A 6:30 a.m. gate and the hours it leaves
The St. Jude Walk Miami carries the date September 26, 2026 on its own page, and that date is a Saturday. The event page reads Miami Dade County Fair & Expo Center, 10901 SW 24th St, Miami, FL 33165. The published schedule reads 6:30AM Event Opens, 7:30AM Opening Ceremony and 8:00AM Walk Starts. The event is presented by Miami Supreme Home Services and the Supreme Twins Foundation.
The same page reports $570,360 raised, 88 percent of a $650,000 goal, with 261 teams and 2,598 participants. It states that the event is no longer accepting registrations.
The venue prints its own address as 10901 Coral way, Miami, FL 33165. Its events board carries the Sounds of Screams run from Sep 24 to Nov 1, 2026, and carries no listing for the walk.
The check-in hour that decides the booking
hotelSlots sells four slots: Morning 6AM-12PM, Afternoon 12PM-6PM, Evening 6PM-12AM and Overnight 12AM-6AM. Its home page names 3 p.m. as the conventional check-in hour.
A team at the fairgrounds gate at 6:30 a.m. waits eight and a half hours for a 3 p.m. room. The Morning slot opens at 6 a.m., 30 minutes before the site opens, and closes at noon. The team holds a room before the first announcement and gives it up four hours after the walk starts.
What a half-day block holds
The platform defines a day-use room as daytime hours, typically 6 to 8 hours, without an overnight stay. A guest books one slot or combines several for full-day coverage. For this event the Morning slot covers the gate, the opening ceremony and the walk. A team that wants a base through the afternoon adds the Afternoon slot and holds the room from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The property fills hours that sit between the previous night's checkout and the 3 p.m. check-in. The platform prices day-use rooms at 30-75 percent less than the nightly rate at the same property, and its day-use page states 40 to 60 percent less than overnight. Its help centre tells day-use buyers to book mid-week for the widest slot choice, to take a shorter slot when two or three hours will do, and to compare several properties in the same area.
Miami day rates on the 15 October 2026 read
Dayuse lists an average of $113.76 for a day room in Miami. Its Miami page carried 21 cards on 15 October 2026, and ten of those cards carry a Miami-Dade city line. The earliest window on those ten opens at 8 a.m., 90 minutes after the site opens. Wyndham Garden Miami International Airport carries 8am to 2pm at $85 against a $200 overnight rate. Atrium Hotel Miami carries 8am to 2pm at $65 against $140. Aloft Miami Aventura carries 8am to 3pm at $95 against $300.
Engine publishes a Miami average of $191 a night across 3.9 million observations from May 2024 to April 2026. September averages $128 and February $267 on the same page. The Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau counted 575 hotels and 64,719 rooms in Miami-Dade County in its 13 January 2026 inventory file.
Florida sits on the restricted list
hotelSlots publishes 103,857+ hotels across 46 states with no booking fees. Its FAQ carries the line that governs this market: "A few states (FL, HI, IA, WA) restrict day-use bookings under state travel laws." Its Florida path returns a 404, and both directory sitemaps carry 89,872 addresses with no Florida record.
A Miami team arranges the block with a property directly and confirms the state rule first.
What the walk leaves a planner
The published clock sets the booking. A 6 a.m. slot hour covers a 6:30 a.m. gate and an 8 a.m. start. The platform's own conventional check-in hour of 3 p.m. leaves that team in the open until the afternoon.
