Thomas Donall wasn’t surprised when college students started flooding into Miami, after all, Florida’s southern beach cities are some of the most popular destinations for the 1.5 million spring breakers that hit the road each year (according to Travel Market Report).
But when the legendary South Beach’s drag bar, which just celebrated its 33rd anniversary in February, began to see intoxicated guests “ordering hundreds of dollars-worth of food and drinks and then walk out without paying the bill,” Donall knew this was different.
“The crowds we’re seeing are not our normal spring breakers,” he tells Out Traveler. “It looks like a culmination of COVID-quarantine overload and a stimulus spending spree.”