Previous and current occur jointly at Kimpton Goodland Fort Lauderdale Seaside: Travel Weekly

The year was 1949, and resorts in Fort Lauderdale these as The Riverside closed for the summer time. So when Chicago contractor George Gill Jr. created The Escape two blocks off the beach and opened it calendar year-round, it was historic. 

Seventy-two a long time later, The Escape has been presented a new lease on daily life. While many of its contemporaries have been bulldozed for additional modern day, taller luxury accommodations, The Escape reopened in April as a boutique named the Kimpton Goodland Fort Lauderdale Beach. 

I stayed as an right away guest at the Kimpton Goodland in June, tucked into one of the fashionably renovated rooms in close proximity to the pool. The Goodland is reminiscent of a a lot more innocent time in Florida, when a faculty swim satisfy was however evolving into Fort Lauderdale spring crack and President Harry Truman was nevertheless playing poker at the Minimal White Home in Vital West.

The Kimpton Goodland Fort Lauderdale Beach front, constructed in 1949, capabilities windows butted together at the corners for very good light. Picture Credit score: Kimpton Goodland

Although Miami Beach front acquired fame for its artwork deco and streamline moderne design and style properties, Fort Lauderdale made afterwards and has a more compact selection of midcentury present day motels, with the 96-home Goodland among the vanguard. 
What is actually so obvious and pleasant about the fashion is the indoor-out of doors open up-air high quality. The resort’s a few two-story structures are all related by breezeways, and, on the next story, by protected bridges to shelter guests from sunlight and rain.

The thoroughly clean traces, minimalist décor and clean terrazzo flooring have a Japanese simplicity that is underscored in a single of the hotel’s courtyards, exactly where a half-dozen canary-yellow butterfly chairs accent a bamboo-lined Zen Backyard garden.  
The oval-shaped lobby is lined with ground-to-ceiling glass and hung with house-age light-weight fixtures. Every area has a lozenge-shaped wall lamp beside the doorway with the area amount painted in teal numerals.

Inside the mostly white rooms, the strains are just as clear. Abutted windows in place corners set the tone and acknowledge good gentle. A turquoise ’50s-fashion mini-fridge typifies the back again-to-the-long run décor, reminding guests of the hotel’s heritage while however sensation up-to-the moment. A Marshall bluetooth speaker offers a throwback radio seem with contemporary superior-fidelity. A footstool is formed like a huge champagne cork. 

The 3 properties at the Kimpton Goodland Fort Lauderdale Seashore are connected by breezeways. Picture Credit: Tom Stieghorst

“The Goodland is primed to produce something refreshing to the Fort Lauderdale holiday encounter,” mentioned Nils Bergmann, the Goodland’s normal manager. “Our house delivers a laid-back again boutique atmosphere that blends the destination’s previous and existing.”

Tough to imagine, but swimming swimming pools ended up a new amenity for Fort Lauderdale vacationers when The Escape’s pool designed its debut. The Goodland’s pool deck is properly landscaped and is serviced by the blue and white-striped Fantastic Bar. 
A further pool on the eighth flooring of the future-doorway Tiffany Home condominium hotel is obtainable to Goodland visitors and provides a actually stunning look at of the seaside and the shimmering Intracoastal Waterway.

A single proposal for the 12-story, 128-device Tiffany Residence would have demolished The Escape, but Fort Lauderdale had designated it historic, so to build the tower its developers had to restore the lodge. The final result is a sheer wall that both shelters and overwhelms the smaller sized, two-story Goodland and may perhaps toss some critical shade on the floor-floor pool through the wintertime months.

Foodstuff and consume possibilities at the Goodland, aside from the Good Bar, include things like the Botanic, a restaurant/bar with farm-to-desk menus and some mean craft cocktails. Throughout my stay I bought to straw-sample a fifty percent-dozen libations, which include “The Painkiller,” which mixes rum, pineapple, orange and coconut in a pineapple-formed glass.

A Zen Backyard fills one particular of the courtyards at the Kimpton Goodland Fort Lauderdale Beach front. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst

Yellowtail snapper ceviche, seared tuna sliders and a simple-but-gratifying roasted chicken are all things I can advise from the Botanic evening meal menu.

Debuting later on this yr will be a rooftop Spanish tapas outlet at the Tiffany Dwelling pool, as well as a coffee bar. 
Friends driving to the Goodland really should be informed that parking is valet-only and expenditures $44 for each evening. A resort price of $38 for every night involves everyday yoga lessons, wi-fi all through the home, bottled drinking water, young children seashore toys and two lounge chairs on the seaside, which is two blocks absent. 

The Goodland is the only lodge in Fort Lauderdale affiliated with Kimpton. The chain opened the 96-home Kimpton Hotel Palomar South Seashore in 2020.