Aurora in Sunny Isles Offers Private Jet Service With Condo Purchase

In the race to offer the most over-the-top amenities and perks, the developers of Aurora in Sunny Isles have upped the ante by including a 1 year membership to JetSmarter with each condo purchase.

JetSmarter is a new service that offers seats in the empty leg of a chartered flight through a smartphone app and website. The level of service and amenities offered are the same as though the members chartered the flight themselves, thus users are flying private for a fraction of the cost. Flights are offered for free to members, with additional seats available for purchase at a discounted rate in case you may want to bring your friends. Membership dues are $10,000/year with a $5,000 initiation fee.

In the app, you can search by date, destination or aircraft type. Flights are offered around the world and custom charters are available. Aurora is a boutique community of 61 residences in Sunny Isles. Prices range between $900,000-$1,600,000. It is scheduled to begin construction by the end of the year and open in late 2018.

The Estates at Acqualina’s Model Unit Sales Center is Huge, and Fully Functional

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The Estates at Acqualina, which is bringing two more gigantic towers to the lavish and rambling Acqualina Resort & Spa complex in Sunny Isles Beach, just took the cake top off of its extremely at new sales center and model unit which closely duplicates a typical end unit in either building to almost every detail.

To achieve that, it had to be big, considering the typical end unit at the Estates is from approximately 3,500 to over 5,000, in just interior square footage. As icing on the cake, unlike many sales center set ups, and model unit interiors, this place is fully functional. The lights, of course, work, but so do the toilets in the model bathrooms, and the kitchen sink that can be activated by a foot sensor. The host tub gets hot, and the sauna gets hot too.

Connected by a multilevel amenities complex called ‘The Villa’ (which looks, you guessed it, like a villa) the towers are not actually perfectly symmetrical. The north tower has four units per floor, and the south tower has just two, a system that works more efficiently for private elevator access than two matching towers of 3-unit floors. Units come standard with little tricks treats like fountain-fed hot tubs, outdoor saunas accessed via wrap-around balcony, midnight kitchens in the master suite, gas fireplaces, hi-end wine dispensing/preserving appliances, and more marble than at a cemetery in a place called Carrera in Italy. Oh, and the penthouse will have hanging glass pools, just like the one over at the Mansions at Acqualina.

Anybody Want This Russian Oligarch Starter Pad at Jade Beach?

Okay so it’ll be a couple years before you’re Dmitry Rybolovlev. At the moment you can only dream of going on hunting trips with Putin, or being the guest of honor on Roman Abromovich’s yacht. You’re a Russian oligarch on the make, and you’re still going up in the world, so you need the perfect oligarch starter pad in Sunny Isles Beach, commonly known as the Russian Riviera. You can’t afford a penthouse at Acqualina (either the Mansions or the Estates) with a glass-bottomed pool, just yet, so here’s a nice cozy two-story number listed for $6.25 million. Unit 4505 at Jade Beach has a roomy 4,141 square feet of living space, four bedrooms, five baths, a private elevator and foyer entry, and it’s already decked out in Fendi Casa, the same furniture as Acqualina. The listing doesn’t say it comes fully furnished, but you could probably negotiate.