RIU Hotels & Resorts has opened the Riu Plaza Miami Beach, its first hotel in the United States with the Riu Plaza city brand. After several months of refurbishment and an investment of 20 million dollars, the Hotel Riu Florida Beach has reopened, but is now converted into a hotel with a completely new concept: the Hotel Riu Plaza Miami Beach. Keeping its characteristic façade, the hotel has totally changed its interior structure and design to give its facilities the service standards of the modern and cosmopolitan Riu Plaza line.
The new Riu Plaza Miami Beach maintains its 284 rooms, which have been redesigned and new bathrooms fitted; the contemporary style of the new design features glass and steel finishes. Furthermore, it now offers a new 'Chill Out' area, the new Capital Take Away in the lobby, with drinks and sandwiches to go; and a new poolside snack bar.