12 November Hotel Beaux Arts was sold out for Saturday 30 January alone, and we didn't check Comfort Inn & Suites Downtown Brickell-Port of Miami. The other eight had rooms. For the Marriott, Hilton and IHG hotels, that's from each chain's search list for that night.
On foot, out to the start and back from the finish: Hilton Miami Downtown 16 and 27 minutes, InterContinental Miami 18 and 6, Eurostars Langford 18 and 10, Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay 19 and 29, JW Marriott Marquis and the Beaux Arts 20 and 10, DoubleTree by Hilton Grand Hotel Biscayne Bay 20 and 30, Kimpton EPIC 21 and 11, the Comfort Inn 22 and 14, and W Miami 24 and 15.
The Beaux Arts sits inside the JW Marriott Marquis building at 255 Biscayne Boulevard Way. On Marriott's search for that night the JW had rooms and the Beaux Arts did not. The JW has 313 rooms and suites and the Beaux Arts 44. Both show a $35 destination fee on Marriott's screen. Valet is the only parking at either. At the JW, Marriott lists it at $76.29 daily, and separately at $47-$62 overnight plus tax and city surcharges. The Beaux Arts is $75.64 per day, tax and city surcharge included.
The Hilton has the shortest walk to the start in this group and one of the longest back from the finish. Hilton's booking screen showed no resort fee when we checked on 20 October. Parking is valet only at $45, and Hilton's page doesn't say whether that's per day or overnight. Check-out is noon.
The InterContinental and the EPIC both park by valet only, at $58 overnight plus tax. Each charges $40 a night plus tax: a resort fee at the InterContinental, a guest amenity fee at the EPIC. The InterContinental adds a service charge to that fee and to its parking, and its oversized rate is $68. The EPIC's valet comes with unlimited in and out.
Eurostars Langford has 126 rooms in a restored 1925 bank building. Its booking screen had rooms for that night on 12 November. That screen shows a $16.95 destination fee per night plus tax, though the hotel's pages list none. Valet is $64.20 a night with taxes included, and check-out is noon.
The Marriott and the DoubleTree have the longest walks back from the finish in this group, 29 and 30 minutes. Marriott's booking screen shows a $35 a night destination fee on every room type at the Marriott, and parking there is $45.00 a day self-park or $50.00 a day valet. Hilton's page for the DoubleTree shows no resort, destination or amenity fee. Valet is $39.00, and Hilton doesn't say whether that's nightly or daily. There's no self-parking. DoubleTree's check-out is 11 a.m., and late check-out to 1 p.m. is $75.
The Comfort Inn bills a hotel service fee of $16.95 per room, per night, on its own line. Valet is required, and no rate is published.
Parking at the W is run on site by Icon Brickell, and Marriott's page for the hotel says hourly rates apply and in and out isn't included. That page lists valet at $55/day. Self-parking means nearby third-party garages. The $20 a night destination fee is in the rate on Marriott's screen.
From Brickell, leave at 5:00 or take the Metromover
Nine more of ours, all in Brickell, are 30 to 39 minutes from the start. On 12 November five of them had rooms for Saturday alone, and Dua Miami was sold out. We didn't check EAST Miami or SLS LUX Brickell, both 30 minutes out. SLS LUX's availability check opened nothing twice in October, so we didn't try it again. We couldn't check Four Seasons Hotel Miami either: its booking page showed only a cookie banner whose button accepts Four Seasons' Legal Notice, and we don't accept terms on a booking site.
AC Hotel Miami Brickell and Element Miami Brickell share a building at 115 SW 8th Street, 32 minutes from the start and 24 from the finish. Each shows a $35 destination fee in the rate on Marriott's screen. Parking at both is $55.00 a day, self-park or valet, and oversized valet is $61.00 a day.
Hampton Inn & Suites Miami/Brickell-Downtown is self-park only, with no valet: $39.00 a day, with in and out privileges and EV charging on site. It's 37 minutes to the start. Hilton's pages don't mention a resort fee either way.
Aloft Miami Brickell at 38 minutes and Hotel Indigo Miami Brickell at 39 are both valet only. The Aloft charges $40.00 a day. The Indigo is $45 a night on IHG's parking page and $40 a night on its amenities page. IHG states the Indigo charges no amenity or resort fees. The Aloft's card on Marriott's search had no fee line, but Marriott's group-sales page implies a fee exists, and no amount is published for individual bookings.
EAST bills a destination fee of $54 plus tax per night, charged on arrival, and publishes no parking rate on its site. SLS LUX bills $40 a night plus tax, and valet, its only parking, is $50 a day plus tax. An earlier check of the Four Seasons' booking screen showed a $60 a night plus tax resort fee. Its valet is $65 a day, and self-park next door is $60 a day. Dua shows no fee in its booking flow, and its FAQ gives valet at $61 a night.
Leave Brickell at 5:00 a.m. and the longest walk here, 39 minutes, gets you to the start at 5:39, 21 minutes before the gun. The organizer says Metromover runs free from 4:00 a.m. on race day, and it gives Government Center as the transfer and College/Bayside as the stop for the start. From SLS LUX the Eighth Street stop is 750 ft away. Miami-Dade's page gives regular hours of 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., so check the 4:00 a.m. start closer to the race.
If you drive, the organizer says to arrive by 5:00 a.m. to get parking, and Kaseya Center's P2 garage opens at 4:00 a.m. for $10. Last year's advisory listed closures in Downtown and Brickell from 5:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Staying on Miami Beach
From the Beach you cross the bay on race morning. We haven't checked Beach hotels for this weekend, so nothing here says whether South Beach or Mid-Beach rooms are available on Saturday. For the general choice between the Beach and downtown, see South Beach, Mid-Beach or Downtown: Where to Stay in Miami. The Elser's fee covers South Beach beach club access, and Yotel's covers two South Beach beach chairs a day.
The organizer runs a shuttle for registered runners only, with tickets sold through ChronoTrack or at the expo. A partner or friend who isn't registered can't ride it. It leaves the Miami Beach Convention Center, 1800 Meridian Ave, at 4:00 a.m. (the weekend schedule puts pickup one block west of it) and drops runners north of the start line. Post-race shuttles run 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. from NE 8th St and Biscayne Blvd.
Last year's closure windows were MacArthur Causeway eastbound 5:00 to 8:15 a.m., Venetian Causeway 6:00 to 10:00 a.m., Rickenbacker 6:30 a.m. to noon, and the Miami Beach area 5:00 to 10:00 a.m. The advisory marked them subject to change.
The 5K and the expo
The Tropical 5K is Saturday 30 January at 7:30 a.m. at the Miami Children's Museum, 980 MacArthur Causeway. The expo is at Mana Wynwood, 318 NW 23rd St, on Friday 29 January from noon to 7 p.m. and Saturday 30 January from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
