Miami Hotel

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Just got back from Lido Di Jesolo after a 2 week holiday with my wife and two kids at Hotel Miami. The staff at this hotel are fantastic; hard working, very warm and very friendly.
The rooms are very small but the cleanliness is amazing. The food isn't brilliant but not that bad either. However if you have young children I would not recommend staying here: the pool is quite small and has no shallow end.
The only 'entertainment' is a table tennis table. The rooms are very small and there is no air conditioning only a ceiling fan. We were here July 27th - August 10th 2007.
The first 2 days the heat was unbearable. After that it rained on the Monday and never really got above 32C for the rest of the time we were there thank goodness! But even so we were bitten to death by mosquitoes; they are a big problem.
Lido Di Jesolo is one long huge strip of restaurants, hotels, and shops. There’s not a lot to do at night except walk up and down the town though there are singers performing in the bars. The beach is a huge disappointment. This is not because it is rocky or filthy; it is sandy and has blue flag status. It is just that it is entirely covered from end to end by deckchairs which belong to the hotels.
Each hotel has its own demarcated area and the deckchairs have the hotel names embossed on them. It’s like sitting in the cinema and if you end up sitting at the back then you won’t end up seeing the sea - no 'spot the brit' playing cricket on the beach with the kids! Not only that there are absolutely millions of illegal immigrants walking up and down the beach all day trying to sell you leather goods and massages - they are a real pain!
The police will fine you if you they see you buy from them but the sellers don’t get punished! Anyway you never see the police on the beach but you will see them at night towing away illegally parked cars.
Two weeks is too long in this resort; I’d say 10 days max is just right. If it rains then you're stuck cos there’s nothing to do except visit the aquarium. It’s a good base for visiting Venice; the Dolomites and Verona and Lake Garda but once you’ve been you probably won’t bother coming back. If you can come in June or early July.
During our two weeks we were told by the rep that there were one and a half million people in the Jesolo area so you can see how busy it gets. There is a fantastic campsite at the far end of Lido Di Jesolo next to the lighthouse and that part of the beach is open with no deckchairs so if you’re still dead keen on having a holiday here I’d definitely look into that rather than staying at the hotels.
The campsites swimming pools were much bigger and there was lots of entertainment going on.