Labor Day Miami Beach 2011

Labor Day is here... and the weather is just about perfect.

One thing to remember is the main streets will be PACKED with traffic...

While it might be nice to drive down Collins Ave "once", this will soon grow old if you feel like you're spending half your vacation time in traffic.

Here's how to do what the "locals" do to skirt traffic during these peak holiday seasons...

1. Understand that the Miami Beach streets are all gridded out in a North/South and East/West configuration. What this means for you is that if you want to go South to South Beach, the obvious way (to 99% of the cars) is to go down Collins Ave. But if you simply take another North/South direction street just a couple of blocks over, you'll have the road absolutely to yourself, and then when you want to "cut over" the couple of blocks back to the beach, or wherever you want to go, you'll do it without having to fuss with traffic.

There are a number of streets that will take you North/South just a couple of blocks from Collins. Here are several:

a. Pinetree Drive

b. Sheridan Ave

c. Prairie Ave

d. Meridian Ave

These streets will take you where you want to go lickety split, and you'll spend the majority of your time enjoying the beach and NOT stressing over traffic.

2. One thing to remember when parking in South Beach is to NOT park in residential zones. You'll see these clearly marked with signs on every street. You need a resident parking sticker to park here and if you attempt it I PROMISE you will be towed.

Miami Beach towing is NOTORIOUS for roaming the streets for unsuspecting tourists parking in these areas because street parking is very hard to find.

WHAT'S THE ANSWER?

FIND A PARKING GARAGE!

Miami Beach has TONS of them... they're just a little hard to find is all... But if you have a GPS simply type in PARKING GARAGE and you'll see they are everywhere.

AND GET THIS... THEY'E CHEAP! Only $1/hour, the same rates as on the street.

I hope this helped...

Enjoy your stay!

Harry

p.s. If you're looking for future rentals, feel free to get in touch with my assistant at 786-543-0015, she'll let you know if we have anything available.