My family of four stayed at the Aventura hotel for five nights in February. The hotel was in good condition. Our one bedroom suite room was clean. Our room was quiet and on the side overlooking the pool. We had to ask for extra towels, for some reason we only had three bath towels even though we had 4 people on our reservation. Also, when they cleaned our room after a couple of days, we again didn't have enough towels. Housekeeping was quick in bringing extra towels though.

The pool area is nice, although it doesn't get sun until around 11 and then only partial sun, afternoon is best if you want some sun. There really need to be more chairs around the pool also, one afternoon there were no available chairs. One big bonus of this hotel is that they have a hot tub! It is difficult to find a hotel with a functional hot tub these days. The only downside to the pool is that smoking is allowed at the outdoor tables next to the pool, so when people are smoking there, it wafts over into the pool area. That is very annoying, especially when there are kids having to breathe the smoke at the pool. Also, there are not always towels at the pool, one night we had to go in dripping wet because there were no towels.

The location of the hotel is great, the Aventura Mall is a 5 minute walk from the hotel. It has tons of restaurants and stores. Be sure to check out the giant slide there! There is also a Publix within walking distance which was very convenient. It's about a 10 or 15 minute drive to Sunny Isles Beach and there are several other beaches within a reasonable drive also. The Everglades aren't terribly far also.

The breakfast buffet was good and what you normally see at a Residence Inn. I have never seen such a busy breakfast area at any hotel. It was packed every morning. They have oatmeal, waffle irons for make your own waffles, fruit, eggs and a variety of other items.

I wish the hotel had their tea and coffee bar open all day like many other hotels do, but theirs is locked up in the breakfast area after breakfast hours. Also, there is no water cooler in the gym, which I thought was odd. I wanted to use the laundry room to do laundry before we left, but all of the laundry rooms were out of service, which was rather inconvenient.

Overall, this was a nice hotel and mostly what one would expect of a Residence Inn. We enjoyed our stay.

Parking is $20 a day.

Pros Hot tub! Clean Quiet room Good breakfast Quick housekeeping Good location

Cons Smoking area by pool Crowded breakfast area Laundry was out of service Towel shortage