Villa Celine

Five-bedroom manor-styled Miami villa with a games room of billiards and arcade cabinets, a heated pool behind its own fence, a six-seat jacuzzi and a...

Location: Miami, United States

5 bedrooms, sleeps 14.

Price: From $1,700 USD per night

Villa Celine is a five-bedroom Miami house built in a European manor idiom, with a games room holding billiards and arcade cabinets. Arched doorways, herringbone hardwood, coffered ceilings, wrought-iron balustrades and crown molding run through the formal rooms, which is a long way from the white-box Miami rental. Fourteen guests sleep here, twelve of them in the bedrooms and two on a queen sofa bed, and four of the five rooms are en-suite across six full bathrooms. The kitchen is set up for cooking at group scale, with dual ovens and a forty-eight-inch range. Outside, a heated pool edged in Italian tile sits behind its own fence, separate from the garden, beside a six-seat jacuzzi and a covered dining pavilion built around a barbecue. The seven-night minimum makes this a reunion house. Aventura Mall is fifteen minutes by car and Bal Harbour Shops eighteen. | Location: Miami, United States | Bedrooms: 5 | Guests: 14 | Price: From $1,700 USD per night | Top Amenities: Barbecue, Central air conditioning, Gated property | Best For: Multi-generational families, Reunion weeks, Groups who cook

The games room is why people book Celine. A full-size billiards table and working arcade cabinets in a dedicated room, which almost nothing at this bedroom count in Miami offers, and which quietly solves the problem of what fourteen people do between four in the afternoon and dinner. The rest of the house is built in a continental manor idiom, arched doorways and herringbone floors and coffered ceilings, formal in a way that suits a long family week. Seven nights is the minimum, and the house is designed for exactly that length.

Behind the gate

The property is gated and the pool deck is fenced separately inside it, so there are two layers between the street and the water, which is the arrangement families with small children ask for and rarely get. Beyond the gate this is residential Miami with the shopping end of the city close: Aventura Mall is fifteen minutes away by car and Bal Harbour Shops eighteen. There is parking on the property. As everywhere here a car does the work, and a seven-night stay usually means at least one person in the group takes a rental for the week. Gated property with parking on site. Pool deck fenced separately from the garden. Aventura Mall, fifteen minutes by car. Bal Harbour Shops, eighteen minutes by car. Residential setting, quiet hours from 10 PM

Manor rooms and games room

Herringbone hardwood runs through the formal rooms under coffered ceilings, with arched doorways, wrought-iron balustrades and crown molding carrying the manor language from room to room. The games room is separate and dedicated: a full-size billiards table and vintage arcade cabinets, not a console in a corner. Upstairs holds four bedrooms, the master with a king and its own bathroom, and two of the three queen rooms also en-suite. The fifth bedroom sits on the first floor with two queens and its own bathroom. A queen sofa bed elsewhere in the house takes the final two of the fourteen. Five bedrooms, four on the second floor and one on the first. One king room and four queen configurations. Four of the five bedrooms are en-suite, six bathrooms in total. A queen sofa bed sleeps the last two guests. Dedicated games room with full-size billiards and arcade cabinets. Herringbone hardwood, coffered ceilings, arched doorways, crown molding

Heated pool and pavilion

The pool is heated, so the water holds up through the winter and holiday weeks that a seven-night minimum tends to attract, and it is edged in Italian tile behind its own safety fence, set apart from the rest of the garden. A jacuzzi alongside seats six, enough for most of the adults in a group this size at once. The covered dining pavilion is built around a barbecue station, so the evening meal happens outside under cover rather than on an exposed terrace. The fence between the swim area and the garden is the detail parents of small children ask about first. Heated pool edged in Italian tile. Pool fence separating the swim area from the garden. Jacuzzi seating six. Covered dining pavilion with a built-in barbecue. Alfresco dining setup. Beach chairs for days on the coast

Cooking for fourteen

The kitchen is the reason groups here cook instead of booking tables every night. Dual ovens and a forty-eight-inch range mean two dishes and a roast can run at once, which is the actual constraint when fourteen people eat together, and the espresso machine handles the mornings. Dinner moves outdoors to the covered pavilion and the barbecue station when the evening is good, and back into the formal living areas when it is not. On a seven-night stay that rhythm matters more than proximity to restaurants, and it is the part of the house that decides whether a large family week works. Dual ovens and a forty-eight-inch range. Espresso machine. Formal living areas with crown molding and coffered ceilings. Covered outdoor pavilion with a barbecue station. Alfresco dining setup

A reunion week

Celine runs on the house rather than the itinerary. Billiards and the arcade absorb the middle of the day when the heat peaks, the pool and jacuzzi take the late afternoon, and the pavilion takes the evening. That pattern repeats comfortably for a week, which is what the minimum stay assumes. When the group wants out, Aventura Mall is fifteen minutes and Bal Harbour Shops eighteen, both of them air-conditioned afternoons rather than expeditions. Events and parties beyond the booked guest count need advance approval, so this is a house for a large family rather than a large party. Billiards and arcade games through the hottest hours. Pool and jacuzzi in the late afternoon. Barbecue evenings under the pavilion. Shopping runs to Aventura and Bal Harbour. Cooking days that use both ovens and the range

Best For

Multi-generational family weeks. Reunions and milestone gatherings of up to fourteen. Groups who cook together at scale. Families with small children, the pool is separately fenced. Guests who want period detail rather than white-box modern