Finding Your Way Around Miami International Airport After You Arrive

When you arrive at the Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida it includes a list of entertainment options and services available within it.

Miami International Airport is located at 4200 N.W. 21st Street in Miami, Florida with a main entrance located off of Le Jeune Road. It is the 9th busiest passenger airport in the world. Flights to and from this airport service over 176 cities on five continents. Because of this, traveling through this vast, horseshoe-shaped airport, which includes eight concourses on four levels, can be confusing. However, if you follow highway signs to the airport as well as the signs and monitors strategically placed inside the terminal, you should have little problem finding a flight or the airport information that you need.

When driving into Miami International Airport, signs are listed for both long-term and short-term parking. Five parking facilities are available at the airport; two of which are garages named Dolphin and Flamingo. Rates for parking vary depending on the amount of time that you plan to park.

Once inside the airport, many entertainment options are available to you as you wait for a flight. The airport is home to thirteen duty free shops, a unisex barbershop, and a number of restaurants and fast food establishments including an Italian restaurant, Cuban restaurant, Sushi bar, Juice bar, two ice cream shops, and a Burger King to name a few. Cocktail lounges are also located in every concourse.



The airport also features a hotel on site. This hotel, named the Miami International Airport Hotel, includes soundproof rooms, a full-service restaurant, health club, racquetball court, pool and Jacuzzi. It also features a ground floor lounge, accessible to all airport visitors, which offers the only place in the airport where smoking is allowed.

Besides these features, the airport also offers a number of services including locker facilities, two pharmacies, five ATM machines, a full service bank, a U.S. post office branch, and foreign currency exchanges. The following car rental firms are also present in the airport: Avis, Budget, Dollar, Globetrotter, Hertz, National, Royal, and Value.

Because the airport attracts numerous passengers daily, plans are underway to expand it to include another, fourth runway as well as to re-design the shopping, dining, and entertainment facilities. Additionally, because Miami International Airport is a major hub for travel to Europe and the Americas, plans include increasing the number of international gates in order to accommodate the flow of international traffic in and out of the airport.

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