1. For shopping we caught the bus down to Bal Harbour Mall which is about 25 minutes away and is full of all the designer places including Saks, Versace, Armani, Gucci, Cavalli etc etc and for the more high street shopping we went down to Aventura mall, on the same bus which stops just outside the hotel and takes about 45minutes, which was full of summer sales and has all the usual Abercrombie & Fitch, Macys, Bloomingdales, Aldo etc the food court there has lots of variety and is really cheap and convenient for a decent lunch out.