Visiting The Breakers Luxury Hotel Resort at Palm Beach, Florida
Perhaps one of the most elegant places in Palm Beach, Florida is The Breakers Luxury Hotel Resort.
According to the Wikipedia; The Breakers Palm Beach is a historic, Renaissance Revival style luxury hotel with 538 rooms. It is located at 1 South County Road in Palm Beach, Florida, United States.
First known as The Palm Beach Inn, the original hotel was opened on January 16, 1896, by business tycoon Henry Flagler to accommodate travelers on his Florida East Coast Railway. It occupied the beachfront portion of the grounds of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, which Flagler had opened in 1894 beside Lake Worth Lagoon, facing the inland waterway. Guests began requesting rooms "over by the breakers", so Flagler renamed it The Breakers Hotel in 1901.
The original wooden hotel burned on June 9, 1903, after which it was rebuilt, opening on February 1, 1904. Rooms started at $4 per night, including three meals a day (in 2018, rooms started at $1,050 per night). Since Flagler forbade motorized vehicles on the property, patrons were delivered between the two hotels in wheeled chairs powered by employees. The grounds featured a nine-hole golf course.
The architectural firm hired by the Flagler heirs, Schultze and Weaver, modeled the 550-room replacement building after the Villa Medici in Rome, Italy. The firm worked with New York-based Turner Construction Company and a well-known local Palm Beach contractor, Eugene Hammond, who built the first theater in West Palm Beach and worked on the Palm Beach estate built for Rodman Wanamaker by Addison Mizner (which would become a Kennedy winter retreat in 1933).
The contractors decided to abandon the wooden construction for fireproof concrete. Built by 1,200 construction workers, the hotel reopened on December 29, 1926, to considerable acclaim. The lobby ceiling was painted by Alexander Bonanno, a classically trained New York City artist who taught at Cooper Union. This hotel influenced the Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba.
The Breakers Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The 105-acre (42 ha) listed area included 15 contributing buildings and one other contributing object.
On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter ranked the hotel seventh on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places. Today, the hotel and grounds occupy 140 acres (57 hectares) beside the Atlantic Ocean.
One of the most popular dining room is named HMF after the resort’s founder, Henry Morrison Flagler. Iconic luxury shopping stores include Ralph Lauren Polo and Lily Pulitzer.
The Breakers is currently a AAA five diamond rated resort and has maintained this rating since 1996.
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WOW take us to the Gilded Age and original unsurpassable beauty Palm Beach is like no other🌞
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you much Thomas Ogrodnik 🙂 I appreciate that you appreciate beauty of Palm Beach, Florida. Happy holidays 🌴🎄🎁🎅🐬🌞🌊⛵🍀
We stayed here last August, and it was amazing! We also had the BEST service the entire trip!
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hello Carolyn Schack, glad you had very enjoyable stay at the Breakers. Best wishes from South Florida🌴😎🍀
Beautiful video. I was just there. This captures the experience perfectly.
@VolkanYuksel
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much Chris Minyard🙏 Glad you enjoyed your visit to the Breakers and this video. Cheers from Melbourne, Florida 🌴🌞🐬🍀😎
Ahí quisiera vivir.!!!❤️
Thank you so much for the beauty and artistry of your tour of The Breakers. Wonderful camera work and choice of subject. You have a generous artistic spirit. Your skill added so much to the beauty of the place itself! 😃
@VolkanYuksel
Жыл бұрын
Hello Jane Nunez 🌸💃🦋 thank you so very much for your kind and encouraging words 🙏😎💐 It's a great pleasure for me to have viers like you visiting this channel 💎 The Breakers and Palm Beach in general are very exceptional places. I am happy that I could share a piece of this with the rest of the world and see that it was appreciated including the person behind the camera. Thank you again very much and wishing all the best from South Florida 🌴🦜🛰️🐬🛸⛵🌕🚀✨🍀
Good evening my dearest Volkan..👱🏻♀️🌹…OH MY…LOVE THIS VIDEO.. so festive and elegant..I need to be here. Right now, viewing this gorgeous place, while I’m relaxing…so stunning and it’s presence stands alone. 🎄🤗🎄…I remember being here years ago, but never ate there. Looking out at the water, smelling the air, hearing the waves…on top of it all..sends me to another era… Life is good to go and venture out to some richness of Beauty once in awhile….What a beautiful day you had Volkan..🥰🥰..Thank you for sharing this extraordinary piece…Sleep well my dear friend…🌿🎄♥️🎄🌿🎄♥️🎄🌿
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hello dear Christine 💐🌊🎄🎁🎅🐬🌿 you're very welcome 🙏☺️ I am very happy to be able to share views from this monument of elegance from Palm Beach, Florida after so many years there. I knew this is definitely your kind of place, too so I am glad you had a chance to see this and enjoyed it as well 🌴🎄🏰🎄🌴 Thank you much for your very kind message and best wishes for the evening 🌴🌊🏰🎄🐬🌛⛵✨
Wow, that is a beautiful place. I could sink into the lap of luxury there. Fantastic inside and outside.
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hello dear Sue Hayes 🌿🇨🇦🎁🎄✨🌴 glad you enjoyed views from the Breakers Resort 🌴🌊🎄🌞 🐬 ✨⛵Hope you visit someday 🤩 Best wishes for the holiday season 🎅🎄🤶🌿🎁🇨🇦✨
@suehayes2001
2 жыл бұрын
@@VolkanYuksel Thank you. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you much Sue 🌴🌊🎄🇨🇦🌞🐬🍀😎
Thank you for showing us this jewel of Palm Beach! Happy holidays and all the best to you!
Thank you Volkan for taking us on a wonderful journey of this opulent luxury hotel, I felt like I was taking every step with you. Also enjoyed the rich history you supplied in the beginning of the video. Driven by this hotel many times, it is now on my bucket list! Thank you new Cresswind friend. Sheree
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hello Sheree, you're welcome🙏😊 Glad you enjoyed the views from around The Breakers and the details that I obtained from wikipedia. I am hoping that you were able to see it in 4K capable screen device to enjoy all the details of the amazing decorations from there. Best wishes for the evening 🌴⛵🌛🌊🍀
I nearly died when you walked past the Christmas tree… thank goodness you gave us a beautiful detailed tour of the tree on the way back 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 If you’re near the breakers again any time soon, our household here in Australia would love to see this year’s Christmas decorations… 😉
@VolkanYuksel
Жыл бұрын
Hello dear Zelda Fitzgerald 🌴🎄🎁 thank you so much for your lovely message. Yes, I am considering visiting The Breakers and getting some closeup views of the amazing Christmas decorated trees there. Wishing you and your family happy holidays from Florida🌴🎄🎁🐬🍀☄️🛰️🛸😎
So beautiful! Have a great holidays.
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hello Sayed Nasab, glad you enjoyed this video. Best wishes from South Florida 🌴🐬🌞🌊🍀
This place is really nice. Im lucky I’m a club member I guess!
@jkrock6635
Жыл бұрын
yes, you are!
Wow. That's a nice place. Like a palace.
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hello StereoSpace, yes, The Breakers resort is one of the biggest highlights of Palm Beach, Florida. Thank you for your message and cheers from South Florida 🌴🐬🌞🌊🍀
HARIKA BIR VIDEO VE ÇOK GÜZEL HOTEL . SALAM KARDAŞ FROM GERMANY
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Cok tesekkur ederim Hamed Postaci. Simdiden mutlu yillar dilerim. Almanya'ya bol selamlar 🇺🇸🎅🎄⛄🇩🇪
Thanks for the video but the inside was saturated in orange, could barely see anything
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Al Fulci, perhaps reducing color saturation on your display device may help. Take care.
@thomasogrodnik3233
2 жыл бұрын
Al, that's the real hue within the hotel, what exactly is present at the one of a kind, Breakers!
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hello Tom, yes, that's a good point. Interior LED's with 2700K color temperature or dimmed incandescent lighting can look like amber when compared to the ~5400K natural daylight which was coming from all directions. I hope I can revisit during evening hours so I can set the manual color balance to near 2700K on my LG V50. Glad you enjoyed this video the way it is. I am wondering if you were able to see it in 4K? ☺️ Take care
@thomasogrodnik3233
2 жыл бұрын
@@VolkanYuksel Hi Volkan, yes it was in brilliant 4K and correct about warm glow of 2700K, soft light. That's purposely this way for warm welcome of picturesque history and elegance of Breakers. The only thing I wish more of was a panoramic view of the famous salt-water aquarium bar! I've had drinks at that bar upon visitors I'd take first as an introduction to Palm Beach. Your walks are splendid and I'd like to join you someday!
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Hello again Thomas, yes, I wish I could spend more time at the Seafood Bar of The Breakers for more amazing views and experience from there but perhaps next time 🌴 🍻🐠🍀 😎
+1 pousse vers le haut
@VolkanYuksel
2 жыл бұрын
Merci 😊