A local florist's Miami delivery guide

Miami is a different delivery city. The heat, the high-rises, the front-desk-only buildings, the doormen, the gated estates in Coral Gables, the South Beach hotels with strict guest policies — it changes how a thoughtful flower order needs to be put together. Here's the local-florist version of how to do it right.

Where we deliver in Miami (and what it means for your order)

We deliver across Miami-Dade, with same-day cutoff at 1pm ET. Below is what to know per area.

Brickell & Downtown Miami

The high-rise capital. Almost every recipient lives in a building with a doorman or concierge. Our drivers leave the bouquet at the front desk and we text you a photo + the doorman's name. Recipients are usually called up within 10 minutes.

• Common buildings: SLS Brickell, Echo Brickell, 1100 Millecento, Brickell Heights, Reach, Rise, Panorama Tower.
• Tip: If your recipient is at work in Brickell, send to the office, not home — Brickell residential desks can take hours to call up.

South Beach & Mid-Beach

Hotels are 80% of South Beach delivery. Each hotel has its own policy:

• Setai, Faena, EDITION, 1 Hotel South Beach, Loews: front-desk delivery, signed for, brought up by bell staff to the room.
• Smaller boutique hotels: call the recipient first; some won't hold flowers without guest sign-off.
• Tip: Always include the reservation name and check-in date in the order notes. About 1 in 4 hotel deliveries gets bounced because the front desk can't find the guest yet.

Coral Gables & Coconut Grove

The closest thing to "neighborhood Miami." Mostly single-family homes and low-rise condos. We can leave at the door if no one answers — but in summer, that's a heat problem (see below).

Wynwood, Edgewater, Midtown

Mix of high-rises and lofts. Wynwood gets a lot of "surprise an out-of-town friend on vacation" orders — make sure you have the Airbnb or hotel address, not the venue they're going to that night.

Aventura, Sunny Isles, Bal Harbour

Luxury high-rise corridor. Almost all front-desk handoff. Bal Harbour buildings (Acqualina, St. Regis, Ritz-Carlton Residences) require us to be on a pre-cleared vendor list — we are.

Heat is your enemy. Here's how we work around it.

A Miami afternoon in July is not friendly to roses. Our standard process for hot-weather delivery:

1. Hydrated cool-room build. Every arrangement leaves the studio fully hydrated and pre-chilled.
2. Air-conditioned vehicles only. No "open back of a pickup" delivery, ever.
3. Front-desk first. If the building has a desk, we hand off inside. Doorstep delivery is the last resort in summer.
4. Care card. Every Miami delivery includes a hot-weather care card: re-cut stems, change water, keep out of direct sun.

If you're sending a delicate variety (peonies, garden roses, hydrangeas in particular), we'll proactively recommend a different recipe in mid-summer. The bouquet that survives a Miami August is not the same as the bouquet that survives a New York October.

Hotel delivery policies — the cheat sheet

Hotel	Policy	Best practice
Setai	Front desk → bell staff to room	Include reservation name + check-in date
Faena	Front desk; concierge calls guest	Add a phone number for the guest
EDITION	Front desk; held until guest arrives	Order day-of-arrival or after
1 Hotel South Beach	Front desk; bell staff brings up	Same as above
Acqualina	Front desk; required vendor list	Mention Olympus Flowers — we're on it
Eden Roc / Nobu	Front desk → concierge	Confirm guest in-house first
Smaller boutique hotels	Call recipient first	Include guest phone number

The "I'm flying in tonight" delivery

Common Miami order: "I land at MIA at 9pm, send something to my hotel so it's there when I check in." Two ways to do it:

• Same-day delivery before our 1pm cutoff, with delivery scheduled for 5–8pm. Hotel holds it for arrival.
• Next-business-day if you're booking late — guarantees the flowers are in the room by the time you check in the next morning.

Either way, include the hotel reservation name in the order notes. The hotel will reject delivery if the name on the card doesn't match a current reservation.

The Coral Gables surprise

Sending to a Coral Gables home? It's the easiest residential delivery in Miami — quiet streets, big driveways, plenty of porches. But:

• Don't leave at door past 11am if the porch gets full sun.
• Many homes have mango/oak canopies that drop fruit/branches — if the porch is messy, our driver will leave the bouquet on the doorstep just inside the wreath, not on the floor.
• The Gables has dozens of gated communities (Ponce-Davis, Cocoplum, Gables Estates, Tahiti Beach). Provide gate codes or a guard contact in the notes.

Why bother with a local florist instead of a wire service

When you order through 1-800-Flowers, FTD, or any national booking site, your Miami order gets routed to whoever bid the lowest in the Miami florist marketplace that morning. They take a 30–40% cut. The actual florist building your $150 bouquet sees about $90 of materials budget — and then has to substitute aggressively because half their cooler is sold to other wire orders too.

A real local florist (us) gets the full budget you paid, builds the bouquet you saw in the photo, and delivers it with our own driver. It's the difference between "your flowers showed up" and "your flowers showed up and they look like the picture."

Ready to send something to Miami?

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