Dua Miami

The pool

• Two rooftop infinity pools
• Downtown Miami views
• Day passes
• Rebranded from SLS Brickell

Why it's on the list

The right rooftop pool for the Brickell crowd — two infinity pools looking straight into downtown Miami, a proper bar setup, and none of the tourist energy of South Beach. Day passes are sold to non-guests. Rebranded from SLS Brickell to Dua Miami (Autograph Collection) in 2024.

The stay

Dua is Brickell's reborn scene hotel — it opened as the SLS Brickell and kept Philippe Starck's 124 rooms, balconies included, through the 2024 Autograph rebrand, with Ahu|Mar's wood-fired seafood now running the restaurant. Brickell is the reason to choose it: Miami's financial district does polished evenings rather than beach-towel afternoons, and the roof draws the neighborhood more than the tourists. At $$$ it's the boutique way into the district — book it for the two infinity pools, the jacuzzi-and-cold-plunge deck, and the skyline; the ocean is a car ride away, which is exactly what keeps the deck calm.