Twenty-Five Dates, Twenty-One Gates
The Youth Fair opens on Thursday 18 March 2027 and closes on Sunday 11 April. The grounds sit at 10901 Coral Way. Four of the 25 dates carry no gate: Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 March, then Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 April.
The closures cut the run into three blocks of 11, 5 and 5 open nights. A hotel selling the full span sells three stays.
Eight Weekend Nights, All Open at Noon
Four Saturdays and four Sundays fall inside the open set: 20 and 21 March, 27 and 28 March, 3 and 4 April, 10 and 11 April. All eight open at noon. A Saturday front gate closes at 11 PM or later, and a Sunday gate at 10 PM or later.
Friday carries the late close too, at 11 PM or later. A Friday night and a Saturday night share the same gate.
The Midweek Nights a Rate Manager Can Price
Eight open days start at 4 PM, all on a Wednesday, a Thursday or a Friday: 18 and 19 March, 31 March, 1 and 2 April, 7, 8 and 9 April. Thirteen open days start at noon.
One Monday and one Tuesday carry a gate, 22 and 23 March, both at noon. The other two Mondays and two Tuesdays are dark.
The Dark Pairs Sit Between the Blocks
Each block ends on a Sunday: 28 March, 4 April and 11 April. The first opens on a Thursday, and the other two open on a Wednesday.
A stay built on the fair alone checks out on a Sunday and checks in midweek. The dark Monday and Tuesday fall outside the blocks, so a guest holding one room across all 25 dates pays for four nights when the grounds are shut.
Five Entrances, Fair Only
The Getting Here page names five vehicle entrances. Two pair Coral Way with SW 112th and SW 114th Avenues. Two pair 117th Avenue with SW 22nd and SW 21st Streets. The fifth pairs SW 107th Avenue with SW 17th Street.
Rideshare drop-off and pick-up use Coral Way at 112th Avenue. The handicap drop-off sits at the front of the main entrance.
The venue limits those points to the fair. The page states they apply only to the annual Youth Fair and may not apply to Fair Expo Center events through the rest of the year. The same page carries no lot opening time and no parking fee.
What the Organiser Puts on the Record
The About page reports more than 500,000 guests at the 2025 fair and places the fair among the top 35 in North America. It carries no per-day attendance and no weekend figure.
The word hotel appears on none of the five fair pages read for this piece. The organiser publishes no room block and no room-night count.
Six Named Properties Inside 3.6 Miles
OpenStreetMap carries ten hotel records within 4.5 km of the grounds, and eight of them carry a property name. Six sit inside 3.6 miles by road. Route times from the same engine: Comfort Suites Miami Kendall 2.53 miles and 7.6 minutes, NUVO Suites 3.03 and 8.0, Holiday Inn Express Doral 3.06 and 8.4, Courtyard Miami at Dolphin Mall 3.33 and 8.9, Hilton Garden Inn 3.52 and 9.2, and DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Doral 3.60 and 9.5.
Those times are free-flow and carry no allowance for a gate queue.
What a Month of Drive-In Traffic Changes
Two forces land on the same nights. All eight weekend nights open, and all eight open at noon, so the late gate and the weekend coincide.
The dark pairs fall on a Monday and a Tuesday. That leaves midweek demand on the two open Monday and Tuesday dates and on the eight 4 PM starts. A property pricing the run against a flat weekly rate spreads its discount across nights it cannot sell.
The organiser publishes no attendance split by day. The room-night effect stays an estimate for each property until a hotel releases its own pickup.