Versace Mansion Open for Tours — Just Like the Wren’s Nest!
Yesterday the AJC published an Associated Press article about the Versace Mansion, dubbed Casa Casuarina, in Miami. It has recently opened to the public for tours.
Welcome to the house museum club, Casa Casuarina.
Previously, the home was only open to, well, very very rich people who needed a place to crash for the night. But you know what? The Wren’s Nest isn’t so different.
Sure, Madonna, Cher, and the Clintons stayed at Casa Casuarina in years past. Did we mention we had James Whitcomb Riley and Teddy Roosevelt?!
So what if their tours cost a wallet-boggling $65. Many adults are stunned by our $8 price tag!
You say you’re impressed by a pool made of more than one million Italian mosaic tiles and 24-karat gold pieces? Have you seen our bird bath out back? It’s cement!
They have one tub? We have one tub!
(We too have tiles in our home!)
Our upstairs is off-limits to tourists, too! But mostly because we don’t want you to trip on something.
The guides at the Versace Mansion don’t like to dwell on their namesake’s death, nor where he died. They will, however, gesture you towards the general area. Here, we threw a centennial celebration and call Joel Chandler Harris’s bedroom a tour highlight. Well, that one wasn’t my best example.
(We... do not have one of these.)
Really, the only difference between us and the Versace Mansion is that we’re a non-profit, while they’re… very much the opposite. But what’s $1,200 a night (base price, peak season) when tourist season historic preservation is at hand?!
In short — how much would you pay to stay here for a night? Contributions are tax-deductible!
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Amber Suitt
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Lain Shakespeare
Executive Director
6 Comments to Versace Mansion Open for Tours — Just Like the Wren’s Nest!
Oh, good god! What did they do to Brer Lion?!
I used to live a short walk from that building. When Versace bought it to renovate it was an apartment building for elderly, not-so-well-off folks. Supposedly it was originally built as a replica of Christopher Columbus’s house in Spain. It has an observatory in the back. Gianni bought the hotel next door and had it torn down to make a side yard. It’s a sweet crib.
I would pay up to and including $119 to stay at the Wrens Nest for one night.
well, the price I’d pay depends on the WN money back guarantee regarding a ghost appearance.
I would pay $10 to sleep in Lain’s old crib. If you give me a bottle of Jack Daniels I will sleep in the bird bath.
LaWren, I think Brer Bear stepped on him after a night out on the town.