We welcome dogs of all sizes – our Golden Retrievers Betsy and Rosa may be the first to greet you. And keep greeting you.
We’re Dog People
We welcome dogs and they seem to appr-woof of The Betsy. Please tell us about your four-legged companion when making your reservation.
Buddy Work
If your four-paw adventurer also needs to unwind, let us arrange a pampering massage alongside your spa procedure. Homemade pet nibbles to follow.
Betsy & Rosa, Master Brewers
Our beloved Goldens Betsy & Rosa have their own beer! Crafted with the Miami brewery House of Motor, this Austrian-style copper lager has notes of lemon zest and allspice – the perfect cooldown after a day in the sun.
In Remembrance of Katie (2005-2019)
The legendary poet Gerald Stern (1925-2022), whom we were blessed to host at The Betsy many times, once sat with our dear Golden Retriever Katie and wrote this poem.
Beginning With Katie
Beginning with Kate, a ten year old golden retriever
sleeping all day and
tethered to a baby grand choosing
the cold marble to lie down on instead
of the nearby commercial carpet in the
lobby of the Betsy,
a grand hotel at the northernmost end of Ocean
Drive in Miami Beach, city of Jackie Gleason
and Andrew Warhola, the latter of ghosts you might say
presiding over the annual Basel Schnazzel
where I, with a cane between my legs,
on the most comfortable chair in the whole lobby
keeping Kate company and poking her from
time to time to remind her of the good days
of pork unlimited surrounded by
fat galore and bone softened by cooking
for we were spoiled by loving owners
we couldn’t repay enough by growling and barking
as they sat on their sofas doing their own
wondrous barking, the music we listened to
as we stretched out on their wood and wool and grass,
me too for I was a dog in those days
and sort of trotted like a tan horse
up and down the streets of my six rivers.