The Spa At Icon Brikell Theater

Funny, but I also attended the screening of CASABLANCA at the Icon Brickell Theater at the Spa in Sept 2009. I did not get around to reviewing it then.
It was a wonderful experience. There’s only valet parking, and it’s not easy getting to the spa with its private theater, but once there, it’s a fun experience. You get free cupcakes, but the extravagant décor made me go for champagne and popcorn, so it was an expensive evening.
It’s an upscale movie experience that you might have in the private screening room of a Bel Aire mansion.

Last Saturday I ventured out in the pouring rain to see my favorite movie of all time, Casablanca.
I was excited by the prospect of seeing this movie that I have seen a few dozen times on a big screen and with a crowd for a change. Going to the Spa at Icon Theater did not disappoint.
First let me give you a few tips to finding the place.
The Icon Brickell is directly behind the Viceroy Hotel and Spa. I did not going to the Club 50 event so I was a little turned around with the directions and luckily when I called Maria for directions I realized that I was standing right there… duh.
You may be tempted to walk into Icon building and take the elevator up but you can’t.
1. You must go into the Viceroy take the elevator up to the 15^th Floor.
2. Walk outside across a patio filled with Alice in Wonderland Chess pieces to the ICON building.
3. Once inside make a Right down the hallway past the GIANT MIRROR (do not turn left and get on these elevators or you will go back down to the 1^st Floor of the ICON Building and have to start all over again at the Viceroy) the Turn Right Again then LEFT to a SINGLE Elevator marked SPA down to the 14^th FLOOR.
If you do this right the first time you can avoid wasting about 15 minutes going through the maze albeit a beautiful funky one.
For $ 12 you can a little cup of popcorn and they keep refilling it during the movie.
Staying with the Alice in Wonderland Theme they have giant oversized couches make for a very intimate night at the movies or a strangers in the night thing going since there are no side arm rests.
See the picture, but these are very comfortable seats — The quality of the screen was awesome and seeing a classic with a crowd really made me enjoy it more and the sound was REALLY good — BLUE RAY !!! I was singing along in the back row «You must remember this … «
The people working the movie event actually stopped the show once to allow all the wet lost people to see the show from the beginning I did not mind at all.
If you want to elevate a normal night at the movies, you can order champagne and they will bring it to you while you are enjoying the show. I did not order champagne but I felt like I got the VIP treatment too.
At the end of the movie, they served these little cupcakes and mine was made completely out of marsh mellows for a good sugar rush to drive home.
This show did sell out so I suggest getting there early. They had to bring in some other giant sized kitchen chairs for about 4 people to sit in.
I would so bring a date here or maybe on Halloween see a scary movie with the crowd — it would really buy fun watching people climb all over the couches.
I will be back for sure — the only thing they could do better is for $ 12 include a bottle of water or soda instead of having to purchase it.