• Popular hotel in good location
• Large outdoor pool
• Complimentary newspaper
• Games room

The Westin Beach Resort & Spa, formerly the Sheraton Yankee Trader, lies across the street from miles of golden-sand beach, and is four blocks from a row of oceanfront cafés; downtown Fort Lauderdale is two miles away. A skybridge reaches from the hotel’s second-floor sundeck, with palm trees and an ocean view, across the street to the beach; another pool is more secluded and quiet.

Colourful guestrooms have cable TV, in-room safes and coffeemakers. Rooms also provide panoramic windows with city or ocean views. Newspapers are complimentary.

Popular with families, business travellers and cruise-ship passengers from nearby Port Everglades seeking a pre- or post-cruise stay on the beach. The Westin Beach Resort & Spa provides a relaxed, informal ambience exemplified by the overstuffed seating under ceiling fans in the air-conditioned lobby.

A 75-by-35-foot pool and expansive sunning area with ocean views is on the palm-fringed, second-storey deck in the North Tower. From there, a skybridge spans the main street that runs parallel to the ocean, with an elevator providing access to the 11-mile-long beach. On the South Tower's ground floor, a secluded, 50-by-25-foot garden pool offers peaceful sunbathing.