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With over ten million visitors every year, Fort Lauderdale Florida is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. Located on the Atlantic Coast, the city is home to thousands of restaurants and nightclubs, as well as a myriad of attractions, both in the city proper or located nearby. One of America's premier locations for yachting, thousands of power boats and sailing vessels can be seen year round on the waters surrounding Fort Lauderdale's hundreds of marinas. With its many beaches, parks and area wildlife reserves, Fort Lauderdale provides a variety of outdoor activities including camping, hiking and canoeing. Once a destination for many undergraduates on spring break, the city has actively curtailed the influx of students in the past few decades, preferring to cater to the families and business professionals worldwide that choose Fort Lauderdale as a vacation spot and meeting place year round.
Like so many of its Floridian counterparts, Fort Lauderdale blossomed in the early twentieth century during the Florida Land Boom. With the economic downturn of the nineteen thirties, it wasn't until after the conclusion of World War II, that the city returned to a steady if not exponential growth in population - in part due to the vast number of service men and women returning to the area to make it their home. Today the city is now part of the greater South Florida metropolitan area, is home to more than five million Americans, with a rich and diverse cultural blend of Colonial Spanish decent, Latin American heritage, Cuban and Mediterranean influences, and Anglo-American presence.
Countless hotels provide the variety of services and accommodations required by the city's tourism industry, and Fort Lauderdale hotels represent the finest examples. Ranging from modest settings for the budget conscious, to luxurious surroundings catering to every conceivable need, these hotels provide every level of comfort and style, while sharing several important distinctions crucial to the enjoyment and satisfaction of any patron. Whether it is cooking fresh seafood on a gas grill outside a bungalow-style condominium surrounded by palm trees, or drinking champagne and soaking in the gorgeous view on the balcony of a high-rise suite, each and every Fort Lauderdale hotel will provide the kind of professional service a step above what worldly travelers have come to expect.
Courteous and professional staff makes the difference with these hoteliers, with a knowledgeable and helpful concierge to answer any and all questions regarding local travel, shows and sporting events, museums and theatre performances, restaurants, cafes and other fine dining establishments, and popular nightlife destinations. A Fort Lauderdale hotel is a cut above, when it comes to providing the kind of service and expertise necessary for a memorable visit. Friendly, capable, attentive and expedient, these hotels have demonstrated their dedication to employ only the finest experienced individuals at every level.
Amongst some of the more prominent attractions situated close to these superior Fort Lauderdale hotels are the Broward Center for Performing Arts, the International Swimming Hall of Fame, the Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, the Museum of Discovery and Science, the Museum of Art, the recently renovated Galleria Mall for shopping, and the Swap shop a multi-screen drive in movie theater that also hosts the world's biggest flea market. Traveling to these popular destinations is often easily arranged by these hoteliers either ahead of time or on the spot.
Take a day trip up to Cape Canaveral and visit the Kennedy Space Center, or enjoy an afternoon at Walt Disney World Resort; travel outside of Fort Lauderdale offers several tourist attractions close at hand. Many of the world's finest golf courses are located in and around the South Florida metropolitan area, with many links courses offering the wide open fairways and deep sand traps indicative of the style. Deep sea fishing expeditions and boat cruises are a common tourist venture in Fort Lauderdale offering a day on the ocean, and perhaps the catch of a lifetime. Or visit any of the numerous beaches for some sunbathing, snorkeling or scuba diving; with easy access from a hotel, the world on and beneath the sea is only steps away.
The International Airport provides easy access to the city from anywhere in the world, and with a six-hundred thousand square foot convention center , including a two-hundred thousand square foot main hall close to downtown accounting for almost a third of the visitors per year, this busy terminal caters to both the leisure and business traveler alike. Most of these fine hotels offer shuttle service to and from the airport as well as large halls of their own for business meetings and retreats, making Fort Lauderdale one of the most popular business destinations.
Waterfront cafes, private swimming pools, in-room refrigerators and microwaves, flat-screen televisions, free Wi-Fi access, iPod docking stations, twenty-four hour room service, day spas, floor-to-ceiling windows, spacious guestrooms, in-house fine dining restaurants, lounges and bistros, modern fitness centers, these are just some of the amenities available at these properties, whose goal is to provide every advantage over other lodgings in style and substance. Providing the kind of service and atmosphere that sets the bar a bit higher is what differentiates these Fort Lauderdale hotels from the rest, and with year round averages in temperature variation less than fifteen degrees Fahrenheit, the tropical climate provides a warm and relaxing haven for travelers during any season.
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