City brief Miami Ocean Drive menus are a tourist tax. Cuban breakfast and a neighborhood dinner win the week. Loading the printable brief… VacationMath orientation — not live rates When to go Early December, late April after spring break, and May before summer rain sets the mood. Top money-saving tips Sleep a few blocks off Ocean Drive. Same sand, less neon, better breakfast.Cuban café (Versailles or a ventanita) — not the hotel, not Ocean Drive.Skip beach-club bottle service on Lean. That is a day-price, not a snack.Midweek flights. Friday into a holiday weekend is Miami doing Miami to your card.Wynwood Walls from the sidewalk; Little Havana on foot. Everglades is a half-day leftover, not a default.Hurricane-season “deals” need a flexible fare or a cancel-for-any-reason stance you already priced.Brickell if you want mainland restaurants and Metromover. Do not split Mid-Beach and Brickell in three nights.Joe’s Stone Crab is a share leftover — not five fish dinners. Build a hard-budget plan