{"key":"villa-sapphire-vr","blocks":[{"section":"intro","body":"Villa Sapphire is a brand-new two-storey house built with comfort, design and beauty in mind. High ceilings, considered furniture, a spacious pool and an expansive backyard. Eight bedrooms with dedicated en-suite or Jack and Jill bathrooms throughout, so nobody in a group of eighteen is queueing for a shower."},{"section":"setting","heading":"North Miami Beach","body":"North Miami Beach sits above the Miami Beach crowd and below Aventura, which is the sweet spot for a group this size: Bal Harbour Shops and Haulover Beach are a short drive east, Aventura Mall is north, and Oleta River State Park with its mangrove trails is close enough for a morning. The beaches up here are noticeably emptier than South Beach and you can park near them."},{"section":"interiors","heading":"Inside the house","body":"The ground floor carries a junior master, a family room, the living room, the kitchen, dining and four bedrooms. Upstairs holds the master with its own balcony, a second living room and three more bedrooms. That second living room is the detail that makes a two-storey rental work for eighteen people: the upstairs group is not forced down into everyone else's evening.","bullets":["Eight bedrooms, eight full bathrooms plus a half bath","Master with king bed and private balcony on the upper floor","Junior master with king bed and en-suite on the ground floor","Three further rooms with king beds, one queen room, one room with two queens","Separate living rooms on both floors","5,350 sq ft of interior across two storeys","Laundry room, full kitchen, WiFi throughout"]},{"section":"outdoors","heading":"The backyard","body":"Pool and spa sit in an expansive backyard with a gazebo set up for outdoor dining, which is the difference between eating outside and eating outside comfortably in August. A barbecue zone and a covered terrace handle the rest, and a ping pong table takes care of the hours between the pool and dinner.","bullets":["Pool and spa","Gazebo for shaded outdoor dining","Barbecue zone","Covered terrace","Ping pong table"]},{"section":"logistics","heading":"Practicalities for a group of eighteen","body":"Both Miami International and Fort Lauderdale serve this address in roughly half an hour, and Fort Lauderdale is often the cheaper arrival for a big group. There is a laundry room, which matters over a week. The three-night minimum makes this house viable for a long weekend, which most eight-bedroom houses are not.","bullets":["Miami International (MIA) around 30 minutes, Fort Lauderdale (FLL) around 25","Three-night minimum stay","Laundry room on site","Eight bathrooms plus a half, so no shared-bathroom bottleneck"]},{"section":"ideal-for","heading":"Best For","body":null,"bullets":["Large families who need two separate living rooms","Multi-generational trips with rooms on both floors","Group vacations of up to eighteen","Long-weekend bookings, with a three-night minimum"]}]}