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Miami Hotels Cut Spa Prices To $109 As World Cup Crowds Fade

Miami Hotels Cut Spa Prices to $109 as World Cup Crowds Fade

More than 30 spas across Miami-Dade County cut their treatment menus to fixed prices of $109, $159 and $199 through August 31, 2026, as hotels try to fill rooms in the weeks after the World Cup left town. The program, called Miami Spa Months, arrives after match-day hotel occupancy across the market averaged just 24% during the tournament despite an estimated 500,000 visitors passing through the city in June and July. Key Takeaways More than 30 Miami-Dade spas offer fixed prices of $109, $159 and $199 through August 31, 2026 under the Miami Spa Months program. Match-day hotel occupancy during Miami’s seven World Cup matches averaged only 24%, and 45% of local hotels projected a shortfall against forecast. An estimated

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Latin Music’s Biggest Names Fill Miami’s Kaseya Center for ‘Unidos Por Los Nuestros’ Earthquake Relief Telethon

More than 30 Latin music artists took the stage at Miami’s Kaseya Center on Sunday, August 16, for a benefit concert and nationally televised telethon that began as a response to Venezuela’s catastrophic June earthquakes and expanded in the final week to include relief for Colombia after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the country’s western region on August 10. The event, originally announced as “Unidos Por Venezuela,” was renamed “Unidos Por Los Nuestros” to reflect the broader humanitarian mission now covering two neighboring countries facing mass displacement, destroyed homes, and long recoveries. Doors opened at 5 p.m. and the show began at 6 p.m. ET, with the broadcast airing simultaneously across TelevisaUnivision and iHeartLatino platforms. Viewers who could not attend

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Coconut Grove Holds Its Bohemian Identity as Miami’s Oldest Neighborhood Enters a New Cultural Chapter

Coconut Grove, Miami’s oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood, continues to anchor its identity in the bohemian spirit, Bahamian heritage and waterfront natural landscape that have defined the area since Bahamian immigrants and Northern settlers first established the community along Biscayne Bay in the 1870s. The 62nd annual Coconut Grove Arts Festival drew an estimated 100,000 visitors over Presidents Day weekend in February 2026, while ongoing heritage preservation efforts in the recently renamed Little Bahamas district are documenting and protecting the neighborhood’s Black Bahamian roots amid rapid development pressure across Miami. Key Takeaways Coconut Grove was established in the 1870s by Bahamian immigrants and Northern American settlers, making it Miami’s oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood. The 62nd annual Coconut Grove Arts Festival took