Your Miami Pool Day Just Got an Upgrade: Inside SOAK at Loews Miami Beach

There are pool days, and then there are Miami pool days.

You know the difference.

A regular pool day involves finding an empty lounge chair, strategically repositioning an umbrella every 45 minutes and making the slightly uncomfortable decision about whether you really need to put your cover-up back on just to go inside.

A Miami pool day should involve someone bringing you a cocktail while you contemplate absolutely nothing.

Enter SOAK at Loews Miami Beach Hotel.

Located steps from the ocean in the heart of South Beach, SOAK takes the traditional hotel cabana and gives it a very Miami upgrade. Think less little tent beside the pool and more your own miniature poolside residence.

Because these aren't exactly your average cabanas.

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Wait…This Is a Cabana?

SOAK features eight private poolside cabanas, and calling them "cabanas" almost feels unfair.

Each comes with climate-controlled indoor space, plush seating, a private marble bathroom with a glass-enclosed shower, a Smart TV, Wi-Fi and a safe.

But then you head upstairs.

Yes. Upstairs.

The cabanas have their own rooftop sundecks complete with lounge chairs, umbrellas, soft seating and ocean views. Suddenly, walking back to your hotel room because you forgot something feels very 2025.

There's even an exclusive jacuzzi for the SOAK cabana and daybed area.

And because luxury is considerably more enjoyable when someone else is handling the logistics, guests also receive personalized SOAK butler service, an expanded food menu, wine selections and bottle service.

Basically, your biggest responsibility of the afternoon is deciding whether you want to be upstairs in the sun, downstairs in the A/C or somewhere in between with a drink in your hand.

We think you can handle it.

The Art of Doing Absolutely Nothing

Miami has somehow convinced us that relaxing needs an itinerary. Brunch at 11. Boat at 2. Dinner at 8. Drinks at 11. SOAK presents another possibility: What if we simply…didn't? Arrive in the morning. Claim your cabana. Put the phone on Do Not Disturb. Head upstairs for a little South Beach sunshine. Cool off in the pool. Order lunch. Retreat into the air-conditioning when Miami reminds you that humidity is, in fact, very real.

Then repeat.

The cabanas comfortably accommodate up to six people, making this particularly tempting for a birthday, girls' day, couples' escape or that increasingly necessary Miami tradition known as we haven't seen each other in three months even though we all live 15 minutes apart.

Pool or Beach? Correct Answer: Both.

One of SOAK's best perks is that you don't actually have to choose.

Loews Miami Beach sits directly on South Beach, allowing you to bounce between the resort's oceanfront pool and the Atlantic whenever the mood strikes.

SOAK cabana rentals also include two beach chairs, so you can wander down to the sand, take your obligatory ocean photo, dip your toes in the water and return to your private air-conditioned headquarters when you've had enough.

This is what we call balance.

And Then There's the Adult-Only Option

Sometimes luxury sounds like waves crashing.

Sometimes it sounds like silence.

For the 21+ crowd, Loews also offers three adult-only SOAK cabanas in a separate poolside area with a dedicated entrance.

These accommodate up to four guests and include covered seating, two lounge chaises, a round daybed, dedicated concierge service, full food and beverage service and bottle service.

Translation? Find three friends you genuinely like. Proceed accordingly.

Make It a Full Miami Daycation

From Cabana to Cocktails, and Dinner

Eventually, even the best pool day has to come to an end. Fortunately, at Loews Miami Beach, going home doesn't have to be the next step.

After a day spent bouncing between the pool, your rooftop sundeck and the air-conditioned comfort of your SOAK cabana, trade the swimsuit for something fabulous and keep the evening going downstairs.

During Miami Spice, Bistro Collins is serving a three-course dinner that makes staying put particularly tempting. Start with steak tartare, tuna crudo or baby gem salad before moving on to choices like steak frites, scallops and cauliflower, surf and turf, or cacio e pepe with black truffle and maitake mushrooms. Finish with Baba Rhum or citrus crème brûlée.

Or, take the evening in a decidedly more Italian direction at Rao's Miami Beach, the South Beach outpost of the legendary New York institution. Its three-course Miami Spice menu brings the red-sauce comfort with Rao's traditional meatball, rigatoni Bolognese, fusilli carbonara, eggplant Parmesan, Uncle Vincent's lemon chicken and chicken Parmesan, followed by New York cheesecake or tiramisu.

Pool. Cabana. Cocktails. Pasta. Tiramisu.

We see absolutely no reason to complicate this itinerary.

Consider it the Miami Vibes version of a daycation: arrive in a swimsuit, spend the afternoon doing very little, change for dinner and somehow turn an ordinary day in Miami Beach into a mini vacation without ever checking into a room.

The seasonal experience allows guests to pair a SOAK Cabana, Adult Cabana or Daybed with Miami Spa Month treatments at Sea Spa and a three-course Miami Spice dinner at Bar Collins.

Start in a robe.

Spend the afternoon in a swimsuit.

End with dinner.

This may be the most Miami-appropriate itinerary we've heard all summer.

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The Miami Vibes Verdict

Do you need a two-story, air-conditioned cabana with a rooftop sundeck, ocean views, private bathroom and someone available to bring you cocktails beside the pool?

Technically? No.

Do we strongly support it? Absolutely.

SOAK isn't really about renting a cabana. It's about upgrading something as simple as spending the day by the pool into an experience.

And in a city where we're always looking for the newest restaurant, hottest opening or next big event, there's something wonderfully indulgent about blocking off an entire afternoon with no agenda whatsoever.

Sunshine upstairs.

Air-conditioning downstairs.

South Beach outside.

Cocktail nearby.

We'll see you by the pool.