Buyer beware. We purchased our tickets over 6 months ago and once the vaccine mandates came down…read morethe line we called Groove Cruise immediately to see if this would be required. We were told "we don't know yet" by the company and it was suggested that we should buy trip insurance. Well guess what, it was too late to add insurance to our itinerary. 10 days before Christmas it was announced that vaccines are required and we had until Dec. 20th to change the names on the cabin if not vaxxed - AKA 10 days to sell a $3,500 cabin right in the peak of the holidays. The company is completely unwilling to work with us on a refund or credit. We now have to sue them. I understand that we are in a pandemic and this is an ever moving and changing situation. This is completely unethical.

So I actually won an oceanview room on the Groove Cruise from an Instagram contest. The cruise ship…read moreand ports of call seem to change each year but for the 15th anniversary of GCMIAMI in 2019 it was on the Celebrity Infinity out of Fort Lauderdale with a bar crawl in Key West, FL & an all day beach party with the DJ Kaskade in Cozumel, Mexico. Music was playing from the moment you entered Celebrity's Terminal 25 at Port Everglades until disembarkment: 96 straight hours of non-stop house, techno & trance music and special sets, like classic house, disco, and bass. Each day there was a different costume theme for the day & night. People went all out on the costumes & it was awesome. It was a non-stop party full of good music and fun people. All ages (21+), races, and genders danced in peace & harmony for 4 days straight. Most importantly, if you have ever been to a music festival, you will be absolutely spoiled by having music, food, drinks, bed, shower, and toilet only minutes away 24 hours a day.

How can u beat Food Trucks, free music all right on the beach. You must check out Jefe's Fish…read moreTacos. $2.35 a Taco is the best deal on the beach

I was always apprehensive about attending the Food Trucks ( same way I still feel about walking…read morearound Design District at night). I don't feel that way at all after going on the last Wed of Feb 2014 to North Beach. Fantastic food. Police everywhere. Great lighting. Easy & ample parking. Inexpensive, but super gourmet food. I'm going to be there on the last Wed of every month, and I will bring groups iof friends. Yelp: This is in Miami Beach, not Miami

I have to say, this is my favorite beer festival in S Florida…read more It's a smaller festival, with fewer than 100 beers to try, and they are all Floridian beer. Compare that to Grovetober Fest, Brew at the Zoo etc it's may not sound like a good value. But for me, that's already more than I can manage already (I know, I am a featherweight) so even if you boast 1,000 beers it just make picking and choosing harder. Here. I can try everything I want. The beauty of this beer fest is that it only features Floridian beer. Yup. DRINK LOCAL is the motto. Cigar City, Due South, Funky Buddha and Wynwood are the most famous in this neighborhood, but there are many other breweries as well homebrewers, that you may have met in local bars, or at Gramp's sud swap. As these microbreweries specialize in craft beer, and brew in small batches and are really the-sky-is-the-limit creative, chances are even if you've tried their beers before, it's likely you'll encounter something new and different. Something you can't get at Publix or World of Beer. Something fun. And funky. Yes, you are the privileged few who get to taste this beer at all! And you get to talk to the guys who brew the beer, not some part-timer or volunteer hired to do the tapping. They will talk about how they get the inspiration for the brew, how they may dream of opening a commercial brewery, and they want to know how you like the beer. How cool is that? Therefore, this is my favorite beer festival and I mark the date on my calendar months ahead so I won't miss it at all.

This event was amazing!! We had such a great time trying different beers and food. Our favorite…read morealcohol was the FIU stand that had the "Tropical Goose" drink. It had grey goose peach and rosemary essence, lemon and pineapple juice and blue curacao! It was so yummy, sweet but also refreshing. For the food we truly enjoyed the chicken kababs from Le Chick. There was a beer at stand 214 that had a beer that was called "Pan con Cafe" it had a coffee essence. Very delicious! Overall the staff was all great and very hospitable. I truly enjoyed my afternoon. FIU had the BEST stands! #alumniforlife

From the owner: Learn. Brew. Taste…read more The North Miami BrewFest is a one-day festival featuring 50 of the best craft breweries in Florida paired with gourmet bites from 30 outstanding local restaurants. Join us for an all-inclusive, tastefully crafted experience where food is included in the ticket price! Guests enjoy amazing live music and beer-related seminars for enthusiasts to immerse themselves in the experience. All proceeds from the festival go to support the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Florida International University.

Recommended: the freshly made pita bread, lavash, spices, herbs. The juices are overpriced. The…read moreHot Bar has good food.

An absolutely amazing event that I decided to splurge on recently. I decided to get there an hour…read moreor so early, and already the line to get in was getting started and growing fast. It was easy to hop in line and once I did, I was scanned in and given a wristband to make everything speedy once the event officially started. Everyone was super friendly and hospitable! Once the event started, the party came out swinging strong and never let up until the end. The music was phenomenal and the DJ definitely knew his stuff! The food from everyone there was phenomenal and I had some of the best lox and bagel I've had in a long time, as well as some refreshing coconut water that had the design of the event engrained on the side! The food was plenty and the drinks kept flowing they definitely were not cheap on either end. My one thing I didn't care for was that a couple of the vendors food was cold even though the event had only started thirty minutes prior. A couple vendors also ran out of food relatively early in the night. The drone show was so cool that they had this year and I absolutely loved how visually beautiful it was and it was a great way to close the night! I'll definitely be back to this event next year!

This was a small, but very fun food festival of all Black-owned restaurants/food trucks and…read morevendors. 2022 was its second year, after not being held in 2020 or 2021 due to Covid-19. It was held at FIU Biscayne Bay Campus. Compared to most food festivals, this one was very affordable. Parking was $3. General admission tickets were free via Eventbrite. Alcohol drink tickets ranged from $10 and up. There was a wide variety of food and vendors with reasonable prices for their food. There were probably around 40 restaurant & food vendors, ranging from desserts to seafood to bbq to Tito's Vodka was one of the sponsors, and they gave out free cocktail samples. There was a stage with a dj and live chef/mixologist demonstrations. The vibe was very chill. It almost felt like a family reunion. I look forward to attending this food festival for years to come.

Held annually in March, the Dania Beach Marine Flea Market is a huge....it will take you more than…read morea day to cover it all...flea market specific to marine and nautical items. It has in excess of 300 vendors, some with new retail items, others with used items, and some dealing in what I could only at best term as being nothing but junk. But it has a solid following. It's been in business for over 41 years, so that is a record difficult to argue about. Held in the parking lot of the Big Easy Casino it's like going on a treasure hunt without a map. You just hope you wonder into whatever is your treasure. For the common needs it's a great place to purchase required life preservers, various pennants, burgess, poles, flags, fishing equipment and the like at far less prices than at places like West Marine. But be wary of mechanical things that they say are better as they are already "broke in" when in fact they are already "broken." Unlike other flea markets they charge you to get in. This year the standard one day admission was $12.00. Though singularly not a lot of money, it's a whole lot of money to just enable you to shop and buy at a flea market. But then again maybe not all that different than be charged to shop at Costco, Sam's Club, BJ's or the like. Now, I've been to all sorts of marine flea markets. Dania is the only one. There is the Pompano Nautical Flea Market combined with a Seafood Fest, the Martin County, Indian River Flea Market, Palm Beach Marine Flea Market, the Treasure Coast flea markets and a whole lot of others. As I've been to all of them, I'm going Four Yelp Stars on the Dania Beach Marine Flea Market as it is one of the bigger and better nautical Flea Markets.

Only once a year? Wish I knew this while I was there…read more Came early Friday morning, paid the $10 entrance fee and spent the next few hours meandering up and down the isles looking at all the wonderful things I didn't know I needed. I seem to do this a lot. I did manage to purchase a few small trinkets but had intentions on coming back the next weekend with a pocket full of cash. Well now I have to wait a year. Everything nautical and more. From boats and engines to clothes and jewelry. There were parts and pieces for every kind of boat. Also furniture and decorations for bigger ones. Fishing gear, electronics etc. and all at flea market prices. If you didn't like the price you could probably find it in the next isle or just barter a bit. I will be back next year and better prepared. Oh and they have beer. So till next year Cheers

I enjoyed the festival. It was a great opportunity to try different foods. The festival took place…read morenear the Viceroy Hotel. Parking was best at the lot across the street for $10. It appeared most people bought tickets online. Admission was $20 but promotions offered allow two people to attend for the price of one. You must use tickets to purchase food or drinks. This involves looking at the options and then buying the amount you need. There was a credit card machine which we found convenient. But there were no refunds on unused tickets so plan accordingly. There was music, crafts, dominoes and clothing there too. Had a blast. If this is an annual event, I'd highly recommend it.

Cuban food is something I knew nothing about a mere six years ago; however, after living in Miami,…read moreI am now a regular Cuban coffee drinker and versed in the ways of rice and beans, plantains, medianoches and ropa vieja. I thought that this event sounded like it could be fun and was thrilled to learn I won VIP tickets through ever-gracious Yelp. I decided to check it out on Friday night just in case it was so great I wanted to go back on Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately, after leaving that night I had no desire to return. We came two hours after it had opened and it looked like they were still setting up. The people working at the front were clearly confused and didn't bother to hear my explanation about winning the tickets. Instead, I got a vendor wristband and then another yellow VIP one about five minutes later. I did not really know what the VIP tickets entailed and so asked about four people before someone could give me an answer. I am so happy I won these tickets because if I had shelled out $100 for an actual VIP pass that included no food, just drinks, I would not have been too pleased. I also feel like their money system of exchanging cash for Monopoly money was not well thought out. All of the food that we tried was delicious but they were lacking tables to sit down to enjoy it. The music was good but all in all, it was a completely disorganized event and I left with a sour taste in my mouth. Thanks Johnny for the free tickets, it is always much appreciated! In the future, pretty sure I wouldn't shell out the money for this event myself.

When I watch Carnival Eats on the cooking Chanel, I always want to find similar food at the fairs…read morein south Florida. Looks like that's not happening any time soon. I have been to church carnivals that had better food than this one. I had a falafal on stale pita with bluchy fries for $14 since there was also a $1 fee to use my credit card. My husband and kid shared a $13 turkey leg (the only thing that was good). We tried to get some zepolis but were told to come back in an hour. There was only one ice cream vendor so the line was ridiculously long during the day. My kid loved all the rides she rode, however on the super slide the woman running it was so annoyed at a parent for letting her toddler run wild she yelled an "f" bomb at the parent. Okay the parent deserves it but the language wasn't necessary. There were way too many games that no one was playing. Parking was free but confusing. The bathrooms were disgusting. The point of a fair is to have animals...none. All in all, my kid had fun....but we won't go again next year.

This fair needs some serious help. Way too many carny games, poor variety and not enough food…read morevendors, and definitely not enough rides. The one good thing was there is plenty of parking on the south side and it's paved. Although there could of been more rides it seemed like there were plenty of rides that were suitable for younger or small children. This was the first year at this location and maybe as time goes on it will get better.