Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood

Overview

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood is a resort at 1 Seminole Way in Hollywood, Florida, and a property of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The official site presents it as a single AAA Four Diamond-rated hotel with three places to stay, and this guide follows that: The Guitar Hotel with 638 rooms and suites, the adjacent seven-storey Oasis Tower with 168 and the Hard Rock Hotel with 465, which the Tribe adds up to 1,271 guest rooms. The casino is part of the same resort: the Tribe lists the casino among the resort's amenities, and the resort presents its hotel rooms and the casino as all in one destination. Its site calls the property an integrated resort and says that the bars and lounges are surrounded by the casino floor. The Guitar Hotel, designed to resemble back-to-back guitars, rises 450 feet (about 137 metres). By the resort's account it is 15 minutes from Fort Lauderdale's beaches and 30 minutes from Miami.^{1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}

• The Guitar Hotel is built to resemble two guitars back to back, with guitar faces and lit strings, and reaches 450 feet (about 137 metres).⁸

• The casino is part of the same resort as the three hotel buildings.^{3, 6}

• The Guitar Hotel pool area has a sand beach, a lagoon with waterfalls and a stretch of water for paddleboards and kayaks. Pools are for registered hotel guests only.^{12, 13}

• Hard Rock Live, the resort's entertainment venue, holds 7,000 people.^{14, 15}

• Rock Spa & Salon covers 42,000 square feet (about 3,900 square metres) and is open to visitors who are not staying at the hotel.¹⁶

Hotel details

Rooms

The resort has 1,271 guest rooms in three buildings. The Guitar Hotel has 638 rooms and suites behind floor-to-ceiling glass, in Deluxe Queen, Deluxe King, Luxury King Suite and Platinum Suite categories. The seven-storey Oasis Tower has 168 rooms, including swim-up suites, overlooking the lagoon and a private pool area. The Hard Rock Hotel has 465 music-themed rooms and suites. Rooms in all three have a desk, a flat-screen television, a safe, a coffee maker, a mini fridge, bathrobes, complimentary internet access and 24-hour room service. The hotel has smoking optional and non-smoking floors.^{3, 4, 8, 9, 10}

Dining

The resort counts more than 15 restaurants, all of them smoke-free. Its fine dining includes Council Oak Steaks & Seafood, the Japanese restaurant Kuro and Abiaka Wood Fire Grill. Rise Kitchen & Deli, at the base of The Guitar Hotel, is a diner and deli open 24 hours, and the Hard Rock Cafe is next to Hard Rock Live. Oculus Bar is in the lobby of The Guitar Hotel. Room service is available around the clock.^{6, 8, 17, 18, 19}

Wellness and leisure

Rock Spa & Salon is a 42,000 square-foot (about 3,900 square metre) spa with treatment rooms, dipping pools, dry and wet lounges and couples suites, a 3,600 square-foot salon and a 3,200 square-foot (about 300 square metre) fitness centre. The spa and salon take bookings from visitors as well as hotel guests; the fitness centre is for hotel guests. Children under 18 are not admitted to the spa. The pools of The Guitar Hotel are listed as open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Monday to Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Friday to Sunday, and the Hard Rock Hotel pool from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with hours that may vary with the weather.^{12, 16}

Getting there

The resort is in Hollywood, between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, and by its own account a short drive from Fort Lauderdale International Airport (FLL) and Miami International Airport (MIA). It puts The Guitar Hotel at approximately 30 to 45 minutes by car, around 20 miles (about 32 km), from downtown Miami and South Beach, depending on traffic, and suggests the Brightline train to the Fort Lauderdale station for visitors from Miami. Taxis wait at the valet entrance at all hours, and the three parking garages are reached from State Road 7.^{4, 13, 22}

Nearby

• The Oculus, at the entrance of The Guitar Hotel, is a 35-foot (about 11 metre) waterfall with projections and music that runs a show every 20 minutes.⁷

• The Guitar Hotel Light Show uses the LED lights built into all sides of the building. It is listed at 8 p.m. from Sunday to Thursday and at 8 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.²⁰

• The Hollywood Beach Broadwalk is a brick-paved oceanfront promenade that the Greater Fort Lauderdale visitors bureau describes as stretching over two and a half miles (about 4 km).²¹

Good to know

• Check-in starts at 4 p.m. and check-out is at 11 a.m.^{4, 13}

• A daily resort fee of 45 dollars covers the pools, the fitness centre for two people, self-parking and Wi-Fi, among other things.^{4, 13}

• Self-parking in the Lucky Street, Winners Way and Seminole Way garages is complimentary. Valet parking costs 30 dollars, or 35 dollars overnight.^{4, 23}

• Dogs of up to 40 pounds (about 18 kg) are accepted for a fee of 150 dollars per pet, per stay.⁴

• On arrival the hotel authorises the guest's credit card for room and tax plus 150 dollars per night for incidentals.⁴

Questions and answers

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