• The Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Center - 701 Brickell Avenue, Suite 2700, Miami, Florida, USA
  Tel: +1 305 539 3063
  This popular center provides tourist information and is situated in Downtown Miami.
  Open: Monday to Friday - 08:30 to 18:30


• The Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce - 1920 Merian Avenue, Miami, Florida, USA
  This Miami tourism kiosk is located at the intersection of Lincoln Road Mall and Washington Avenue.
  Open: Monday to Friday - 09:30 to 16:30


• Art Deco Welcome Center - 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami, Florida, USA
  Situated in Miami South Beach's historic Art Deco district, organizing regular tours of the area for tourists and visitors to Miami.
  Open: daily - 09:00 to 17:00


• Tropical Everglades Visitor Information Center - 160 Highway-1, Miami, Florida, USA
  This excellent visitor center contains a vast amount of tourist information about the area, including free maps and brochures

Miami Life and Travel Tips: Tipping in Miami - Miami, FL, USA
Tipping is more or less compulsory, with waiters in restaurants and taxi drivers usually being given a 10 or 20 % gratuity or thereabouts. Hotel staff, such as luggage handlers and porters happily accept a tip of one or two US dollars. Generally, no other public service workers expect tips.

Miami Life and Travel Tips: Miami Safety - Miami, FL, USA
As in any large city, always maintain an awareness of your surroundings and try to blend in and not look like a tourist. Look like you know where you are going and avoid street entertainers who are often clever confidence tricksters, and these are often places where you are most likely to have your pocket picked. Thieves are very skilled, so be particularly careful with hand baggage. Wear a bag or camera across your body, or even use a concealed money belt. Sensible rules apply, do not flash large amounts of cash, hide jewelry or leave it at a safe in your hotel and avoid the less populated subway lines late at night. Miami has actually never been safer and crime levels are down.

Miami Life and Travel Tips: Miami Language - Miami, FL, USA
English is the most commonly spoken language in America, but locals in Miami's have developed there own version, an 'American English'. This consists of many variations of words, such as 'sidewalk' for pavement and most natives in Miami tend to speak very fast.

Miami Life and Travel Tips: Places of Worship in Miami - Miami, FL, USA
The cosmopolitan city of Miami is home to a large number of different cultures and most religions have a presence. Newspapers generally list times of services for the main denominations. Miami contains numerous cathedrals, chapels, mosques, temples and synagogues.

Miami Life and Travel Tips: Miami Pharmacies - Miami, FL, USA
Most pharmacies are open from at least 09:00 until 18:00. Drugstores will usually open until 21:00 and these do have a pharmacy counter for dispensing prescriptions. Drugstores are like mini-supermarkets, with a wide range of products on sale.