Florida Keys welcome new enhanced accommodation options

The 214-room Three Waters Resort & Marina, a Tribute Portfolio Resort, will open in Islamorada on 3 October. The property will be the first Florida Keys location for Tribute Portfolio, Marriott Bonvoy’s collection of independent hotels.

The 15-acre resort features The Cove, an adult-centric resort-within-a-resort with island-inspired rooms and king suites, a private beach lagoon, and the Wave Motion Studio, a beachfront fitness centre. A rum library offers tastings upon check-in. 

With 80,000 square feet of indoor and alfresco event spaces, Three Waters Resort & Marina offers nine dining concepts including Islamorada Pizza Co., a signature venue featuring wood-fired fare, and an outdoor Central American food hall. Activities include fly-casting, kayaking, offshore and backcountry fishing, and ocean adventures by Spray Watersports with a 26-mile personal backcountry watercraft tour. 

Several additional refurbished and expanded Keys properties are nearing completion.

n Key West, the downtown 160-room La Concha Key West, an Autograph Collection Hotel, has unveiled its new Grand Dame Villas at the Rooftop. The property’s seventh floor now offers seven rooftop villas with a concierge-level experience. Villas feature floor-to-ceiling windows, balconies and a dedicated concierge. They include the Hemingway Suite, the largest, with a sunroom and guest copy of "To Have and To Have Not," written by Hemingway and set primarily in Key West. The property’s public spaces, including the lobby and exterior façade, are undergoing a full restoration set for completion by year’s end. La Concha originally opened in 1926. 

The Middle Keys’ Faro Blanco Resort, known for its iconic 65-foot 1950s Faro Blanco Lighthouse, recently completed $14 million in renovations. Enhancements include updates to both the Faro Blanco Resort & Yacht Club, a Curio Collection by Hilton, and sister property, the Courtyard by Marriott Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon. Together, the resorts offer a total of 250 guest rooms, four pools, four dining options, a white sand beach and various water sports.