Diego Andrade

Miami Beach & Events Correspondent

Diego Andrade covers Miami Beach, Wynwood, and the South Florida event circuit for Business Class Journal. South Beach-based since 2012. Before BCJ he spent six years on the Ocean Drive editorial masthead and three years as nightlife director at the W South Beach. He moves between the Faena, the EDITION, and the Setai across any given Art Basel week and audits roughly 50 wedding and event venues per year between Miami Beach, Coral Gables, and the Keys.

Recent reporting

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Best Miami Wedding Transportation (2026): A Wedding-Day Operational Ranking

We ranked nine Miami wedding transportation operators on Vizcaya-and-Biltmore venue circuit fluency, Fisher Island ferry-and-causeway timing, multi-vehicle bridal-party convoy logistics, late-night South Beach after-party return safety, and high-season vs off-season calendar discipline. The leaders run modern Sprinter group inventory alongside ceremonial S-Class arrivals and a Coral-Gables-to-Surfside venue rotation.

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Best South Beach Car Services in Miami 2026: The Hotel-Anchored Chauffeur Ranking for Faena, EDITION, Setai, W, and the Mid-Beach Resort Spine

South Beach is not a Miami neighborhood — it is the most demanding chauffeur micro-market in the United States south of Manhattan, an island geography squeezed between Government Cut, Biscayne Bay, and the Atlantic, fed by three causeways and a dozen hotel motor courts that run their own arrival choreography. We ranked nine operators on the criteria that decide a 2026 South Beach booking: MacArthur Causeway versus Julia Tuttle versus Venetian routing discipline against the time of day and the event calendar, motor-court fluency at the Faena, the Miami Beach EDITION, the Setai, the W South Beach, and the Fontainebleau Mid-Beach, after-dark posture on Ocean Drive and Lincoln Road, the Art Basel Miami Beach week impact during the first week of December, the South Beach Wine and Food Festival in late February, the LIV-Story-E11even nightclub circuit on Friday and Saturday, and the all-in cost on a documented Setai-to-Miami-International airport transfer.