Pelican Hotel Miami Beach

General Information

Owned by the same creative folks beyond the Diesel Jeans company, the Pelican (whose brazen, albeit suitable, motto is "A myth in its own limelight") is South Beach's only self-professed "toy-hotel," in which every of its thirty rooms & suites is embellished as outrageously as some of the area's more colorful drag queens. Every room is equipped with been planned daringly and rather wittily by Swedish inside decorator Magnus Ehrland, whose countless trips to antiques markets, combined with his wild imagination, have turned apartment no. 309, for instance, into the "Psychedelic(ate) Girl, " apartment no. 201 into the "Executive Fifties" room, and suite no. 209 into the " Love, Peace and Leafforest" suite. But the majority popular is the tough-to-score apartment no. 215, or the "Best Whorehouse, " which is said to have made even former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss vermilion with envy. The Penthouse that resides the upper floor is almost more 007 than James Bond's own pad -- highly '60s, in colour and pattern, with a extensive aquarium built into a copper wall and a yellow Shultz desk and chair.