Recommendation for Miami hotel

[family#1]

We are going on our first Royal Caribbean cruise next year.  We'd love recommendations for a Miami hotel that would accommodate 5 of us. What transportation to the port do you suggest? Thanks

[CoupleOfCruisers]

We like the Miami Downtown Hilton woke up in morning could see our ship. They offer shuttle to port. Or it was $7 Uber. We book the stay, park & go. Ended up being only $10 more then parking at port for the week. 
 

There is couple fast food and grocery store (Publix) across street. Next door is a free tram takes you around town to different spots! 

[DanielB]

9 hours ago, CoupleOfCruisers said:

We like the Miami Downtown Hilton woke up in morning could see our ship. They offer shuttle to port. Or it was $7 Uber. We book the stay, park & go. Ended up being only $10 more then parking at port for the week. 
 

There is couple fast food and grocery store (Publix) across street. Next door is a free tram takes you around town to different spots! 

We are booked here for 2 nights in January before our cruise.  Snagged a Jr Suite Bay View for a killer price.  Glad to hear you liked it. 

[Matt]

Some good hotels in Miami I've stayed at and recommend:

• Holiday Inn Express & Suites Miami Airport East
• DoubleTree by Hilton Grand Hotel Biscayne Bay
• InterContinental Miami

[Matt]

12 hours ago, family#1 said:

What transportation to the port do you suggest?

Lyft

[CoupleOfCruisers]

14 hours ago, Matt said:

Some good hotels in Miami I've stayed at and recommend:

• Holiday Inn Express & Suites Miami Airport East
• DoubleTree by Hilton Grand Hotel Biscayne Bay
• InterContinental Miami

We’ve stayed at Inter Continental and doubletree we liked both. 

[CoupleOfCruisers]

15 hours ago, DanielB said:

We are booked here for 2 nights in January before our cruise.  Snagged a Jr Suite Bay View for a killer price.  Glad to hear you liked it. 

We were upgraded I believe to Jr Suite had corner room with huge windows. It was amazing! Especially in the morning! 

[Lovetocruise2002]

+1 for the Intercontinental Miami.  Get a Bay View room.

[Iluv4n6]

And book early!  I was a little slow on the trigger for booking one of the recommended hotels for our Symphony cruise in Feb--but we did squeeze into the Hilton Downtown booking in early Dec.  Options already seemed to be getting thin 2 mos out or prices really moving up for remaining rooms.  

[family#1]

2 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

+1 for the Intercontinental Miami.  Get a Bay View room.

They said they couldn't accommodate us...we have 5 people.  This was the hotel we were most interested in.