Pier 66 reopens in Fort Lauderdale with luxury revamp, new restaurants and spa

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – After astir 7 years of redevelopment pursuing Hurricane Irma, the iconic Pier Sixty-Six edifice has reopened successful Fort Lauderdale — and longtime visitors whitethorn not admit it.

“As you locomotion astir the spot you tin spot that it tells a story. We restored the archetypal operation which we basal close now, but astir it there’s a brand-new analyzable of pools and facilities and amenities for guests, residents and marina visitors alike,” said Colm O’Callaghan, vice president and managing manager of Pier Sixty-Six.

The 32-acre resort, archetypal opened successful 1965, has agelong held landmark presumption successful South Florida.

But aft its multimillion-dollar transformation, the recently reopened Pier 66 is present among the region’s astir talked-about destinations — offering visitors everything from high-end eating to a luxury spa and adjacent a kids club.

The signature diagnostic — rather virtually — is Pier Top, a rotating barroom that completes a afloat 360-degree rotation each 66 minutes.

“You commencement your cocktail connected 1 broadside of Fort Lauderdale, and you decorativeness your cocktail connected the different broadside of Fort Lauderdale, which is benignant of a unsocial experience,” O’Callaghan said.

With a twelve restaurants present connected the property, Executive Chef Jonathan Kaiser said the resort’s signature eating spot, Calusso, blends planetary coastal flavors with a South Florida twist.

“Calusso takes inspiration from the coasts of France and Italy. We benignant of premix that with the flavors and products of South Florida,” helium said.

For those seeking remainder and relaxation, the caller Zenova Spa delivers what the edifice calls a “pathway to bliss.” The spa includes 9 attraction rooms, a luxury boutique, and what’s being billed arsenic the area’s archetypal co-ed holistic hydrotherapy space, Via Aquae.

“Welcome to Zenova Spa and Wellness — Fort Lauderdale’s newest luxury spa,” said Linda Higgs, manager of spa and wellness. “We usage a sauna-meister that comes successful and leads the impermanent into a beauteous acquisition wherever helium oregon she are utilizing aromatherapy-scented snowballs, arsenic good arsenic towel enactment to determination the aerial successful the sauna and determination the aromatherapy astir for the impermanent experience.”

The spa adjacent features a snowfall room, chilled to 14 degrees Fahrenheit, designed for hot-cold therapy.

“It is the archetypal successful this area,” Higgs said. “And it runs 14 degrees Fahrenheit. And it’s perfect for blistery acold therapy utilizing the sauna archetypal and past the snowfall country for optimal wellness.”

The edifice besides offers a children’s program, Pier Explorers Kids Club, giving younger guests their ain accidental to larn and play — portion parents bask immoderate downtime poolside.

“What I similar to accidental astir Pier Sixty-Six arsenic it is now, it surprises people,” O’Callaghan said. “You locomotion into the lobby and radical go, ‘Oh my God, this is thing amazing.’”

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