Fort Lauderdale weekend - Day 1

With Alastair off to Peru again, through Miami, we thought we could have another Florida weekend and found me a cheap flight to Fort Lauderdale. Or so we thought. We did not read the rules and the airline charged me $50 for my carry-on bag. I flew with an airline called Spirit and based on this first experience I don't think I will fly them again. The check-in staff was very rude, the flight was 3 hours delayed, but nobody mentioned it, the gate stated Chicago and when I asked if it was the right gate anyway, they just told me Chicago was gate 9 but would not confirm regarding FLL.
Finally arrived around midnight and fortunately Alastair came and met me to take me to the hotel
We stayed at the Hyatt Pier 66 as most of the big chains on the seafront we full and we did not want to risk not finding a room. If I have to stick to the positive, the pool was nice:

The rest of the hotel was quite tired and it was about 20 minutes to walk to the beach.

Breakfast on the beach at St. Barts Cafe was OK, but not great. I did like the view though. 

Unfortunately they have built a 3-lane highway between all the restaurants and the beach. Although it looks quiet there were times with very heavy traffic.
In my next life I will become a traffic planner!

Fort Lauderdale has lots of canals with expensive yachts. Overall everything seems pretty upmarket and property prices were not that Interesting.

The beach was very nice though with soft white sand and the water was very warm.