About us
About Miami Florida Things To Do
A day planner for a city where the scarce resource is hours, not money: what fits in four, what the causeway will cost you, and what to do instead when the sky opens at three.
UnsplashMiami Florida Things To Do is an independent guide to Miami. We are a small editorial team, not a tourism board, not a booking agency and not the operator of anything you will read about here. We publish 14 places, 25 category guides and 10 long-form guides about one destination, and nothing else — which is the whole point.
Everything on this site is measured in hours, because in Miami hours are the scarce resource rather than money or distance. The map will lie to you. Wynwood to Ocean Drive is about six miles by road and takes fifteen minutes or fifty, depending entirely on whether the MacArthur Causeway is moving, and nothing you can do from the back seat changes that. Miami is on the mainland. Miami Beach is a separate city on a barrier island across Biscayne Bay, and the only ways between them are the causeways — MacArthur from downtown, Julia Tuttle from the Wynwood side, Venetian hopping the small islands between. No train crosses. So the first rule of a day here is to pick a side of the bay and stay on it until you have a reason to cross, and to cross at ten in the morning rather than six in the evening.
- 14Places covered
- 25Category guides
- 10Long-form guides
- 8news posts
Why this exists
What an aggregator cannot tell you
Search almost any destination and you get the same four kinds of page: a booking platform's auto-generated list, a content farm rewriting that list, a hotel chain selling you a room, and a forum thread from 2016. All four can tell you that Miami has beaches. None of them can tell you which car park fills first on a Saturday, which crossing is unpleasant on a bike, which much-recommended attraction is not worth the drive, or which month the water is actually warm enough to swim in.
That is the gap this site is built to fill. Everything here is written to be useful to someone with a specific decision to make — which beach, which morning, which boat, with which people — and we would rather publish a page that tells you not to bother than one that is enthusiastic about everything.
One destination, in depth
We do not cover the world. Every page on this domain is about Miami, which is why we can afford to check things that a hundred-destination site never could.
No page per listing
We deliberately do not generate a page for every bookable tour. It would be duplicate content, it would cannibalise our own guides, and it would put a pointless click between you and the booking. Tours appear on the pages that explain them.
Downsides in writing
Crowds, parking fees, seasonal closures, biting insects, the hour the traffic turns. A guide that only says nice things is an advert, and you can already tell the difference.
Free things get the same effort
Public beaches, town parks and free trails earn us nothing and are researched exactly as hard as the things that do. It is the simplest test of whether any of the rest of this is true.
How it is made
How this guide is researched
How we work
How this guide is researched
Every page on Miami Florida Things To Do starts from a primary source — the agency that runs the land, the operator that runs the boat, the ordinance that governs the parking — and not from another guide's summary of it. Where a fact is volatile, we date it and tell you to check. Where we could not confirm something, we say that instead of guessing, because a confident wrong answer about a closing time costs you an afternoon.
Disclosure
Our news is machine-written. We label it.
The news feed on Miami Florida Things To Do is generated by software from sources we have already verified, not typed by a reporter. Every factual claim in a generated article is traced back to a named source before it publishes, an editor can override or delete any of it, and each article says on its face how it was written. Our guides, category pages and attraction write-ups are a different thing entirely: those are written and edited by the people on our masthead.
The money
How Miami Florida Things To Do is paid
Affiliate disclosure. Miami Florida Things To Do makes money when you book a tour or activity through one of our links to Viator. The price you pay is identical either way, and a commission never buys a recommendation, a badge or a higher position on a page.
The masthead
Who writes it
Every guide and every article on Miami Florida Things To Do is signed. These are the bylines you will see.
Priya Raman
Senior Editor
Priya runs this site and enforces its one rule: every timing we publish is door to door, with the causeway in it. She edits the itineraries, argues about whether a plan survives a Friday at six, and cuts any sentence that would read just as well about a city with no bay down the…
Marcus Delacroix
Activities Editor
Marcus covers everything you can book: boats, airboats, jet skis, bikes, tram tours, the lot. He knows which Everglades trips run west of the park boundary rather than inside it, why anything with a hull should leave before noon between June and October, and which listings are…
Elena Vasquez
Family & Budget Editor
Elena plans the difficult days: a seven-year-old at two in the afternoon in August, or a Tuesday that has to cost nothing at all. She maps shade, restrooms, free trolley stops and no-charge admission, prices a day with parking counted in, and says plainly when the free version…
Straight answers
What we are not
Not the operator, and not the merchant
We do not run tours, take bookings, hold your money or issue refunds. When you book, your contract is with the operator through our booking partner, and their terms are the ones that apply. If something goes wrong on a trip, they are who you need — though we would still like to hear about it.
Not a review site
We publish no user reviews and we have never written a fake one. Star ratings you see on a tour come from our booking partner's verified bookings and are labelled as theirs. Our own verdicts are signed by an editor and argued for in writing.
Not official, and not affiliated
We are not connected to any tourism authority, chamber of commerce, park service or local government in Miami. We read what they publish and we link to it; nobody approves a page before it goes out.
Not infallible
Prices move, operators sell up, a free lot starts charging. Every page carries a visible last-updated date so you can weigh it, and a correction takes about a minute to send.
Who we are and how we work
- Editorial standards
How we research, verify, label and correct what we publish.
- How we make money
The affiliate relationship, stated plainly.
- Our writers
The bylines on this site, and what each of them covers.
- Contact
Corrections, questions and press enquiries.
Prefer to start reading rather than reading about us? The Miami homepage is where most people begin, and the attractions directory has everything we cover in one filterable list.