What can I say good about this place????? Nothing....We were suppose to stay for 4 nights but we only lasted one night.. We arrived at 1pm at the front desk to check in and the person said check in is at 3 pm .. that wasn't issue becuase we knew that..We went out for lunch and when i arrived back at 4pm the guy at the desk said" Im not sure if your room is ready - if you would like you can check to see if it is.. well ofcourse after I went to the room the maid was still cleaning it... At 4 :45 the room was turned over to me...NOT CLEAN.. the bathroom had hair in the shower and sink.. it was gross..
I decided to book out of the Rataline the next day... We headed to the LOEWS Hotel..- thats hotel I would come back too... great place.

After an unfortunate one night stint at another hotel, we were given the option to switch to the Catalina...we took it, and the rest is history.

From the moment we got there, til the last crazy night spent there, my friends and I couldn't stop saying "we looooove the Catalina."

The front desk--and one staffer in particular, was just stellar and so personable... We stayed in the adjacent building where the Restaurant is, and I can honestly say that we've all made great friends after meeting much of the staff of the Restaurant.

On our last night, we planned to go out and paint the town every color of the rainbow... but then a sudden and huge thunderstorm ruined our plans, and so we stayed in and had drinks at the Restaurant.... needless to say... we ended up "partying" at the Restaurant from about 7PM til 2AM...with the staff! Three words sum up that experience: BEST. NIGHT. EVER.

Thanks Catalina and the beautiful, wonderful people over at the Maxine building... we miss you guys and will be back sooner than you think =)

Oh yeah... and the pool is awesome too....

We stayed at the Catalina April 23-30 we were 3 girls (22-25).This hotel is worth the price. If you are young and came to south beach to party and want to have a good time then this is the place for you. The Hotel itself is very clean, very trendy the decor is really nice very modern and relaxing not to much unnecessary details. They always cleaned our room so no complain. There are 2 buildings we stayed at the Maxine its party 24/7 they blast the music all day. But that didn’t bother any of us. Since we were too tired to even hear anything. If you are sensitive to the noise then you're better off at the main building. It was a lot of fun they had different events/parties almost every night. The Latin billboard pre-party was there so we got to see some Celebs. Ladies there's always hot guys in that property, same thing for the guys hot women everywhere. Everyone’s friendly even the guests well everyone in Miami’s friendly. The staff are really nice and helpful specially the guys at the Maxine. They make really good Mojitos there (frozen one's the best) and calamari. The location is really good a block away from the beach and near all the nightlife in Miami. If you are with lil kids not the best place for you. They also give you Vip passes to some clubs and they have happy hour between 7-8 but we didn’t really take advantages of that. Breakfast at Maxine’s good. They also have a nice pool but we didn’t use it we were always at the beach. The hotel also offers shuttle service free of charge which was very convinient. They have the best mini-bar that i've ever seein so many choises. Don't forget to take towels from the hotel and ticket for the chairs if you're going to the beach.Make sure you go to MANGO’S some crazy party over there you’ll have a good time. Privee, Mansion and Delano are good places too if you want to get rich fast a lot of guys would offer to buy you anything. WE WOULD GO BACK FOR SURE!!!

Dont go anywhere near this hotel its full of [--} and drug dealers. you will never get any sleep. it sucks its dangerous dont go there stay far far away im not even kidding. i dont have the energy to type all of the terrible things that go on there.