<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by rgoel:
Thanks for all the tips. Sounds like food and drink is the way to go - dinner at La Carreta and then the bar at the airport hotel.
Is "Hotel MIA" the same as the Hilton at MIA, or are they two separate hotels.
Also, anybody been to this hotel gym and able to comment on the equipment/facilities?
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Rgoel, there is also a neat restaurant
http://miami.metroguide.com/dining/d100222.htm the 94th Aero Squadron. You could get there eat and back easily within 2.5 hrs. Pretty good food, and a nice view of runway with headseats (most work...make sure to get a table with ones working) that broadcast MIA tower. Definitely different if you've never been to one. $13-25 price range. One of my favorite places in Miami.
If you are taking the late flight to BA (which I think you are) be aware that most of the restaurants close at 10:00 or 11:00 (so much for int'l airport, and Latins, at least in S. America, don't even eat dinner until then...what's up with that???)
There is one bar mentioned earlier that will still be open (I think it's between C and B terminals) and you can also get some airport grub, but you'll pay out the wazoo. Try the 94th...I bet you'll like it.