{"key":"villa-coral","blocks":[{"section":"intro","body":"Villa Coral is the Coral Gables option in this collection, and it plays to that: Mediterranean lines brought forward into something modern, with double-height windows pulling light down into the middle of the plan. Five well-proportioned bedrooms and a social layout that runs kitchen into dining into family room, so the house has one centre of gravity rather than several competing ones. Miracle Mile is minutes away."},{"section":"setting","heading":"Coral Gables","body":"Coral Gables was laid out in the 1920s as a planned Mediterranean-revival city and it still looks like one: banyan-lined boulevards, coral-rock walls and street signs set low on stone plinths. The practical value for a group is that it is inland and calm while sitting at the junction of everything, a short drive from Downtown, Wynwood and the causeways to the Beach. Miracle Mile handles dinner without a highway."},{"section":"interiors","heading":"Inside the house","body":"The plan is social rather than compartmented, with kitchen, dining and family room reading as one space under the double-height glazing. Bedrooms split across two floors: the master and two more upstairs, two on the ground floor. Three bathrooms serve five bedrooms, which means one en-suite master and shared bathing for everyone else, and that is the constraint to plan around when a group of this size divides rooms.","bullets":["Five bedrooms, three bathrooms, master en-suite","Bed mix: one king, two rooms with two queens each, two single queens","Three bedrooms upstairs, two on the ground floor","Double-height windows over the main living space","Connected kitchen, dining and family room","Espresso machine, flat-screen televisions, safe","On-site parking, purified drinking water"]},{"section":"outdoors","heading":"Pool and garden","body":"The pool is salt water rather than chlorinated, built with a sun shelf to sit in and jets, which is a nicer proposition for an afternoon than a plain rectangle. A shaded garden zone sits alongside it, set up for long lunches and the kind of conversation that outlasts the light. There is a barbecue, a pool fence, outdoor furniture and beach chairs for days spent on the coast instead.","bullets":["Salt-water pool with sun shelf and jets","Shaded garden zone for dining","Pool fence for families with small children","Barbecue and outdoor furniture","Beach chairs supplied for trips to the coast"]},{"section":"activities","heading":"Nearby","body":"Miracle Mile is the anchor, a few hundred metres of restaurants and shopfronts that makes an evening easy. The Venetian Pool and the Biltmore are the two Coral Gables set pieces worth an hour each. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is south, Coconut Grove and its marina are east, and Key Biscayne is the nearest proper beach.","bullets":["Miracle Mile restaurants and shops","Venetian Pool and the Biltmore Hotel","Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden to the south","Coconut Grove village and Key Biscayne beaches to the east"]},{"section":"ideal-for","heading":"Best For","body":null,"bullets":["Groups who want a calm inland base with the city in every direction","Short Miami trips, with a three-night minimum","Families, with a fenced salt-water pool and a sun shelf","Travellers who want Miracle Mile dinners within minutes"]}]}