Villa Justina

Seven-bedroom Miami estate behind a gate, with a columned portico, a circular driveway, covered parking and a separate cabana beside a safety-fenced pool.

Location: Miami, United States

7 bedrooms, sleeps 16.

Price: From $1,700 USD per night

Villa Justina is a seven-bedroom Miami estate with a columned portico, a circular driveway and a pool cabana. The architecture is deliberately traditional rather than modern, with symmetrical mature planting framing the property line, and it photographs the way people want an anniversary or a milestone birthday to look. Sixteen guests is the listed ceiling, spread across seven rooms in a mix of king, queen and twin configurations, one of which doubles as the theatre room. The bathroom arrangement is the thing to plan around: six and a half bathrooms serve the house, but only the theatre suite is en-suite, so the master and five other rooms use hallway baths, and one of those baths has no shower. Outside, a separate cabana stands beside the pool as a proper lounge pavilion, the pool is safety fenced, and the plot sits behind a gate with covered parking. Coral Gables is twelve minutes by car and Miracle Mile ten. | Location: Miami, United States | Bedrooms: 7 | Guests: 16 | Price: From $1,700 USD per night | Top Amenities: Barbecue, Central air conditioning, Gated property | Best For: Large families, Multi-couple groups, Milestone celebrations

Seven bedrooms is the headline, but the shape of the house is what makes it work. The approach is a circular driveway to a columned portico, the planting is symmetrical and mature, and the whole plot sits behind a gate, so arriving feels like arriving somewhere rather than parking on a street. Inside, the seven bedrooms hold ten beds between them, plus a sofa and an extra bed in the theatre room, against a listed ceiling of sixteen guests. Outside, a cabana stands beside the pool as a second lounge. It is an estate built for a group that wants scale and formality rather than a design statement.

The approach and the gate

Everything about the arrival is deliberate. The drive loops in a circle to a columned entrance, the landscaping is laid out symmetrically and kept to a weekly schedule, and the gate closes behind the car. Parking here is covered, so the cars stay out of the Miami sun for the week, which anyone who has opened a black door handle in August will appreciate. Inside the property line you get mature planting and a depth of ground that newer Miami builds cannot fake. Miracle Mile is ten minutes by car for shopping and restaurants, Coral Gables twelve. Gated property with covered parking. Circular driveway to a columned portico. Mature, symmetrical landscaping maintained weekly. Miracle Mile, ten minutes by car. Coral Gables, twelve minutes by car. Residential setting, quiet hours from 10 PM

Seven rooms and a theatre

The sleeping plan runs one king room, one twin room, three rooms with a single queen and two rooms with two queens each, ten beds in total. The fifth bedroom is the interesting one: it is the theatre room, it has its own bathroom, and it carries a sofa and an extra bed alongside the queen, so it works as the teenager room or the late-film room. Everything else uses hallway bathrooms. One of those hallway baths, serving the queen room beside the kitchen, has no shower in it. A restaurant-caliber cook line handles group meals, with a dedicated office, espresso machine and purified drinking water behind it. Seven bedrooms: one king, one twin room, three queen rooms, two rooms with two queens. Ten beds in total, plus a sofa and an extra bed in the theatre room. Only the theatre-room suite is en-suite. The master uses a hallway bathroom. Six and a half bathrooms, one of them without a shower. Restaurant-caliber cook line for group meals. Dedicated home office. Espresso machine, purified drinking water, flat-screen televisions

Pool and cabana

The cabana is what separates this from other houses at the same bedroom count. It is a built structure beside the pool rather than a shade sail, so the outdoor lounge works through the middle of the day and still works after dark. The pool itself is safety fenced, which is the detail that decides a booking when there are small children in the party. A barbecue and an alfresco dining setup sit within reach of both, and the outdoor furniture is laid out across the grounds rather than crammed onto one terrace. The planting around the perimeter carries the privacy. Separate cabana structure beside the pool. Pool fence around the swim area. Barbecue and alfresco dining. Outdoor furniture across the grounds. Gated perimeter with mature planting

What the house is for

Groups book Justina for occasions. Large family gatherings, milestone birthdays and anniversary weeks use the portico and the driveway as the backdrop, and the five-night floor suits the way those trips actually run. Days tend to stay on the property: pool in the afternoon, cabana when the sun is high, barbecue in the evening, theatre room at night once the younger half of the group has had enough of the adults. When everyone goes out, Miracle Mile is ten minutes for dinner and shopping and Coral Gables twelve. Milestone birthdays, anniversaries and family gatherings. Film nights in the theatre room. Pool and cabana afternoons. Dinner and shopping on Miracle Mile, ten minutes. Barbecue evenings on the grounds

Before you book

Five nights is the minimum. Sixteen guests is the listed maximum, and at that number some rooms are shared, since the seven bedrooms hold ten beds between them. Only one bedroom has its own bathroom, so if the party needs private baths across the board this is the wrong house, whatever the bathroom count suggests. Events and parties beyond the booked guest count need advance approval, quiet hours run from ten at night, and check-in is from three with check-out at eleven. Guests cover damage beyond ordinary wear. Five-night minimum stay. Sixteen guests maximum across ten beds, so rooms are shared at full capacity. One en-suite bedroom only, the rest share hallway baths. One hallway bathroom has no shower. No events or parties beyond the booked count without approval. Check-in from 15:00, check-out 11:00

Best For

Large families and multi-couple groups of up to sixteen. Milestone birthdays and anniversary weeks. Groups who want a formal, traditional backdrop. Parties with children, the pool is fenced and the plot is gated. Week-long stays rather than weekends