Miami Hotel

Visas

Most will not need a visa under the waiver program which allows stays of 90 days. Machine readable passport is required.

Citizens of the following countries: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom may travel visa free under the Visa Waiver Program if they meet ALL of the ... requirements.

[from: Website for US Embassy, London ]

Airport Transfer

To South Beach, a shuttle bus is 18 $ (13 euro)

Just take SuperShuttle. ... Also about $18.00 a person. Cab has a $35.00 flat fee per cab (plus tip) to anywhere in SoBe. So if you have 2 or more together a cab is a better deal. If you MUST use public transport, take the airport shuttle bus to Metro-Rail & then follow the directions in #3.

[from Lonely Planet's thorn tree]

We budgeted 15 euro each way for your transfer.

Currency

Local currency is the US dollar. There are about 1.4 to the euro or 2.1 to the pound.

Miami hotels at a discount.

Coming soon ... search for discount hotels.

A cheaper 2/3-star hotel can be had for around 60 euro. 4-star hotels start at about 120 euro.

Summary

Miami as a stopover

Stopover	Visa reqd	Hotel Cost - Luxury/Basic		2 Night Stopover Cost	LowCostLux Journey Rating	Discuss
Miami	Required.	120 euro / 60 euro		150 - 270 euro	tbc	Miami Chat Forum

Getting to Miami from Europe is easy and pretty cheap. There is huge competition.
You are more than half way to many South American destinations. There are also many flights going South to central and South America. So it's an obvious stopover but reasonable quality accomodation will cost more.

And the alternatives are the carribean and Mexico. Pfff ... who'd choose Miami? It is cheap though and if you restrict the overnights you might create a low low price "el cheapo" option.