The only hotel that feels like it was built for Art Basel week. Damien Hirst's gilded woolly mammoth in the lobby sets the tone. The Faena is theatrical, international, and fully booked by September every year.
Per night · Dec 3–7, 2026
Book by October — sells out every year.
SAL Limo Service · No surge · Confirmed at booking
Art Basel's
Home Hotel.
The Faena Miami Beach opened in 2015 as Alan Faena's boldest statement — a total-environment hotel where every surface is either an artwork or an argument. Baz Luhrmann creative-directed it. Damien Hirst contributed the gilded woolly mammoth skeleton in the lobby. The interiors read like a Buenos Aires fever dream filtered through a Venetian baroque lens.
"The Faena is not a hotel you stay at during Art Basel. It is Art Basel with bedrooms attached."
During fair week, the Faena Forum — the hotel's adjacent performance and events space, designed by Rem Koolhaas — hosts some of the most sought-after private events of the entire Basel calendar. Staying here is also a proximity play: MBCC is a 12-minute walk, the Design District is a 15-minute ride, Wynwood is 20 minutes with your SAL Limo.
Book by September. It sells out every year without exception.
The Faena Forum — designed by Rem Koolhaas — hosts private Basel events that are harder to get into than the fair itself. Being a hotel guest gets you proximity that no ticket can buy.
0.6 miles down Collins Avenue. No car needed for the main fair. No surge pricing. No waiting. Save the SAL Limo booking for Wynwood nights and airport transfers.
Collectors from Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Paris, and Zurich converge at the Faena. If you want to be in the room where the real Art Basel conversations happen — this is the room.
"Stayed for Art Basel and the hotel was as much a part of the experience as the fair itself. The Forum events are unmissable if you can get in. Book this before you book your fair tickets."
"Los Fuegos is worth the Faena rate on its own. The walk to MBCC is genuinely 12 minutes. Used SAL Limo for Wynwood every night — fixed price, always on time, driver knew every gallery."
"The Damien Hirst mammoth never gets old. Room service at midnight after the opening night parties. Staff remembered our names by day two. This is how Basel week should feel."
"Beautiful property. A little theatrical for some tastes — the red velvet and chandeliers are a lot. But for Basel week it is exactly right. The pool scene on Thursday morning is unbeatable."